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Programs and Partners

Directory 2011

Urban Affairs Coalition

1207 Chestnut Street

Philadelphia, PA 19107

Phone: 215-851-0110

www.uac.org

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181 Kids Zone Network Albert Swann, Program Director 917 W. Arizona Street Philadelphia, PA 19133 Phone: 215-765-5915 Website: www.181kidszone.com Rev. Lillian T. Williams, Administrator Phone: 215-765-5915 Mission: To provide adequate resources and programs to empower young people while working to sustain the basic needs of education, youth development, and public safety. Services Provided: Advocacy, Education - Youth, Mentoring, Neighborhood and Community Services, Violence Prevention, Youth Development Hours: Monday to Friday, 9am-3pm Achieving Reunification Center (ARC) Martin Harris, Director 714 Market Street, Suite 500 Philadelphia, PA 19106 Phone: 267-514-3500 Fax: 267-514- 3783 Website: www.arcenter.org Email: [email protected] African American United Fund Aissia Richardson 2227 North Broad Street Philadelphia, PA 19132 Phone: 215-454-2583 Email: [email protected] Website: www.aauf.org Mission: To improve quality of life for the disadvantaged and underprivileged, contribute

to the social and economic empowerment of African American communities throughout the state, and encourage cooperation with other charitable organizations and institutions with similar goals. Services Provided: Advocacy, Business/ Entreprenuership/Finance. Economic Inclusion, Health Issues Education, Job Training and Placement, Neighberhood and Community Service, Parent Education/Training, Workforce Development Hours: Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm AIDS Policy Project Katherine Krauss, Executive Director 5120 Walton Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19143 Phone: 215-939-7852 Email: [email protected] Website: www.AIDSPolicyProject.org Mission: To help facilitate the end of the AIDS crisis by advocating for HIV-cure research and supporting services for people with AIDS. Services Provided: Education, HIV/AIDS Prevention/Education Hours: Monday to Friday, 10am-6pm AIDS Services in Asian Communities (ASIAC) Kevin Huang, Executive Director 340 North 12th Street, Suite 205 PhiladelphiaPA19107 Phone: 215-629-2300, ext. 112 Email: [email protected] Website: www.asiac.org Mission: To provide culturally-sensitive and language-appropriate HIV and other related health services to Asians and Pacific Islanders (APIs) and their partners, family members,

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friends, and service providers in the Philadelphia area. Services Provided: Advocacy, Health, Health Issues Treatment, Health Issues Education, HIV/AIDS Prevention/Education Hours: Monday to Friday, 9am-6pm All Wars Memorial Committee Michael Roepel, President 6114 West Oxford Street Philadelphia, PA 19151 Phone: 215-292-5503 Email: [email protected] Mission: To raise funds for the yearly maintenance of the All Wars Memorial to Colored Soldiers and Sailors. Services Provided: Memorial to Colored Soldiers and Sailors Hours: Vary The Big Pitch David W. Brown 553 Cambridge Road Turnersville, NJ 08012 Phone: (856)-397-5437 Fax: 215-893-0529 Email: [email protected] Website: www.DigBP.com Mission: To expose high school students of color to careers in advertising by connecting them to advertising professionals in a competition in which they “pitch” their ideas for a common campaign that affects the community in which they live. Services Provided: Education – Youth

Hours: Year round, with the six-week competition starting at the beginning of February and concluding in mid-March. Bill Pickett Riding Academy Issac Johnstone, Founder/President 2100 Martin Luther King Drive Philadelphia, PA 19131 Phone: 215-477-8090 Email: [email protected] Website: www.billpickett.org Mission: To build identity, pride, and life skills based upon accomplishment among young Philadelphia program participants. Young people are immersed in the lessons of self-reliance and confidence that are learned during a comprehensive program of equestrian care, horsemanship, history, and personal accomplishment. Services Provided: Youth, Youth Development Hours: Monday to Sunday, 9am-5pm Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO) Darlene Callands-Curry, President and CEO 1207 Chestnut Street, 2nd Floor Philadelphia, PA 19107 Phone: 215-851-1795 Email: [email protected] Website: www.philadelphia.baeo.org Mission: To increase access to high-quality educational options for Black children by actively supporting parental choice policies and programs that empower low-income and working class Black families. Services Provided: Advocacy, Neighborhood and Community Service, Literacy, Parent Education/Training, Violence Prevention, Youth Development, Two Scholarship Programs Hours: Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm

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Black Writers Museum

Supreme Dow, Executive Director

25 W. Maplewood Avenue

Philadelphia, PA 19144

Phone: 215-849-6917

Email: [email protected]

Mission: To provide youth and community

programming by utilizing exhibits of classic and

modern Black authors and their composition as

tools for teaching and learning.

