Archive for July, 2009
Isles announces the Bruce Coe Center for Energy and Environmental Training
On March 25, 2009, Isles lost a great friend in Bruce Coe. For many years, Bruce invested his time, talent and resources as an advisor and board member. To honor his passion for the organization’s mission, Isles has announced the dedication of a wing at Mill One to Bruce.
The Bruce Coe Center for Energy and [...]Leaders Hope Green Jobs Will Help Heal Employment Void
“The program, called the Center for Energy and Environmental Training, began in Trenton in January and expanded to Camden, Newark, and Somerset.
Its head, Jeanne Oswald, said it has trained more than 100 people already. After starting with energy-efficiency training, the center is soon going to teach solar installations, Oswald said.”
Click here to read the full [...]Knee High in Trenton
Recently, Michelle Knapik, Environment Program Director for the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation visited Isles for our 21st Annual House and Garden Tour. Below is an excerpt from the Foundation’s blog:
“Isles, whose team focuses on Trenton, is mashing ideas of old and new, of agrarian and urban, of hands-on and virtual, of traditional and innovative, and [...]Suburban Students Learn What Life’s Like in Inner City Schools
An Isles’ YouthBuild student is highlighted in a Trenton Times article: “At 15, Prendergast dropped out of Emily Fisher Charter School. At 16, she went to Trenton Central High School-West for a few months before transferring to Isles YouthBuild Institute, an alternative school, where Prendergast hopes to receive her high school diploma and then become [...]
New Isles HQ to be a Big Green Powerhouse
“A disused shirt factory building on Johnston Avenue near the Bromley neighborhood and the Trenton border will become Mill One, one of the “greenest” buildings in the state, if a plan by nonprofit group Isles comes to fruition.”
Click here to read the full Hamiltonspace.com article.Pictures from Isles’ 21st Annual House and Garden Tour
Pictures from Isles’ 21st Annual House and Garden Tour are now posted on our Facebook page. Click here to take a look.
Pictures from Isles’ Public Capital Campaign Announcement
Check out pictures for Isles’ Public Captial Campaign Announcement on our Facebook page by clicking here.
Turning One Johnston Ave into Jewel of the Neighborhood
“The big ‘eyesore’ at the corner of North Johnston Avenue and Nottingham Way will soon blossom into a high-end, environmentally friendly building that transforms the township’s Bromley section into an artists’ paradise.
That’s because Isles Inc., a community development nonprofit, has acquired the dilapidated building and will redevelop it into a ’sustainable urban village’ — a [...]