Community Partners
The Planning Commission will collaborate with many people in many ways throughout this planning effort. One of these ways is through our Philadelphia2050 Community Partnership program.
The Philadelphia2050 Community Partners are community-based organizations that work with the Planning Commission to engage their communities. The Community Partners help connect us to some of the communities and demographic groups that have historically been left out of planning decision-making.
These Community Partners are learning their communities’ wants and need through story sharing, hosting focus groups, surveying, conducting audits of public spaces, and more. By working together, the Planning Commission is learning important points of view and incorporating solutions and ideas directly from some of our Philly communities that have not always had a seat at the table. Through this partnership, the Community Partners also gain a deeper understanding of how planning decisions are made and how they and their communities can shape those decisions.
Through this Community Partnership, The Planning Commission is supporting the Community Partners to:
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Learn about comprehensive planning through a Citizens Planning Institute course.
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Engage their communities to share stories, envision the future of Philadelphia, identify community needs and wants, and give input on the Philadelphia2050 plan as it is developed.
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Analyze what they hear within their communities.
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Share information and what they learn with their communities and with the Planning Commission.
Asian Americans United
has worked for four decades in Philadelphia’s Asian American communities and in broader multiracial coalitions around quality education, youth leadership, anti-Asian violence, immigrant rights, neighborhood development, and folk arts and cultural preservation. AAU creates social change through arts, culture, and leadership development that builds pride in their heritage and engages community members to become active leaders in campaigns for social justice.
Get Fresh Daily
is a mission-driven organization cultivating community wellbeing through integrated plant-based living experiences, fresh produce access, and culturally empowering wellness education. GFD is working towards a future where people live healthy, vibrant lives sustained by nourishing food, rich community, and a return to earth-centered living.
Hunting Park Coalition
is dedicated to uplifting our neighborhood through grassroots organizing, civic engagement, resource-sharing, and collaborative problem-solving. We focus on connecting residents with services, amplifying local voices, and building collective power to address community challenges.
Klean Kensington
holistically empowers local teens with a focus on financial, career, civic, social-emotional, and spiritual empowerment. Teens are empowered through beautifying their blighted surroundings, as well as participating in other neighborhood-uplifting work.
Liberty Resources, Inc.
is a non-profit, non-residential, cross-disability organization that promotes independent living and advocates individually and collectively for the rights and needs of people with disabilities—empowering individuals to thrive in their communities with dignity and self-determination.
Philly Black Pride
is one of the oldest Black Prides in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the very first to kick off Pride season each year. Founded to celebrate and uplift Black and Brown LGBTQ+ communities, Philly Black Pride creates affirming spaces for culture, advocacy, and joy through year-round programming and its signature Pride Week. From panels and symposiums to parties and performances, the organization builds bridges between community, culture, and policy—centered on visibility, resilience, and liberation.
Philly Thrive
organizes for environmental, racial, and economic justice in the poorest big city in the U.S. We work to heal the unmet needs the current extractive economy creates for communities while taking direct action to transform the extractive economy into a regenerative one.
Rising Hope for Change, Inc.
primarily works with underserved, immigrant, and Black and Brown communities in Southwest Philadelphia building community capacity, improving health literacy, and creating culturally relevant pathways to healing, civic participation, and resilience.
