City Appoints New Executive Director of Rebuild
Kira Strong, who has served in an interim leadership role with Rebuild since November 2019, has been named as the new Executive Director.
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Kira Strong, who has served in an interim leadership role with Rebuild since November 2019, has been named as the new Executive Director.
Join this briefing about The Promise, a collective effort to design and build a community-informed, evidence-based strategy that addresses Philadelphia’s high rates of poverty.
Supported by a record $100 million grant from the William Penn Foundation, Philadelphia launched a high-profile, mayor-backed, seven-year, $500 million initiative called “Rebuild” to revitalize neighborhood parks, recreation centers, playgrounds, and libraries across the city.
Denise McGregor Armbrister is the driving force behind the Wells Fargo Regional Foundation, which is marking 20 years of revitalizing neighborhoods in Eastern Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey.
The Regional Foundation makes investments across New Jersey in Camden, Paterson, and Newark.
Seventeen stakeholders have been named to a new oversight board for the Rebuild initiative to improve Philadelphia's public spaces. Their first public meeting is 11/1.
The grant to FINANTA is part of the company’s national push to increase access to capital and technical assistance for Diverse Small Businesses.
Kensington residents work with City to select 36 grassroots organizations and community groups to receive $360,000 to address the community impact of the overdose crisis.
Beech Companies celebrated three decades of investments that have transformed the Cecil B. Moore Avenue commercial corridor in North Philadelphia.
Please join us for our third session in our series on Southwest Philadelphia.
As the City's Rebuild initiative lays the groundwork for a major investment in rec centers, parks and libraries, two neighborhoods offer a road map to getting this overhaul right.
Mayor Jim Kenney’s plan to revamp public facilities throughout the city took another step forward this week, with key legislation passing favorably out of a City Council committee on Monday.
A newly funded citywide public engagement campaign will be designed to give all Philadelphians a chance to shape plans for a new waterfront park over I-95 at Penn's Landing.