This is a little old, if someone did bring this up somewhere and I'm a buffoon for posting this, apologies.

http://www.nj.com/indulge/index.ssf/...of_camden.html

Jon is helping open a homeless "hotel" in Camden, NJ. Now look, I've tended to side with people who think Jon's work is at times phony and a way to promote him or the band, or his importance. But honestly, we're well removed from the time of HAND when he was doing a lot of interviews about this stuff. Frankly no one cares about this, as far as I know it didn't really get press outside of local southern NJ papers.

So it impresses me. Because honestly it is a practical thing that helps in a city that really needs it. Camden is not, by any means, a sexy problem to tackle. I got my undergrad degree there, it is honestly as bad as Detroit in most respects, but not nearly as popularized (not saying Detroit really gets the help it needs either). There's really no obvious solution to a city so screwed up, so really just offering some immediate support for lives is a very real thing to offer. So it's pretty cool and honestly I respect Jon a lot for helping it happen. It makes me think that, the lame "we can" aside, he really does care. You don't get any medals for helping anything along in Camden, NJ.