Called To Serve CDC

Tune in Sunday, Feb 28th 1 PM - 2 PM for a rebroadcast of today's program Reality Check https://wurdradio.com/.../reality-check-with-charles.../ for a conversation on the life, legacy, and impact of Rev. Sullivan. The show will include an opening prayer by Pastor Harrison and conversations with Congressman Dwight Evans, Rev. Gus Roman, Pastor Robert Collier and Dr. Julie Sullivan-Detheridge (Rev. Sullivan's daughter) #onWURD #realitycheck

Tune in to the Reality Check https://wurdradio.com/s/reality-check-with-charles-ellison/ this morning at 10 AM for a special program on Rev. Dr. Leon Sullivan. Charles Ellison (program host) will host Congressman Dwight Evans, Rev. Dr. Gus Roman, Dr. Julie Sullivan-Detheridge (daughter of Rev. Sullivan), Pastor Chauncey Harrison, Pastor Robert Collier as they reflect on the life, impact, and legacy of Rev. Sullivan. #onWURD #realitycheck

Dr. Neil Pitts answering questions on the Covid19 Vaccine

Please join us tomorrow from 1-2 PM when Dr. Neil Pitts from Miriam Medical Clinic will answers questions about the Covid-19 vaccine.

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Praying for our city. Right now!!

More pictures from the great work that the Glazers Local 252 and CTS were doing this past October 24, 2020 on our Business Corridor. We also want to thank Terry Webb of Eureka Glass, Glass Enterprises Inc., and A.G.M.A. We also are thankful for the support of the 25th Police District of the City of Philadelphia! Amelia Price, our awesome and diligent Business Corridor Manager, facilitated this event!

Called To Serve CDC partnering with DC 21 Glazers Local 252 and with the 25th Police District of the City of Philadelphia were on our Broad & Germantown & Erie Business Corridor this past October 24, 2020 repairing and helping our businesses. We want to give a big applause to Amelia Price, who is our Business Corridor Manager, and she facilitated this event. We also want to give a big applause to the workers from Glazers Local 252 to got up early in the morning to provide their services. And we are so thankful for the men and women who serve in the 25th Police District who are always there to support our community! Please enjoy these pictures of their combined hard work and efforts!!

Very grateful for the support of Glaziers Local 252 and their partners who came out Saturday at 6:30 AM to replace the windows on storefronts on the Broad, Germantown and Erie corridor. See the post below for more details. We appreciate the support of the 25th Police District as well.

Our Workforce Development Program is focusing on developing "career pathways" for those who live in our community. To that end our desire is to create a space called, "The Center for Arts and Digital Literacy". Today we are so proud to be able to put Desktop Computers into the possession of our "Cleaning Ambassadors" who keep our Business Corridor clean. Now we will be able to conduct "Virtual Learning" classes and increase their proficiency in computers and digital literacy.... Thanks goes out to the IT Department at Temple University and our partnerships with the "Temple/Lenfest North Philadelphia Workforce Initiative", The Commerce Department of the City of Philadelphia and the Center for Urban Bioethics at the Temple University Hospital. Please enjoy the pictures of our men below who received their Desktop Computers today. Thank you to all of our partners!! Called To Serve CDC!!!

This is huge! Given the current state of the schools, this will go a long way to ensuring our kids at least have access to the education they have the right to.

With movement restrictions in place, providing information about how to participate in government is a necessity for CTS. Check out our latest post.

Today we celebrated the life, legacy and impact of Rev. Dr. Leon Sullivan. Pictures to follow but some news is too good to keep. We hosted a job fair today and 30 people left with jobs!!!

THANK YOU to everyone who joined us to make the unveiling of Rev. Dr. Leon H. Sullivan Way a success. Your presence meant a lot.

