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What's New at Rebuild (November 2017)

Monday, December 4, 2017
... 2017: November 1  - The Rebuild Oversight Board held its inaugural meeting at Kingsessing Recreation Center.  The ... meetings are open (about 100 Philadelphians attended the first meeting!) to the public and will be held quarterly. ... Monthly's City Lab blog talks the challenges of urban philanthropy and the innovative ideas cities' are ...

Rebuild announces 21 nonprofits qualified as Project Users

Rebuild
Friday, November 17, 2017
... facilities.   The following nonprofits will serve as the first cohort of Project Users: Asociación Puertorriqueños ... diversity and inclusion goals,” said Rebuild Executive Director Nicole Westerman.  “These are nonprofits we can ... year.”   In total, Rebuild received 31 responses to its Request for Qualification (RFQ) for Project Users and ...

Seeking to Build Community, Philadelphia Invests $500M in Recreational Spaces

FDR Park
Friday, September 22, 2017
... growth potential. As the city prepares to announce the first round of Rebuild sites, Next City partnered with urban ... white population has declined by 20 percent, and its population of color increased by 133 percent.” Echoing ... of the indoor basketball courts. George Matysik, executive director of the nonprofit Philadelphia Parks Alliance, is ...

Rebuild Update - December 2018

Parkside Groundbreaking
Wednesday, December 19, 2018
Philanthropy Network is pleased to announce an 18-month grant ... has served as chair of the Rebuild Leadership Group since its inception in March 2017 and will be stepping down from ... December 13, Mayor Jim Kenney broke ground on the first park improvement funded through Rebuild.  The Parkside ...

Seventeen-member oversight board named for Rebuild

Monday, October 30, 2017
... made to their libraries, recreation centers and parks . To its credit, the Rebuild team has been regularly hosting ... are the board appointees: Michael DiBerardinis , managing director of the  City of Philadelphia Councilwoman Cindy ... about the initiative or ask questions. The board’s  first meeting  is coming up quick too, set for this ...

Francis J. Myers Recreation Center Rebuild Project Awarded $4.5 Million in State Funding

Francis J. Myers Recreation Center Rebuild Project
Thursday, April 28, 2022
... athletics courts and a soccer mini pitch as part of the first phase of the project.     The grant awarded by the ... Recreation Center,” said Kira Strong, Rebuild Executive Director.  “We are overjoyed at the opportunity to grow ... advances the prosperity of the city and the progress of its people through stewardship of nearly 10,200 acres of ...

$10.6 Million Boost Will Close Key Gaps In Regional Circuit Trails Network

Friday, June 1, 2018
... chairperson of the Circuit Trails Coalition and executive director of the Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia. ... the full system of trails,” said Andrew Johnson, Program Director of Watershed Protection at the William Penn ... foster creativity that enhances civic life, and advance philanthropy in the Philadelphia region. In partnership with ...
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City Council and Mayor Kenney play nice as rec center ‘rebuild’ advances

Thursday, May 24, 2018
... approved Monday gets passed by the full Council  before its summer recess — Kenney indicated on Tuesday he has the votes to do so — it’ll open the door to a first cohort of more than 60 facilities receiving Rebuild ...
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One Year of Rebuild: Collaborating to Advance Opportunity, Engagement and Equity in Neighborhoods

Wednesday, January 22, 2020
9:00am - 11:00am
Free Library of Philadelphia
... and libraries. Just over a year after the Rebuild’s first groundbreaking, we invite to join a conversation about ... construction The panel will be moderated by Rebuild Deputy Director David Gould , and panelists will include: Pati Codina , Community Development Director for Impact Services, a nonprofit managing Rebuild ...

How you can help Philly reimagine our civic spaces

Friday, June 15, 2018
... welcome two new park projects as they complete the first phase of their development: Centennial Commons in West ... affordability. Read More Jamie Gauthier is executive director of the Fairmount Park Conservancy and Patrick J. Morgan is the Knight Foundation’s project director in Philadelphia.   How you can help Philly ...

Pew Awards $7.7M to Philadelphia Human Services, Arts, and Civic Nonprofits to Expand Programs, Adapt Business Models

The Pew Charitable Trusts
Wednesday, February 16, 2022
... been awarded a $3.5 million  growth grant  to expand its work to end and prevent chronic street homelessness in ... Philadelphia. Specifically, Project HOME plans to increase its efforts to reduce the number of people experiencing ... the impacts of the pandemic.” Kristin Romens , project director of the Pew Fund for Health and Human Services in ...

Mayor Kenney Cuts Ribbon at Hancock Playground

Tuesday, November 17, 2020
... Council President Darrell Clarke, Rebuild Executive Director Kira Strong and City Officials today celebrated the ... to our city’s neighborhoods,” said Rebuild Executive Director Kira Strong. “We know how important a safe and ... centers and libraries. Proposed in Mayor Jim Kenney’s first budget as a part of his vision for a more equitable ...

Knight Foundation invests $2.2 million in projects to advance Philadelphia’s public spaces and digital engagement

Photo courtesy Smith Memorial Playground
Friday, April 9, 2021
... said Ellen Hwang, Knight Foundation program director for Philadelphia. “Accessible public spaces are ... the following local digital innovation projects as part of its growing work to advance projects that foster ... pressing needs,” said Lilian Coral, Knight Foundation director for national strategy and technology innovation. ...