The Center Philadelphia

The Center - Philadelphia seeks to connect people through creativity, compassion, and community engagement to generate and sustain resources; to produce and preserve community spaces; to assemble and organize creative people, to inspire social change, and to launch a monumental movement of the human spirit. The Center - Philadelphia is available and accessible to all people:

Seeking a more just, peaceful, and spiritual world

Producing circles of community building activity and advocacy

Resisting oppression of all kinds

Inspiring acts of uncommon compassion

Navigating social change by community organizing

Giving creative and artistic expression to human dignity and integrity

The Center - Philadelphia grew out of the community building activity of the Arch Street United Methodist Church. It is open to all persons, no matter how they identify, including without regard to age, race, ethnic background, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, economic or marital status, physical or mental ability, immigration status, and spiritual tradition.