How misinformation and fear keep Philly immigrants from accessing public benefits
Immigration pros from Community Legal Services and HIAS Pennsylvania clarify who is eligible for benefits such as a healthcare and SNAP.
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10 volunteer and donation opportunities to aid Philly’s hungry this holiday season
In Philadelphia, there’s no shortage of need to help people facing economic hardships. See: the stagnant poverty rate, increasing hunger, a difficult-to-navigate affordable housing crisis. Thankfully, there are also a wealth of nonprofits and other social service organizations eager to step in year-round — and especially on holidays associated with meals, comfort and community. But…
Here’s what it takes to bake almost 10,000 pies for MANNA’s Thanksgiving fundraiser
Over a few weekends in September, October and November, roughly 400 volunteers make enough pies to raise about $300,000 each year. For one afternoon, reporter Peak Johnson was one of them.
In North Philadelphia, equitable community development requires community engagement
Esperanza’s Gabriella Gabriel Paez and Firm Hope Baptist Church’s Rev. Richard Harris discuss revitalization projects they’ve piloted in Hunting Park and Kensington and how they keep local residents top of mind.
Philadelphians share opinions on how to combat neighborhood violence
For Michael Cogbill, getting engaged in the electoral process is the best way an individual can help to eliminate community violence.
Make no little pints: Bringing taste and memory into community storytelling with Watershed Ice
What’s the next level of community reporting? For many, printed text and visuals make complex issues clear. Others absorb information best with audio and video. And the internet brings news to screens we touch. PlanPhilly decided to bring stories to life by tapping into another sense, taste, as well as memory. We focused on two…
Nonprofit supports adults who come back to college
Wendy Johnson had an idea of what she had wanted to major in while she was enrolled at the University of Phoenix’s Philadelphia campus – human services. But that would change over the course of her journey through college, mainly because she was unsure about how to navigate her educational path. Ultimately, Johnson stopped her…
WHYY Listening Post: “The Gang Goes to Burholme”
What happens when people have access to a microphone and a platform, with an invitation to tell the invisible listener about their neighborhoods? PlanPhilly decided to find out. Last Thursday, we took the WHYY Listening Post out for a spin to Burholme, where the Food Trust closed off some of the major streets in Northeast…
First stop: Burlhome
For the past few weeks I’ve had the opportunity to assist Diana Lu of Plan Philly with a few audio stories. The project focused around WHYY’s listening post and while it still has a few small kinks here and there, it has been a success and a rewarding experience. Rewarding to be able to speak…
African Community Learning Program founder semifinalist in Wharton startup challenge
Walk down into Aminata Sy’s West Philadelphia basement, and you’ll see color splashed on the walls. There are self-portraits and large, red suns drawn in crayon, as well as maps of Africa highlighting the different countries of the continent. Sy, originally from Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, and later Senegal, runs…
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