100 CHICK-FIL-A SANDWICHES KENDERTON ELEMENTARY BACK TO SCHOOL NIGHT Thursday, September 26, 2019 Mike, I would like to serve Chck-Fil-A sandwiches (this was before the Popeye’s sandwich debate) to my parents as a way of encouraging them to come out said Kenderton Elementary School Principal Deanna Bredell. Mission accomplished! When CTS Executive Director, Pastor Jeffrey Harley arrived at the school at 4:40 PM for the 5:00 PM Back To School Night Program (Thursday, September 26th), he reported that there were people lined up outside of the door! Principal Bredell had announced that the first 100 attendees would receive a Chick-Fil-A sandwich. When asked later on the evening if the idea worked, Principal Bredell said YES! The auditorium was packed.

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Amelia Price, Jeff Harley and Angela Smith with Mayor Kenney at the 2019 Philly Free Streets announcement. Amelia is quoted in this article. https://whyy.org//north-broad-gets-another-go-for-philly-/ Photos credit - Philly City Rep

Here is the latest article on Sacred Places/Civic Spaces initiative involving the Zion Annex and Called To Serve's work with Zion Baptist Church https://www.worshipfacilities.com//true-community-no-strin

A very heartfelt THANK YOU to our ministry partner Dr. Michael Johnson of Miriam Medical Clinic. Michael and his wife Kay who were at Kenderton elementary school yesterday doing physicals for the Kenderton Eagles the baseball team.

The attached article serves as a reminder of the importance of the work that Called To Serve does. A Kenderton elementary school (a school that we support) parent is quoted in the article. http://www.philly.com//philly-school-library-reopen-equity

Tops Beauty Supply Grand Reopening Tuesday, December 14, 2018 Congratulations Paul Lim.

Grateful for another year partnering with Save-a-Lot and their program called Bags for a Brighter Holiday (https://savealot.com/bags-for-a-brighter-holiday). Shoppers purchase a bag and the local store donates to an organization. Dropped off 68 bags for families at Kenderton and Bethune elementary schools.

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Food was a common thread connecting all three conceptual designs at Tuesday’s presentation of the Sacred Places/Civic Spaces design challenge. Kimberly Haas co...vers the details from the big reveal. http://planphilly.com//sacred-spaces-reimagined-with-prese Partners for Sacred Places Community Design Collaborative AIA Philadelphia Center / Architecture + Design Wharton-Wesley United Methodist Church ACHIEVEability People's Emergency Center (PEC) Called To Serve CDC Zion Baptist Church of Philadelphia Philadelphia Masjid/Sister Clara Muhammad School HOK in Philadelphia Brawer & Hauptman, Architects Studio 6mm Architecture Fabrication Research

Thank you to all of you who gave or are planning to give. Because of your generous support both through Facebook and through direct donations we have received $1,015.

More footage from Small Business Saturday https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com//3983454-philadelphia-m/

Supporting Small Business Saturday with Mayor Jim Kenney, Commerce Director Harold Epps, Amelia Price, Angela R Simmons-Smith, Karen Lockhart Fegely, Dr. H. Ahada Stanford, Nazaarah Sabree, Wendolyn David, Officer Marcus Salas

At the CCP PowerUp Your Business (https://www.ccp.edu/business-and-indust/power-your-business) 7th Cohort graduation with Handy's Barbershop owner Monroe Handy. Called To Serve is one of the PowerUp community partners.

This article highlights why we sponsor the AARP Intergenerational reading program at Kenderton elementary school in North Philly. To our financial supporters thank you for helping us do our part. #readby4th http://www2.philly.com//philly-kids-read-by-4th-literacy-l

The deadline for this is Thursday.

This is Kenderton Elementary at 15th & Ontario

#sacredmeetscivic at the Reveal Event waiting to see if our project the Zion Educational Annex is selected

Employees of local Wall Street firm unite to support Elementary School Baseball Team http://bit.ly/2ws82eK

Called To Serve's Broad, Germantown and Erie facade project was one of the projects completed by the Community Design Collaborative and the renderings were on display at their Leverage 2018 event last night. In attendance was 25th Police District Officer Marcus Salas and Called To Serve Corridor Manager Amelia Price.