Services provided: After school activities:

creative writing, reading development, reciting

and performing

Hours: Monday to Friday, 3:30-7:30pm,

Saturdays 9am-5pm.

Bridges to the Community Cathy Hazzard, Director Dr. Catherine Godbolte, Founder 2040 Christian Street Philadelphia, PA 19145 Phone: 215-844-6853 Email: [email protected], [email protected] Mission: To help people with substance abuse issues transition from treatment back to the community through lifeskills training and training of the mind, body, and spirit. Services Provided: Addiction Recovery, After School Activities, Education - Adult, Education –Youth, Food Bank, GED Preparation, Health, Health Issues Treatment, Health Issues

Education, HIV/AIDS Prevention/Education, Job Training and Placement Hours: Tuesday to Saturday, 9am-5pm Campaign for Working Families Khadijah Jones, Director 1207 Chestnut Street, 5th Floor Philadelphia, PA 19107 Phone: 215-851-1885 Fax: 215-851-1739 Email: [email protected] Website: www.phillyfreetaxes.org Mission: To increase the economic viability of Philadelphia’s residents so that they can plan for stable, secure futures and can participate fully in civic and community life. We work towards a fair marketplace for financial goods and services and the ability of the people we serve to operate independently in that marketplace. Services Provided: Free Tax Preparation Service (January - April 15), Advocacy, Business/Entrepreneurship/Financial Literacy Hours: Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm; Tax Season: Monday to Saturday, including evening and weekends. Carroll Park Community Council J. Holland, Executive Director 5218 Master Street Philadelphia, PA 19131 Phone: 215-877-1157 Email: [email protected] Gertrude Weaver, Deputy Director Fax: 215-878-2722 Email: [email protected] Mission: To provide direct services, information, referrals, counseling, and when necessary, advocacy to bridge the gap of broadening economic and social disparity in the

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West Philadelphia area in general and in Carroll Park specifically. Services Provided: Advocacy, Economic Inclusion, Education - Adult, Food Bank, Housing Counseling, Job Training and Placement, Neighborhood and Community Service, Town Watch, Workforce Development, Youth Development, LIHEAP Crisis and UESF Program, Weatherization, First Time Homebuyers Program, HEMAP Hours: Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm Cedar Avenue Relief Committee Stephen Wallace, Executive Director 440 Church Lane Yeadon, PA 19050 Phone: 215-219-6137 Email:[email protected] Mission: To help with facilitating some of the immediate and unmet needs of the displaced families. Services Provided: Education - Adult, Education - Youth, Food Bank, GED Preparation, Housing Counseling, Job Training and Placement, Mentoring, Neighborhood and Community Service, Transitional Housing, Violence Prevention Hours: Vary COLOURS Robert Burns, Executive Director 112 North Broad Street, 3rd Floor Philadelphia, PA 19102 Phone: 215-496-0330 Fax: 215-496-0354 Website: www.coloursorganization.org Mission: To respond to the lack of positive and progressive educational advocacy and support

mechanisms for LGBT people of color in the Greater Philadelphia Area. Services Provided: Advocacy, Education - Adult, Education - Youth, Health Issues Treatment, Health Issues Education, HIV/STD/ Hepatitis C Prevention/Education/Screening and Testing Services Hours: Monday to Friday, 10am-8pm Community and Economic Development (CED)* Don Kelly, Director 1207 Chestnut Street, 5th Floor Philadelphia, PA 19107 Phone: 215-851-1738 Fax: 215-564-9912 Email: [email protected] Website: www.uac.org/programs/Community andEconomic Development.html Mission: To bring capital to under-served communities to ensure the stability, growth, and utility of the region; to enable low and moderate income individuals to become economically empowered through better personal financial management; and to assist residents, businesses and institutions in low and moderate income areas to protect and build their assets. Through collaborative means, to develop strategies to address other community and economic development concerns in the metropolitan Philadelphia area. Services Provided: Business/Entrepreneurship/Financial Literacy, Economic Inclusion, Other Hours: Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm Consortium for Latino Health (CLH) Stephanie Grier, Administrator 4241 North Reese Street Philadelphia, PA 19140

