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City Appoints New Executive Director of Rebuild

Kira Strong
Friday, January 3, 2020
For Immediate Release: Thursday, January 2, 2020 Contact: ... the last year. Kira-Strong-Headshot.jpg Rebuild, a signature initiative of Mayor Kenney’s Administration ... made possible by the Philadelphia Beverage Tax, is investing hundreds of millions of dollars in capital ...

Accelerating Job Growth and Business Formation Among BIPOC Community Should be a Priority for Philadelphia’s Next Mayor

Vision Philadelphia - Economic Development: Access to Capital for Philadelphia’s Diverse Business Owners
Wednesday, May 31, 2023
... of Color-owned business formation and job creation? This is the question posed and answered in the latest Vision ... to the city’s diverse small business community and set a new trajectory for economic growth and wealth-building. Philadelphia ...

Philadelphia’s Placing a $500 Million Bet on Play

Monday, September 11, 2017
By Jen Kinney via NEXT CITY As the city plans a major investment in rec centers, parks and libraries, two ... past half century, Lawncrest the city rec center has — for better and for worse — remained largely the same. A ... neighborhoods, Lawndale and Crescentville, Lawncrest is sandwiched between the neglected urban expanse of North ...

City and Welcoming Center for New Pennsylvanians Launch Citywide Immigrant Workforce Initiative

Monica Munn
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
... PA (January 15, 2020)   – Welcoming Center for New Pennsylvanians, in partnership with the City’s ... for today’s jobs and tomorrow’s economy. It is supported by a $242,000 grant from the World Education Services (WES)   ...

City announces first round of the Kensington Community Resilience Fund grant recipients

Kensington Community Resilience Fund
Wednesday, July 14, 2021
... from the Kensington Community Resilience Fund (KCR Fund), a public-private-community partnership between community ... crisis in Kensington.  Core to the KCR Fund’s approach is a participatory grantmaking process that elevates resident ... and Fairhill neighborhoods. The KCR Fund is a game changer for empowering civic groups and residents by providing them ...

What's New at Rebuild (November 2017)

Monday, December 4, 2017
    Here is a round-up of recent news and developments with the City of Philadelphia's Rebuild initiative for November 2017: November 1  - The Rebuild Oversight Board ... map (check it out here - you can explore sites in your neighborhood!), and a detailed Project Statement ...

GSK awards Greater Philadelphia nonprofits making a dynamic IMPACT on health outcomes

GSK
Thursday, November 15, 2018
... 15] GSK today announced the GSK IMPACT Award Winners in a ceremony at GSK’s Navy Yard site. Ten local nonprofits ... @philahune Healthy NewsWorks @healthynewswks Institute for the Development of African-American Youth, Inc. @idaayinc ...
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City Announces Third Round of Kensington Community Resilience Fund Grantees

Monday, August 28, 2023
... from the Kensington Community Resilience Fund (KCR Fund), a public-private-community partnership between community ... that are focused on improving the quality of life for residents in the communities that have been impacted by ... decisions. “The Kensington Community Resilience Fund is one of the grantmaking initiatives created during this ...

The Alliance for Health Equity Invests $225,000 over two years in Opportunities Industrialization Center Inc. at Chester County (OIC) for the Coatesville Homelessness and Unemployment Collective

The Alliance for Health Equity
Friday, December 17, 2021
(Coatesville, Pennsylvania) - The Alliance for Health Equity (AHE) is pleased to announce a two-year grant award in the amount ... Collective Impact, OIC will serve as the Backbone Organization on behalf of the Homelessness & Unemployment ...

Rebuild announces 21 nonprofits qualified as Project Users

Rebuild
Friday, November 17, 2017
... been qualified as Project Users, the entities responsible for managing Rebuild projects.  These qualified nonprofits, which were selected through a Request for Qualification process, will be eligible to ... sessions for Project Users this winter.   This is the first round of qualifications for Project Users.  An ...

Philadelphia Receives $5 Million in JPMorgan Chase’s AdvancingCities Challenge

Thursday, October 8, 2020
...  — JPMorgan Chase today announced Philadelphia is one of seven winning cities in its AdvancingCities ... Construction can offer family-sustaining careers for workers without college degrees, but women and people of ... workforce development board, is a non-profit, quasi-public organization serving employers and connecting career seekers ...

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