Community Organizing
Our Community Organizing Program works in cooperation with local Block Captains and civic associations to promote leadership and improve access to community-based programs and services. Our Community Organizers work with local businesses and neighborhood residents to:
- support community activities
- offer technical assistance regarding neighborhood concerns
- sponsor leadership workshops for youth and adults.
- community emergency food bank
- block clean-ups
- the nationally-ranked youth drill team, the North Philly Footstompers.
North Philly Footstompers
The North Philly Footstompers is a youth drill team sponsored by Project H.O.M.E., Crown Cork & Seal and Canada Dry Delaware Valley Bottling Co. The Footstompers provides its 25 members with invaluable opportunities that change and enlarge their world perspective while building their self-esteem.
According to Helen Brown, Project H.O.M.E. Community Organizer and the Director of the Footstompers, the drill team gives "inner-city, young people important opportunities that they would never otherwise get, such as the opportunity to travel and the opportunity to meet diverse people from all walks of life."
Ms. Brown started the drill team nine years ago "to give the kids something positive to do." The experience also teaches team members discipline and how to work together in a group. Over the years, the North Philly Footstompers has won numerous local, state and national awards and the participants have had the opportunity to travel all over the country to compete. The drill team—which is comprised of youth who live in the neighborhood where Project H.O.M.E. does its revitalization work—is also a source of neighborhood pride and unity.
For more information on The North Philly Footstompers of Community Organizing, please contact Helen Brown, Project H.O.M.E. Community Organizer and Director of the Footstompers, at 215-235-3110, ext. 5611.
