A sustainable hub for urban change-makers, an enduring and robust institution that
authentically and mutually meets the needs of multiple WCU entities and Philadelphia
neighborhoods and organizations, where a deeply multiracial and cross-class alliance
of youth and adults with a multiplicity of professional expertise and live experience
engage in practices to further develop their own and each other's abilities to leverage
assets and resources in and outside the community to cultivate security and vibrancy,
trust and relationship, and equity and power.
To support the building of power for Southeastern PA metropolitan communities, specifically
but not exclusively global majority/communities of color and low-income urban communities,
through providing together new and mid-career urban community change professionals
-- particularly urban youth workers, artists, and cross-sector racial and economic
justice workers -- credential-bearing educational pathways and supportive, healing
spaces and opportunities for renewal.
