Income and Wages
This Philly woman is teaching real estate to the housing insecure
Monica Wright showed her first house 27 years ago — exactly one week after her fourth daughter was born. (Read more.)
Month: January 2018
Income and Wages
First Step Staffing comes to Philadelphia to employ homeless
In an unusual deal, First Step Staffing, a nonprofit staffing company from Atlanta, has purchased the Philadelphia operations of the for-profit On Time Staffing with the goal of using the staffing firm to employ homeless individuals and people recently released from prison. (Read more.)
Education
If more Philly kids eat free breakfast, will achievement rise? This school says yes.
In Michael Halko’s fifth-grade class at Francis Scott Key Elementary, the first 30 minutes of every day are sacred – it’s time for morning meeting, and, most important, yogurt, burritos, and muffins. (Read more.)
Community and Family
A filmmaker made a movie about 4 North Philly kids’ lives. Five years later, she checked back in
Half a decade ago, filmmaker Amanda Danzinger gave video cameras to four teens at the after-school program where she volunteered. Their home movies became part of a feature-length documentary she cut about their lives. “The Backyard Philly Project” follows Montae, Tasia, Brianna and David who lived in public housing project Penn Town at 6th and Green streets in North Philadelphia. (Read more.)