{"id":9653,"date":"2022-10-01T16:03:32","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T20:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/?page_id=9653"},"modified":"2026-09-09T17:31:55","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T21:31:55","slug":"community-activities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/?page_id=9653","title":{"rendered":"Selected Civic Activities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a complete list see my <a href=\"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/?page_id=9111\">complete vita.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Neighborhood Networks \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Philadelphia, PA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Founder and Member of the Steering Committee and Executive Committee, Chair of the Issues Committee, \u00a02005-2011<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Co-founder of a progressive organization created in June 2005 with neighborhood \/ ward groups in ten areas of the city.<\/li>\n<li>Organized field campaigns for the Ethics Reform charter changes in November 2005 and May 2006.<\/li>\n<li>Represented NN on the Raise the Minimum Wage Coalition and helped develop the lobbying and media strategy that lead to passage of the first increase in the PA minimum wage in ten years.<\/li>\n<li>Represented NN on the Pennsylvania Campaign for Housing Justice; designed website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phillyhousingjustice.org\/\">phillyhousingjustice.org<\/a>, wrote op-eds and helped coordinate a lobbying strategy to secure passage of inclusionary zoning legislation in Philadelphia.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>Pennsylvania Transit Campaign \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Philadelphia, PA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Board Member and Staff Member<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Helped organize, prepare lobbying material for, and spoke at 4000 strong rally in Harrisburg on February 14, 2005 and at many other events.<\/li>\n<li>Ran email campaign and designed and managed our website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.patransit.org\/\">patransit.org<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>PTC was successful in pressuring Governor Rendell to flex federal highway funds to provide funding for SEPTA for two years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>West Mt. Airy Neighbors (WMAN) \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Philadelphia, PA<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>President, 2003 -2005<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>Vice President of Community Affairs, 1999<\/em><em>-2003<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>WMAN created and serves one of only ten upper-middle-class, racially integrated communities in the country.<\/li>\n<li>Lead the fight to secure historic designation for the Presser and Nugent Buildings on Johnson Street.<\/li>\n<li>Helped bring a new CVS Drug Store to the Lincoln Drive \/ Mt. Pleasant corner.<\/li>\n<li>Led the Mt. Airy ad hoc committee working with ACME Markets to bring a new supermarket to West Mt. Airy in August 2002.<\/li>\n<li>Negotiated an agreement between the Houston School Playground Raising Project and the Near Neighbors of the Houston School that enabled a new School \/ Community Playground to be built.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a complete list see my complete vita.\u00a0 Neighborhood Networks \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Philadelphia, PA Founder and Member of the Steering Committee and Executive Committee, Chair of the Issues Committee, \u00a02005-2011 Co-founder of a progressive organization created in June 2005 with neighborhood \/ ward groups in ten areas of the city. Organized field campaigns for the Ethics Reform charter changes in November 2005 and May 2006. Represented NN on the Raise the Minimum Wage Coalition and helped develop the lobbying and media strategy that lead to passage of the first increase in the PA minimum wage in ten years.\u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/?page_id=9653\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1896,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9653","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P35YuU-2vH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1896"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9653"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158464,"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9653\/revisions\/158464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcstier.com\/blog2\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}