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May 29, 2008
Wireless Neighborhoods Annual Meeting at Community House Church.

May 14, 2008
Wireless Neighborhoods staff and Community LEARNS trip to Washington D.C.

United Way of Allegheny County Funds Wireless Neighborhoods

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Mission Statement

Wireless Neighborhoods is an alliance of community and faith organizations committed to using partnerships, technology and training to improve communities’ capacities to support children’s education, promote economic development, and address other social barriers facing residents.

History

Wireless Neighborhoods was formed as a non-profit corporation in December 2003. The organization has its roots deep within the lower income neighborhoods of the City of Pittsburgh. The establishment of Wireless Neighborhoods as an independent entity was the culmination of years of cooperation and the tireless efforts of several of Pittsburgh’s preeminent community organizations including Bloomfield-Garfield Corporation, Community House Church, and Hill House Association.

Created to improve community and faith organizations’ capacities to respond to issues that affect the lives of the children and families in the neighborhoods they serve, Wireless Neighborhoods has chosen quite purposely since its inception to target a majority of its efforts and resources on improving the quality of afterschool programming because of the alarmingly low levels of academic proficiency, particularly for the children in the City’s African-American and lower income neighborhoods. Wireless Neighborhoods and its partners have helped transform afterschool programming from safe places with homework help and a snack into truly innovative, professional and youth-friendly instructional environments that are setting the standards for community afterschool practices.

Staff

Wireless Neighborhoods maintains a small staff with an executive director, three full-time education specialists and a part-time technology coordinator.

Accomplishments

Maintain a wireless broadband network across 40 Community and Faith Partners
Raised over $3 Million in Government Funding since 2004 to support quality Afterschool programming
First organization Selected by the United Way under its new competitive funding formula
Established and supported 12 community-school partnerships serving over 500 children over the past 3 years
Delivered over 50 hours of afterschool Staff Development in 2006-07
First community organization to require partner organization staff to have the PA Department of Education approved Basic Tutor Credential
Managing data collection effort across more than 20 community and faith organizations
Developed 3 curricula that are being used across multiple afterschool program sites