Lansdale Collaboration Project Featured in Phila Social Innovations Journal
The Lansdale Collabortion Project was featured in the winter 2013 edition of the Philadelphia Social Innovations Journal.
The journal is the first online publication to bring a public focus to social innovators and their nonprofit organizations, foundations and social sector businesses in the Greater Philadelphia area. The winter 2013 edition focuses on innovations between organizations from collaborations to mergers.
The Lansdale Collaboration Project is an effort to bring four organizations - Advanced Living Communities, Manna on Main Street, North Penn YMCA and the PEAK Center - on a shared campus in Lansdale.
This innovative partnership builds on the strengths of each organization and will create a vibrant community center at the eastern gateway to Lansdale Borough.
The new 11-acre campus will include 60 independent living units for low-income seniors situated on three floors above the Manna and PEAK offices and program facilities; a commercial kitchen designed to support the culinary needs of all four partner organizations; an expanded Y that will include a zero-entry family pool, a new gymnasium, locker rooms, classroom and community spaces; and a lobby atrium that will serve as a shared gathering space for all members, clients, volunteers and community residents.
The North Penn Community Health Foundation (NPCHF) has supported the Collaboration through strategic funding for visioning and organizational, legal and fundraising planning as well as collaborative program development.
Read the article on the Philadelphia Social Innovations' website.