The Philadelphia-based Stoneleigh Foundation hired a new executive director, Ronnie L. Bloom, who began the position last week. The former executive director, Cathy Weiss, led the foundation for four years. She announced her intention to step down in December 2013. Generocity did a Q&A with Weiss just prior to the announcement, which contains more details […]

Jonathan Dasani, who helped deliver books last year in the Words on Wheels program Last year, Jonathan Dasani delivered books across North Philadelphia to 79 children through Tree House Book‘s  Word on Wheels program. Although Dasani will no longer be delivering books, the program has expanded this summer. Tree House Books will partner with  Gearing Up, The Bicycle Coalition […]

One in five high school students in the Philadelphia School District have been involved with the Department of Human Services since entering school, according to a report from PolicyLab, the research arm of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. This means that nearly 20 percent of students have been involved with either the foster care system, […]

The spring 2014 YOUTHadelphia participants. Since joining YOUTHadelphia, a teenage advisory committee of The Philadelphia Foundation’s Fund for Children, John Macri has learned a thing or two about philanthropy. Beginning in January, the St. Joseph’s Prep junior spent every Thursday afternoon learning about grantmaking, civic engagement, and what it really means to be a philanthropist. […]

Editor’s note: The piece was originally featured on Philly in Focus. For nearly three years I, along with a small circle of thought-leaders, have discussed the need for more social service integration in public schools, considering that most students come to school ill-prepared to learn and the teacher usually ends up playing the parent by […]

Oxford Mills, once a vacant property in the city’s South Kensington neighborhood, is now a center of innovation for Philadelphia’s education community. The project is a mixed-use real estate development designed to provide low cost housing for teachers as well as commercial space for educational nonprofits. Generocity covered the project when it first broke ground in […]

NextFab‘s seven-week youth program designed to teach students maker skills is coming to end. The maker space, also called the “gym for innovators,”  is hosting an open house to celebrate student projects completed for the program and also fund-raise an initiative to create maker spaces within public schools. (Generocity covered this initiative in a previous […]

greenSTEM Network, an initiative of the Philadelphia Water Department, has been working hard to get the project moving after selecting the winner’s of its student challenge on April 11. The greenSTEM challenge was a student design competition in three Philadelphia schools to create artistic, original garden enclosures to protect low-cost, DIY sensor kits (named Root Kits) that display […]