Haverford College
PAE-19: Community Sustainability Partnerships

Haverford College has several partnerships with its local community via institutional partnerships with its Center for Peace and Global Citizenship (CPGC) (www.haverford.edu/cpgc). The following is a summary of these partnerships.
Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia (SBN) (www.sbnphiladelphia.org) – The CPGC partnered with the SBN to produce a non-credit seminar on sustainable business during the fall 2010 semester. This seminar, led by SBN Executive Director Leanne Krueger-Braneky, consisted of three two-hour sessions that introduced nine students to the concepts of sustainable business management. The sessions included not only roundtable discussions but presentations by several outside speakers and business managers. Based on the success of this seminar, there are plans to offer it again in 2011.
Fair Food Project (www.fairfoodproject.org) – Under the auspices of its Haverford House program, the CPGC has placed recent Haverford graduates with this local non-profit for two consecutive years. Each Haverford House fellow serves for one year. Fair Food was founded as the primary program of White Dog Community Enterprises. In 2009, Fair Food spun off into its own stand-alone 501 (c) 3 nonprofit organization and continues to bring locally-grown food into the Philadelphia marketplace and to promote a humane, sustainable agriculture for the Greater Philadelphia region. Fair Food has expanded its goals to include fostering connections between farmers and a range of wholesale buyers, educating consumers about the inherent values of a local food system supportive of sustainable agriculture practices, and establishing solutions to deficiencies in infrastructure such as local food distribution and processing.
Weavers Way Weavers Way Community Programs (WWCP) (www.weaverswaycoop.org) was formed in 2007 as the non-profit arm of Weavers Way Co-op, a 3,500-member community-owned market with locations in the Mt. Airy, Ogontz and Chestnut Hill neighborhoods of Northwest Philadelphia.
WWCP’s mission is to build the Northwest Philadelphia community by fostering cooperative activities that support local food production, economic literacy, a sustainable environment and healthy lifestyles. For the past two years, the CPGC has placed students from Haverford College with WWCP under the auspices of its domestic summer internship program. Each internship lasts approximately 10 weeks.
Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia (BCGP)(www.bicyclecoalition.org) is another Haverford House agency. The BCGP promotes bicycling as a healthy, low-cost, and environmentally-friendly form of transportation and recreation in the Greater Philadelphia area. One of the CPGC’s Haverford House fellows served at the Coalition for one year (2009-2010), during which time the agency was named as the national bike advocacy organization of the year by the Bikes Belong Coalition.

Submitted by Parker Snowe, Director of The Center for Peace and Global Citizenship.