funding
Sep. 10, 2020 1:42 pm
COVID-19 funding: Seniors both need more and give more
The University of Pennsylvania’s Center for High Impact Philanthropy estimates that of the $11.3 million that has been awarded to COVID-related health causes regionally, only 1%, or $131,500 was directed to nursing homes and assisted living facilities.
purpose
Jul. 29, 2020 7:30 am
Organizers and activists clash at the crossroads of Philly’s housing crisis
Forty unhoused Philadelphia families are squatting in vacant buildings that belong to the Philadelphia Housing Authority. As those individuals transform the blighted spaces into living ones, Occupy PHA and PHA spar about housing needs.
purpose
Jul. 9, 2020 8:58 am
Uprising in Philadelphia: A to-do list for the next six months
18 of Philadelphia's best and brightest tell us what they think needs to happen next — individually and collectively — to address the longstanding structural inequities in the city.
purpose
Mar. 16, 2020 2:39 pm
Philadelphia’s poverty problem is bigger than you ever imagined
When we measure income using the federal poverty rate, the results far underestimate how many people are actually struggling to meet daily needs, say guest columnists Marianne Bellesorte and Farrah Parkes.
purpose
Feb. 26, 2020 8:58 am
Minority entrepreneurship is the antidote to persistent poverty
"If Greater Philadelphia is serious about equitable growth and becoming a national 21st-century leader, it cannot afford to continue relegating support for minority entrepreneurship to the back seat," says The Enterprise Center's Della Clark.
purpose
Jan. 27, 2020 6:44 am
Project HOME opens a STEAM lab at Honickman Learning Center
“Quality education for every child should not be a luxury, it’s a basic need,” says Project HOME's cofounder and executive director Sister Mary Scullion.
purpose
Jan. 10, 2020 11:30 am
How about a war on poverty?
Less than a fifth of what we've spent on wars in Iraq and Afghanistan in the past 17 years is all we would need to address extreme poverty worldwide, says guest columnist Rob Wetherington.
purpose
Jan. 8, 2020 9:52 am
For the founder of Chester County Food Bank, its about more than just canned goods
The org offers community raised-bed gardens, senior food boxes, summer food boxes, weekend backpacks for school-age children, a mobile market, bilingual cooking classes and a growing culinary workforce development program.
purpose
Oct. 31, 2019 1:45 pm
ECS has been tackling Philly’s social issues for nearly 150 years. Now, its new focus is intergenerational poverty
The organization has been a resource leader from the Great Depression to the AIDS crisis through today.
purpose
Oct. 14, 2019 8:00 am
Systems blocking people from self-sufficiency
The reality of losing public benefits due to achieving economically is frightening, but it is possible to navigate with preparation, says guest columnist David Griffith of Episcopal Community Services.