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Philadelphia Community Corps
Philadelphia Community Corps provides career training programs that create jobs through reuse.
HISTORY OF THE CORPS
Greg Trainor, Executive Director, learned how to deconstruct buildings in 2006 as an AmeriCorps NCCC Corps Member working for several disaster response organizations in the post-Katrina Gulf Coast. In 2009, Greg was struck by the idea that later became the Philadelphia Community Corps after reading “A Prayer for the City” by Buzz Bissinger. With 40,000-60,000 abandoned properties costing the Philadelphia upwards of 20 million annually plus 70 million in noncollectable property taxes, this is clearly a city facing a catastrophic disaster.
BUILDING NEIGHBORHOODS BY TACKLING BLIGHT
BOARDED UP BUILDINGS ARE BAD NEIGHBORS
People living near boarded up buildings have higher rates of STDs, premature mortality, diabetes, homicide and suicide.
LOW INCOME FAMILIES SUFFER MOST
Philadelphia has over 40,000 vacant properties concentrated in low-income neighborhoods.
4 MILLION US CHILDREN ARE AT RISK
4 Million US children live in housing that poses a public health or safety hazard.
TACKLE BLIGHT, TACKLE VIOLENCE
Remediation of blight correlated to a 39% drop in gun violence.
BE PART OF THE SOLUTION
REQUEST SITE VISIT
Are you renovating or demolishing a property? Fill out the Request a Site Visit form.
JOIN OUR COMMUNITY
BECOME A DONOR OR VOLUNTEER
Philadelphia Community Corps offers job training and career development opportunities to entry-level and re-entry job training for individuals facing barriers to employment.
BENEFITING TAXPAYERS TO SUPPORT THE MISSION
$100,000 AVERAGE DECONSTRUCTION DEDUCTION
for Philadelphia Community Corps Clients
NO FORM NEEDED FOR LESS THAN $500 OF MATERIALS
IRS TOPIC NUMBER: 506 - CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS
DEDUCT UP TO $5,000 WITHOUT AN APPRAISAL
IRS PUBLICATION 526 ON CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS
PCC IS A 50% LIMIT ORGANIZATION
DETERMINING CHARITABLE CONTRIBTION STATUS OF AN ORGANIZATION
RECLAIMING LIVES BY INCREASING OPPORTUNITY
OUR JOB-TRAINING PARTNERS
SAVING THE ENVIRONMENT WITH WASTE DIVERSION
65% OF HARDWOOD FLOORING IS LANDFILLED
SAVE TREES, SAVE MONEY
3 TRILLION BF OF LUMBER PRODUCED IN US
ONE TON OF DOORS
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