 The following year, Raymond renamed the Community Education Program the Pratt Center for Community Improvement (PCCI), committed to a “participant education process” promoting community empowerment in city planning.In 1968 Ron Shiffman became director of the Pratt Center for Community Improvement.In order to reflect increasing work in the areas of recycling, promoting clean air and water, and sustainability the organization was renamed the Pratt Center for Community and Environmental Development (PICCED).