The mission of Urban Core Community Workforce is to create a cadre of workforce personnel trained in residential renovation skills through our Urban Core Redevelopment Program. This program utilizes urban core youth and unemployed adults, preferably displaced adult workers preferably veterans, to transform dilapidated, abandoned and neglected property in the urban core into viable low-income/no income housing.

Can you imagine the vacant lots on your block looking like this?

Can you imagine free fruits, nuts and possibly vegetables replacing vacant,

weed infested and overgrown lots which dot the urban core neighborhoods.

With park benches, a walking path and subdued night lights,

this would be an idea place for neighborhood youth

to experience the thrill of picking fresh apples, peaches, pears, plums.

No more trips to the grocery store for fresh vegetables or fruits.

 And the key ingredient is that once the orchard is developed,

it would be owned by the residents of that particular block. 

Surrounded on three sides by a privacy fence with camera monitoring

and recording day or night, this could be an ideal place to relax,

read a book or maybe just chill with other block residents after a work week.

If you can believe it, we can achieve it - just takes dedication to desire.

You can change the world with one idea or one invention.  

With the right resources, you can!

Ideas require action to make them real - and waiting just gives

someone else the chance to patent or produce the very thing which

you have put aside - to their advantage, not yours.

To produce an idea, to market an idea requires inspiration and dedication,

knowledge and belief and a willingness to go the distance - the difference

between the talkers and the doers.

• The first step in making an idea real is to come up with the right idea - not the perfect idea, but the right idea - and from this right idea, putting the right resources in place to make it real.  
• The second step is to decide if you are going to create a business to sell your product or if you plan to produce a product for others to sell. If you are creating a business, you have to develop a business plan, develop a business entity, obtain an EIN, obtain a location, set up production and begin marketing.  With the right idea comes the need to put the idea in writing, to write up the description and create drawings so others can see what you visualize.  This is a process, as your idea, once written, will show you the possible need for refinement, correction or modification. 
• The next step is the need for protection, which is a patent, copyright or trademark.  Establishing this protection is done through the United States Patent Office, which itself is a process.  For initial protection, a provisional patent application is filed, which will protect your idea for one year.  This gives you time to develop possible manufacturers, investors or other possible refinements.  
• The next step would be prior art research, which will allow you to determine if your idea already may be patented.  Once prior art research is completed and you find that you have a marketable idea, a non-provisional application is made, which, if approved, will protect your idea in the United States for twenty years. (However, you will probably want to apply for an international patent after approval of the non-provisional patent in order to put your product on the world market.) 
• Now you are ready to take your idea to the market, either through your business or through others, which entails contacting possible companies that may be interested in licensing your product or producing your product for sales. If you want to create a business, We Can Help.  If you want to create a product, We Can Help.  
• If you can believe it, we can achieve it - just takes dedication to desire.