Mount Hope News
Conor MacDonald
Greater Camp Concerned Citizens
Conor MacDonald
Greater Camp Concerned Citizens
GCCC (Greater Camp Concerned Citizens) is back in action and is actively
signing up members to advocate for the Mt. Hope community: longtime residents
and new residents alike can join up through our website and email listed above.
In 1990, Mount Hope resident Horace Mabray gathered his neighbors to advocate for the community they loved, and since then the Greater Camp Concerned Citizens (GCCC) won increasing safety and stability for the residents of Mount Hope.
The GCCC ran community clean-ups, Easter Egg Hunts, organized petitions for better city services, and invited city leaders to meetings to address the Mt. Hope community’s concerns. GCCC worked diligently within the community to make our streets safer, cleaner, and friendlier.
In 2006 the City honored Horace Mabray, a GCCC founder, with a Lifetime Achievement Award for his community service. We lost Horace in 2008. The Greater Camp Concerned Citizens non-profit community organization went into a period of dormancy for a few years, but many residents now express a need for the group’s advocacy to re-emerge.
Today, Mount Hope enjoys safe streets and good neighbors. We are proud that waves of Irish, Jewish, and African-American settlement have left us a legacy of true diversity and harmony. Our hillside neighborhood has beautiful affordable homes and is close to highways, transportation, and the best Providence has to offer—and 19 new street trees this spring, thanks to the Providence Neighborhood Planting Program and Forestry Department!
The GCCC is reviving advocacy for clean streets and safe neighborhoods. Recently, neighbors have noticed an increase in thefts, vandalism, and property crimes. Many Mt. Hope residents worry about drugs re-emerging in our streets, near our playgrounds, on our street corners, putting our neighborhood teens at risk. Mount Hope is a place of opportunity, and we must ensure that all our children and residents have access to that opportunity—we can’t let fear or addictions get in the way.
Now is a critical time for re-establishing the resources that the city needs to protect what has been achieved: an independent District 8, an active substation, and officers in our neighborhoods with time to walk around and get to know the neighborhood.
We also have goals of inviting experts to Mount Hope so that our residents know just how to work with city agencies and officials as partners to achieve their goals, and how to plan for stable and secure financial futures through home ownership.
We are proud to stand alongside two wonderful neighborhood institutions: The Mount Hope Neighborhood Association and the Mount Hope Learning Center. Safe, secure streets are essential to community and educational programming, and we see the role of the GCCC as fundamental to their success. We proudly back the MHNA in supporting the Ban the Box program.
Please, join your neighbors in GCCC in advocating for Mt. Hope: visit our website or email us to join.
In 1990, Mount Hope resident Horace Mabray gathered his neighbors to advocate for the community they loved, and since then the Greater Camp Concerned Citizens (GCCC) won increasing safety and stability for the residents of Mount Hope.
The GCCC ran community clean-ups, Easter Egg Hunts, organized petitions for better city services, and invited city leaders to meetings to address the Mt. Hope community’s concerns. GCCC worked diligently within the community to make our streets safer, cleaner, and friendlier.
In 2006 the City honored Horace Mabray, a GCCC founder, with a Lifetime Achievement Award for his community service. We lost Horace in 2008. The Greater Camp Concerned Citizens non-profit community organization went into a period of dormancy for a few years, but many residents now express a need for the group’s advocacy to re-emerge.
Today, Mount Hope enjoys safe streets and good neighbors. We are proud that waves of Irish, Jewish, and African-American settlement have left us a legacy of true diversity and harmony. Our hillside neighborhood has beautiful affordable homes and is close to highways, transportation, and the best Providence has to offer—and 19 new street trees this spring, thanks to the Providence Neighborhood Planting Program and Forestry Department!
The GCCC is reviving advocacy for clean streets and safe neighborhoods. Recently, neighbors have noticed an increase in thefts, vandalism, and property crimes. Many Mt. Hope residents worry about drugs re-emerging in our streets, near our playgrounds, on our street corners, putting our neighborhood teens at risk. Mount Hope is a place of opportunity, and we must ensure that all our children and residents have access to that opportunity—we can’t let fear or addictions get in the way.
Now is a critical time for re-establishing the resources that the city needs to protect what has been achieved: an independent District 8, an active substation, and officers in our neighborhoods with time to walk around and get to know the neighborhood.
We also have goals of inviting experts to Mount Hope so that our residents know just how to work with city agencies and officials as partners to achieve their goals, and how to plan for stable and secure financial futures through home ownership.
We are proud to stand alongside two wonderful neighborhood institutions: The Mount Hope Neighborhood Association and the Mount Hope Learning Center. Safe, secure streets are essential to community and educational programming, and we see the role of the GCCC as fundamental to their success. We proudly back the MHNA in supporting the Ban the Box program.
Please, join your neighbors in GCCC in advocating for Mt. Hope: visit our website or email us to join.
Website: www.mthope-eastside.com
Email: GreaterCamp@Gmail.com
