New Community’s Financial Opportunity Center, located at the Pathmark Shopping Center, offered local residents resources such as workshops, consultations and information sessions as part of the City of Newark’s Financial Empowerment Day on December 11. City officials launched a series of Financial Empowerment Days—in partnership with agencies such as NCC, United Way, Urban League of Essex County and Ironbound Community Corporation—to help promote the new FOC’s opened around Newark. Photo courtesy of Joann Williams-Swiney.