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Phone: 267-507-2518, ext. 701 Fax: 267-507-2518 Email: [email protected] Website: www.consortiumforlatinohealth.org Mission: To improve the health of Latinos in the Philadelphia region. Services Provided: Advocacy, Health, Health Issues Education, Cultural Competency Hours: Monday to Friday, 8am-6pm DeAnn White Scholarship Fund Blanche W. Toole, Program Leader 24. N. New Hampshire Ave Atlantic City, NJ 084011 Phone: 215-668-9073 Email: [email protected] Website: www.deannwhite.com Gail White Ramsey, Publicist Phone: 215-233-2303 Fax: 215-233-2307 Email: [email protected] Mission: To honor the legacy of DeAnn White by supporting those things that were most important to her life: education, literarcy and community service. Services Provided: Advocacy, Education - Youth, Mentoring, Neighborhood and Community Services, Literacy, Workforce Development, and Youth Development Hours: Not applicable Destined for a Dream Foundation Erica L. Waller-Hill, President, CEO P.O. Box 21022 101 Radcliffe Street Bristol, PA 19007

Phone: 215-788-5602(office) 215-612-1495(fax) Email: [email protected] Website: www.destinedforadream.com Mission: To inspire and empower youth and young adults through life coaching – enhancing youth socially, academically and athletically. Services Provided: After School Activities, Business/Entrepreneurship/Financial Literacy, Health, Health Issues Education, Job Training and Placement, Mentoring, Literacy, Youth Development, Other life skills and training in various areas Hours: Monday to Friday, 3-8:30pm and Saturday, 10am-2pm Destiny Productions Theater Ensemble Ruth Chapman, Founder/Executive Director 6020 Christian Street Philadelphia, PA 19143 Phone: 267-246-2665 Email: [email protected] Website: destinyproductionstheater.blogspot.com Mission: To creatively implement artistic productions based upon prevalent issues impacting inner-city, as well as rural undeserved at-risk families in order to identify, implement and refine faith-based solutions to promote greater understanding and provide much needed information to help individuals achieve improved lives. Services Provided: Advocacy, After School Activities, Education, Neighborhood and Community services, Mentoring, Literacy, Visual Arts, Performing Arts, Parent Education/Training, Violence Prevention, Youth Development Hours: Monday to Sunday, 3-7pm

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Economic Development Projects (EDP)* Beverly Woods, Director 1207 Chestnut Street, 2nd Floor Philadelphia, PA 19107 Phone: 215-851-1917 Email: [email protected] Website: www.uac.org/programs/EconomicDevelopmentProjectsHistory.html Carlos Jones, Director Phone: 215-851-1824 Email: [email protected] Mission: EDP acts as an independent consultant to influence wealth building policy by promoting business development and employment for minorities, women and community residents. Services Provided: Advocacy, Economic Inclusion, Workforce Development Hours: Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm Entrepreneur Works Leslie Benoliel, Executive Director 111 South Independence Mall Philadelphia, PA 19106 Phone: 215-545-3100, ext. 223 Fax: 215-925-2485 Email: [email protected] Website: www.myentrepreneurworks.org Entrepreneur Works Delaware County Antoinette Truehart, Managing Director 1350 Edgemont Avenue, Suite 1300 Chester, PA 19013 Phone: 610-499-7528 Fax: 610-499-7532 Email: [email protected] Website: www.myentrepreneurworks.org Mission: To provide small business owners and new entrepreneurs with the support and tools

they need to thrive: small loans, access to other credit and capital sources, training and technical assistance and, above all, a network of peers, service providers, consultants, and potential customers. Services Provided: Business/Entrepreneurship/ Financial Literacy, Economic Inclusion, Business Loans, Networking, Education - Adult, Workforce Development Hours: Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm; some evening classes Explorers Sans Frontières Shonta Collins 2415 Almond Street Philadelphia, PA 19125 Phone: 215-850-4743 Email: [email protected] Website: www.explorerssf.org Mission: To build cultural connections one person and one community at a time. Our programs are designed to integrate travel with learning so that the exchange of knowledge is used to improve relationships among diverse cultures through personal communication, humanitarian projects and assistance, as well as through practical training and application of learned skills. Services Provided: Advocacy, Economic Inclusion, Education - Adult, Education - Youth, Health Issues Education, HIV/AIDS Prevention/Education, Mentoring, Neighborhood and Community Service, Literacy, Youth Development Hours: Vary Father's Day Rally Committee (FDRC)

