We put our experience and skills
to work for organizations that serve low-income women and families.
BUILDING COMMUNITY
BY BUILDING FACILITIES
TRAINING & TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
PUBLICATIONS
WHO DO WE SERVE?
CASE STUDY
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WOMEN & FAMILIES FACILITIES
FUND
BUILDING COMMUNITY BY BUILDING
FACILITIES
Women’s Community Revitalization Project plans
and develops facilities for organizations that serve low-income families.
With over 15 years of real estate development experience, we provide training
and technical assistance to help organizations increase their capacity
to better serve their communities.
WCRP assists organizations in making sound development decisions, provides
training, and can step in at any point in a facilities project: to define
a project’s goals, determine the need, assess feasibility, create
budgets, choose the architect, manage construction, and move in. We help
organizations make sense of the real estate development process and manage
it so that projects are completed on time and within budget.
Training and Technical Assistance
Our wide range of services allows us to provide
assistance to many types of organizations throughout the Philadelphia
region. We not only know development, we understand what non-profit organizations
need. Our range of services includes:
• Predevelopment: project concept,
market analysis, financial feasibility, space planning, site investigation,
and acquisition.
• Development:
managing design development and construction, coordinating financial packaging,
and preparing
for occupancy.
• Program-Related (Child Care Only): developing
programs, business plans and staffing plans, creating operating budgets,
maximizing funding, establishing quality controls, and assisting with
compliance and licensing.
• Training: We
share our model and experiences through a series of half-day Facilities
Development Workshops that include:
• Overview of the Development Process
• Assessing Organizational Readiness
• Conducting a Market Analysis
• Financial Feasibility & Packaging
• Environmental Investigation Issues
• Understanding Site Selection and Acquisition
• Designing Your Facility
• The Construction Process
Publications
The Women’s Community Revitalization
Project (WCRP) has completed its new training guide, The Facilities Development
Training Curriculum.
WCRP has compiled the materials from its free training seminars on facilities
development into a guidebook that can be updated and used in conjunction
with the training seminars. This book is now available for purchase and
can be ordered by mail or fax. It will also be for sale at our training
sessions. WCRP is dedicated to building the capacity of organizations
serving low-income women and their families so that they may make sound
development decisions related to their projects. This Guidebook is valued
at $130; however we are offering this guide at only its printing cost
of $25.
Please
click here for an order form.
What
Groups Do We Serve?
WCRP has experience working with many organizations:
Head Start programs, child care facilities, health care centers, community
centers, charter schools, and other human and social service agencies.
We have a clear record of success. Highlights of our work include:
• Congreso de Latinos Unidos headquarters:
served as project consultant and managed development process for $10 million
facility for Philadelphia’s largest Latino-serving social service
agency.
• Norris Square Civic Association: served
as project consultant and facilitated development of a $2.2 million child
care center designed to serve 200 children.
• Children’s Village Child Care Center:
served as project consultant for the expansion
of an award-winning child care facility in the heart of Philadelphia’s
Chinatown serving hospitality, garment, and restaurant workers’ children.
• Mariana Bracetti Academy: provided
construction management services to renovate a permanent charter school
facility serving grades 6- 12.
• Church of the Advocate: provided
specific technical assistance to plan a new community center at 18th and
Diamond Streets in North Philadelphia to serve over 100 families.
• Delaware Valley Community Health:
served as project consultant for $7.5 million expansion project of Maria
de los Santos health center that will serve Philadelphia’s Latino
community.
Case Study: Adolfina Villanueva Child Development
Center
Women living in our first housing development identified
quality child care as the greatest need facing their community. Many could
not find safe, affordable alternatives and had to pass up job interviews
and classes to stay at home with their children. WCRP had never built
a child care facility, but we realized the impact it could have for low-income
women and the community.
Working together with WCRP residents, we navigated through the development
process to successfully build the 4,500 square foot facility. The $1 million
Adolfina Villanueva child care center contains program offices, a parent
education space, a commercial kitchen, and four classrooms serving 75
children. The Philadelphia Parent Child Center (a Head Start program)
now runs the center, serving many of the children who live in our Adolfina
Villanueva housing development.
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Our training is provided at no cost and can be
customized. Our rates for technical assistance are competitive, often
subsidized, and can be structured to meet an organization’s specific
needs.
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us
WOMEN & FAMILIES FACILITIES
FUND
WCRP has created a Predevelopment Loan Fund
for non-profit organizations to help pay for the early costs of predevelopment
for facilities projects.
Please
click here for more information about the Women and Families Facilities
Fund.