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Very grateful for the work of Dr. Monique Major to coordinate the trip to send 120 Kenderton Elementary School students to see the Black Panther Movie tomorrow March 13th. Many THANKS to the Called To Serve supporters for their financial contributions to make the trip possible.

One of our donors contacted me and asked if I thought the children at the school could use some new winter coats. It didn't take long to say yes. Here is what showed up for the girls. She told me the boys ones are on the way. Very grateful for the support.

Congratulations to Amelia Price and Marcus Salas on their graduation from the Citizens Planning Institute

Support us when you shop on Cyber Monday. Go to smile.amazon.com/ch/46-4404323 and Amazon donates to Called To Serve CDC.

Celebrating the birthday of our Corridor Manager Amelia Price at the 2035 North District Steering Committee meeting.

Photos provided by Jim Green.

Amelia Price, Called To Serve's corridor manager recruited 45 volunteers for Kevin Hart Day and then served as one coordinators for the volunteers for the event. Most of those volunteers came from Zion Baptist Church along with friends and friends of friends. Thanks also to Majeedah Rashid from Nicetown CDC and Cynthia Barnes Nicetown-Tioga Improvement Team two of our community partners. The event happened at Broad and Erie the commercial corridor that Called To Serve is partnering with others to revitalize. http://www.philly.com//kevin-hart-returns-home-for-phillys

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The Mary McLeod Bethune Elementary school's principal acknowledged our support of the school in this article in the Tribune's Learning Key http://www.phillytrib.com//article_d1e2ef59-7792-5e71-8006

Very grateful and thanking God for the Philadelphia area corporate Save-a-lot stores and their regional manager Frank Calderoni, store manager Rich Ellis, the pick up and distribution crew Phila Police officer Marcus Salas, Zion Baptist Church Trustee Amelia Price and Deacons William Hardy and Alex Walker, Anthony Williams, Carlton Taft and the shoppers who purchased bags of groceries during the Thanksgiving and Christmas seasons. Approximately 1000 bags of groceries were picked up from 9 Save-a-lot stores and delivered to Bethune and Kenderton Elementary school families, Tioga Presbyterian Senior apartment building, Opportunity Towers senior apartment building, The Block Church and a number of individual families.

Thanking God that during this time of gift giving Denise White allowed us to show our appreciation to the staff at Bethune Elementary and Kenderton Elementary. ...Denise prepared 125 individual bags of homemade cookies (chocolate, chocolate chip, oatmeal lattices and brownies). Teachers are on the front line of educating our children everyday. #Godblessteachers #Proudtosupportteachers See more

Save the Date - November 29th!!!! http://bit.ly/2fibCyL

Congratulations to MetroPCS Authorized Dealer, Sam Stern and Jim Curry in being selected as one of two finalists in twelve categories in the 2016 Storefront Challenge http://www.cdesignc.org/storefront2016 co-hosted by the Philadelphia Commerce Department and the Community Design Collaborative. The challenge is a biennial event which recognizes the best storefront improvements in Philadelphia. It is an opportunity to show that good design is good business. 75 submissions wer...e made. MetroPCS Authorized Dealer is one of the businesses on the Germantown and Erie commercial corridor and Called To Serve submitted their nomination. The Storefront Challenge Awards Celebration will be held on Thursday October 6th from 4-6pm at the Center for Architecture at 1218 Arch Street where the winner will be announced. Tickets are available for the event at $10 and can be purchased at http://www.cdesignc.org/events/storefront2016.

Today is #PrimeDay! #StartWithaSmile and @Amazon donates to Called To Serve CDC. Go to http://smile.amazon.com/gp/charity/homepage.html = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = Smile on Prime Day

Germantown and Erie is one of the commercial corridors that Mr. Epps visited. Called To Serve CDC along with representatives of the Germantown & Erie Merchants Association hosted him along with representatives from Council President Darrell Clarke, Councilwoman Cindy Bass office and other city agencies on Wednesday May 11th. SEPTA, Temple Hospital and North Broad Renaissance representatives were also in attendance. http://www.phillytrib.com//article_399bf7d7-4ffb-5a1e-b162

Called To Serve and the Germantown and Erie Merchants Association (GEMA) hosted Commerce Director Harold Epps and other city agency representatives.