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Bilal A. Qayyum, President 3201 West Girard Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19130 Phone: 215-236-3372 Fax: 215-236-1799 Email: [email protected] Website: www.fdrc.net Mission: To promote positive action and interaction among individuals to prompt more aggressive hands-on action toward resolving a range of problems confronting African American communities in Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley. Services Provided: Advocacy, After School Activities, Education - Adult, Education - Youth, Job Training and Placement, Mentoring, Neighborhood and Community Service, Parent Education/Training, Violence Prevention, Workforce Development Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:30am-5pm; Mentoring program; Men’s Right of Passage: Saturdays, 10am-1pm Freedom Rings Sustainable Broadband Adoption Peter Kiliani, Project Director 1207 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19107 Phone:215-841-1900 Email:[email protected] Website: FreedomRingsPartnership.com Mission: To increase computer and Internet access and training by allowing people to access job opportunities, build computer skills, apply for public benefits, pay bills online, find life saving health information, read daily news, complete schoolwork and gain needed social support. The Freedom Rings Partnership is comprised of grassroots organizations, government, and universities bringing internet access, training and technology to communities citywide.

Services Provided: Provide over 200,000 hours of hands-on training to 15,000 people at over 130 training locations citywide. Disribute over 5,000 computers to public housing. Generate 5,000 new broadband household subscribers and 50 small business subscribers. Hours: Depends on training site. Fresh Visions Youth Theatre Bruce Robinson, Founder/Executive Artistic Director 4821 Germantown Philadelphia, PA 19144 Phone: 267-226-7135 Email: [email protected] Website: freshvisionsyouththeatre.org Mission: To transform African American youth through the arts by offering children from the historically under-served lower Germantown community of Philadelphia access to high-level and rigorous training in the dramatic and performing arts and providing continuous performance opportunities for these children to display the skills they have acquired to audiences of their peers, parents, and neighborhood supporters. Where a powerful product meets a powerful mission. Services Provided: After School Activities, Education - Youth, Mentoring, Neighborhood and Community Service, Violence Prevention, Youth Development Hours: Monday to Friday 3-9pm Saturday 9am-7pm Full of Grace Tamela Prather, Executive Director 1131 Atwood Road

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Philadelphia, PA 19151 Phone: 215-879-1797 Email: [email protected] Website: www.fullofgracecenterforyya.org Mission: To empower, motivate and balance the lives of others through a holistic approach rather than through the treatment of one particular condition. Services Provided: After School Activities, Education - Youth, GED Preparation, Mentoring, Literacy, Violence Prevention, Workforce Development, Youth Development Hours: Monday to Friday, 9am-9pm Gay and Lesbian Latino AIDS Education Initiative (GALAEI) Elicia Gonzales, Executive Director 1207 Chestnut Street, 5th Floor Philadelphia, PA 19107 Phone: 215-851-1822 Fax: 215-851-1755 Email: [email protected] Website: www.galaei.org; http://galaei.blogspot.com/ Mission: To create awareness of the issues that affect Philadelphia's Latino lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities. GALAEI's work focuses on improving the quality of life for all Latinos and LGBT people, especially with HIV/AIDS issues, and seeks accountability from all systems that serve them through education, representation, and advocacy. Services Provided: Advocacy, Education - Adult, Education - Youth, Health, Health Issues, Education, HIV/AIDS Prevention/Education, Housing Counseling, Youth Development Hours: Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm

Grand Central Chartan Nelson, Director 1211 Chestnut Street, Suite 200 Philadelphia, PA 19107 Phone: 215-557-1554 Fax: 215-557-6882 Email: [email protected] Mission: To bring together a consortium of community-based and public agencies, family members, community and faith-based leaders to serve all who are caring for others' children, including relatives and family friends. To provide information and referrals, brief services, and advocacy. To act as a catalyst for systems change by identifying service gaps and creating model programs to fill unmet needs. To improve the lives of kinship caregivers and their children. Services Provided: Advocacy, Neighborhood and Community Service, Parent Education/Training Hours: Monday to Friday, 9am-4pm Haitian Professionals of Philadelphia Florcy Morisset, Board President P.O. Box 16503 Philadelphia, PA 19122 Phone: 310-612-4636 Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.hpphilly.org Mission: To help elevate Philadelphia’s Haitian community through education, professional development, and mentorship. Services Provided: Advocacy, Business/Entrepreneurship/Financial Literacy, Mentoring, Neighborhood and Community Services,Workforce Development Hours: Monday to Friday, 8am-5pm

