Calvary Center for Culture and Community

We have spaces available for rent. Below market rate to support our community. One time events or some lease spaces as well. Email: [email protected]. Phone: 215-452-9666

Job opportunity at Calvary Center. Part-time Custodian at 20 hours/week. $15/hr. If interested: Email a resume to [email protected].

Next Community Center Cleanout. Help us clean the sanctuary and other important rooms in the center building. Saturday March 2 and March 9 as well. 2pm to 5 pm. Come for all or part. Everything is appreciated! Improve your Karma! Hope to see you there!! DM me for more info.

Super Bowl Tamales
The Eastern Service Workers Association hosts its annual Super Bowl Sunday Tamale Benefit next weekend! Volunteers will be at Calvary next Thursday, February 8, Friday and Saturday to prepare the tamales for sale.

Click link for full details. To volunteer and/or place orders: 215-545-9055.

Hello All. If you are planning to come help us on Saturday or even just to see the Tiffany Windows, please enter throught the grey 48th Street door. Hope to see you there!!

If you would like to donate for our continued work. Paypal:

Pay Calvary Center for Culture and Community using PayPal.Me Go to paypal.me/CCCCPhilly and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

Thank you to all who donated for our new HVAC system. It is now toasty in the chapel, gym, offices, and kitchen. We are continuing our work to restore the building. This Saturday we will work on clearing out the sanctuary. If you would like to help please come to our work day this Saturday January 27th at 2pm. It will be an opportunity to see our Tiffany Windows from the inside up close.

We are so happy to announce that our HVAC system is installed and working!!

You may have heard that Calvary Center for Culture and Community (CCCC) and Calvary United Methodist Church are moving forward on plans to install an HVAC system in the building.

We have created the HVAC @ Calvary Matching Gift Campaign to help accelerate us toward our goal of matching the $100,000 grant from the National Fund for Sacred Places!

With over $65,000 raised thus far, we are nearly there! We are asking that you share this campaign with everyone in your membership to maximize its reach. Efficient heating and cooling is an essential part of making sure our community is comfortable, safe, and thriving. We are so excited to get started on the project. Learn more about our campaign here:

HVAC DONATION OPTIONS

Heartbreaking story about the loss of valuable windows from a neighboring historic church. We are lucky thanks to neighbors who rallied for Calvary that we still have our Tiffany windows...two of the largest sets in the region. You can see "Resurrection" and "Ascension", both signed by Tiffany Studios, in the Calvary sanctuary.

A church sold its old stained glass windows for $6,000. It turned out they were rare Tiffany’s glass. A young pastor said he wanted to modernize a historic West Philly church.

Comcast has announced a new round of Comcast Rise Investment Fund grants available to help small businesses owned by people of color or women. The Investment Fund is an extension of Comcast RISE (Representation, Investment, Strength, and Empowerment), the multi-year, multi-faceted initiative launched in 2020 to provide small businesses owned by POC or women the opportunity to apply for marketing and technology services from Comcast Business and Effectv, the advertising sales division of Comcast Cable.

Comcast will be offering $10,000 grants to 100 small businesses within Philadelphia during the open application period from June 1-14, 2022. Recipients will be announced at the end of July and awarded in August of 2022. Starting June 1st, applications will be available at www.ComcastRISE.com.

Comcast RISE – Resources & Tools to Elevate Your Small Business Complimentary marketing, creative, media and technology services to qualifying small businesses owned by underrepresented groups.

Charismatic Robots in Everyday Human Spaces Tuesday, May 10, at 1 p.m. ET. Virtual Talk. Free to register.

Southwest Philly Art Stroll
Saturday, March 26 from 3-6 pm

“When my grandma turns on the news, I see people getting beat up & killed as if love didn’t exist. I think there needs to be more love in the world & I’m not sure how to do that, but a smile to a stranger could go a long way. Maybe that’s a start.”

Vote for CNN Hero of the year!!!!! Vote daily! Vote often.
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Octavius Catto Scholarship

The Octavius Catto scholarship is an important new anti-poverty initiative designed to put more Philadelphians on the path to success at Community College of Philadelphia. The program aims to make the transformative power of education available to students by providing funding and additional supports.

https://www.ccp.edu/catto

The Octavius Catto Scholarship EligibilityRequirementsHow to ApplyFAQsThe Life & Legacy ofOctavius V. CattoOctavius Catto ScholarshipFree College and the Support You Need to SucceedThe Octavius Catto scholarship is an important new anti-poverty initiative designed to put more Philadelphians on the path to success at Community Col...

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❗️ H E L P ❗️ The Red Cross is entering the 3rd week of an emergency blood and platelet shortage. Please sign up to give ASAP at rcblood.org/3uWFqon. Donations are needed now to help those battling cancer and other serious conditions. Platelets and type O blood donations are especially needed.

