Mercer Street Friends

Welcome to Mercer Street Friends

Fifty Years

Mercer Street Friends is a Quaker-affiliated, nonsectarian human care organization providing compassionate and practical solutions to the problems of poverty and health. We serve more than 20,000 people a year from seven locations and 15 program sites, including the historic original location, a former Friends meeting house in the Mill Hill section of Trenton. Our programs serve infants, children, youth, parents and adults, and the disabled and elderly.

With a budget of more than $13 million in fiscal 2009-2010, more than 200 employees and 550 dedicated volunteers, Mercer Street Friends has been building hopeful futures in the Greater Trenton area and Mercer County since 1958. The programs of Mercer Street Friends are funded by a combination of private donations, government funds, foundation grants and user fees.

Barry Cole on Public Television's "Caucus: New Jersey"
Recently, the public television show "Caucus: New Jersey with Steve Adubato" invited Mercer Street Friends Executive Director Dr. Barry Cole to join a panel of guests to discuss the future of New Jersey cities.  The segement, which airs this weekend, is dedicated to the City of Trenton and features Trenton Mayor Douglas A. Palmer, Trenton Thunder Manager and Cheif Operating Office Will Smith, The Marriott at Lafayette Yard General Manager Jeff Zeiger as well as Dr. Cole.

Link to the Caucus: New Jersey page about this program

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