Price Hill Will

Filing Period

Jan 1, 2011 to Dec 31, 2011

Signed

Oct 30, 2012

Return Version

2011v1.2

Gross Receipts

$1,334,807

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. In 2011 price hill will completed a second smaller community priority survey of 350 residents to ensure that it is continuing to do the work that residents feel is most important. Currently there are 5 action teams (arts, clean and green, churches, education, and housing) 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 and community councils. 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 2011, 18 events were organized by phw cats in collaboration with other community groups. 790 volunteers participated in the planning and/or implementation of these events. In 2011, price hill will began a program called music for youth in cincinnati (mycincinnati) which is a free after-school music program that offers students in price hill the opportunity to study an instrument and play in an orchestra. The mission of mycincinnati is to use classical music as a tool for youth development and community engagement by providing urban children with access to free, intense, high-quality musical instruction. Mycincinnati students are engaged in intensive music programming for 2 hours every day after school at roberts academy, a community learning center that emphasizes community change and economic growth through multiple school partnerships with other social, economic, and health institutions that serve children and their families.

Activity 3

The price hill financial opportunity center (phfoc) (f.k.a. The price hill center for financial stability) is a centralized program that brings together in one location a continuum of services that focus on the key areas of workforce development, income supports, and financial literacy. A multi-agency collaborative, the phfoc augments the established community-based eviction prevention and family stabilization programs of santa maria community services (smcs) with the recognized best practice job readiness/job placement model established by cincinnati works and the community engagement, redevelopment, and revitalization efforts of price hill will. In 2011, the program was awarded a social innovation fund grant award that placed smcs as the lead organization/fiduciary agent for the program funding and allowed staff from each of the three partner organization to co-locate in temporary space for the start of the grant term in february 2011. In the first year of operations as a stand-alone program, emphasis was placed on implementing best practices and adapting the model to the price hill service area. 174 unique individuals received counseling/coaching services in at least one of the key areas.

Filer

EIN

20-1452663