Posts Tagged ‘good business in philadelphia’

Welcome to the neighborhood Leotah’s Place!

Friday, June 4th, 2010by melissadipento

(Brittney “Blew” Lewis and Kristen Baskin of Leotah’s Place)

I am writting this to celebrate the opening of Leotah’s Place Coffeehouse (2033 E York St) on May 21, 2010. Blew and Kristen have been working on this project for a long time, and it is great to see their dreams coming to life.
Leotah’s Place’s mission of providing, “a warm, welcoming space for neighbors; a hub for both community activism and greater cultural awareness, and an affordable coffeehouse where people from all walks of life can enjoy a cup o’ love,” is evident everyday at the shop. Just yesterday a teacher brought several of his high school journalism classes to utilize the space because their class room was too hot. Within the first week of business the emerging local food co-op held an organizing meeting. Neighbors who have lived much of their lives in the neighborhood come in for some tea or coffee, to spend some time, and feel comfortable to do so.
(submitted by DJ Robinson)

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In 2008, how'd we do #2

Thursday, January 1st, 2009by joshua grace

Thanks for adding your assessment for the first goal for 2008.  This was the second one.  As we continue to gather info for our Annual Report at the Council on January 10, post a comment with how you think we met this goal or not.

Goal: Take obvious steps to make ourselves known by our compassionate service.
Objectives:
1. Hire the Director of Circle Venture by April 1.
2. Create a way to administer the Compassion Fund well.
3. Train our mission teams to help people connect with Jesus and His church through their work.
4. Create more “good business” in Philadelphia through the founding of businesses or partnering with other startup enterprises

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