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community center

A building or group of public buildings for the social, cultural, and educational activities of a neighborhood or entire community.
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Byrne Community Center has strategically garnered the support of community organizations, businesses and individuals to build a state-of-the-art community center facility, as part of its expansion plans to enhance centers for advocacy, learning and mentoring through after-school and summer camp programs.
Charities Vie for $25,000 Top Prize
The City will convey the property to the developer for $1 and contribute $5 million for the construction of the community center.
Development team selected for $56m housing project in Coney Island
1 -- color) Harold Muraoka and other elders of the Japanese American Community Center in Pacoima plan to build an assisted-living facility nearby, hoping it sparks both interest in and revenue for the center, whose membership is aging and dwindling.
BRIDGING GENERATIONS JAPANESE-AMERICANS FIND WAY TO AID ELDERS
Resident volunteers who lend a hand on the Kendal campus help with such tasks as watering plants or working in the officer; some of them assist health center residents or volunteer in the children's daycare center that is located in the Community Center.
Life enrichment: it's about choice; residents of this CCRC demonstrate that living life to the fullest isn't just for the young in years. (Cover Feature)
The media followed our protocols, which were designed to protect the privacy of the Jewish Community Center and its members.
Talking to parents: Communication in times of crisis and beyond
Jewish community centers for decades have emphasized immigrant absorption,'' said Michael Jeser, the center's assistant executive director.
COMMUNITY CENTER OFFERS TRADITION LATINO JEWS FIND A HOME IN L.A
The opening for the community center is targeted for the spring of 2009.
Contractor chosen for last two Battery Park City sites
Offering a support network for existing social and service organizations rather than its own host of programs, San Francisco's "hub" approach may also have something to teach people around the country about how gay community centers need to be responsive to the people they hope to serve.
Centers stage: the effort by a new gay and lesbian center in San Francisco to win over its community reflects a nationwide mission to shape centers according to the needs of the people they serve. (Activism)
Today represents another step in The Salvation Army's journey to bring a state-of-the-art worship and community center to the underserved residents of the Tioga/Nicetown neighborhood and beyond," states Major Jorge E.
Salvation Army and Preferred Close The Deal at Budd Site
The Community Center offers after-school homework help and tutoring, and its supervisor, Hope Horner, is on the lookout for new ways to increase literacy.
DOG-EARED HELP POOCHES LISTEN AS YOUNG READERS LEARN
These will include the creation of new streets and open space, better parking and transportation solutions and site preparation work, along with targeted projects that reflect the character of Coney Island, such as improvements to the aquarium, parachute pavilion and the construction of the community center.
Coney Island's new windfall
It will be either a matter of continuing or saying the community isn't ready for a center and packing up and leaving," says Al Dawson, assistant chairman of Community Center Inc.
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