Price Hill Will

Filing Period

Jan 1, 2010 to Dec 31, 2010

Signed

Aug 15, 2011

Return Version

2010v3.4

Gross Receipts

$1,885,999

Mission

Major Activities

Activity 2

Price hill will's civic engagement program is designed to actively involve community members in revitalization of their neighborhood. The organization's founding members recognized that physical revitalization of the neighborhood would not be enough to achieve sustainable change - community members and neighborhood institutions needed strong communication networks to access ways to improve and maintain the quality of life they hope to experience daily. Over 2,000 surveys were completed in the organization's original planning process to determine what the community valued most about price hill. Themes from those surveys helped to form committees that residents were encouraged to join. Those committees are known as community action teams or cats. Each cat has specific goals based on its focus area; the goal of the phw's director of community engagement is to provide full-time staff level support, recruit new members, and form connections between the cats and other groups. Currently there are 7 action teams (arts, beautification, churches, ecological neighborhood, education, housing, and safety) working with price hill will community organizers and other stakeholder groups to plan and implement community building initiatives. Price hill will staff also works with the neighborhood's business associations. Examples of the work being done by these groups include installment of artwork in the business district, coordinating educational program within the community gardens, and organizing crime prevention strategies. All programming takes place within east, west, and/or lower price hill though some cat initiatives are aligned with city and state level advocacy efforts affecting community development in price hill (i.e. Housing). In 2010, 21 events were organized by phw cats in collaboration with other community groups. 1491 volunteers participated in the planning and/or implementation of these events.

Activity 3

The price hill center for financial stability was a new program tasked with the challenge of developing a collaborative service model that could incorporate services across different organizations. Best practice models focus on three broad areas of service: workforce development, work supports, and financial education. In partnership with santa maria community services, the cfs became a satellite recruiting site for cincinnati works, an experimental arrangement designed to increase access to specific services around job readiness. In addition, to facilitate client recruitment, weekly in-take/orientation sessions were initiated in may 2010 as a means to enroll cfs program participants, teach basic concepts, and serve as a clearing-house of information about various services.

Filer

EIN

20-1452663