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The National Community Reinvestment Coalition cordially invites you to join your neighbors for the Save the Block Party! - a family-oriented, day-long festival that will feature prescreened appointment times where homeowners with unaffordable loans can receive direct intervention and counseling services.
How homeowners can participate. The event is open to all County residents. Pre-registration is recommended for homeowners seeking help with their mortgage right away. Once you register, you will be contacted by a housing counselor to begin the program intake process.
And don't forget about the fun! For one day, we're taking over a park in your community and transforming it into the Save the Block Party! – a fun-filled, day long, free event featuring food, entertainment and more! This community empowerment festival will include live music, great food, children's games, neighborhood beautification tips and MUCH MORE! HUD-certified counselors will be on-hand to provide homeowners that need help with their mortgages with direct intervention and counseling services, as well as loan prequalification through the HOPE Now Alliance, NCRC's National Homeownership Sustainability Fund, and other partners.
PAST EVENTS:
Fairfax County
September 20, 2008 - 10am - 6pm
Fairfax County Government Center
12000 Government Center Parkway
Fairfax, VA 22035
Main Stage Entertainment begins at 11:30 am
David
Benoit
Pianist, composer and conductor, David Benoit is a five-time Grammy nominee.
He has been guest pianist and conductor with numerous top symphonies and philharmonics,
performances at Carnegie Hall and on the steps of the Capitol Building with the
National Symphony. Benoit has long been a popular film and television composer,
including more than ten years composing music for Peanuts TV specials on CBS.
He has written the themes for the long running soap opera All My Children (ABC),
Sisters (NBC) and scored the movies of the week Final Descent (with the late
Robert Urich) and Cadillac Jack (starring Clint Black).
Honky Tonk Confidential
Claiming classic honky tonk and western swing as major influences,HTC ‘s
performances include classic country tunes, as well as originals. Hailing
from Washington, DC, HTC is
Bob Schieffer's (of CBS News) official backup band.In addition to Road
Kill Stew and Other News,HTC has released three award-winning CDs, Honky
Tonk Confidential, Your Trailer or Mine, and Who
Gets the Fruitcake This Year?
Ka-Chi
Ka-Chi has lived in three continents, drawing material for his art from a
wealth of cultural mixes and experiences. His early influences range in style
and genre from Bob Marley to Cat Stevens, Bob Dylan, and indigenous artists
such as Afrobeat King Fela Kuti and Onyeka Onwenu.
Through his music, Ka-Chi shares experiences both real and fictional, personal or from an onlooker's perspective, and sometimes controversial, but always in the direction of positive and inspirational.
The Swimmers
The Swimmers has a long history as a fixture in the Philadelphia music scene.
The release of Fighting Trees, the group's highly anticipated debut on MAD
Dragon (Ryko/WEA), mixes an Indie-rock aesthetic with bright melodies and
hook-filled choruses pulled from the pop and rock sounds of the 1960's.
Prince George's County
September 13, 2008 - 10am - 6pm
Watkins Regional Park
301 Watkins Park Drive
Upper Marlboro, MD 20774
Main Stage Entertainment begins at 11:30 am
Kindred
The Family Soul
Kindred the Family Soul, also referred to as Kindred, are an American R&B,
soul and neo soul duo comprised of husband and wife Fatin Dantzler and
Aja Graydon. Kindred emerged from the Philadelphia neo soul movement and
were discovered by Jill Scott while performing at the Black Lily Film & Music
Festival.
Their debut album Surrender to Love was released in February 2003 and their follow-up album, 2005's In This Life Together, included the single "Where Would I Be (The Question)". The duo were nominated for a Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B/Soul Album, Group Band or Duo for Surrender to Love in 2004 and a BET Award for the BET J Cool Like That Award in 2006
Dimitri Nassar Trio
Dimitri Nassar provides hard swinging jazz and romantic ballads in a jazz
trio format.
Janelia Soul
The daughter of an American father and Nigerian mother who was born in
Houston and raised in Nigeria, singer-songwriter Janelia brings a unique
multi-cultural vibe to her exotic, highly rhythmic mix of reggae, neo-African
and world fusion music. Living in Baltimore and nominated for the 2006
Nigerian Entertainment Award as Artist of the Year, the multi-faceted
artist conveys her dual citizenship, musical and otherwise, in the hard-hitting
autobiographical lyrics to the title track of her new recording "I'm
An African".
The Block Party
News & UpdaTES
NCRC
Announces Successful Launch of Save the Block Initiative Helping Families
Save their Homes, One Community at a Time
NCRC's
360-Degree Solution is designed to help individual consumers and entire
communities. The National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC)
is launching a new initiative to help at-risk homeowners save their homes
through joint housing counseling and loss mitigation efforts.
The National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) is announcing the
launch of an innovative program to address the escalating housing crisis
at a communitywide level.