Green City is a founding group of parents, teacher and members of the Allentown community who are planning to open a green charter school in 2012.
The purpose of Green City Charter School is to provide children an integrated education focused on environmental stewardship, experiential learning, and academic excellence.We offer a respectful and empowering learning experience that cultivates creative and critical thinkers who actively participate in their local and global communities.
Join us every 2nd Tuesday of the month 6:30-8:30pm Hope UCC Church 1037 Flexer Ave. Allentown, PA 18103-5519 For more information about Green City please contact greencitycharterschool@gmail.com
Thomas Althouse Racing was formed to help prevent and promote awareness to dangers of street racing . We hope to have an impact on our youth. To prevent the number 1 killer of teenagers in the united states. Every 15 minutes in America a teenager dies from an avoidable high speed car crash. There are an average of 6,000 teenagers who DIE each year! This is a preventable situation. If we educate our youth on the dangers of Illegeal Street Racing.
I had an opportunity to meet Sam Martinez, the Youth Coordinator for the Allentown Weed & Seed program, and attend a meeting yesterday at their offices in Allentown.
The Strategy of The Allentown Weed and Seed is to "weed" out drug trafficking, violent crimes and related offenses through coordinated law enforcement and community policing; and to "seed" the designated areas with prevention, intervention and treatment programs designed to meet the communities' needs for human services, employment and economic development, youth development and housing.
The meeting involved many local county agencies, as well as local businesses, all with a common vision - to make Allentown diverse, thrive and be safe. Education plays a huge role and parent involvement is key.
What an amazing organization! It is inspiring to see what can be accomplished by a community when everyone comes together. For More Information on the Allentown Weed & Seed, please check out their website at http://www.allentownweedandseed.org/.
The DreamHappy Foundation is gathering quilts and comforters to help keep children and families who are in need warm during the cold winter ahead. Your donations will go to orphanages, battered women shelters, homeless family shelters and families in need.
How Can You Help Others Stay Warm?
Do you have a comforter or quilt you no longer use? Can you help by purchasing new quilts and comforters? Do you have, or know a sewing circle who would like to help?
One of our Favorite Non-Profit Friends, Pediatric Cancer Foundation of Lehigh Valley, provides great programs for kids & their families fighting cancer.
Please check out http://www.pcflv.org/ and the many events that are taking place in the Lehigh Valley.
Our Lehigh Valley Kids deserve our support!
St. Luke’s Neighborhood Center is a community neighborhood center open to and supported by the general public, in order to provide facilities, programs and services to individuals and families in the urban environment surrounding the Center.
Who can join the Neighborhood Center? Anyone in our community can participate at the center. The Elementary Program is for students in Kindergarten to 5th grade and the Middle School Program is for students in 6th grade to 9th grade. All students must be in the neighborhood of the Allentown School District.
The Center is located at 435 North 7th Street Allentown PA 18102
The Ways to Work Family Loan Program helps working parents to get a low-interest loan to purchase a used car or repair an existing vehicle.
A non-profit program through Family Answers, Inc. that provides affordable loans to low-income families who lack access to fairly priced loans from traditional lenders because they have poor credit or no credit history.
To qualify, you must: Be a parent of a child 17 years old or younger; work at least 20 hours per week and have been employed at the same job for at least 3 months; be able to afford a modest monthly payment to repay the loan; and have a valid Pennsylvania driver’s license.
Registration Information * Hours are Monday to Friday from 6:30 am to 6 pm. * We accept ages 5 to 13. * New parents may register for free and receive 50% off the first week. Discount will be taken after two weeks of attendance. * Registration is open for our school year and for our summer program. * School year rate is $97 a week. Summer full-day rate is $132 a week. * Before and after school care is available with transportation provided to and from Allentown schools. * Teachers are Keystone STARS 2 certified. Instructions are age appropriate and linked to Allentown School District standards. We offer homework help, computer instruction and a healthy snack. *Summer program from June until September runs 9 am to 3 pm with activities that include swimming and local field trips. * Lunch is available most weeks of the program as well as a healthy snack. * Title XX is accepted. * Surveillance cameras and a secured and always attended door offer a safe environment for the children.
Cityspace is located in Dubbs Memorial United Church of Christ. Our Keystone STARS 2 center provides qualified instructors who offer age-appropriate activities for ages 5 to 13 in five classrooms for homework help, art, theater, science, a library and computer instruction. Since 1989, we have provided quality, affordable child care in a safe environment for school age children of working parents. Cityspace is a nonprofit, state licensed, center.
