SKCP Annual Fundraiser

We’re just over half way to our goal of $6,000! Thank you to all of our neighbors and supporters for your generous donations. Here’s more highlights from 2021:

American Street Corridor and Beyond: Greening Our Streets

The North American Street Corridor is the central spine of our neighborhood and of those to the North. Along with our neighbors, SKCP has a long history on American Street, advocating for modernized land-use, celebrating communities that have persisted alongside the vacancy and blight for decades, and envisioning a future that respects and includes opportunities for everyone. SKCP believes that the street can serve as both a vibrant mixed use corridor, creating economic activity and a space for physical and social connection.

We also recognize the Corridor’s potential to become one of the greenest, most ecologically beneficial streets in Philadelphia, collecting stormwater, providing tree canopy, and yielding tangible health benefits for the surrounding community.

This Fall, after years of planning and construction, the American Street Improvement Project celebrated its official opening. In preparation, SKCP’s Green team, working with Apiary Studios, and with support from American Street stakeholders Crane Arts, Solar States, and Klein Company, installed specially designed landscaping in the non-porous bump outs along one block of the corridor as a demonstration of continued improvements.

In consultation with PWD, Streets Department and other City agencies, SKCP’s Clean and Green team is excited to continue this work with stakeholders to ensure that improvements will continue and be maintained, creating cohesively designed streetscape and tree canopy, while, critically important to us, providing local jobs and green skills training at the same time.

SKCP’s work is carried out by a small, hardworking staff and crew, a volunteer board, and a few dedicated residents. We depend on you, our neighbors, to contribute in big and small ways to help us continue to support the neighborhood. Please consider giving in any amount to help us meet our goal.

Here's the link: https://donorbox.org/skcp-annual-appeal-2021

A big THANK YOU to these neighborhood business supporters!
@homesweethomePHL
Michael Jordan Real Estate
Zembo Temple of Skate and Design

(P.S. Own a business in the neighborhood? If you contribute $100 or more, we’ll give you a special shoutout in our weekly newsletter.)

Mark your calendar for Livewell Garden Projects

Livewell Garden Projects @ Howard & Master

All are invited to participate.

Meet us in the garden space: Northeast corner of Howard and Master Streets

Saturday, March 20 @ 10am (rain date Sunday): Clean up, brush management

Saturday, April 24 @ 10am (rain date Sunday): Modification of chain link fence, gazebo maintenance

Saturday, May 22 @ 10am (rain date Sunday): Gazebo maintenance part 2, spring planting of annuals and perennials

We ask that all participants wear appropriate attire and bring work gloves. We will follow current COVID protocols and ask participants to wear a mask and practice social distancing.