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We put our experience and skills to work for organizations that serve low-income women and families.
BUILDING COMMUNITY BY BUILDING FACILITIES
Women's Community Revitalization Project plans and develops facilities for organizations that serve low-income families. With more than 20 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 need for services, assess feasibility, create budgets, choose an architect, and manage construction. We help organizations make sense of the real estate development process and manage it so that projects are completed on time and within budget.
WHO WE SERVE
Because of a grant from the William Penn Foundation, WCRP can assist other non-profit organizations that serve children and youth. These include Head Start programs, child care facilities, health care centers, community centers, charter schools, and other human and social service agencies.
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.
TECHNICAL ASSSISTANCE
- 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.
- For Child Care Operations: 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 various workshops which can be tailored to an individual organization's needs. They include:
- Overview of the Development Process
- Assessing Organizational Readiness to Take on a Development Project
- Conducting a Market Analysis
- Financial Feasibility & Packaging
- Environmental Investigation Issues
- Understanding Site Selection and Acquisition
- Designing Your Facility
- The Construction Process
- Workshops on other topics such as fund-raising, developing greener facilities, and complying with building regulations are available.
PROJECTS AND CLIENTS INCLUDE:
- Adolfina Villaneuva Child Development Center: WCRP's first facilities development project was built to serve a housing development. It is leased to a Head Start program and serves 72 children.
- Congreso de Latinos Unidos headquarters: $10 million facility for Philadelphia's largest Latino-serving social service agency.
- Norris Square Civic Association: $2.2 million child care center designed to serve 200 children.
- Children's Village Child Care Center: expansion of an NAEYC accredited child care center in Philadelphia's Chinatown for which WCRP helped obtain a $600,000 grant.
- Delaware Valley Community Health: $10 million expansion project of Maria de los Santos Health Center that serves Philadelphia's Latino community.
- The Preschool Project: $1.3 million renovation of an historic church in Philadelphia's Fishtown to serve as a Head Start/child care and career development center for preschool teachers. WCRP helped obtain more than $1 million for the two phases of this project.
- Lincoln Day Educational Center:: $1.2 million renovation of a century-old building used as a child care center, designed by the firm of architect Frank Furness. WCRP was instrumental in obtaining a state grant of more than $1 million for the project.
CONTACT INFORMATION
For more information about our facilities workshops and technical assistance, please contact us.
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