Jump Button’s vision is “to imagine diversity and inclusion through the games and animation industry.” | From: Love Now Media (Read more.)
Among queer and trans students, 33 percent report experiencing school discipline of some sort, including principal’s office visits, detention, suspension or expulsion. | From: Philadelphia Gay News (Read more.)
Women and people of color are under-represented in science, technology, engineering, and math. But there’s an effort afoot in Philadelphia to change that through an unusual mix of dance and coding lessons. | From: Chalkbeat (Read more.)
MPOWER Financing, a leading fintech company and provider of global educational loans, announced the launch of a series of scholarships in support of refugee and international students, “with a promising future,” who wish to continue their higher education studies in the United States and Canada. | From: Al Día (Read more.)
The opportunity comes courtesy of the Neighborhood Preservation Initiative, the massive bond-backed program initiated by City Council President Darrell Clarke to increase the city’s stock of affordable housing, revive commercial corridors, and improve neighborhood infrastructure, among other priorities. | From: PlanPhilly (Read more.)
The Black Doctors Consortium was among the first in the city to offer newly approved COVID shots for young children in June, setting up clinics at its health center in a mostly Black neighborhood in North Philadelphia. | From: The Inquirer (Read more.)
About two dozen of Goodwin’s roughly 60 tenants across the city are households that were homeless or have a member who was formerly incarcerated, he estimated. The veteran moved into his home within days of Goodwin receiving a call from someone at the Veterans Multi-Service Center, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit. | From: The Inquirer (Read more.)
Pennsylvania regulators on Friday approved a plan by Philadelphia Gas Works to refund $12.4 million in excessive weather normalization charges for June gas bills, a day after PGW filed the emergency request to give the money back to customers. | From: The Inquirer (Read more.)
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