Events
Your Guide to Free Summer Outdoor Movies in Philadelphia
Outdoor movie nights in Philadelphia will bring an opportunity for free fun July, August and September 2022. | From: NBC10/Telemundo62 (Read more.)
Month: July 2022
Civic and Community Engagement
Temple University is tapping North Philly community members to help choose its medical students
In the highly competitive process of finding students with the best potential to become doctors, Temple University has turned to a previously untapped resource: members of its North Philadelphia community, who know better than anyone whom they would like to see treating them and their family members. | From: The Inquirer (Read more.)
Housing
New Philadelphia housing encampment: Activists pitch over a dozen tents in University City
Affordable housing activists set up a new protest encampment in West Philadelphia over the weekend, with at least 15 tents so far taking over the lawn facing 40th Street at the University City Townhomes. The installation is part of a multi-group push to keep the 40-year-old residential complex from being sold and redeveloped. | From: Billy Penn (Read more.)
Civic and Community Engagement
Website ShopPhilly1st aims to boost small businesses
With the help of a $149,324 grant from U.S. Rep. Dwight Evans, ShopPhilly1st is planning to produce dozens of videos profiling neighborhood business districts and individual storefronts. | From: Metro Philadelphia (Read more.)
Housing
Philly program will replace broken hot water heaters
A few dozen Philadelphia homeowners struggling to replace broken hot water heaters will soon get relief from a new emergency fund.
The fund, launched by the Energy Coordinating Agency (ECA), will pay to replace hot water heaters for about 65 low-income families — a need staff say they hadn’t been able to meet before. | From: PlanPhilly (Read more.)
Housing
Pa. legislature approves a new home repair assistance program
That’s a different problem than in Philly, where this program is mostly billed as a way to help struggling homeowners keep their houses and avoid displacement. But Argall notes, there is a common issue underlying all of it. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
Education
Pennsylvania budget boosts education spending by $850 million
In the budget deal passed by lawmakers Friday, basic education funding for school districts — the major source of state K-12 aid — will increase by $525 million. “Level Up” funding, which is for the 100 poorest school districts in the state including Philadelphia, will go up by $225 million, and there will be a $100 million increase for special education. Combined funding for basic education and Level Up districts will increase from $7.1 billion to $7.8 billion, or about 8%. | From: Chalkbeat (Read more.)
Health
Cayaba Care provides an extra layer of care for pregnant women in Philly
So at the end of 2020, he launched Cayaba Care, a maternal health startup that provides wraparound support during pregnancy for little to no cost. The West Philly-based business started treating patients in early 2021 and has since improved pregnancy outcomes for almost 1,000 women in the city. | From: The Philadelphia Citizen (Read more.)
Civic and Community Engagement
FarmerJawn founder cultivates urban agriculture in Philadelphia
With keen business sense, vision, adaptability and the belief that “the universe works in its own way,” Barfield is an irrepressible leader of today’s urban farming movement in Philadelphia. For her leadership, impact, and especially for her work bringing her farms’ and farming’s benefits to more Black and Brown Philadelphians, Christa Barfield is a Generation Change Philly fellow. | From: The Philadelphia Citizen (Read more.)
Civic and Community Engagement
Philadelphia Council President Floats Using Stop and Frisk to Fight Gun Violence
Philadelphia’s city council president is floating the idea of using the controversial practice of stop and frisk to combat gun violence. | From: NBC 10 (Read more.)