PowerCorpsPHL engages un- and under-employed 18 to 30-year-olds in an immersive, paid 4 to 24-month experience that results in connection to living wage jobs in clean energy, green infrastructure, and community-based careers. A community-centered workforce development program, PowerCorpsPHL is designed to empower young adults, particularly those exiting the juvenile justice system or at risk of incarceration. This initiative, created through a collaboration between AmeriCorps and the City of Philadelphia, emphasizes [….]
In 2018, the Nathan Cummings Foundation announced it would fully leverage 100% of its nearly half-billion-dollar endowment to further its mission of driving sustainable and inclusive growth, making it one of the largest foundations in the world to do so. The foundation has since made tremendous progress and has learned a lot along the way. In 2020, the foundation partnered with Frontline [….]
The William Way Community Center engages and supports the diverse LGBTQIA+ communities in the greater Philadelphia area through arts & culture, empowerment, and community connections. The Center embarked on a daring and visionary project to transform and rebuild its existing community center into a more expansive, inclusive, colorful, and unabashedly queer space for all LGBTQIA+ individuals., hence they partnered with Creative Repute to design the capital campaign marketing materials that [….]
Chronicling Resistance: The Exhibition began with (PACSCL) The Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries in 2018 with two primary goals:
1) To amplify stories of resistance in Philadelphia’s historical archival collections.
2) To preserve records of today’s acts of resistance.
With generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), has launched the new National Early Care and Education Workforce Center (the ECE Workforce Center). The ECE Workforce Center is the result of a 30 million dollar investment to support research and technical assistance for states, communities, territories, and Tribal Nations to improve the recruitment and retention of a diverse and qualified workforce across early care and education programs.