About Lincoln Park Coast Cultural District


Lincoln Park Coast Cultural District (LPCCD) is the realization of more than 20 years of dreams, ideas and efforts by visionaries and community activists to foster and maintain the vibrancy of the Lincoln Park neighborhood located in the City of Newark, NJ. LPCCD seeks to facilitate the integration of arts and culture amenities to advance restorative community economic development, housing and neighborhood stabilization, and community engagement to support Lincoln Park’s transformation towards its full vibrancy as a healthy, safe, and vibrant neighborhood. Our work centers on building affordable housing and cultivating civic leadership to ensure the delivery of resident and neighborhood services, activating neighborhood parks with year-round arts/cultural programming, and advancing local economic strategy through entrepreneurship and creative industry job growth.

 
Our mission at Lincoln Park Coast Cultural District is a hybrid of restorative community economic development and creative place-making/place-keeping, understanding that community consists of people who are bound together because of where they reside, work, visit, or otherwise spend a continuous portion of their time. This approach, which LPCCD has adopted and adapted, clearly emphasizes the importance of building sustainable and equitable economic systems that support local businesses, create jobs, and promote social and environmental justice. LPCCD has deftly woven together these intersections and taken on the goals and objectives of a culture broker whose contributions to the quality of life for Newarkers is undeniably enriched.
 
As the community steward and trusted partner since 2002, Lincoln Park Coast Cultural District’s organizational health and vibrance requires unrestricted funding to acquire the additional people and systems that will help the organization keep pace with and sustain the community economic development work that we have been entrusted to lead. We welcome generous donations towards an influx of general operating support that will help bolster Lincoln Park Coast Cultural District’s financial future and solidify its lead position and presence leading the community revitalization now underway.
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