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New Jersey Community Development Corporation
Paterson, NJ
$100,000 |
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The Great Falls in downtown Paterson, New Jersey. Photo by Bob Guarasci |
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The mission of the New Jersey Community Development Corporation (NJCDC) is to transform the City of Paterson -- one of the nation's most economically distressed communities -- into a thriving, diverse, and sustainable locale. Among NJCDC's success stories are the rehabilitation of two historic locomotive mills in the city's Great Falls Historic District into housing for underserved populations and the creation of the Great Falls Youth Corps, a partnership with the National Park Service that actively involves youth residents in helping to create the Great Falls National Historic Park, one of the newest national parks in the U.S.
NJCDC has received MICD25 support for its Great Falls Arts and Creative Revitalization Initiative, which will engage the city's artistic community in a collaborative process to create artistic events, works of art, and programs to both inaugurate the new national park and establish a permanent presence for the arts in ongoing revitalization efforts. Through a competitive process, NJCDC will select a minimum of five proposals for site-specific visual art, performance arts, language arts, and youth arts projects. Artists will discuss their vision for each project in a number of public sessions, and each project will be produced collaboratively with the community.
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