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Hardy Williams Education Fund Barbara D. Cox, Planning Consultant 6648 Blakemore Street Philadelphia, PA 19119 Phone: 215-843-2027 Email: [email protected] Website: www.hardywilliamseducationfund.org Mission: To provide for educational endeavors such as: scholarships at selected institutions for those interested in a career in government, law, or socal action; establishment of a training institute for candidate development and campaign management; document the Hardy Williams Movement; document the Independent Political Movement of African Americans and others in Philadelphia; support social action and educational activities consistent with the goals and values of the Hardy Williams Movement. Services Provided: Advocacy, Education – Adult, Education – Youth Hours: Monday to Friday, 10am-6pm HIV Early Intervention Project Gerald Wright, Director 1207 Chestnut Street, 2nd Floor Philadelphia, PA 19107 Phone: 215-851-1835 Email: [email protected] Mission: To provide HIV counseling and testing at approved drug and alcohol treatment program sites. Services Provided: HIV/AIDS Prevention/Education, HIV/ AIDS Awareness and Counseling, HIV antibody testing (including rapid testing), Hepatitis C Awareness, STD Awareness and Counseling Hours: Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm (vary by site)

K.A.P.P.A. House Michael K. Earley, Founder and Executive Director 1207 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19107 Phone: 267-650-6598 Email: [email protected] Website: www.kappahouse.org Mission: To enhance our youth, communities and businesses through mentoring our youth, rebuilding and educating our communities, and investing in our future. Services Provided: Mentoring, Neighborhood and Community Service, Education-Youth, Education- Adult, Financial Literacy Hours: Monday to Saturday, 9am-5pm Keystone Health Promotion Programs Tonya R. Moody, Associate Vice President of Health Promotion and Program Development Keystone Mercy Health Plan Public Affairs and Marketing Department Philadelphia, PA 19113 Phone: 215-863-5700 Email: [email protected] Mission: To provide signature programs to underserved communities to teach health awareness and health prevention. Service Provided: Health Access, Health Issues Education Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:30am-5pm Logan CDC Cicely Peterson-Mangum, Executive Director 5201 Old York Road Logan Plaza Suite 102 Philadelphia, PA 19141 Phone: 215-103-1604 Fax: 215-302-7304

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Email: [email protected] Website: logancdc.org Carla Robinson, Assistant Director Phone:215-302-1604 Mission: To enhance the quality of life for

Logan residents and businesses though

transformative community and economic

development.

Services Provided: Economic Inclusion, Neighborhood and Communities, Technology Access, Real Estate Development, Corridor Improvement Hours: Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm MasterMinds Chess Foundation Leteef Street, Executive Director 1225 Diamond Street Philadelphia, PA 19122 Phone: 267-237-6212 Email: [email protected] Website: www.mastermindschess.org Mission: To promote the game of chess and all its benefits to children in Philadelphia and its surrounding communities, particularly in “at risk” environments. Provide a link between the chess community and the education community through initiatives. Services Provided: After School Activities, Education – Youth, and Youth Development Hours: Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm Mayor’s Office of Reintegration Services for Ex-Offenders (RISE) William Hart, Executive Director 34 S. 11th Street, 6th Floor

PhiladelphiaPA19102 Phone: 215-683-3370 Email: [email protected] Website: www.phila.gov/reentry Carolyn Harper, Chief of Staff Phone:215-683-3370 Email:[email protected] Mission: To reduce recidivism and improve public safety by shifting the paradigm of ex-offenders and communities they return to through effective workforce development and systemic implementation of Evidence-Based Practices (EBP) for pre- and post-release populations. Services Provided: Advocacy, Education - Adult, Job Training and Placement, Mentoring, Workforce Development Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:30am-4: 30pm Mitchell Performing Arts and Cultural Center Yvette Mitchell, Chairman 1201 West Somerville Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19141 Phone: 267-210-2898(can only leave messages) Fax:215-486-9225 Email: [email protected] Mission: To provide access and opportunities through the arts to at-risk, minority youth in Philadelphia, including training in music, dance and theater arts, and exposure to careers in the arts. Services Provided: Advocacy, After School Activities, Education - Youth, Job Training and Placement, Mentoring, Neighborhood and Community Service, Literacy, Violence Prevention, Visual Arts, Youth Development, Other

