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A local branch of a national nonprofit backed by the Obama Foundation is being honored as one of its four exemplary community organizations from several across the country.

PepsiCo's efforts to conserve water demonstrate its commitment to environmental sustainability and corporate responsibility.

Entrepreneurship programs from across the country competing for six premier awards.

Misunderstandings that were going on, just beneath the surface. william: i always said to people that teanecks greatest strength is its diversity and its greatest weakness is its diversity. when you live in a community thats homogenous, its easy for everybody to get on the same page real fast. when you live in a community like teaneck, its a lot harder, takes a lot more work. mike: you know, a lot of people talk about whether or not teaneck is a model community. and i think it is a model communi...

Pay as little as zero dollars jackie: you know, when you look back, was teaneck ever really the model that the army decided that it was after the war? its a responsibility of the people who live in the community to make sure that were going to stay worthy of being called the model community. loretta: this myth that we were a model town usa, played a part in us not recognizing what was going on in our community over the years. the problems, the schisms, the misunderstandings that were going on, j...

For everybody to get on the same page real fast. when you live in a community like teaneck, its a lot harder, takes a lot more work. mike: you know, a lot of people talk about whether or not teaneck is a model community. and i think it is a model community. however, its really a mirror of the nation, just as this nation is not perfect. were continuing to struggle with all kinds of issues, particularly of issues of race. i think teaneck really represents that national mirror as opposed to being a...

Including one drivenby a sympathizer who wanted to get through. the groups grief soon,gave way to anger. (angry crowd yelling) jackie: how could thishappen in teaneck? it was soearth-shattering, we had been themodel community and i think that i learned that some of that reputation was was a myth. in fact,the 1949 the us government named teaneck,a model american town. it was overwhelminglywhite christians then. alison: i find it interestingthat there were no african- americans in teaneck whenit b...

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