Month: September 2015

CAMDEN, N.J. —Susan Bass Levin, President and CEO of The Cooper Foundation, announced tonight that the Fifth Annual Jim Fifis Lung Cancer Research Fund Dinner raised more than $140,000 for the…

by Jon Hurdle CAMDEN, N.J. – Plans for a major mixed-use waterfront development represent the latest step in efforts to rehabilitate this city that not long ago was rated as America’s…

Welcome to the September issue of The Catalyst, the monthly E-Newsletter that keeps you up to date on all the great things happening at The Cooper Foundation and provides news…

by Phaedra Trethan CAMDEN – Eunice Williams has lived in her Whitman Park home, directly across from the giant water tower bearing her city’s name, since 1973. The grandmother of five…

by Allison Steele Hundreds of politicians, officials, and Camden residents on Wednesday celebrated the opening of the building that houses the city’s – and the state’s – first Renaissance charter school,…

Academy is New Jersey’s First Renaissance School CAMDEN, N.J. —Local, state and U.S. leaders joined students, parents and teachers today for the dedication of KIPP Cooper Norcross Academy, New Jersey’s first…

by Jim Walsh CAMDEN — The city’s first newly built Renaissance school has dozens of classrooms on three floors, a gym big enough for two basketball courts and an all-purpose room…

More Than 600 Backpacks Donated Through Operation Backpack  CAMDEN, N.J. — The Cooper Foundation and Congressman Donald Norcross today distributed backpacks and school supplies to children at KIPP Cooper Norcross…