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Youth & Business
Youth Entrepreneur & Business Expo
A platform for young entrepreneurs, local businesses, vendors, mentors, and families to connect around ownership and opportunity.
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Culture • Civic Power • Youth • Economic Opportunity
Culture is the anchor. Community power is the work.
Paterson Juneteenth Foundation is building a year-round civic, cultural, youth, and economic platform that connects residents, organizations, businesses, funding, and public accountability.
ResidentsNonprofitsChurchesBusinessesSchoolsYouth
Paterson
JUNETEENTH
Culture into power
CultureHistory & celebration
YouthLeadership & opportunity
Civic PowerEducation & participation
EconomyVendors to ownership
One movement. Multiple pathways. Public accountability.
Start here
Choose your pathway into the movement.
Find the fastest route based on what you came here to do.
Attend an EventSee upcoming programs, expos, meetings, and festival activities.↗
Become a VendorAccess opportunities, raffles, business support, and growth pathways.↗
Join the ConsortiumAlign programs, partners, community priorities, and funding.↗
Support the FestivalHelp fund culture, youth programming, public events, and infrastructure.↗
Upcoming in Paterson
Community programming continues beyond Juneteenth Day.
The annual festival remains the cultural anchor while year-round programs create practical pathways into business, wellness, youth leadership, and civic participation.
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Health & Wellness
Inaugural Fitness & Wellness Expo
Fitness exhibitions, wellness and medical practitioners, family activities, health presentations, and community resources.
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The consortium model
This is no longer just an event. It is infrastructure.
No single organization can carry the whole city alone. The consortium creates a coordinated table where trusted groups can share visibility, align programs and funding, and show residents what is moving forward.
Shared visibility
Make organizations, programs, leaders, and outcomes easier for residents, funders, partners, and media to understand.
Funding alignment
Organize programs into clearer grant, sponsorship, business-support, and community-investment lanes.
Public accountability
Turn meetings, ideas, contributions, decisions, and progress into visible community trust.
Collective execution
Coordinate people and resources so good ideas can move from discussion to delivery.
Dashboard first
Open Transparency Dashboard
Show the work before asking people to believe.
The Community Transparency Dashboard is the public proof layer: ideas under review, active initiatives, participating partners, funding movement, allocations, spending, and progress.
Dashboard launch phase: historical initiatives, meeting outcomes, partner activity, community ideas, and funding records are being entered for the first public reporting cycle.
Community AccountabilityLive public reporting
PartnersAligned
IdeasTracked
FundingVisible
ProgressReported
Community priorities→Funding & partners→Public outcomes
One movement. Multiple lanes.
Find where your work connects.
Each lane can operate independently while contributing to one shared community strategy.
Civic Education
Teach residents how city departments, ordinances, budgets, public services, voting, and accountability work.
Explore civic power ↗Economic Development
Advance vendor-to-owner pathways, business formation, local procurement, jobs, and commercial occupancy.
Open Business Support ↗Youth Leadership
Create pipelines into governance, entrepreneurship, health careers, trades, arts, technology, and service.
View youth programs ↗Health & Wellness
Connect families to practitioners, screenings, education, movement, nutrition, and preventive-care resources.
View wellness programs ↗Grant Collaboration
Strengthen partner readiness with shared opportunities, documents, deadlines, application pipelines, and reporting.
Open Grant Dashboard ↗Transparent Reporting
Make ideas, meetings, participation, funding, allocations, spending, and outcomes visible enough to earn trust.
View public reporting ↗
Community tools
Move from interest to action.
The Foundation’s digital tools help organizations and residents participate, build, fund, and verify.
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Transparency Dashboard
Follow priorities, resources, allocations, and initiative progress.
Open dashboard ↗ 02Business Support
Access business formation, resources, growth pathways, and support.
Support a business ↗ 03Grant Dashboard
Coordinate partner eligibility, documents, proposals, and deadlines.
Open GrantOS ↗ 04Raffle Center
Buy tickets, verify entries, and see officially posted winners.
Enter raffle ↗
Community voting power
Culture becomes power when the community understands its voice and shows up together.
Civic participation is one of the Foundation’s year-round operating lanes. Registration is only the first step; informed participation, public accountability, and organized community priorities are the larger work.
Bring your work to the table
Join, partner, volunteer, vend, or support.
Tell us how you want to participate. Your inquiry is saved in the website dashboard and sent to the Foundation’s contact email.
- Consortium membership and program alignment
- Vendor, sponsor, volunteer, and event opportunities
- Civic, youth, business, wellness, and grant collaboration
Keep the cultural anchor strong
Support the Juneteenth Festival and the year-round work around it.
Your support helps strengthen cultural programming, youth opportunity, public events, community outreach, business participation, and transparent infrastructure.