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Hours: School year: Monday to Friday, 3-6pm; Saturday, 9am-3pm Remainder of year: Monday to Friday, 9am-3pm MLK Day Of Service/MLK 365 Todd Bernstein, President of Global Citizen Founder and Director Greater Philadelphia Martin Luther King Day of Service/MLK 365 7 Benjamin Franklin Parkway Philadelphia, PA 19103 Phone: 215-242-9070 Fax: 215-242-9610 Email: [email protected] Website: www.globalcitizen.us.com Victoria Ford, Vice President and Director of Operations of Global Citizen Greater Philadelphia Martin Luther Kind Day of Service/MLK 365 1709 Benjamin Franklin Parkway Philadelphia, PA 19103 Phone: 215-665-2595 Fax: 215-665-2647 Email: [email protected] Mission: To help support organizations and individuals to continue active citizenship throughout the year, including technical training and assistance to organizations interested in hosting King Day of Service projects; the tracking of all King Day of Service projects and numbers of volunteers throughout the six county region; the matching of all interested groups and individuals with volunteer project opportunities. Services Provided: Neighborhood and Community Services Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:30am- 5:30pm Neighborhood Education Workshop James Flowers, CEO 1521 North 54th Street

Philadelphia, PA 19131 Phone: 215-280-9372 Fax: 215-581-5427 Email: [email protected] Naimah Wilson Phone: 215-833-0911 Email: [email protected] or [email protected] Mission: To provide educational and social services in West Philadelphia through mentoring, counseling, tutoring, parent workshops, educational reinforcement programsand special activities. Focus is on educating and empowering the African American community to take full advantage of the vast educational opportunities available. Neighborhood Education Workshop partners with other neighborhood organizations and institutions to administer the services. Services Provided: After School Activities, Education - Youth, Health Issues Treatment, Life Skills for Youth, Mentoring, Neighborhood and Community Service, Literacy, Violence Prevention, Workforce Development, Youth Development Hours: School year: Monday to Friday,3-6pm; July 1 to August 15: Monday to Friday, 8:30am- 4:30pm Neighborhood Enrichment Transformation CDC (NET CDC) Diane Bridges, Executive Director 2415 Germantown Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19133 Phone: 267-441-0899 Email: [email protected] Mission: To stimulate community transformation through a combination of individual and community asset development in North Central Philadelphia. NET accomplishes this mission by facilitating the productive

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engagement of residents in the local, regional, national, and global economy. Services Provided: Addiction Recovery, Advocacy, Business/Entrepreneurship/Financial Literacy, Education - Adult, Neighborhood and Community Service, Literacy, Equitable and Sustainable Housing, Social Justice Hours: Monday to Friday, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Neighborhood United Against Drugs (NUAD) Joseph E. Purnell, Executive Director 5214 Woodland Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19143 Phone: 215-724-1995 Email: [email protected] Mission: To reduce drug use/abuse, teen pregnancy, the spread of HIV infection and senseless violence among at-risk youth through activities designed to help them with education and skills. The goal is to enable youth to make positive choices relative to their mental and physical well-being, develop a positive concept of self and others,achieve socially responsible behaviors, and make a positive contribution to the community. Services Provided: Advocacy, After School Activities, Education - Youth, Health, Health Issues Treatment, Health Issues Education, HIV/AIDS Prevention/Education, Mentoring, Neighborhood and Community Service, Violence Prevention Hours: Adult services are offered 9am-5pm; Youth services are after school and during the summer. New Start Foundation Project Build-Up Paythia Jenkins, Executive Director Cecil B. Moore Recreation Center 2551 N, 22nd Street Philadelphia, PA 19132 Phone: 215-758-3075

Email: [email protected] Website: www.nsfoutreach.org Mission: New Start Foundation also called NSF Project Build Up has committed to meeting the employment, educational, social, and developmental needs of at-risk and struggling youth, young adults and adults in Philadelphia, since March 2006. NSF offers a structural environment geared towards a balance of social and life skills group work. NSF inspires individuals to make consistent positive decisions, develop important interpersonal skills, and commit themselves to a healthy, happy, safe, drug free, and productive life. Services Provided: Advocacy, After School Activities, Education - Adult, Education - Youth, GED Preparation, Health Issues Treatment, Education, HIV/AIDS Prevention/Education, Housing Counseling, Mentoring, Job Readiness and Development, Violence Prevention Hours: Monday to Friday, 10am-9pm North Philadelphia Human Services Development Corporation Gerald Wright, Director of Health and Community Initiatives 2221 N. Broad Street, Suite 200 Philadelphia, PA 19132 Phone: 215-236-2501 Fax: 215-236-2504 Email: gwright@[email protected] Mission: To stabilize families and communities. Services Provided: Parent Education/Training, Family Services (especially to assist in reducing poverty), Case Management, Services to Ex-Offender Women with Children Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:30am-4:30pm (also on-call hours) Nu Sigma Youth Services

