The HUT Community app is provided by Legacy International Foundation for Education Inc. (LIFE), sponsored by the Smith Family Foundation and supported by Community Partners across Trenton & Mercer County, NJ.
The app provides access to available and emerging resources; healthy food, local events, youth driven and culturally enriched programs, local businesses and much more.
The app was created by Upstream United LLC. and provided by LIFE to benefit youth, seniors, and families across Trenton and Mercer County NJ. It was designed during the 2020 pandemic with the goal of connecting the community to food resources. The app is inspired by traditional communal spaces, ‘Palava Huts,’ found across Liberia and many countries in Sub-Sahara Africa.
Palava Huts serves as social networking hubs for learning and sharing of current or emerging opportunities and resources. They also serve as a safe space to resolve issues/challenges in the community. Likewise, The HUT Community app is designed to increase our communities’ access and knowledge to resources, local businesses, organizations, events, opportunities and much more.
SPONSORS
SMITH FAMILY FOUNDATION
Mission " Empower our community, Cultivate leaders and Transforms lives"
COMMUNITY PARTNERS
City of Trenton New Jersey - Recreation Department
The app builds on our collective missions:
Empowerment House: Empowerment House is dedicated in providing a drug free and safe environment for our residents and communities. Empowerment House offers up to one year of housing and 8 life skill services (found on our service page) to men and women who struggle with obtaining housing, employment, displaying prosocial skills, rebuilding and/or building healthy relationships, and living out their life purpose due to substance/alcohol use.
LIFE: Enhance the quality of life for youth by increasing their access to educational resources; particularly those living in low income, under-resourced and underdeveloped communities."
TRIO Upward Bound is an educational program offered during the summer and academic year for high school students from low-income families; and families in which neither parent holds a bachelor’s degree. The goal of TRIO Upward Bound is to increase the rate at which participants complete secondary school and graduate from institutions of postsecondary education. It strives to develop the academic and personal skills a student will need to successfully complete college. TRIO Upward Bound is funded by the United States Department of Education (Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965). TRIO Upward Bound reflects Mercer County Community College's mission to provide services and activities that support individual student success.
TUFF: At Trenton United Family Foundation Inc we’re raising funds to promote initiatives for youth development and to serve our community. We believe in taking action with urgency in order to raise public awareness about some of the most pressing issues facing our communities.
Thomas Jefferson Intermediate School: At Jefferson, we strive to inspire our students to become lifelong learners by empowering them to acquire, demonstrate, articulate, and value the knowledge and skills that will enable them to participate in and contribute to the global world. We also strive to practice our school's core values, which includes being respectful, organized, authentic and resilient.
Vonzella’s Crowns: Our Mission is to Educate, Transform, Empower Women, and Senior Citizens in the City of Trenton NJ, New Jersey through Advocacy, Community Service, Music and the Arts.
Please share the app with family and friends. Contact us to learn more about how you can help us maintain the app or add your business/organizations information on the app.