LN Blogs

Be sure to save your seat for this year's celebration, featuring this year's distinguished Honorees:   Kathy Ahearn O'Brien, LN ’18, Hyacinth Aids Foundation; Aisha Glover, Newark Alliance; Calvin Ledford, LN ’14, PSE&G; Eric...

Be sure to save your seat for this year's celebration, featuring this year's distinguished Honorees:   Raquel Ray Fraser, LN ’03, TD Bank Dr. Marilyn Harris., RWJ Barnabas Health Michele Mason, Newark Charter School Fund Dr. Charles...

By: Celia M. King, MPS, Chief Executive Officer What does it mean to be a non-profit?  It means you must not only deliver the programs you promise to offer but you must raise the funds to operate effectively and efficiently.  Leadership Newark...

By Celia M. King, MPS, Chief Executive Officer Leadership Newark, Inc. (LN) is celebrating its 20th Anniversary this year, 2018.  This is a major milestone in the history of LN or any business, organization or institution.  Not only is this a...

I Need Another Me! So I thought…. Do you ever feel you have so much on your plate – and how in the world will you get it all done by all the deadlines before you???? Do you feel as though you could use a clone? I certainly feel that way...

If you have your ear to the “e-streets” in Newark, NJ then you might have heard terms like “fiber optics” and “dark broadband” being floated as early as January 2015.  Not even a year into Mayor Ras J. Baraka’s administration, it was...

When the Flint Water Crisis broke in April 2014, a stark reality surfaced about how water management decisions are made - often without public input, few maintenance details, and little to no information on how treatment facilities fair against...

Think about it - light, heat, phone, internet, refrigerators, stoves, and automobiles.  Everyday items that provide basic needs for billions of people.  Our ability to see in the dark, communicate, work, store fresh food, eat cooked food and...