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Darryl Coates, Executive Director 1207 Chestnut Street, 3rd Floor Philadelphia, PA 19107 Phone: 215-851-1848 Fax: 215-851-1848 Email: [email protected] Website: www.nusigma.org Mission: To develop cultural enrichment programs for African American youth (ages 6-18). The program teaches participants skills for resistance to peer pressure through leadership development and training. Services Provided: Mentoring, Youth Development, Education-Adult, Education-Youth, Health Issues Education, Violence Prevention, Advocacy, Neighborhood and Community Service, Leadership Development-Youth, Cultural Programming, After School Programming Hours: Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm One Day At A Time (ODAAT) Robin Ingram, Director 2532 North Broad Street Philadelphia, PA 19132 Phone: 215-226-7860 Fax: 215-226-7869 Email: [email protected] Website: www.odaat.us Mission: ODAAT is dedicated to serving low-income and homeless individuals in the Philadelphia area who are afflicted by addiction and HIV/AIDS. Our focus is on providing peer support and promoting healthy, positive lifestyles. ODAAT utilizes a community-based recovery model and support system, allowing people to recover in the same environment in which they became addicted. Services Provided: Addiction Recovery, Advocacy, Business/Entrepreneurship/Financial

Literacy, Education - Adult, Food Bank, GED Preparation, Health, Health Issues Education, HIV/AIDS Prevention/Education, Job Training and Placement, HIV Medical Case Management Hours: Monday to Friday, 8am– 5pm OPPORTUNITIES PA Justina Shaw, Founder 1207 Chestnut Street 7th Floor Philadelphia, PA 19107 Phone: 215-779-6827 Email: [email protected] Website: www.opportunitiespa.com Mission: To educate, equip, empower, and encourage homeless and other at-risk youth and young adults to achieve their academic potential and professional goals by offering them supportive services and stable housing. Services Provided: Advocacy, Business/Entrepreneurship/Financial Literacy, Education – Adult, Education – Youth, GED Preparation, Housing, Job Training & Placement, Mentoring, Literacy, Transitional Housing, Workforce Development, Youth Development Hours: Monday to Friday, 4-7pm Parents United for Public Education Helen Gym, Executive Director c/o Germantown Clergy Initiative Vernon House, 5800 Germantown Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19144 Phone: 215-808-1400 Email: [email protected] Website: parentsunitedphila.googlepages.com Mission: A parent voice for Philadelphia public schools calling for academic achievement, accountability, and putting kids first in school budgets.

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Services Provided: Advocacy and Education-Youth Hours: Monday to Friday, 9am- 5pm (and as needed) Parkside Association of Philadelphia Lucinda Hudson, Executive Director 5180 Viola Street Philadelphia, PA 19131 Phone: 215-878-2107 Fax: 215-871-7799 Email: [email protected] Mission: To assist in the social welfare of low-to-moderate income elderly, handicapped, hospitalized persons, young persons, and adults through activities such as the development of affordable housing, mortgage counseling, social services programs, and recreational programs. Parkside Association of Philadelphia aims to improve the quality of life and to offer assistance in gaining access to city services. Services Provided: After School Activities, Economic Inclusion, Food Bank, Housing Counseling, Job Training and Placement, Neighborhood and Community Service, Town Watch, Violence Prevention, Workforce Development, Youth Development Hours: Monday to Friday, 8:30am-4:30pm Performing Arts Tradition Saul D. Zlatkovsky, Artistic Director 1929 Chestnut Street Philadelphia, PA 19103 Phone: 215-563-4848 Email: [email protected] Website: www.harpmusicfest.com Mission: We serve the classical traditions in the arts through education, presentation, publication, preservationand philanthropy. Our

current program is the Harp Music Festival of Philadelphia. Services Provided: Advocacy, Education - Adult, Education - Youth, Cultural Enrichment, Performing Arts, Publications Hours: Vary Philadelphia Anti-Drug/Anti-Violence Network (PAAN) Darryl Coates, Executive Director Lehigh Pavilion Philadelphia, PA 19132 Phone: 215-940-0550 Fax: 215-940-0519 Email: [email protected] Website: www.paannetwork.org Mission: To promote community safety through services that reduce drug abuse and violence, as well as to help at-risk youth develop positive alternatives that will return them to the mainstream of society. Since its inception in 1989, PAAN has utilized its expertise to meet these objectives through street-based community outreach and intervention programs. Services Provided: Education - Youth, Mentoring, Neighborhood and Community Service, Violence Prevention Hours: Monday to Friday, 9am- 5pm Philadelphia Ballhawks Author Bowser, President 1622 S. 24th Street Philadelphia, PA 19145 Phone: 215-768-3842 Fax: 215-336-8419 Email: [email protected] Mission: To provide a comprehensive experience to develop young men of strong

