Welcome
The Southeastern Pennsylvania (SEPA) First Suburbs Project is a coalition of
community organizations and institutions focused on solving common challenges
facing the older, developed suburbs of Bucks, Chester, Delaware, and Montgomery
Counties. These communities share conditions of diminishing economic
investment, declining infrastructure, struggling school districts, and social
services lagging behind the needs of their residents. Left to solve these
problems on a municipal-by-municipal basis, these communities will continue to
decline, reducing the quality of life for the Southeastern region of
Pennsylvania as a whole.
The core belief of the SEPA First Suburbs Project is that state policy changes
and regional solutions will best address these common challenges by using
limited resources more efficiently to the benefit of all of the residents
of Southeastern Pennsylvania.
Statement of Purpose
The Southeastern Pennsylvania First Suburbs Project is a regional coalition of
community leaders from developed suburbs that have joined together to harness
their communities' power by directly engaging citizens to affect policies and
practices that will lead to the stabilization and revitalization of their
communities.