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Old 05-16-2008, 10:24 PM
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Originally Posted by Lolly View Post
Those are both great ideas, Jilly. In fact for a start I think we can use a list of City contact numbers from a sample brochure from Ready, Willing, and Able that I picked up at the General Meeting the other night.

And it would definitely be cool to have a "directory" of sorts to all the local business phone numbers, email & web addresses we can gather. (With perhaps larger "ads" for those who want to pay for more than just a basic/standard listing. Could be a great way to raise funds for various neighborhood improvement initiatives.)
Don't reinvent the wheel, folks! Ed Schwartz has been working on assembling those resources since before Al Gore invented the internet. See

http://www.phillyblocks.org/

A little overwhelming, but any web link or phone number you need to be a Philly community activist is there somewhere.
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