Philadelphia Community Corps

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• MissionThe Philadelphia Community Corps provides career training programs that empower underserved citizens to revitalize blighted neighborhoods by deconstructing vacant buildings and salvaging materials for reuse.MethodWe are a nonprofit deconstruction and material salvage organization that focuses on career development. By employing grant-funded trainees for our projects, the Philadelphia Community Corps provides individuals with job skills while putting wages back into the communities from which we salvage materials. Through education and advocacy, we can expand the deconstruction industry in the Philadelphia region, creating jobs and benefiting the local economy.By utilizing the deconstruction process, which diverts waste from landfills through the salvage of building materials for reuse and recycling, we can address the citys abandoned housing blight with an environmentally friendly alternative to demolition.OpportunityThere are over 40,000 vacant properties in Philadelphia. The city spends over $20 million each year in maintaining these properties, which also accounts for over $70 million in uncollected property taxes. These properties drive away investment, attract crime, and drag down property values city-wide by an estimated $3.6 billion, but there hasnt been a solution profitable enough or large enough in scale to reverse the abandoned housing blight.Philadelphia recently became the largest city in the country to pass land bank legislation, which is aimed at quickly developing its nearly 10,000 city-owned properties. Previously, the Department of License & Inspections paid demolition contractors to remove about 1,000 blighted structures a year at an average cost of $13,000 per house. In 2012 alone Philadelphia paid $9.5 million to demolition contractors.
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  Headquarters:150 West Butler Street , Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

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  Phone Number: +1 201-956-1275

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  Website: https://www.philadelphiacommunitycorps.org

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  Employees:11

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  Revenue:$1 - 10M

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  Legal Name:Philadelphia Community Corps

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• |  NAICS Code: 624110  |

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