Whether it’s keeping the streets clean and safe, creating and sustaining lively public spaces, or providing pipelines to meaningful job opportunities in the District, UCD ensures that University City is a thriving home to all of its neighbors, businesses and institutions.

UCD’s partnership with the neighborhood’s anchor institutions (the universities, hospitals and businesses driving the area’s economic growth) underwrites half of the organization’s operating expenses, but we rely on the generosity of philanthropic partners, local businesses, and neighbors like you to fund our many programs and projects making the neighborhood you love a great place to live, work and play. Spending time in University City, you’ll quickly notice all of the ways, big and small, that your donations are being put to work.

If you appreciate how clean the streets are in the neighborhood or that there is an ambassador nearby to assist when you’d like a walking escort or help with a car lock-out, donate today to ensure the Clean & Safe team remains fully resourced as it maintains the District’s public spaces.

Have you visited The Porch at 30th Street Station for a relaxing lunch overlooking the city? Or maybe you’ve come out to enjoy a lively Baltimore Avenue Dollar Stroll or a movie night with your family in Clark Park? Individual gifts are instrumental to providing diverse and engaging activities close to home.

Do you want to ensure that our neighbors throughout West Philadelphia have opportunities to connect to career-ladder employment with employers in University City? Your gifts allow the West Philadelphia Skills Initiative to continue building opportunity pipelines in our neighborhood.