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NeighborWorks sends team to Community Leadership Institute

Our organization recently sent five resident leaders and one staff member to attend the NeighborWorks America Community Leadership Institute (CLI) program in Charlotte, North Carolina. Our team joined other resident leaders and staff from 68 other NeighborWorks organizations, covering 31 U.S. States and Puerto Rico, at the first in-person CLI since the COVID-19 pandemic.

Attendees participate in various workshops, plenaries, regional breakout sessions, and learning labs/mobile tours, aimed at empowering resident leaders to make positive changes happen in their communities. Our team members will now work to plan and carry out a community improvement project in the Borough of Archbald, where each of our resident leaders reside.

Team members included Tamara Misewicz-Healey, Jamie Kane, Sarah Gabriel, Robert Turlip and Kayleigh Cornell. Gerard Hetman, our Community Development Specialist, served as staff coordinator for the team.

NeighborWorks cohosts latest Neighborhood Leaders Forum

A big round of thanks to our partners at United Neighborhood Centers of Northeastern Pennsylvania for working with us to host another session of the Scranton Neighborhood Leaders Forum, the latest edition of a training and networking event series for resident leaders working to better our neighborhoods!

Speakers at the recent installment included Scranton Mayor Paige Cognetti, Marissa Duffy from the Scranton Parks & Recreation Department, Robert Gattens from the Scranton Municipal Recreation Authority, Maureen McGuigan from the Lackawanna County Arts & Culture Department and Chief Thomas Carroll from the Scranton Police Department.

For information on future sessions of the Neighborhood Leaders Forum, please contact Gerard Hetman at 570-558-2490, or ghetman@nwnepa.org.

Jesse Ergott keynote speaker for State of the County Dinner

Jesse Ergott, our President & CEO at NeighborWorks Northeastern Pennsylvania, served as this year's keynote speaker for the Pike County State of the County Dinner on November 17, 2022. The Pike County Chamber of Commerce, Pike County Economic Development Authority and the Pocono Mountains Visitors Bureau brought together leaders in business, local government and across the region to highlight successes and challenges facing the area.

Check on this video highlight of our collaboration with PPL Corporation

We are grateful to have excellent partners such as the PPL Corporation, who for the past 7 years have helped us with our Light The Town program in providing over 370 solar-powered security lights for older adult residents within the Scranton community.

These lights help improve community safety by lighting up dark streets at night in an energy efficient manner, while also supporting the organization's goal of helping seniors remain in their homes longer. Thank you PPL! Watch the video above to learn more about this partnership!

Listening session with Latinx / Hispanic community

Our staff and board had the privilege of meeting with five members of the LatinX / Hispanic community recently to discuss barriers that many of our Spanish-speaking neighbors face with housing and community involvment.

Our sincere thanks to Sarah Cruz from the Scranton School Board, Hector De La Cruz from the Florey Insurance Agency, Jose Flores from the Diocese of Scranton, Alejandra Marroquin from the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine, and Silvana Benavides - Bilingual Realtor for joining us and for offering your time and expertise to our team!

Thank you for supporting NeighborWorks this Giving Tuesday!

We hit our match for our 2022 Giving Tuesday campaign for AllOne Give Day! For those who contributed to this donation, THANK YOU! Not only were we able to reach our match, but we also had our best Giving Tuesday EVER! These funds will allow us to continue our work to increase the financial stability of local individuals and families by providing meaningful and effective homeownership services through the city of Scranton, Lackawanna County and northeastern Pennsylvania.

Thank you to AllOne Charities for matching our first $1,000 raised and for hosting and coordinating AllOne Give Day. Over $171,000 was raised across 49 organizations!

NeighborWorks staff professional development

Gerard Hetman

Gerard Hetman, our Community Development Specialist, was named as a participating scholar to the Rural Urban Leadership Program (RULE) of Penn State Extension, Penn State University in the upcoming RULE XIX class. RULE is a transformational leadership development program that brings together community leaders from across Pennsylvania to foster both professional and personal leadership development. RULE XIX scholars will learn strategies for taking charge and leading their organizations and communities in positive directions. Through practice, each participant will assume new responsibilities and develop new skills and confidence. Every skill they learn will be directly and immediately applicable to the issues and problems facing their organizations and communities.

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