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Alliances

Friday, 19 November 2010 08:41
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Alliance MeetingBuildaBridge  regularly collaborates and provides services to local congregations, community organizations and overseas communities.  We ask persons and organizations who are interested in working with us to read the policy.  Further clarification can be sought on specific issues by emailing This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Our Basic Principles of Collaboration

Our goal is to be of service to communities, organizations, and persons working with children and youth who are at-risk or find themselves in difficult and almost hopeless situations.

  • We prefer to develop long-term relationships (instead of one-time visits) and build an on-going program of support for our collaborations.
  • We assist and encourage the partnering organization in meeting their sustainable goals.
  • We strive for mutual respect and sharing of ideas. We bring an expertise of the arts in teaching and arts in healing.  Together we plan for effective service and programming.
  • We believe that both BuildaBridge and the local organization should share in the planning and operation of projects.  We therefore ask the local organization to contribute something to the collaborative project (however they are able) through joint leadership, local artist involvement, and support.

Alliance Postings

Current Alliances with Programs

Community Program:

  • St. Barnabas Mission
  • Dignity Housing
  • Project Rainbow
  • Peoples Emergency Center
  • Woodstock Family Shelter
  • Women Against Abuse
  • Oxford Circle Christian Community Development Association
  • Jane Addams
  • Partnerships Children's Homeless Initiative School District of Philadelphia
  • Neighborhood Interfaith Movement
  • Northwest Interfaith Hospitality Network

BuildaBridge Institute:

  • Eastern University MA in Urban Studies program

International Program:

  • Eastern University MA in Urban Studies program
  • Practical Compassion
  • Atlantic Bridge, Netherlands
  • Center for Transforming Mission, Guatemala
  • International Ministries (American Baptist Churches-USA)
  • Sonrisas, Guatemala City
  • Inspiration Center, Nairobi, Kenya
  • Center for Transforming Mission, Nairobi, Kenya
  • Night Light, Bangkok, Thailand
  • Louis Pierrot Elementary School, Pond Sonde, Haiti
  • Mennonite Central Committee
  • Danzante, Inc. of Harrisburg, PA, USA.  Danzante, Inc. utilizes the BuildaBridge Classroom in their training of teaching artists,  provision of arts education classes and the assessment of those classes.  BuildaBridge has a formal Institutional Agreement with Danzante, Inc. in order to fulfill the missions of both organizations.

General Alliances

  • United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania
  • Philadelphia Department of Behavioral Health
  • Red Cross
  • Red Cross House
  • Woodstock Family Shelter
  • Pennsylvania Arts Education Partnerships
  • Wayne Presbyterian Church, Wayne, PA
  • Second Baptist Church of Germantown, PA
  • Traveler's Aid, Philadelphia
  • Atlantic Bridge, Netherlands
  • Beteli International Humanitarian Association, Republic of Georgia
  • Asociación Efraín Recinos, Guatemala
  • Holistic Child Development, Malaysia
  • International Ministries (American Baptist Churches-USA)
  • Jan Sicko and Slava Sickova, Slovakia

Philadelphia Refugee Mental Health Collaborative:

  • Lutheran Children and Family Service (LCFS)
  • Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society and Council (HIAS)
  • Nationalities Service Center (NSC)
  • BuildaBridge International
  • Nemours Pediatrics
  • Belmont Behavioral Health Clinic