An individual elected by their block to help keep their block clean by organizing clean-ups during citywide clean-up events, organizing block for monthly Saturday clean-ups, and conducting other activities on their block. To find out if your block has a block captain, call the Streets Department's Philadelphia More Beautiful Committee (PMBC):  [..]

A charrette is an intensive planning session where citizens, designers and others collaborate on a vision for a development project.

An organization whose official goal is to improve a neighborhood through volunteer work by its members.

 

Community development activities improve neighborhoods by identifying and addressing local needs. Such activities may support infrastructure, job and business creation, greenspace, community centers, housing repair or development, first-time homeownership, services and more.

A non-profit organization serving a specific neighborhood or neighborhoods. CDCs support improvements that benefit neighborhood residents, often focusing on serving lower-income areas. CDC can be involved in many areas including job and business creation, education, affordable housing development, neighborhood planning projects, providing services [..]

A member of City Council, the elected body in Philadelphia that has the power to make laws. There are ten members elected by geographic district and seven at-large members elected by the entire City. Find your district councilperson here

Suggestions for how to design facades, buildings, public space, etc. to meet certain standards. These standards could be having visual consistency with the surrounding area, preserving certain qualities, using certain materials, keeping to a certain size, or other standards. They can be developed by the Philadelphia City Planning Commission, CDCs, [..]