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Feb 13, 2024 · Sister Mary Scullion, Co-Founder & Executive Director, Project HOME. Pierce and Katie Keating, Lead Donors for Joyce’s Place. Lauren Moran, Daughter of Joyce Moran. Cheryl Hill, Senior Vice President of Property Operations and Residential Services, Project HOME. Kelli James, Project HOME resident. About Project HOME.
Feb 14, 2024 · Family friends, the Keatings, partnered with Project HOME to open the space and gave a “generous donation,” said Sister Mary Scullion, Project HOME co-founder. “We were blessed by Joyce’s life and now in her death,” Sister Scullion said.
Nov 6, 2023 · The William Penn Foundation, founded in 1945 by Otto and Phoebe Haas, is dedicated to improving the quality of life in the Greater Philadelphia region through efforts that increase educational opportunities for children from low-income families, ensure a sustainable environment, provide inclusive and equitable public spaces and arts and culture ...
Family gets ‘stability, security, a place to call home,’ thanks to Conshohocken developer’s new charity. The rowhouse in Philadelphia's Carroll Park neighborhood is the first project coordinated by How Charities, a new arm of the How Group, which rehabs and develops properties. The nonprofit was established in 2017 with the goal of ...
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The Veterans Multi-Service Center What It Does – Serves those who served Budget – $12.7M Founded– 1980 Too many Vietnam War veterans discovered themselves in a new war when they returned stateside and were treated with scorn. The Veterans Multi-Service Center was founded as one of 23 national programs designed to meet the needs of Vietnam veterans ...
Maternity Care Coalition What It Does – Supports parents impacted by racial and social inequities Budget – $12.8M Founded– 1980 Last year, 130 Philadelphia babies died before reaching their first birthdays. The city has one of the highest infant mortality rates in the nation, and it’s the mission of the Maternity Care Coalition to correct that by s...
Cathedral Kitchen What It Does – Uses food to change lives Budget – $3.3M Founded– 1976 Cathedral Kitchen started when a group of four young idealists heard an inspirational talk from Mother Teresa at the 41st International Eucharistic Congress in Philadelphia and decided to feed the hungry in Camden. Fast-forward 45 years, and that seed has produc...
C.B. Community Schools What It Does – Educates and advocates for students in child welfare and juvenile justice systems Budget – $1.9M Founded– 2015 C.B. Community Schools is a small private high school in Roxborough with a hefty annual tuition fee. That’s a time-tested recipe for an elite education, except the student body at C.B. Community School...
Why Not Prosper What It Does – Helps formerly incarcerated women Budget – $627,000 Founded –2001 How would you fare if you exited prison and needed to restart your life? The first thing you’d learn is that in Pennsylvania, there are 500 different legal and regulatory consequences to a criminal conviction, including employment and housing barriers, ...
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey What It Does – The original community chest Budget – $61.4M Founded –1921 Philadelphia is the country’s poorest big city, and the United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey has retooled itself to focus on alleviating that poverty. Celebrating a century of good deeds this yea...
Esperanza What It Does – Supports the Latino community Budget – $40M founded Founded –1986 How do you help Latino families succeed when they believe the public education system, the very foundation of that success, is failing their children? That’s the concern that pushed Luis Cortés Jr. to create Esperanza, a faith-based nonprofit designed to stre...
Charles A. Melton Arts & Education Center What It Does – Provides programs for the marginalized Budget – $520,000 Founded –1918 Equity and inclusion have been at the heart of the Charles A. Melton Arts & Education Center since its beginnings, when it was founded to help the marginalized in the greater West Chester area. The center delivers a range ...
Chester Residents Concerned for Quality Living What It Does – Fights environmental racism Budget – $50,000 Founded –1992 The city of Chester has become our region’s trash can. An incinerator in this city of 34,000 can burn up to 3,500 tons of trash daily, and only 1.6 percent of that waste is from the residents. The rest comes from Delaware County,...
Friends of the Free Library of Philadelphia What It Does – More than just books Budget – Varies* Founded –1973 The Philadelphia Free Library has its own foundation, but the neighborhood branches get by with a little help from their friends. The Friends of the Free Library is an independent nonprofit organization that supports library groups and is ...
Feb 23, 2021 · by Max Marin February 23, 2021. Project HOME founder Sister Mary Scullion, 1199C President Henry Nicholas, and AFSCME District Council 47 President Tom Cronin. 💌 Love Philly? Sign up for the...
Aug 21, 2022 · (The biggest is the Park Towne Place apartments, built in the 1950s south of Eakins Oval.) Now, it’s more likely to have a total of 700-800 residential units, said Natasha Stancill, a VP at ...