Building the Capacity of Local Change Agents to Impact POVERTY

Join this Zoom meeting to hear how innovators are tackling the underlying issues of economic disparities.

SPEAKER:
GUY GENERALS, PRESIDENT, COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF PHILADELPHIA
An Eco-System for a Poverty Action Plan: re-imagining, innovating and a call to action

PRESENTATION:
Will Philadelphia's Poverty Action Plan succeed in raising 100,000 residents out of poverty by 2024? 
- Bryan Wilkerson

Social Innovators AND Change Agents Presentations - Moderated by Hadass Sheffer and Nicholas Torres

• David Castro: Executive Director, I-LEAD: COLLEGE ACCESSIBILITY, AFFORDABILITY, ACCOUNTABILITY
• Malik Brown: Executive Director, Graduate! Philadelphia: COLLEGE COMPLETION
• Fed Amrein: Founder CEO, Pay for Ed: COLLEGE ACCESS and SUCCESS
• Eric Schuner: Founder/CEO Virtuous: CLOSING THE VIRTUOUS CIRCLE
• Nikia Owens and Carniesha Kwashie: Directors, United Way and JOIN: LIVING WAGE WORKFORCE
• Michael Clark: Member, Social Innovations Journal: COLLEGE RANKINGS: AFFORDABILITY, GRADUATION, JOB OBTAINMENT

Insights and Strategies: Neighborhood Small Business Development -  Moderated by Adriana Abizadeh, Executive Director of the Kensington Corridor Trust

• Sylvie Gallier Howard: Acting Director  of Commerce, City of Philadelphia
• Jill Fink: Executive Director, Merchants Fund
• Amy Carroll-Scott:  Promise Zone Research Connection, Urban Health Collaborative, Associate Professor, Drexel University Dornsife School of Public Health

GUEST SPEAKER:
H. PATRICK CLANCY, PRESIDENT & CEO, PHILADELPHIA WORKS