Welcome to Philadelphia’s COMMUNITY EDUCATION and DEVELOPMENT CENTER
The Community Education and Development Centers, Inc. is a community-based, non-profit social service agency, vocational training institution, and community development corporation. CEDC provides individuals with information about educational job training and available job opportunities in the community.
The Community Education and Development Centers (CEDC) also sponsors a project to counsel, evaluate, train, and employ homeless veterans in housing rehabilitation. The veterans are taught how to completely renovate previously abandoned properties. This is particularly important because Philadelphia has over 27,000 abandoned houses and also because one out of three homeless men is a veteran of the armed forces. This program turns the available housing stock into learning laboratories while the properties are under construction.
Once completed, the veterans have a property to rent of purchase along with acquiring a marketable skill. CEDC seeks donations of money, services, building materials, real estate, and volunteers to support our training and rehabilitation projects.