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perry school community services center, inc partner case study
Situation
The Perry School Community Services Center, Inc (Perry Center, Inc.) is a unique organization located in the Northwest #1 area of Washington DC – an area beset by poverty, and lack of human service – even though located just blocks from our Nation’s Capitol. Through the relentless commitment of the local community, as well as leadership from both Sursum Corda and the Perry Center, an amazing range of services have been made available in the neighborhood and beyond. Such services run the gamut from Providence Hospitial’s Heath Center, social services for families, children, youth in need of tutoring, computer and job skills along with adult job assessment and placement services have become a beacon of hope for the area community.
The Perry Center took years of relentless work to raise funds for the renovation of the building, achieving the extraordinary range of groups that have come to province sevice there.
Solution:
Perry first came to CEDC consultation in reviewing the path to growth and support through communication. The first challenge of the partnership was the development of a brochure which would promote and highlight the 10 organizations that are housed in the Perry Center. A second partnership began early in 1998 in the growth and development of Perry’s selection and participation as one of four community youth development programs that formed what was originally the Youth Deverlopment Collaborative (YDC, well connected to both the Morino Insitutue and CEDC – and which has now been taken over by EDC an outstanding and highly respected Educational Organization. Following the brochure for the center as a whole, CEDC began developing fundraising and marketing materials for Perry, Inc and is currently in process of development and design of Perry Center’s web site.
An organizational brochure, newsletter, annual reports, fact sheet and website are a few of the projects CEDC has worked on with Perry. The impact of focused communication has begun to broaden not only neighborhood awareness of what is available to them, but it has broadened the funding pool and attracted the attention of DC’s family and youth development workers as a potential model for other such effort.
