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Community Organizing


Capturing the Wind in Hunting Park

When I bought my Philadelphia home four years ago and signed up for all the utilities, I was intrigued by the option to purchase electricity generated from windmills.  I like the environment and saving it seems just fine to me, but that’s not what intrigued me...

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Building Community Block by Block

Recently there has been an increase in shootings on the 5000 block of Tacoma Street.  This is the block where Germantown Hope church members Penny, Sis and Hannah live, where we have a midweek House Church, and where we ran our first two summer Street Camps...

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Discovering Gifts

“Building Community Partnerships That Work” is a two-day workshop that introduced me to different ways of engaging community members within their own community and how to build community partnerships that work...

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Organizing the Community

For a community to come together and effectively address problems in their neighborhood a community has to be organized.  This seems like pretty obvious logic, right?  But how exactly do you organize people...

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