Check out the 2023 Equitable Development Journal!

PACDC, in its 30th anniversary year, recognizes the network of dedicated housing counseling agencies in Philadelphia for their collaborative impact in helping keep families and individuals at risk of eviction or foreclosure in their homes, while simultaneously providing support to those seeking to become new homeowners. For these reasons, they are our 2022 Community Development […]

For the past 30 years, the Philadelphia Association of Community Development Corporations has worked to create an equitable city where every Philadelphian lives, works, and thrives in a neighborhood that offers an excellent quality of life. Become a Sponsor We invite you to help build this just and inclusive city by sponsoring our 30th Anniversary […]

HONOR EXCELLENCE IN THE FIELD: YOURS, YOUR COLLEAGUES, YOUR VOLUNTEERS PACDC’s Awards for Community Development Excellence recognize outstanding achievement by Community Development Corporations (CDCs) advancing PACDC’s vision of an equitable city where every Philadelphian lives works and thrives in a neighborhood that offers an excellent quality of life. PACDC will recognize winners at our 2022 […]

Description of Employer The Philadelphia Association of Community Development Corporations (PACDC) is the leading voice of equitable neighborhood revitalization in Philadelphia. As a membership association, PACDC fosters strong community development corporations and nonprofit community organizations by enhancing their skills and advocating for resources and policies to create a just and inclusive Philadelphia. We have either […]

We are pleased to report that Philadelphia City Council unanimously approved the ordinance authorizing the $400 million Neighborhood Preservation Initiative bond issue to support critically needed investments in affordable housing, commercial corridors and small businesses, and neighborhood infrastructure that will help advance a more equitable recovery in Philadelphia! Our thanks to City Council and the […]

The Future Is Now: Possibilities for the World to Come features essays, poems, visual art, and personal reflections that explores the fragments and pieces, experiments and possibilities of the world to come. This publication also highlights the Philadelphia Association of Community Development Corporations’ 2021 Award Winners and Finalists.

“Abolition is not absence. It’s presence. What the world will become already exists in fragments and pieces, experiments and possibilities.” – Ruth Wilson Gilmore In the 2021 edition of PACDC Magazine, we will explore the fragments, pieces, experiments, and possibilities that lay the groundwork for the world to come. To complement and complete written pieces, […]

After celebrating surviving 2020, nominate those organizations and individuals who did outstanding work throughout the year through PACDC’s annual Blue Ribbon Awards for Community Development Excellence. You know who the heroes, sheroes and “Daymmmnn that’s amazing!” projects were.   Now, show them off.  See below for the nomination categories. Blue Ribbon Award honoring small and large […]