Mighty Writers free workshops for all ages are back in action! We’ve got mindfulness meetups for tweens, college essay writing for teens, science for toddlers, music making for kids, and so much more. See all of our workshops here: https://mightywriters.org/workshops. Enroll today!

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Fascinating work from neighbor JJ Tiziou.

https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/exploring-along-edges-philadelphia-reveal-essence-city

Exploring along the edges of Philadelphia reveals the essence of the city | Penn Today The SNF Paideia Program teamed up with Penn alumnus and artist JJ Tiziou for “Walk Around Philadelphia,” a fall retreat for student fellows.

CURIO THEATRE SCHOOL SET TO BEGIN IT'S FALL SESSION!
OCTOBER 16th - November 20th
Six weeks of theatre fun!

For 1st through 8th graders.

http://www.curiotheatre.org/2021-fall-session.html

2021 Fall Session CURIO THEATRE SCHOOL SET TO BEGIN IT'S FALL SESSION! ~ After a great summer camp we are back, in person, with our Saturday classes! OCTOBER 16th - November 20th Six weeks of theatre fun! For 1st...

Clark Park Soccer Will Return This Fall
Clark Park’s Youth Soccer offers a low pressure, community oriented and volunteer fueled sports program for our Clark Park neighborhood. The league enables kids to discover soccer while engaging with a wide community of children from throughout West Philly. It is focused on creating an inclusive environment for children of all skill levels & interest levels, our coaching team finds a way for everyone to enjoy a great day in the park. Look for an email soon regarding registration.

Want to help kids enjoy a great day in the park? Please email [email protected] if you are interested in becoming an assistant coach. Each team relies on a group of teen and adult coaches working together to keep things safe and fun during hour-long practices on Saturday mornings. No soccer experience needed!

http://www.friendsofclarkpark.org/activities/soccer/

Join us in partnership with the Free Library of Philadelphia- West Philly Libraries to learn about state related resources. Walnut Street West Library (Free Library of Philadelphia)Free Library of West Philadelphia

Heartbreaking

We have very sad news. Yesterday rains from hurricane Ida totally (see photo) flooded our temporary storage space where our collection was moved to temporarily while we find our forever home.

The garages held the vast majority (thankfully not all) of Spiral Q’s collection: over 2,000 pieces that stood as a living document of 25 years of personal and collective stories of struggle, identity, and justice in Philadelphia. In addition to this massive loss, the garages held much office and studio equipment and materials.

This is a tremendous loss for Spiral Q. We are headed to Phoenixville right now to uncover the damage as the water has gone down.

Please reach out if you have questions or concerns- we know this information will be heartbreaking for many of you as it is for us.

At this time we call on our community to help us as we anticipate the time, equipment and replacement costs of this damage and help us create space to identify our forever home.

Link in our bio to help us start fundraising - we are nothing if not resilient and with you we know we can do anything. 💔

https://spiralq.kindful.com/?campaign=1148696

MESSAGE FROM THE CALVARY CENTER FOR CULTURE AND COMMUNITY.
Dear neighbors and friends,

You all know how much the Calvary building means for Baltimore Avenue and for Cedar Park. That’s why we’re writing to you now, because we need your support of the Calvary Center for Culture and Community (CCCC) in preparation for an ambitious, multimillion-dollar capital campaign coming up this fall.
Details are still being finalized, but funds raised through the “Anchoring the Future” campaign – buoyed by a $500,000 matching grant from the state – will enable major interior and exterior repairs and renovations. Those improvements will ultimately make the building safer and structurally sound, more versatile for multipurpose use, more accessible, more energy efficient, and more comfortable for all of the organizations and activities it hosts, including Cedar Park Neighbors.

But before it can launch the campaign, CCCC needs help from us and other building users to raise at least $60,000 for critical preliminary expenses – most notably architect fees to develop a master plan for the building, and consultant fees for the campaign itself. This major architectural study is being conducted by OZC, our own local firm who know and love the building. We all know that the Calvary building has been largely vacant since the start of the pandemic. With CCCC’s significant loss in rental income, we need all hands on deck this summer to set the stage for a successful capital campaign.

We are already halfway to our goal of $60,000!!! Also, know that your “pre-launch” donation will still be included as part of the campaign total, and so will also be included as part of matching funds for the State RACP grant. That means your donation will effectively be doubled! You can donate directly to CCCC by check* or online at https://tinyurl.com/CCCCPhilly. Or donate through Cedar Park Neighbors and we’ll forward to CCCC. Either way, be sure to indicate that the donation is for the “Anchoring the Future” campaign.

Beyond your support of CPN, we encourage you to give as generously as you’re able to this pre-launch fundraising push. Your investment in the Calvary building now – and hopefully in support of the “Anchoring the Future” campaign later this year – is a real and solid investment in the future of our shared community.

With gratitude,
Richard Y. Kirk
Board President, CCCC

* checks should be made payable to “CCCC” and mailed to:
Calvary Center for Culture and Community
801 S. 48th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19143

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