Check out our Flickr account

If you check out our newly created Flickr account you'll see exactly who we are and what we do. We have past events up on the photostream, like the 2007 clean up we did in the neighborhood. But we also have our works in progress like the Chad Brown Community Garden and the St. Pat's Cemetery Wall Revitalization.

Look out for further developments and pics of the hard working Communty Congress!!!!

The Community Congress Mission and Vision Statement

Community Congress

Mission Statement

The mission of the Community Congress is to bridge and strengthen the Chad Brown/Smith Hill/ Elmhurst neighborhoods through open forums, community projects and collaborative partnerships. With this mission comes a commitment to utilize community assets to improve the neighborhoods in which we live, work, study, worship and play.

Vision Statement

Our neighborhoods are rich in resources ready and waiting to be developed further. We envision a community that celebrates its diverse ethnic groups and cultures, sharing our art, music, food, language, dance, cultural, and religious traditions. We see schools, public, charter, and private, working together to educate our children, adolescents, and adults. We see neighborhoods in which the variety of non-profit, health, religious, and educational organizations collaborate together and listen to the voices of the residents. We see our libraries as resources and centers for the community. We envision community education programs which help immigrants to learn English and improve their education and employment opportunities. We envision a community with parks, community centers, and recreational programs for all ages. We envision a vibrant economic community, with a variety of small businesses which serve the diverse populations of our neighborhoods as well as a more developed economic infrastructure which includes access to banking, credit, and retail development. We see a community with expanded affordable housing. Building on our existing assets, we envision a community that is healthy and safe for all. Increased civic engagement and participation will allow us to shape our future. We seek to develop bridges between our neighborhoods and down city so that each can share their resources with one another. People working together, supporting and empowering each other, can make this vision a reality.

For more information, contact:

401-865-2786 or pspvista@providence.edu

Welcome to our Blog!!!

Hello to everyone out there in cyberspace. This is the brand new blog of the Community Congress. We are a grassroots organization based in Providence, RI's Smith Hill/Elmhurst/ChadAdSun area. We are made up of many community organizations that wish to work together to make our neighborhood better.

We will be adding our developed mission-vision statement in the next blog.

Here you can see what projects we are trying to tackle. Hopefully we will be linked to Flickr so that you can use your peepers to get a better idea of who we are.

Here's to the future!