Mission

Guerrilla Pipeline is a Temple University based organization that is almost exactly as it sounds - a grassroots effort to bring the resources that Temple University has so many of into the surrounding neighborhoods.  Using community input, Guerrilla Pipeline helps community members pinpoint issues and initiates a design/build process for a participatory community projects.  We help the community help themselves, giving them the education and tools they need to execute projects of their own design.  Examples of what may happen are: vacant lot installations, user friendly trash receptacles, play objects, study spaces, etc.

This organization brings communities together in a dialogue on improving their own neighborhoods.

Build-a-Park

If any of you have taken stroll up Germantown Ave, you must have noticed the abundance of vacant but well groomed, little white fence surrounded lots.  These lots are all maintained by an organization called APM (Asociación Puertorriqueños en Marcha, www.apmphila.org).  The lots - although a pleasant break from the trash ridden lots that are ever so common in Philadelphia, lack any program.  They give the neighborhood a sense of cleanliness and pride, but not activity.
What better way to use a space than to give people a place to sit?  Our idea is to take over one of these lots by helping the community build their own park.  We will provide tools, wood and templates - all that has to happen is for people to stop by and contribute to their own neighborhood space!