BuildaBridge Factsheet
Official Name: BuildaBridge International
EIN#-23-3048553
Address: 205 West Tulpehocken Street, Philadelphia, PA 19144
Phone: 215-842-0428
Fax: 215-842-2025
Email:
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What is the mission of BuildaBridge International?
BuildaBridge is a nonprofit arts education and intervention organization that engages the transformative power of the arts to bring hope and healing to children, families and communities in the tough places of the world. BuildaBridge motivates, enlists, trains and connects those with artistic gifts with those in greatest need. BuildaBridge offers 3 unique programs featuring cross-cultural perspectives and arts-integrated approaches that are child-centered, trauma-informed and hope-infused: Community, International & Institute for Arts and Transformation.
Who Benefits from our Services?
Our constituent audience consists of the lower 20% of the US and world’s population who suffer in abject poverty, physical pain, homelessness and emotional suffering as a result of war, catastrophic natural disasters, human trafficking, abuse and neglect. BuildaBridge recognizes that these people desire to live with hope and joy, strong connections to family and local communities, fair and satisfactory employment, and meaningful visions for their future, and the future of their children.
How many people does BuildaBridge serve?
9,000 - Total number of children, families and communities BuildaBridge has served domestically and abroad since inception in 1997
2,816 - the number of children served through the Discovery and Community Arts Program, Artology and Healing Programs in Philadelphia since 1999.
528 - Number of artists and community workers trained through BuildaBridge's Institute for Arts and Transformation, Philadelphia location.
1,000 - Just under one thousand artists and community workers trained in how to utilize the arts for transformation which includes BuildaBridge's first Institute among 15 fighting congregations in Costa Rica and other mini-institutes conducted around the world.
How many people volunteer with BuildaBridge?
Over 932 people have volunteered over 85,102 hours of service since 1997.
With what organizations does BuildaBridge collaborate?
Eastern University
Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance
Jane Addams Place
NPIHN
People’s Emergency Center
Art-Reach
Inspiration Center, Nairobi, Kenya
Centro de Alcance, Guatemala
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Tookany, Tacony-Frankford Watershed
Project Rainbow
The Second Baptist Church of Germantown
Saint Barnabas Mission
School District of Philadelphia
Women Against Abuse, Inc.
Woodstock Family Center
Dignity Housing
Oxford Circle Christian Community Development Association
Drexel University’s Bridging the Gap Program
Refugee Family Services, Atlanta, GA
Danzante Arts, Harrisburg, PA
Who were the organization’s largest funders in 2010?
$75,000 School District of Philadelphia
$50,000 Philadelphia Cultural Fund
$30,000 Non-Profit Finance Fund
$20,000 National Endowment for the Arts
Funding Source Breakdown
What is BuildaBridge's annual budget? In 2010, $409,028
Expense Allocations 2010
What are BuildaBridge’s most pressing financial needs?
General Operations: As a primarily volunteer organization, and because our work with the most vulnerable is offered free, we must maintain office and organizational expenses, including insurance, rent, salaries and office supplies ($108,216 annually)
BuildaBridge Institute & year-round trainings offering professional development to artists & teachers
Community Programs: $137 per month supports our work with one child including the teaching artist salaries, insurance, and art materials.
On-site arts therapy and community arts studio: Renovation of old carriage house into usable space for therapeutic and educational art-making for the Germantown Community. ($50,000)
Arts Relief and Development projects in global areas of crisis and disaster.
Who is on the BuildaBridge Board of Directors?
Ron Hevey, Board Chair
Cherly Wade
Bill Davis
Charles Holmes
Aleea Slappy
Lisa Jordan
David Knipel
Jim Ballengee
Elaine Ballengee
Karen Vaccaro
Saman Khan
Tracie Blummer
Hollie Malamud-Price