• People's Emergency Center: 

    PEC nurtures families, strengthens neighborhoods, and drives change. PEC is committed to increasing equity and opportunity throughout our entire community. We provide comprehensive supportive services to homeless women and their children, revitalize our West Philadelphia neighborhood, and advocate for social justice.

    Through its CDC, PEC provides an array of neighborhood preservation, community building, technology, and commercial development projects. Over the past 15 years, PEC has leveraged over $40 million in public and private investments to transform more than 100 blighted properties into nearly 200 units of affordable housing, four social service facilities, and a community playground. On Lancaster Avenue, the neighborhood commercial corridor, PEC has attracted new businesses, improved commercial facades, and enhanced the streetscape. Through its financial literacy seminars, PEC has helped more than 150 community residents improve their financial awareness. With the Digital Inclusion Program, PEC has provided computers, training, internet access, and technical support to more than 1000 low-income adults, teens and sixth graders through workshops and after school programs.

    http://www.pec-cares.org
    PEC@pec-cares.org
    People's Emergency Center
    325 N. 39th Street
    Philadelphia, PA 19104
    P: (215) 382-7522
    F: (215) 386-6290

  • University City District: 

    A nonprofit, neighborhood-based special services district dedicated to improving the quality of life in the 2.4 square mile area of West Philadelphia known as University City. UCD builds effective partnerships to maintain a clean and safe environment and to promote, plan, and advocate for University City's diverse urban community. Among its accomplishments, UCD helped establish the Clark Park Farmers' Market and has implemented more than $3 million in completed streetscape and public infrastructure projects.

    http://www.universitycity.org
    ucd@universitycity.org
    University City District
    3940-42 Chestnut Street
    Philadelphia, PA 19104
    P: (215) 243-0555
    F: (215) 243-0557

 

  • The Partnership CDC:

    A seventeen year old, non-profit neighborhood development organization that has leveraged over $60 million in private investment to assist in the revitalization of the West Philadelphia community since its inception. The Partnership develops affordable, for-sale and rental housing for low to moderate-income families in Philadelphia County, and provides home ownership education to first-time home buyers. Additionally, we work to retain businesses in West Philadelphia, while attracting new ones. This creates employment opportunities in the area, allowing our communities to be economically independent and viable. Partnership CDC also undertakes retail development, organizes business associations, provides technical assistance to businesses and community groups and formulates revitalization strategies for commercial corridors.

    http://partnershipcdc.wordpress.com
    awilliams@thepartnershipcdc.org
    The Partnership CDC
    4020 Market Street
    Philadelphia, PA 19104
    P: (215) 662-1612

    The Enterprise Center CDC: 

    A neighborhood-based nonprofit organization in West Philadelphia. Founded in 2001 by The Enterprise Center, a respected minority business accelerator, TEC-CDC extends The Enterprise Center's focus on minority entrepreneurship and wealth creation through strategic investments, programs, and initiatives in the Walnut Hill neighborhood of West Philadelphia. TEC-CDC is part of The Enterprise Center network of organizations.

    http://www.theenterprisecentercdc.org/cdc/
    iwilkes@theenterprisecentercdc.org
    The Enterprise Center CDC
    4548 Market Street
    Philadelphia, PA 19139
    P: (215) 895-4095
    F: (215) 895-4001

     

Along with these four organizations is an ever-growing list of committed auxiliary partners, including City agencies (Police, Streets, Commerce, the Mural Arts Program, and others pending); University City institutions, including the University of Pennsylvania, Drexel University, Community College of Philadelphia, and the Urban Education Fund; and elected and appointed city, state, and federal officials from the target area. These entities have distinct yet complementary roles in project planning, investment, and implementation.

DEVELOPING PARTNERSHIPS

Due to the comprehensive nature of SCI-West, the work is heavily dependent on partnerships with organizations skilled in each of the SCI-West objective areas as well as organizations capable of helping SCI-W reach its goals of creating system level change while also empowering and mobilizing residents.

Here are the partnerships that we've established  since 2007: