Institute’s Civic Values Website

Posted by on November 4, 2005

[posted by Ed Schwartz]

The new web site for the Institute’s Civic Values Campaign is now up and running–with links to the key groups and public agencies working to meet the goals set by the Campaign.

While many of the problems that come to our lists are specific (help me get trash picked up at such and such an address), there are at least as many that call for comprehensive strategies throughout a neighborhood.

Today–on Phillyblocks–a poster complains, “What can we do to get them to pick up trash in North Philadelphia?”

Quite a question. It calls for a meeting between groups in North Philadelphia and the Streets Department to address this as an ongoing problem and to work how it might be solved.

These larger problems–crime, truancy, code violations–all require similar public/citizen partnerships. Strong community groups manage to work them out. But there is no system here–just what each group manages to develop for itself.

The Civic Values Campaign aims at developing these government/neighborhood systems throughout the City. ISCV has done this effectively in Norris Square. We’ve worked with various groups on aspects of the problem. We’ve quietly developing the framework for a Civic Values Campaign that will help all of us fulfill the neighborhood civic values that we share.

There’s a form to fill out if you want to participate in the Campaign. Filling it out gets you on the Civic Values Campaign email list.

http://www.iscv.org/