PHYLLIS WHEATLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC

Provide necessary services to the people of North Minneapolis, a majority-black neighborhood that has experienced enormous trauma over the past several years. We provide educational programming with an emphasis on digital tech job readiness, domestic violence courses, early childhood development, and many other programs. Our ultimate goal is to empower individuals in our community to take control of their futures financially, emotionally, and physically, and to build a strong, thriving North Minneapolis filled with opportunity and committed to equity for all.

PWCC programming reaches people of all ages in the North Minneapolis community, providing myriad services such as Covid testing and vaccines, an early childhood development center, digital skills programs, digital access, truancy programs, violence and anger management programming, and more. By engaging our community, we frequently change and add to our programming to meet the emerging needs of the people we serve. We also keep our fingers on the beat of emerging needs in our community so that we can adjust and change our programming to meet those most pressing. We are also working to building partnerships with organizations whose work aligns with our mission, enabling us to reach more people in need and touch lives in areas we have not traditionally worked in, creating a holistic approach to reducing disparities for African Americans and others in our community.

PWCC has a storied history of 96 years in the community for making a significant impact in times of tremendous change, shame, victory, and celebration. It's legacy far exceeds all other organizations of African descent in the Twin Cities, and his heritage and prominence will continue to forge its direction to achieve its stated goals. The goals are to:
Eliminate poverty in our community by creating programming to address the disparities;
Begin to help women gain financial literacy, find opportunities, and build wealth, breaking the poverty cycle through education and supportive services;
To ensure through partnerships that all residents that we serve have access to health care, tests, vaccines, and other referrals to health care assistance;
To ensure that all children have access to quality, trustworthy healthcare professionals and address mental health, asthma, and vaccine hesitancy, issues that are most prevalent among African Americans in Minnesota;
To provide quality education in early childhood to ensure that children have a strong start at a quality education, regardless of their families' financial situations;
To support our community programming and advocacy to ensure that gender equality is respected, embraced and promoted in programming at PWCC and in the community;
To promote programming such as Skilled Work programming to ensure that highly trained workers are ready for competitive employment opportunities in the technology positions;
Supporting reduced inequality in our community by demonstrating outcomes in our programs and services to BIPOC; and
Provide outdoor adventure and camp experiences that lend themselves to character development and open the minds of urban youth who would not otherwise have access to outdoor spaces;
Creating sustainable cities and communities by producing data that demonstrate our impact of the above.

1. PWCC Early Childhood Education Program has a 99% rate of ensuring that the children are kindergarten ready
2. PWCC has launched its ManCode Mentoring program for low income youth in the community teaching them coding and ensuring the mentoring with a volunteer from 100 Black Men - Twin Cities Chapter in November 2020
3. PWCC launched its Skills Employability training programming targeting women, Blacks, Indigenous, and People of Color to be trained for certified jobs in technology based high paying jobs through a program funded by Microsoft Philanthropy for three years of support
4. PWCC is Community COVID-19 Coordinator with a 24-hour resource hot-line for information
5. PWCC is a selected and funded site for FREE COVID-19 testing for residents in the community
6. PWCC is being targeted for a site for FREE COVID-19 vaccines for residents in the community
7. PWCC has been a service to the community addressing the food insecurity issuing over 100 meals to needy families in 2020
8. PWCC provided youth development to over 146 school children to help them stay on track and out of the criminal justice system and in school
9. PWCC supported over 562 adults who dealt with racial inequality and injustices by providing them with resources and empowerment resources
10. PWCC raised more than $5 million in 2021; thus far in 2022 we have exceeded half of our goal for the year, by the end of March