SKCP Annual Fundraising

The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's Philadelphia LandCare program is nationally recognized as a model for supporting communities and transforming vacant land.

SKCP is proud to be a Community LandCare partner since 2013 and a Philadelphia LandCare contractor since 2017. Our team maintains and reports on vacant land in eastern North Philadelphia, visiting the sites twice monthly from early Spring, during the dog days of Summer, and through the Fall, removing litter, mowing grass, and reporting conditions. In recent years, the work has gotten more challenging, as short dumping has persisted if not increased (especially with all the new construction sites in some areas).

The LandCare program helps make our communities cleaner, safer, and healthier. As important, it provides place based employment opportunities, something that has always been important to our neighbors and the communities we serve.

In 2021, our team cared for more than 750,000 s/f of land, added regular private pay clients (Thank You!), and helped plant and care for neighborhood trees. While cleaning and mowing have wrapped for 2021, the offseason work continues, researching and identifying which parcels can benefit from LandCare, reporting nuisance properties, training/hiring crew and planning for an even better 2022.

Much appreciation to 2021's LandCare crew Shawn, Luis, Ramon, Gary, Jamaal, Shaheed, and Daquaan!

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

(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.)