Praise for TEC-CDC

The Enterprise Center CDC’s award-winning work has been praised in local and statewide media. Here is what folks are saying about our efforts…

Outstanding Community-Based Partner

In 2010 Rebuilding Together Philadelphia (RTP) recognized TEC-CDC with its Outstanding Community-Based Partner Award. “RTP’s home repair work complements the CDC’s Neighborhood Plan, ensuring that RTP’s efforts have an even greater impact. In addition to hosting various RTP meetings, TEC-CDC galvanized the community through its 10-person Street Team.”

Blue Ribbon Award for Excellence in Community Development – Finalist

In 2008 the Philadelphia Association of Community Development Corporations recognized the Walnut Hill Street Team as a Finalist for its Blue Ribbon Award for Excellence in Community Development, awarded annually for “outstanding achievement by community development corporations within Philadelphia’s community development field that advance the vision of PACDC…”

TEC-CDC Built a Playground in One Day!

“It gave me goosebumps, too. It seemed the very icon of American civility, as old and young, light and dark, worked side by side.”
- Bruce Schimmel, “A Place to Play in Only a Day,” Philadelphia City Paper, August 12, 2009.

TEC-CDC’s Center for Culinary Enterprises – an innovative food business incubator

“[T]he Center for Culinary Enterprises is groundbreaking in that it incorporates community and economic development.”
– Joe Petrucci, “Culinary Incubator in West Philadelphia to Cook Up a Batch of Entrepreneurs,” Keystone Edge, 13 August 2009.

“[F]ood growth and production efforts foster local businesses that provide jobs for people with different skill levels and training needs. A few organizations, such as the Enterprise Center in West Philadelphia and Greensgrow Farm, are beginning to use food as the centerpiece of a strategy to build neighborhood wealth and economic opportunity.”
– City of Philadelphia, Greenworks Philadelphia, 2009, 47.