Basic Organization Information
TREE HOUSE BOOKS
- Physical Address:
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Philadelphia, PA
19121
- EIN:
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59-3802913
- Web URL:
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www.treehousebooks.org
- NTEE Category:
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B Educational Institutions
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B92 Remedial Reading, Reading Encouragement
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A Arts, Culture, and Humanities
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A99 Other Art, Culture, Humanities Organizations/Services N.E.C.
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S Community Improvement, Capacity Building
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S31 Urban, Community
- Ruling Year:
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2007
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Mission Statement
Tree House Books is growing and sustaining a community of readers, writers, and thinkers in North Central Philadelphia. We create interactive programs to encourage the North Central Philadelphia neighborhood to explore books and learning in new ways.
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Impact Statement
The extraordinary commitment of our volunteers, staff, and participants have produced these remarkable results in 2008:
- The Magazine Workshop staff, made up of neighborhood kids and adult volunteers, logged 825 hours to create the first two editions of "The Ave." - our community literary magazine.
- Tree House Books gave away 1,305 books.
- We created three new programs to more fully accommodate the needs and interest of the neighborhood: the Word Planting Project, the Tree Shade Summer Program, and the Junior Staff Member Program.
- Our team of volunteers contributed 2,600 hours to support the mission of Tree House Books.
- We served 300 community members at our workshops, Tutoring Time, and community events.
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Chief Executive
Darcy Sebright
CEO/Executive Director Statement:
At Tree House Books, we do extraordinary things everyday. Our mission calls forth the extraordinary in ourselves and in others. Our neighborhood has a history of economic and educational disadvantages - most residents probably do not consider themselves to be readers, writers, and thinkers.
In our neighborhood, 43.8% of families are at or below the poverty level. Gun violence is a serious problem - our zip code has had the highest number of victims each year, accounting for 65% of the 7 to 24-year-old gunshot victims in the city.
The statistics for our community also show a narrow window of reading proficiency. Although sixth graders in the state of Pennsylvania demonstrated a reading proficiency score of 66.9% on the 2008 Pennsylvania System of School Assessment (PSSA), this percentage narrows to 40.3% in the School District of Philadelphia. However, this percentage contracts to just 17.1% at one of the neighborhood schools.
The statistics of our community are difficult to read and difficult for the community members to live inside of, and the scope of need is daunting. So Tree House Books must be extraordinary.
Officers for Fiscal Year
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Highest Paid Employees & Their Compensation
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Program:
Tutoring Time
- Budget:
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$15,000
- Category:
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Education
- Population Served:
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Children Only (5 - 14 years)
Program Description:
Tutoring Time is held Monday through Friday from 3:00pm to 5:00pm. During Tutoring Time, volunteers assist children with their homework. When homework is done, we engage the children in a fun activity - anything from playing chess or trivia to learning Spanish and how to knit. We end the afternoon with a healthy snack around our round table. Our favorite round-table activity is "One Good Thing, One Bad Thing." - where each child shares one good thing, and one bad thing that happened that day.
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Magazine Workshop
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$10,000
- Category:
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Arts, Culture & Humanities
- Population Served:
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Blacks
Program Description:
Magazine Workshop is held every Wednesday night from 5:30pm to 7:00pm. During Magazine Workshop, we work on "The Ave." - a literary magazine by the community, for the community. Activities range from poetry and story writing, collage making, sewing and other crafts to special workshops led by guest artists and our one-a-month International Night.
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Junior Staff Member Program
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$5,000
- Category:
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Youth Development
- Population Served:
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Youth/Adolescents only (14 - 19 years)
Program Description:
The goal of our Junior Staff Member (JSM) Program is to nurture out young adults to be leader in their community. JSMs are responsible for assisting our adult volunteers in running our programs. They also participate in special projects such as reading group and our online sales fundraising.
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