Through BLJ Community Rowing, Johnson has taught more than 1,500 people to row. More than 50 percent of her students have been Black and Brown people from Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. | From: Love Now Media (Read more.)
Philadelphia is down some 4,000 workers, creating problems and frustrations in every corner of city government. | From: The Inquirer (Read more.)
Spanish-speaking families brought the issue of language accessibility to an April meeting with Parks and Rec and other stakeholders. Zamacona recounted how she went to a recreation center in person after the calls led to a dead end. Staff instructed her to call the main office because no one on site spoke Spanish or knew how to access interpreters the city makes available by phone — an experience that made her feel unwelcome. | From: The Inquirer (Read more.)
Willis is the founder of Ardella’s House, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit that supports incarcerated and formerly incarcerated women and girls. The group recently renovated a property in North Philadelphia that will provide transition housing for women coming home from prison. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
Color Me Back is a same-day work and pay program that takes artists suffering from economic insecurity and connects them to social services to help them creatively and in other ways. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
Decades later, he’s one of the community leaders in a project to bring trees, gardens, and greenery — and the health benefits they engender — to four Philadelphia neighborhoods. Deeply Rooted is a three-year, $6 million project funded by Penn Medicine and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s Healthier Together Initiative. It’s led by the Penn Urban Health Lab, along with 13 other community and faith-based organizations. The Pennsylvania Horticultural Society will provide the greening expertise for improvements in Philadelphia’s Mill Creek, Cobbs Creek, Haddington, and Kingsessing neighborhoods. | From: The Inquirer (Read more.)
Six teen-only Pool Pop-Ups, led by head lifeguard Will Coleman and KYW Newsradio crime reporter Kristen Johanson, are scheduled, with the first coming Thursday at 6 p.m. at Mill Creek Playground in West Philadelphia. | From: Metro Philadelphia (Read more.)
It’s the active shooter equivalent of “stop, drop and roll,” and it’s a crucial piece of knowledge for the crew of teenagers helping with Philadelphia’s “PlayStreets” program this summer. They started work this Monday, hoping to create a safe and educational environment despite the city’s ongoing gun violence crisis and a Fourth of July weekend disrupted by gunfire. | From: WHYY (Read more.)
“Ya Fav Trashman” proposes using some of Pennsylvania’s excess $12 billion to end illegal dumping and bring pride and progress back to Philly neighborhoods. | From: The Philadelphia Citizen (Read more.)
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.)
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