Price Hill Will

Filing Period

Jan 1, 2012 to Dec 31, 2012

Signed

Sep 18, 2013

Return Version

2012v2.1

Gross Receipts

$1,566,283

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. Some of these groups continue as a cat while other resident-led groups have chosen to move away from that particular title.each resident-led committee 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 committees and other community groups. Price hill will now completes an annual smaller community priority survey of residents to ensure that it is continuing to do the work that residents feel is most important. In 2012. 135 residents completed the survey. Currently there are 5 resident-led committees (arts cat, education cat, clean and green, housing cat, and price hill cares - a collaboration of social service agencies servicing the nieghborhoods) 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 organizaing and sponsoring free community events and festivals, creating and managing several community gardens, installing public art, and organizing crime prevention strategies. All programming takes place within east, west, and/or lower price hill, though some resident-led initiatives are aligned with city and state level advocacy efforts affecting community development in price hill (i.e. Housing). In 2012, 38 events were organized by phw cats in collaboration with other community groups. 1,013 volunteers participated in the planning and/or implementation of these events. In 2011, price hill will began a program called mycincinnati (music for youth in cincinnati), 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 weekday after school. Students participate in group and private lessons, orchestra rehearsals, bucket drumming, musicianship classes, and give frequent performances throughout cincinnati. The program started with 11 students in 2011, and had grown to 30 students by december 2012.

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 2012, the program was awarded a second year social innovation fund grant award, and local matching funds to renovate and move into permanent space. In the second year of operations, the phfoc served 251 unique individuals with counseling/coaching services in at least one of they key areas. 30 individuals secured employment, 49 individuals secured recurring public benefits, 37 persons had an increase in monthly net income and 21 persons had an increase in net worth.

Filer

EIN

20-1452663