Rick Young founded the organization in 2003 with a seemingly simple mission of improving the quality of life in the Mantua area and beyond.

This community is in the unique position of being on the front row of major changes in the area involving and housing and population. With Drexel University and Penn bordering it to the North, the Philadelphia Zoo to the immediate south, and Center City and The Art Museum within a stone’s through to the East, it has become a highly desirable place to live, but is still beset with challenges of employment and other urban ills.

MCIC works diligently to facilitate those changes in a way that benefits everyone, which means employing people from the community, economic development through entrepreneurship, and pride-in-ownership of homes through maintenance and daily street cleanings.

Though MCIC is well known in the community for the latter, the organization is also very involved in educational projects through the McMichael Elementary School, community planning, mentoring, and job development.

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