Here is the Philadelphia Tribune's coverage of the effort to ship water to Flint, Michigan. http://www.phillytrib.com//article_568600e1-1186-58c2-b1f2

Many thanks to a whole host of people who helped make today happen at Bethune Elementary. Here is a link to CBS's coverage of the loading of the truck for the trip to Flint. http://cbsloc.al/1RQ7CTv Safe travels to Mark Smalls, Kayode Balogun, and Hezekiah Anderson as they travel to/from Flint.

The people of Flint, Michigan are still facing a crisis with their drinking water. Would you would join the students of the Mary McLeod Bethune Elementary School who have raised $500 to purchase water to send to Flint by donating a case of water. Save-A-Lot agreed to match the $500 raised by the students. Water can be dropped at Bethune (3301 Old York Rd.) by 12 Noon PM on Thursday, March 31, 2016. Or Browns Shop Rite on Fox Street staring at 5 PM. Water may also be dropped... off at Zion Baptist Church 3600 N. Broad Street by Tuesday, March 29, 2016 Donations are also accepted by clicking on this link http://www.calledtoservecdc.org/donate.html. Specify FLINT in the memo. The water will be transported to 2 schools in Flint by truck on Thursday March 31st by Mark Smalls and 2 of friends. Clayton Cooper was instrumental in helping get Penske to donate the truck. District Council 47 AFSCME is also a sponsor of the trip.

We have received a matching gift of $5,000 to help us to continue to impact the families of Bethune, revitalize the Germantown and Erie commercial corridor, and support the general operating needs of the organization. To receive the gift we have to raise $5,000 by April 1st and that’s no April Fool’s Joke! Would you please make a gift today to help us meet this challenge? Donations can be made at http://www.calledtoservecdc.org/donate.html. Checks can be mailed to Called To Serve CDC 3601 N. Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19140

A clean shopping area is an inviting shopping area! Cleaning the Germantown and Erie commercial corridor is a key part of our effort to revitalize the corridor. Amelia Price, Called To Serve’s Commercial Corridor Manager has finalized arrangements with Mastery Simon Gratz High School to deploy high school students who are required to do community service, to clean the corridor once a week.

Grateful for the support we received on Thursday, December 10th and Friday, December 11th as we hosted the Hour of Code at the Mary McLeod Bethune Elementary School in the Tioga Section of North Philadelphia. The Hour of Code is a one-hour introduction to computer science, designed to demystify code and show that anybody can learn the basics. It is a global movement reaching tens of millions of students in 180+ countries. (https://hourofcode.com/us). Many thanks to the f...ollowing: Amelia Price, Shirley Williams, Rosamond Kay, Shani Newton, Julia Senior Lavender and Clayton Edmund Johnson from my church Zion Baptist Church; Prince Ebo, Bridget Anderson and Neshemah Keetin all from the Philadelphia Commerce Department; Michael Mollen, Raji Shah, Matt Bitonti and Dennis Heron from my company Susquehanna International Group; Christopher Lewis from Blank Rome and my fraternity Kappa Alpha Psi; Lamar Dixon, Tedi Lowney, Clifton Mason, Qwe Alston-Revels, Clifton Mason and Jarell Irving all from the Digital Service Fellows of the Urban Technology Project; Alan Chestnut, Angela Scott, April Bennett, Brian Carter-Waites, Brian Valachovic, John Wintermann, Karlan Browne, Latasha Clark, Lisa McKenna, Ryan Vierick, Theresa Gibson all from Reed Technology a division of Lexus-Nexis that pays their employees to get involved in non-profit organizations of their choosing; special thanks to Angela Scott for coordinating; James Miles a friend of Amelia Price’s; Clyde Russell of The Business Center for Entrepreneurship and a Linda Stevens-Whiteside a retired public school teacher and friend. This is a part of Called To Serve’s efforts to support Bethune’s principal Jamina Dingle in turning Bethune into a great neighborhood school. Yes the White House, Harrisburg and City Hall all need to do their part but that does not stop us from investing in our neighborhood public schools as well. #AllKidsDeserveAccessToQualityEducation #WeCanMakeADifference See more

