Community and Family
Homemade baby formula is a bad idea. Here are some alternatives.
If you are struggling to find infant formula, consider the safety of alternatives before you try them. | From: The Inquirer (Read more.)
Health
Civic and Community Engagement
Bill would charge Philly developers for trees not replaced
With temperatures rising due to climate change, Philadelphia city officials and advocates want to increase the city’s tree cover to help keep neighborhoods cool. But the city has been losing trees in recent years. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
Civic and Community Engagement
How the potential end to abortions will affect people who are impoverished
“The vast majority of people who need abortion funding in Philadelphia are Black, brown, and indigenous,” according to Elicia Gonzales, executive director of the Abortion Liberation Fund of Pennsylvania, a Center City organization that uses donations to help fund abortions. “They have to pay for the abortion, as well as child care, and the lost wages of two missed days of work.” Half of U.S. abortion patients have family incomes below the poverty level, according to the American Journal of Public Health. | From: The Inquirer (Read more.)
Civic and Community Engagement
Philly’s No More Secrets Launched a Mobile Menstrual Health Clinic
Since 2012, No More Secrets has been working to combat period poverty across Philadelphia. | From: Philly Mag (Read more.)
Civic and Community Engagement
Philly residents will measure heat and pollution for NOAA study
One blistering day this summer, dozens of Philly residents, trained as “community scientists,” will drive specially equipped cars through most of the city to collect temperature and air-quality data as part of a study overseen by the federal Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. | From: The Inquirer (Read more.)
Education
CCP gets $100k donation from blind Center on Disability alum
The Community College of Philadelphia’s Center on Disability recently heard back from an alum in a big way. Entrepreneur Gunter Pfau, who graduated in 2002, made a donation of $100,000 to show appreciation for the help the center gave him. | From: Billy Penn (Read more.)
Health
High expectations: A look at Pennsylvania’s Medical Marijuana Program
Tauhid Chappell, an organizer for the Philadelphia CannaBusiness Association—Pennsylvania’s first Black-owned, Black-led cannabis nonprofit aimed at healing the damage done by cannabis prohibition—relays his hopes for the future of cannabis in Pennsylvania: “[I hope the state] is able to come up with a comprehensive package that allows people to participate in the industry however they want.” | From: Metro Philly (Read more.)
Civic and Community Engagement
Philly’s Dining Out for Life returns in person
Philadelphia’s Dining Out for Life, an annual fundraiser to support people living with HIV, is back in person this year for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic struck. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
Community and Family
Glover Gardens is bringing food justice to Philly, one garden bed at a time
Glover Gardens gives neighbors the power to grow their own fresh food while strengthening bonds with one another and their origins. | From: Green Philly (Read more.)
Community and Family
Enforcement of Philly’s plastic bag ban to begin Friday
The bags have been prohibited since October, however, the city will start issuing penalties instead of warnings. | From: Metro Philly (Read more.)