Organizations Filed Purposes:
The mission of The Village is to amplify the voices and aspirations of the community by providing arts-based opportunities for self-expression and personal success that engage our North Philadelphia community, revitalize physical space, and preserve black heritage. Through all of its programs and initiatives, The Village builds neighborhood capacity, creates employment opportunities, nurtures human connections, improves community health and safety, and cultivates community belonging.
To amplify the voices and aspirations of the community by providing arts-based opportunities for self-expression and personal success that engage our North Philadelphia community, revitalize physical space, and preserve black heritage.
Youth Leadership: 1. Village Industries is our pre-employment program for teens and middle-school youth that combines art and social justice with social-enterprise to build self-sufficiency and actualize the creative power. More than 350 teens per year join one or more creative studios that produce high-quality products and services for local clients who wish to offer, feature, or leverage youth perspectives. The program intentionally simulates the creative agency experience so that youth can safely practice the process of moving from research to ideation, to production, to presentation - we believe these are the very skills needed for young people to achieve social and economic upward mobility. 2. Open Studios is an entry point for youth ages 9-19 to engage in project-based courses taught by professional artists across a variety of artistic disciplines. For some, this program serves as a stepping-stone to Village Industries. For others, it serves as a low-risk engagement opportunity to explore their creativity and build relationships with other youth and trusted adults. Courses are rooted in an array of artistic disciplines including, but not limited to: Mixed Media Arts; Video Production; Comic Book Design; Creative Writing; Hip Hop Dance; African Dance; Music Production + Songwriting + Recording; Fashion Design; Urban Agriculture + Sustainability; Photography; Graphic Design; Digital Storytelling + Radio + Podcasting. 3. Philly Earth is our STEAM-based environmental education, urban farming, and agricultural workforce development program. Youth ages 9-19 engage in project-based learning in permaculture, appropriate technology, and sustainable design while developing familiarity with opportunities for employment and postsecondary education in agriculture-related fields.
Civic Power: 1. People's Paper Co-op is our women-focused art, advocacy and social enterprise initiative that engages and unifies more than 650 ex-offenders annually with legal institutions, government officials, community youth and adults to transform the narrative of re-entry. 2. The Civic Power Studio, launching in January 2020, is a gathering space and media lab in The Village Heart where community members come together to study how power operates; amplify existing neighborhood power; and build new systems of power rooted in care rather than control. 3. Spaces Artist in Residence Program, our rapid prototyping lab for creative placemaking projects that engages more than 250 residents in arts-driven community development projects as co-leaders who inform, design, build and sustain new community resources and systems.
Neighborhoold Revitalization: 1. Germantown-Lehigh Commercial Corridor: In partnership with Philadelphia's Commerce Department and North Central Empowerment Zone, we employ arts-based community and economic develpment tactics to create a vibrant and safe Commercial Corridor. 2. Creative Campus: The Village's creative campus of public art parks, gardens, and programmatic buildings offer vibrant testimony to the role art-making can play in restoring urban landscapes and bringing the community together. 3. 100 Families Project is our neighborhood stabilization initiative that seeks to anchor 100 Families with 100 Homes and 100 Jobs for 100 Years in the Fairhill-Hartranft neighborhood of North Philadelphia. The project uses arts-based strategies for designing, funding, and operate a shared equity homeownership program and a holistic system of services that will support long-term mobility. 100 Families' success rests on the organization and mobilization of neighborhood residents who can drive and respond to pre-development and development decisions that will affect their current and future well-being.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Aviva Kapust | Executive Director | 53 | $76,846 |
| Oscar Holmes Iv | Board Member | 1.5 | $0 |
| Peter Cilio | Board Member | 1.5 | $0 |
| Susan Smith | Board Member | 1.5 | $0 |
| Sally Harrison | Board Member | 1.5 | $0 |
| Melinda Watts | Board Member | 1.5 | $0 |
| Brittany Holiday | Secretary | 1.5 | $0 |
| Curtis Parchment | Board Treasurer | 1.5 | $0 |
| Saul Behar | Vice President | 1.5 | $0 |
| Alan Jacobson | Board President | 1.5 | $0 |
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