Kensington Corridor Trust

Extra! Extra! Read All About It! 📢 The Kensington Corridor Trust was just featured in @phillymag ! We are excited to continue sharing not just the story of the Trust, but also the people who help shape it every day — the Kensington residents and small businesses. You can check out the article here: https://bit.ly/kctinphillymag or comment "Philly Mag" and we'll DM you a link directly. #phillymagazine #kctphilly #neighborhoodtrust #communityownership

Check out this new piece in the Philadelphia Inquirer (🔗- https://bit.ly/3EG5zRw) about the Neighborhood Trust Model and how the Kensington Corridor Trust is proof that it works. Want to learn more about the Neighborhood Trust or stay connected? Visit our website at and check out our resource center. We are always eager to chat with the community or those interested in learning more about the model. 🫱🏽‍🫲🏽 #kctphilly #neighborhoodtrust #collectiveownership

Planning a community event, workshop, or celebration? Our garden is available at no cost for events that benefit the Kensington community and are open to residents free of charge. Whether it’s a wellness day, an art activity, or a community celebration, let’s bring it to life together in our green space! 🌿 Reach out to Gloria (+1(267) 345-5569 or [email protected]) to learn more.

Don't forget to cast your vote for the KCT garden renaming. 🌿 We need your help to continue shaping the space's identity and ensuring it remains a community-designed and engaged space! You can cast your vote here (https://bit.ly/kctgardenname), or leave a comment below if there's a favorite from these top 5 options: ◦ Botanical Bliss Garden ◦ Garden of Hope ◦ Bloom Haven Garden ◦ Kensington Faith Garden ◦ The Brotherly Love Lot Please note that only Kensington residents and community partners may vote on the naming.

Join us for the next Ujima Wednesdays workshop, in collaboration with the Boston Ujima Project. This workshop will explore the connections between energy, finance, and tech. Come learn about how all of these are related, how they impact your daily lives, and what is possible if we were able to govern our own systems! 💡 May 20, 2026 | 6:15PM, Hybrid on Zoom & In-Person 3400 J Street, Unit G12, Philadelphia, PA 19134 Please register here: bit.ly/4da44tt

Join us at #Ujimawednesdays for What is Just Transition? with Tristan Thomas What principles, processes, and practices come to mind when you think about Black people's place in the future? Join us in learning about Just Transition, a framework for change that shifts us from an extractive economy and political system to one that is regenerative. 📆 Wednesday 5/13 📍Kensington Corridor Trust | 3400 J St Unit G12, Philadelphia, PA 19134 ⏰ 6PM EST 🌏 Hybrid 📋 Register at /events 𝙎𝘾𝙃𝙀𝘿𝙐𝙇𝙀 ➡️ 5.13 What is Just Transition? with Tristan Thomas ➡️ 5.20 Energy, Tech, Finance with Tristan Thomas Tristan Thomas is a New York native from the Bronx, Tristan obtained a B.S. in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Northeastern University and now calls Roxbury home. Currently Tristan serves as the Director of Policy & Law at Alternatives for Community and Environment (ACE). ACE is a neighborhood based, environmental justice and transit-oriented development nonprofit. They organize Roxbury residents and work with community organizers locally, statewide and nationally to build platforms and offer resources that address systemic injustice. ACE works directly within the frontline communities that are most impacted bringing critical solutions that include advocacy, organizing, legal and regulatory campaigns. They are the first environmental justice nonprofit organization in Massachusetts and have defended the rights of Roxbury residents for over 25 years.

What does a just future look like for Black communities? Join KCT + Boston Ujima Project for our next hybrid workshop: What is Just Transition? 🌱 May 13th at 6PM, register here: https://bit.ly/4fhV5Yt. Zoom link sent to registrants. In Person: 3400 J Street, Unit G12, Philadelphia, PA 19134

KCT has a strong lineup of community events happening this month and next month across Kensington. From “Imagining Solarpunk Futures” and Health & Wellness conversations to Seed Planting workshops and housing education, KCT continues creating spaces focused on connection, learning, and community growth. Check out the upcoming schedule and tap in. 🌱 #Philadelphia #Philly #KensingtonPhilly #CommunityDevelopment #PhillyEvents PhiladelphiaEvents

Meet KCT's newest Garden Steward, Lou! With an extensive arts background and experience in land care and advocacy, they bring a passion and excitement that blend both worlds, deeply representing the work that has happened and continues to take shape in the garden. 🌿 We are so excited to have them on board, so please help us welcome them to the work! 🤗 Stop by the garden on Tuesdays from 3 PM - 7 PM and on Wednesdays - Fridays from 7 AM - 11 AM to say hello and get your hands into the soil.

The Kensington Corridor Trust garden is undergoing a renaming process, and YOU get to decide what it'll be called. To everyone who submitted a name for consideration, thank you for your creativity. 🧡 🔗- Cast Your Vote Here: https://bit.ly/kctgardenname Please note that this is restricted to Kensington residents and community partners only. We ask that you refrain from voting unless you live, work, and play here often! Stay tuned, we will be announcing the renaming by the week of June 1st!

🎙️ Join us at #Ujimawednesdays for Imagining Solarpunk Futures, an interactive talkback led by Jasmin Velez of @kctphilly . Bridging last April's theme of Black Money Lineages with May's question, "What is the Earth Worth?," we will explore how communities use land and reinvestment to build collective futures, engaging questions of environmental justice, profit, decision-making, and intergenerational wealth. 📆 Wednesday 5/6 📍Kensington Corridor Trust | 3400 J St Unit G12, Philadelphia, PA 19134 ⏰ 6PM EST 🌏 Hybrid 📋 Register at ujimaboston.com/events Jasmin Velez (@writinghello ) is a Puerto Rican practitioner-scholar, community organizer, and nonprofit fundraiser rooted in Kensington, Philadelphia. With over a decade of experience at the intersection of land justice, environmental equity, and decolonial community practice, she brings rigorous research and deep relational trust-building to every room she walks into. She is the Development & Communications Manager at Kensington Corridor Trust, founder of Raíces Consulting LLC, and a doctoral researcher in Geography, Environment & Urban Studies at Temple University. Her work asks a single question in many forms: what does it look like for communities to stay, thrive, and determine their own futures on their own land?

🚕 Beep. Beep. Get in were heading to Philly in May! Join us this May as we take over Kensington Corridor Trust for Ujima Wednesdays. 💻 Can't make it in person? All the Boston and out of state folks can join us virtually! 🗓️ Every Wednesday in May 💫 Hybrid 📍Kensington Corridor Trust | 3400 J Street, Unit G12, Philadelphia, PA 19134 📋 Register at /events 💡 Learn more at /ujimawednesdays