SWEEPING
BVNA Sidewalk Sweeping
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By mail: BVNA, PO BOX 63955, Philadelphia PA 19147
- Current Program Status: Paused for winter.
- Current Frequency: Monthly
- Funding Need for 2024:
$16,000 +
($1,600 per sweep x 10 sweeps at one per month, Mar--Dec, is the minimum commitment required to maintain the program).
2024 Goal (updated monthly)
In 2018, BVNA launched a fundraising campaign to cover the cost of paid sidewalk and curb sweeping in our neighborhood. The program was funded entirely by donations.
Clean streets are healthy streets — they attract visitors and customers; reduce crime, disease, and stress; improve respiratory health; unclog our storm drains; and restore a sense of neighborhood pride.
We value the existing efforts by many neighbors to sweep up the sidewalk in front of homes and businesses, and even pitching in to clean up surrounding blocks. Unfortunately, it was not enough – as was readily seen on a walk through the neighborhood. For a variety of reasons, the volume of litter on many blocks simply outpaced the volunteer capacity.
BVNA regularly heard from residents that litter is their primary quality of life concern. In response, BVNA has partnered with ACAM — a woman-owned, minority-owned business whose mission is to provide employment opportunities to returning citizens, and a service already used in nearby Queen Village and South Street Headhouse District — to sweep the curbs and sidewalks of our numbered streets (6th-11th and Passyunk), and cross streets (Bainbridge, Fitzwater, Catharine, Christian, Carpenter) within our borders.
2018 was our inaugural year of sweeping. With your help, we were able to reach our goal, which allowed us to sweep every other week, from April to December 2018. Workers swept up and removed 849 bags or 10.61 tons worth of litter from our neighborhood.
The program was paused during the winter, while we worked to re-establish the necessary reserves to re-launched the program and perform this service again in 2019. Throughout 2019, we swept every other week, the day after trash day, from March through December.
Each year, if we are able to hit our goal — we will be able to sweep regularly in fair weather, and continue monthly throughout the winter months. We hope you can partner with us in making that a reality. With your support, we will be able to resume and maintain this program.
This program is unique in being 100% donation powered! All funds are used to pay ACAM while supporting their mission of providing employment history, mentorship and opportunities to those in need, returning citizens, and those in recovery. Help us sustain these opportunities while beautifying our neighborhood!!
Thanks to all of our 2021 donors!
Founder ($1,000+)
Eric Gibson & Jeannie Pearce, Pearce Gibson Family Fund
David Lukmire
David Lewis
Matthew Solomon
Glenn Sykes & Dirk Allen
Partner ($500+)
American Online Giving Foundation, Inc.
Catharine Street Lofts
Elizabeth Isanuk
James Duncklee
Robert Pino
Thank you to our 2019* donors! (*FY Dec 1, 2018 - Nov 30, 2019)
FOUNDER ($1,000+)
- Alfonso Madrid
- James Duncklee
- Robert Esposito
PARTNER ($500+)
- Louise and David Strawbridge
SUSTAINER ($250+)
- Christopher & Gregory Pastore
- Carriage Court Condos
- David Yang
- David & Paul Yu
- Daniel McGrath
- Elaine Ulmer
- Glenn Sykes
- Gregg R Crumley
- Joshua and Laura Lehrer
- Marcie Ziskind
- Phickle.com
- Phillips Family
- The SPACE Art Gallery
- WAWA Foundation
SUPPORTER ($100+)
Anne-Marie Frassica, Ashley Slagle, Brian Holtz, Catharine Assoc, Crystal Gurin, David Lewis, LauraLynne Burtner, Lynn McCormick, Martin Angert, Michelle Coughlan & Brent Beerley, Nella Genovese, Peter Kohn, Ryan McCormick, Samuel Mink, Brandy Bones, Steven Pogrebivsky, Shannon Small, Michael Carone, Matthew Solomon, David Oxman, Megan LeCluyse, Miiram Indenbaum, Nathaniel Popkin, Carole Treston, Marina Dangelo, Aimee Miller & Danny Gellert, Amy Granger, Andrew & Janine Fallon, Andrew Riley, Andrew Wierzbieniec, Benjamin Finelli
Bruce Schwartz, Claudia Archer, Core Impact Coaching, David Wallace, Dirk L Allen, Eric Hafler, Estelle Bronstein, Irene Liebrecht, Janine Fallon, Jaya Ramji-Nogales, Jenifer Tobiasen, JoAnn Greco, John Carideo, Keith Fatula, Lydia Hunn, Lyle Hall, Mark Squilla, Melissa Rubin, Michael Yampolsky, Peter Brown
Peter Chance, Peter Daniel, Rebecca Makuen, Robert DiGiacomo, Robin Tama, Rona Buchalter, Ross Nickerson, Shawn Abbott, Stephanie Grupe, Steven Battle, Tom Schoelkopf, Viktoriya Torchinsky-Field, Meredith & Christopher Iwane, Nancy & Robert Megley, Gary King, Carole & Steven Pessagno, Sweet Memories Chocolates, Colleen & Howard Marano, Joanne Hoffman, kathleen miller, Patrick Troy & Sirlin Lesser Benson, David Lukmire
Thank you to all of our supporters of the 2018 inaugural year!
FOUNDER – $1,000+
- Law Office of Alfonso Madrid
- Attilio Esposito, Inc.
- James Duncklee
- Saint Marons CDC
PARTNER – $500+
- Di Bruno Brothers
- Jon Whitbeck
- Kenneth G. Schaefer
- Louise and David Strawbridge
- Hon. Mark Squilla
- The Good King LLC
SUSTAINER – $250+
- David Yang
- Gary Dion
- Joseph D Alkus and Andrew C Price
- Joshua Lehrer
- Ryan Leonard
- Glenn Sykes
- American Endowment Foundation
- Anthony Keating
- Bradford Crowley
- Brian Majewski
- Martin Angert
- Michelle Deutsch
- Petro’s Bread Distributors, Inc.
- Ralph Riedel
- Stuart Jones
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