Mark your calendar!  Join us and our special guest, Jim Murray, the former General Manager of the Philadelphia Eagles, for an evening of dinner, music, dancing, and an award ceremony recognizing the youth and "Hopesters" who have been instrumental in Hopeworks' success.  See you on the 29th at the Marian House, Cherry Hill, NJ.

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**ALL PROCEEDS WILL BE USED TO CONTINUE THE PROGRAMS FOR THE YOUTH OF CAMDEN AT HOPEWORKS.

This year Symantec Days has expanded into Symantec Week…..and you are invited:

• Monday night Hopeworks’ youth will enjoy the action at a Camden Riversharks Game.
• On Tuesday Tarren Anderson, Father Jeff and our summer team of GIS youth are giving the keynote address at the annual ESRI National Convention in Washington DC. 
• On Wednesday morning Father Jeff, our trainees and trainers from Symantec Corp. will host a community computer training workshop.  In the afternoon, our 4th annual Technology Scavenger Hunt will start at 2 PM, and then we will head to Rutgers where our second Hopeworks Film Festival will take center stage at 6 pm. 
• On Thursday we conclude our week with a trip to New York City sponsored by Symantec. Our trainees will visit with several Symantec clients to learn about networking, security and career paths in the computer industry. 

Continue to check out the Hopeworks site for more details on Symantec Week 2007!

Mapping Civil War Veterans

The project that we are doing is mapping the graves of Civil War veterans in Harleigh Cemetery. Our team includes: Nefertiti Bryant, Patrick Osborne, Rebecca Schelmety, and Luis Rosa. First, we locate the grave by using the cemetery map. After locating the grave we take a picture of the tombstone and then use our GPS to mark the spot. This will allow us to make a map of the cemetery that shows all of the veterans’ graves. Our map will show the location of the grave and a picture of the stone, and it will have information about each soldier. This project is giving us new and exciting things to learn. This will benefit us when we start to learn about the Civil War. We ’ll already know where some of the soldiers are buried! This project also helps us with computers. We’ve learned lots of new software as well as learning how to use the GPS.

-Nefertiti Bryant and Patrick Osborne

This summer, half of Hopeworks’ GEB team: Sylvon Bryant, Adriana Castro, Edwin Martinez, and Michael Osborne, is working on a map of Camden. This map will contain places such as hospitals, schools, post offices, etc. We are now half way through our project, and it is coming along very well. We hope that by the end of the summer we will have created an effective map to sell. Not only are we making an online map but we are going to publish a folding paper map that people will be able to buy! We want people to have a better understanding of how to get around the community of Camden.

- Adriana Castro and Michael Osborne

Our Hope Through School summer trainees are designing and implementing a service project of their own choice which they will complete at the end of our program.  We will call this a “neighboring action” to highlight the important role that our youth play in this community.  In preparation for this, our Formation Director, Patrick Keenan, attended the National Conference on Volunteering and Service in Philadelphia, July 16-18, through a generous scholarship from the Delaware Valley Grantmakers.  While there, Hopeworks entered into the discussions about civic engagement and service within urban areas and with teenage youth.  Some of the sessions Patrick attended were: “Youth Voice: Strengthening Neighborhoods,” “Young Leaders,” and “Encourage, Engage and Empower: How to Promote Volunteering in Disadvantaged Communities.”  Each session helped him understand ways in which we can better work with our youth to affect positive change within our North Camden neighborhood.  Look for a follow up on our neighboring action in the next newsletter!

For four weeks this summer Lou and Alexa will be working one-on-one with the GEB youth and Day trainees. They are working with our Literacy Director as tutors. They are also coordinating the summer Literacy project for our college enrolled Production staff. Lou and Alexa are graduate students in the University of Pennsylvania’s ten-month Master's program.  The students start together as a cohort in July and graduate with their Master's in education and their certification in a secondary subject area in May. In the summer the students take two courses in the afternoons.  Two mornings a week they volunteer in a community based organization that works with urban youth.  The aim of this experience is to expose students to urban teenagers and to show them what some students are doing during the summer. Welcome Lou and Alexa!

Hope Through School Travels to the National Liberty Museum

You can help Hopeworks this summer by:

• Becoming a  Literacy Volunteer (Contact Leigh Anne Purnell, our Literacy Director)
• Donate Digital video gear:  Camera, microphone, decks.
• Donate new or used books for our Library.

Hopeworks Youth Update

Congratulations to Hope Through School Youth Shakira Johnson and Michael Osborne for completing Photoshop!

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Time for Lunch

Every Friday for the rest of the summer the youth and Staff of Hopeworks will be having lunch together. The youth have picked themes for each week. We have already had some fantastic meals together. On July 20th we had breakfast and on July 27th Latin was the cuisine of choice!

Check out the rest of the schedule:

August 3- Soul food

August 10- Chinese

August 17- Dessert

Thanks for Visiting!

As always, we had lots of people stop by to check out our summer program. We recently welcomed Eric Ford from Pulte Homes;  Joe Dubee from the Union League, Debra McLaughlin from Symantec Corporation.If you are interested in seeing the best youth in the best summer program in Camden just give us a call!

Thank you to all of the foundations and corporations that support Hopeworks through grants!

United Way

Maryland Province of Jesuits

CPAC

CCYSC

Irene S. Scully Family Foundation

Raskob Foundation

Commerce Bank

SAP

Citizens Bank

Anonymous Supporters

Upcoming Events:

8/6 :Six Flags Great Adventure

8/20-8/23: Symantec Week!

8/20: Camden Riversharks!

8/21: Hopeworks Keynote at URISA conference in Washington, DC

8/22: Community Technology Training

8/23: New York City!

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Camden Youth Drug Court
Food Bank Of South Jersey
Newburgh Ministries
NJRC
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Holy Saviour Parish