Capacity Building Leadership Training
WPFSI is exploring ways to engage the six (6) communities in our target area, in order to help crate sustainable communities. The communities include Carroll Park, Cathedral Park, Parkside, East Parkside, Mill Creek and Lower [...]
Welcoming our 2014 WesGold Fellows Program Coordinators
We are excited to welcome Avery Martin- Chadwick and Myckell Nichole White to our WPFSI family. These Drexel Sophomores will be coordinating this year’s WesGold Fellows summer internship, that will run from June 30th to [...]
New Housing Development and Commercial Corridor Improvements in West Parkside
The nonprofit affordable housing developer Community Ventures is working with the registered community organization (RCO) Parkside Association of Philadelphia to create new senior and affordable housing and park space along the beleaguered 52nd Street corridor between Lancaster and Parkside [...]
Circle of Life – Find out more on Nursing Homes
Often children are faced with the dilemma of how to best care for their aging parents. The situation becomes more complicated if one parent has already passed, leaving the other to fend for her or [...]
Why You Should Apply To Be a WesGold Fellow
The WesGold Fellows Internship was created in 2007 in conjunction to the redevelopment of Parkwest Town Center, a 341, 000 sqft shopping center built by WPFSI and The Goldenberg Group. While it initially focused on [...]
Developing our West Park District – Past, Present and Future
Parkside Association of Philadelphia, Inc was established on June 1, 1977 to provide community based planning for the West Parkside Community. Parkside Association of Philadelphia incorporated on December 30, 1977 and has been in operation [...]