Mantua Community Improvement Committee

MCIC has a variety of annual and ongoing programs that are intended to improve the lives neighbors and bring the community together.

Mantua Neighborhood Special Service District 
MCIC has a team of 8-full-time people that are dedicated to keeping our community clean and green. Our community maintenance program is exceptional. People that are from the neighborhood and current residents are hired through a no experience necessary policy.  They are taught fundamental hard and soft job skills when hired. Some of the team members have become managers and supervisors and their leadership roles will continue to grow as the organization does.

Rick Young Youth Development Academy (Ryyda)
Ryyda works with kids between the ages of 13-19. The program teaches leadership, discipline and self-reliance skills through entrepreneurship in the music industry. The program utilizes a project-based approach by engaging the kids in activities that will develop practical life and business skills while also tying in academics with an emphasis on science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).  We track the student’s development throughout the program and monitor their academic performance. Students finish the program with a completed business plan and will having launched an actual product or service based business with their cohort. The program lasts for a 10-week period and is offered year round.

Job Readiness Program
MCIC has expanded its community maintenance team into a training program because of the huge demand for jobs amongst residents in the neighborhood. With the anticipated creation of over 250 permanent new jobs in Mantua from our supermarket development project. We want to prepare our residents with soft and hard skills so that they are ready to join the new developing workforce. Our skills training will also focus on teaching sustainability techniques and customer service skills.

Health Fair in partnership with Drexel University
Celebrate Health! The annual health fair is a great way to get people in the neighborhood information from doctors and medical personnel that they are unable to obtain. These services include: blood pressure screenings, eye exams, and other common health check-ups. The event also gets the younger kids in the neighborhood excited about health issues because the information is delivered outside of a classroom in a creative way. The 5K walk/run another part of the event, gets people in the community out for exercise with their families.

Mantua Family Day Festival
The event brings together three generations of family members that account for over 7,000 people in the city of Philadelphia. There are carnival rides, horses, moon bouncers, clowns, face painting, line dancing and a old fashion family style BBQ. The day usually closes out with a concert featuring a well know music artists of different genera’s. The purpose of the event is to promote health in the community, provide kids with back to school supplies and help stop the violence in the city. Enriching our community, together we can make difference.

Mantua Valor Awards
The Valor Awards is a way to acknowledge the people who have supported MCIC throughout the years. The people we honor have a history with the organization. The event has honored community members, politicians and other humanitarians. 

Community Halloween Party
The Halloween party is a safe place for kids to trick or treat after dark. Last year we had a haunted house to provide a new experience for children. For those who don’t celebrate Halloween it’s a place to have fun without any objections from parents.