Called To Serve CDC has joined #GivingTuesday . There is Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday and #GivingTuesday.a global day dedicated to giving back. On Tuesday, DECEMBER 1ST, charities, families, businesses, community centers, and students around the world will come together for one common purpose: to celebrate generosity and to give. Here is a link to an interview that I did on 11/17/15 on 900 AM WURD talking about Called To Serve https://soundcloud.com/900amwurd/daybreak-on-wurd-11-20-15. You can support our efforts on #GivingTuesday by visiting our donate page http://www.calledtoservecdc.org/donate.html

Amelia Price serving as a panelist on WHYY's Speak Easy Forum

Amelia Price Called To Serve's Corridor Manager will be a panelist this evening as a part of WHYY's Speak Easy Forum entitled "Police and Community Cooperation" NewsWorks presents a public discussion about strengthening the relationship between the police and the communities they serve. What should the future of policing look like? She was asked to share some of her thoughts. http://www.newsworks.org//88239-police-businesses-urban-pl.

Hosted by Philadelphia LISC on Thursday October 8th Called To Serve along with 7 other teams who participated in phase one of the pilot initiative of the Philadelphia Commerce Department and Police Department to reduce crime, enhance safety and strengthen the police-community relationships crucial to making neighborhoods safer. The pilot initiative was led by internationally-recognized safety expert Gregory Saville with the 8 teams participating in the pilot, to demonstrate ...how SafeGrowth and Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED)methods and tools are being applied along selected commercial corridors. The session included: opening remarks by Gregory Saville and interactive presentations by the teams on their visions, strategies and project plans for addressing current, real-life crime and safety issues along their corridors. Team members include police officers, representatives from Town Watch Integrated Services and city agencies, residents, business owners, and corridor managers from Allegheny West Foundation, Called-to-Serve Community Development Corporation, Diversified Community Services, The Enterprise Center Community Development Corporation, Fairmount Community Development Corporation, Frankford Community Development Corporation, HACE Community Development Corporation, Impact Services Corporation and New Kensington Community Development Corporation. SafeGrowth is a proven method of organizing and training teams of diverse stakeholders, including leaders in community development, design, planning, law enforcement, and government, to positively impact real-life crime and safety issues. CPTED is also an anti-crime approach that focuses directly on the impact and the relationship between the physical environment and the incidence of crime. The event is free, and space is limited to the first 100 registrants.

Here is the principal Jamina Dingle's tweet with regards to our being there. https://twitter.com/WEAREBETHUNE/status/641418809077841920

Called To Serve President Mike Major with men from Zion Baptist Church and the pastor of New Visions United Methodist Church greetings students on the first day of school at the Mary McLeod Bethune Elementary School. Bethune is the school that Called To Serve is targeting with its support serving as a model for what is possible throughout the city of Philadelphia.

Kudos to our Corridor Manager Amelia Price and the technical assistance that she provided to Caribbean Feast to be help them receive a vending license to be on the Parkway for the World Meeting of Families when Philadelphia hosts the Pope.

Called To Serve was chosen as one of the commercial corridor CDC’s to participate in The Philadelphia Commerce Department and Philadelphia Police Department PHILADELPHIA SAFE COMMERCIAL CORRIDOR PROGRAM. Commerce and PPD, working with Philadelphia LISC, are offering this Program to equip corridor managers, police and other community stakeholders to address public safety issues through SafeGrowth, a method of neighborhood organizing and training that involves teams of corr...idor participants working on real-life problems. Program participants will produce a plan with strategies and supporting evidence to enhance safety along their particular corridors. Additionally, they will receive a Certificate of Completion and approximately one-half of the credits needed to earn International CPTED Association Certification.