VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

Essex Newark Foreclosure Task Force
Community Outreach and Vacant Property

Survey Dates-December 2008

Through a series of targeted outreach events the Task Force intends to:

· Reach all residents (tenants and homeowners) at risk of foreclosure-related problems in a particular target area by blanketing the community with information and assistance using volunteers from the sponsoring agency, other local organizations and anyone else who will volunteer
· Obtain detailed property information on foreclosure and/or abandoned homes to ascertain the physical effect of the foreclosure crisis on the structure of the community.


Below is the current schedule of events.


WE CAN ALWAYS USE MORE HELP!!! VOLUNTEER TODAY!!!

For more information or to participate, please contact:
Don Baldyga, Director of Real Estate Development, Episcopal Community Development, Inc., 31 Mulberry Street, Newark, 973-430-9985 don@ecdonline.org

December 3 Lower Roseville (ACORN) Time: 1-3
Streets: 9th Street to 13th Street between Park Avenue and 7th Avenue
Time permitting Park Ave to 4th Ave – 9th, 11th, and 12th Streets

December 4 Lower Broadway (LA CASA) Time: 10-1
Streets: Lake, Highland, Parker, and Ridge between 2nd and Park Ave
Summer between Crane and Taylor

December 9 West Side Park (NCC)Time: 10-1
Streets: 15th Street to 18th Street, South Orange Avenue to 16th Avenue

December 11 Lower Broadway (LA CASA)Time: 10-1
Streets: Stone, Cutler, Garside, Mt. Prospect, Clifton between Victoria and 3rd

December 12 West Side Park (TRI-CITY PEOPLES CORPORATION)
Time: 10-1-Streets: Springfield Avenue to 18th Avenue, 18th Street to 21st Street

December 16 Fairmount (Greater Newark Housing Partnership)
Time: 10-1-Streets: South Orange Avenue to Central Avenue, 9th Street to 12th Street