We are excited to partner once again with Scranton Tomorrow and United Neighborhood Centers of Northeastern Pennsylvania for Scranton City Pride! As an annual spring tradition, hundreds of volunteers participate in clean-ups and community development projects in every section of Scranton. Taking place from May 31-June 8, Scranton City Pride will feature trash and litter cleanups, planting efforts, and other neighborhood beautification efforts. Participants can organize their family, neighbors, and coworkers to do a group project, or join up with a pre-planned service site. Go to the City Pride website HERE for more details on how to participate!

You are also invited to participate in the second year of Garbage Olympics! Taking place on June 8 as part of Scranton City Pride's week-long event, the Garbage Olympics is a project of NeighborWorks Northeastern Pennsylvania and United Neighborhood Centers of Northeastern Pennsylvania. Participation locations for the Garbage Olympics this year will be in Pine Brook and West Scranton, with the event consisting of a 2-hour competition between local groups to clean participating locations. To join in on the fun, register your team NOW!

The teams with the most trash collected, strangest item found, and most team spirit will all be awarded prizes. Be sure to bring your A-Game and go all out to win a shot at a team prize!

The City of Carbondale is one of ten Pennsylvania communities that were officially selected to participate in Blueprint Communities®, a place-based revitalization initiative created by FHLBank Pittsburgh and administered by the Pennsylvania Downtown Center. The initiative provides training and resources to help local leaders create sustainable and thriving communities.

Local leaders across Eastern Pennsylvania have formed teams to engage in an 18-month training, planning and implementation process facilitated by PDC. Carbondale’s team is comprised of representatives from a FHLBank member institution, People’s Security Bank, local government, and community organizations including NeighborWorks Northeastern PA, Valley in Motion, and the Northeastern Pennsylvania Alliance.

Read more here.

NeighborWorks is pleased to welcome an AmeriCorps NCCC North Central Region team to the office for the next few weeks, Oak 8.

AmeriCorps NCCC is a full-time, team-based residential service program for 18-26 year-olds. AmeriCorps members serving in the NCCC program represent a wide variety of socioeconomic, cultural, geographic, and educational backgrounds.

The team will be supporting NeighborWorks, the Lackawanna Heritage Valley National and State Heritage Area, and Lackawanna River Heritage Trail until Sunday, June 23 in cleaning and greening vacant lots, reducing blight, and improving public spaces.

NeighborWorks recently hosted our very first homebuyer workshop in Pike County at the Pike County Public Library in Milford, in collaboration with Pike County and Pike/Wayne Association of Realtors.

We would like to thank Jules Bechthold from Real Estate by Jules, Holly DiLeo from Wayne Bank, and Stephen Scott from Housestanding Home Inspections for presenting at our workshop.

If you missed any of our past workshops, please go to the events calendar on our website to register for any of our future workshops HERE. Workshops are posted one month in advance.