Jon Cumming
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Since graduating college in 2000 with a degree in Accounting and Business Finance, Jon has worked nationally and internationally to serve families and strengthen communities. Directly out of college, Jon went to Uganda and worked to help establish medical clinics and fresh water in areas of need. Upon returning from Uganda, Jon worked for Fulton Financial Corporation supervising reconciliations, returns and adjustments and LOC payments. In 2004, Jon and his family moved to Guadalajara, Mexico, where he worked running a Mexican non-profit. During that time, Jon was able to remodel an 8,000 SF school and build it to serve 60 children from 3 years old through 5th grade. Attached to the school was a dental clinic providing services to members of the community and it also served various surrounding communities through a mobile dental clinic. In addition to this, through the non-profit, he worked to help friends start and establish an orphanage that currently serves nearly 30 children in a family-living environment where whole sibling units are permitted to stay together and live there.
After returning to the states, in early 2012, Revive South Jersey was started to specifically target the needs of families in Bridgeton and Cumberland County. Revive South Jersey helped start the Unidos para la Familia collaborative in partnership with the Pascale Sykes Foundation in 2014. Through the work of Unidos and Revive they serve over 150 Hispanic families through Spanish GED test prep, life coaching, conversational ESL classes and citizenship tutoring. Revive and Unidos also serve families in the community through summer programs and have been active in community development through establishing the community garden program in the Bridgeton School District which now has four gardens located at four different schools. Revive also partnered with two other organizations to offer the first ITIN mortgage program in the state of New Jersey. In 2015, Jon was asked by CASA of NJ to take over as the Executive Director of CASA of Camden County, where he currently serves as well. Through these efforts and various other partnerships, Jon and the teams at Revive, Unidos, CASA and more, are making an incredible impact serving whole families, building communities and helping them create lasting legacies of hope.
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