Tiny Wpa

Tiny wpa's mission is to grow and support a diverse multigenerational community of civic change agents - building heros - who want to learn how to design - build great things, make a difference in their communities, and trough design lead others in making philadelphia a better, safer, healthier, more equitable, and prosperous place to live, work, and play.

The Organizations mission is to uniquely connect and empower individuals of all ages through community-driven participatory design-build activities and its collaborative workshop in West Philadelphia. Its programmatic activities,neighborhood revitalization efforts, design-build projects, and creative place making initiatives vary in scope, but all are small in scale, community based, needs-driven, action-oriented and collaborative. Its Building Hero Project provides youth and adults from diverse social and economic backgrounds with innovative, year-round training in design, collaboration, leadership, fabrication, and entrepreneurship. In addressing specific problems and transforming their community, participants gain valuable life-long design and leadership skills to become the next generation of civic change agents.