Building One Pennsylvania

Building One PA

Building One Pennsylvania is an emerging statewide coalition of community leaders from diverse sectors – including municipal, school, faith, business, labor and civic – who are joining together to stabilize and revitalize their communities through the direct engagement and mobilization of their fellow citizens. The organization was launched in 2010 when several organizations – including 10,000 Friends of Pennsylvania, Good Schools Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Council of Churches, Southeastern Pennsylvania First Suburbs Project and YorkCounts – convened a summit that brought together more than 600 leaders from across the state to imagine a more comprehensive, transformative approach to the interrelated problems of population loss, aging infrastructure, concentrated poverty, and inadequate municipal and school services.

Building One Pennsylvania's mission is to build the capacity to take collective action in order to advance an agenda of social inclusion, sustainability and economic growth.