StreetWise Partners Holds NYC Event to Bowl for Better Jobs and Build Social Capital

11.13.2007

“Our growing social-capital deficit threatens educational performance, safe neighborhoods, equitable tax collection, democratic responsiveness, everyday honesty, and even our health and happiness.” Robert Putnam, Interview, Chronicle of Philanthropy, 10/00, author of Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community

Based in New York City, StreetWise Partners, a national volunteer-driven nonprofit for low-income career seekers will be holding an event this evening, November 13th at the world renown, Bowlmor Lanes. More than 200 professionals will gather from corporations such as Lehman Brothers, Jakks Pacific, Time Warner, Starwood Capital, American Express, and Goldman Sachs, among others to bowl for creating better employment opportunities, career advancement initiatives, and social networks for the unemployed and working poor.

In the groundbreaking book Bowling Alone, Harvard professor Robert Putnam asserts that building social capital benefits society and leads to happier and healthier individuals. Civic virtue is more powerful when embedded in networks. Bridging the corporate world together with low-income communities throughout places such as New York City and Washington D.C., StreetWise Partners creates networks for change that enable motivated, low-income individuals to build skills for work and employment opportunities for life.

WHAT: StreetWise Partners’ Corporate Bowling Challenge: FastLane!

WHERE: Bowlmor Lanes 110 University Place New York, NY 10003 (Union Square between 12th & 13th Streets)

Join us at this memorable event as we roll for social change and bowl not alone, but together.