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moral character, empower them to develop to the fullest of their athletic abilities, as well as promote educational, social and cultural growth. Services Provided: After School Activities, Health, Mentoring, Neighborhood and Community Services, Violence Prevention Hours: Thursday, 6am-8pm, Saturday, 12-4pm (varied) The Trudy Haynes Foundation Trudy Haynes, Executive Director/Host 1901 JFK Boulevard Philadelphia, PA 19103 Phone: 215-241-8773 Email: [email protected] Website: www.trudyhaynestv.com Mission: To provide educational and informational entertainment for families. Services Provided: Entertainment Television Hours: Monday to Friday, 10am- 6pm PhillyCHANGE Keyon Mallory, Co-Founder and President 1516 E. Mohican Street Philadelphia, PA 19138 Phone: 267-307-5605 Email: [email protected] Website: www.phillyCHANGE.org Mission: To open individuals’ minds to what is going on in society today. To make them aware of other opportunities and different choices they can make. To equip them with the tools necessary to excel beyond the norms that society has placed upon them, through educational programs, college preparatory programs, community service, alternatives to violence, tutoring, and mentoring.

Services Provided: Mentoring, Neighborhood and Community Service, Violence Prevention, Youth Development Hours: Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm PowerShift Dr. Keith Leaphart 35 S. 18th Street Philadelphia, PA 19103 Phone:215-567-7107 Fax:215-567-0861 Email:[email protected] Mission: To strengthen the next generation of Philadelphia’s business, political and civic leaders by providing a platform for this generation to build “high-end networks” with current and future leaders. Services Provided: Mentoring. Advocacy and Education Hours: Vary Preventing HIV Project Rudard Robinson, Director 2815 Kensington Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19134 Phone: 215-300-7886 Fax: 215-475-4753 Email: [email protected] David R. Fair Phone:215-300-7886 Email:[email protected] Mission: To prevent the spread of HIV disease among homeless and drug-addicted individuals, in particular in communities of color, through the provision of HIV counseling, testing, partner

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notification, referrals, and related preventive education activities. Services Provided: Addiction Recovery, HIV/AIDS Prevention/Education Hours: Monday to Friday, 9am- 5pm Project Stigma: Breaking the Silence Keena Cravison, Program Manager 4950 Parkside Avenue, Third Floor Philadelphia, PA 19131 Phone: 215-879-7505 Fax: 215-879-7505 Email: kcravisonbreakingthesilenceonline.org Website: www.breakingthesilenceonline.org Mission: To educate, motivate, and empower the community to take action on behavioral health issues. Services Provided: Awareness and Empowerment seminars, Mental Health Information and resources, and Referrals for Grief Counseling, Advocacy, Education Hours: Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm Reaching Impacted Students Everywhere (RISE) Bryan Oliphant, Executive Director 200 East Edgar Road, Suite 2A Linden, NJ 7036 Phone: 908-444-5417 Email: [email protected] Website: www.reachingimpactedkids.org Mission: To dramatically increase the academic achievements, self esteem and the life opportunities of disadvantaged middle and grammar school students living in urban and rural underserved communities by increasing their mastery of the skills of reading, writing, and mathematics, and raising children’s academic expectations and self-worth by rewarding students from low-income families,

based on their academic achievements and participation. Services Provided: After School Activities, Education-Youth, Mentoring, Neighborhood and Community Services, Parent Education/Training, Violence Prevention, Youth Development Hours: Monday to Friday, 9am- 5pm RESULTS Academic Institute Michael K. Evans, Executive Director 1033 Palmer Street Chester, PA 19013 Phone: 610-659-0555 Fax: 610-497-9027 Email: [email protected] Mission: To enhance the education of youth, with a primary focus on math and science, through authentic experiences such as structured field trips. Services provided: Education - Youth, Youth Development, Other Hours: Field trips: third Saturday of each month, all day; Tutorville: Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, 4-8pm Reunification Transportation Service Peggy Sims, Executive Director 4414 Germantown Avenue, Suite 3B Philadelphia, PA 19144 Phone: 215-848-2290 Email: [email protected] Website: www.reunificationts.org Mission: Through education and raising community awareness, we seek to improve family ties, to promote family reunification, and to build stronger relationships within the community by committing to quality service.

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Services Provided: Advocacy, Education – Adult and Youth, HIV/AIDS Prevention/Education, Literacy, Mentoring, Violence Prevention, Youth Development Hours: Monday to Friday, 9am-3pm Shadow Trax Media Arts Joanne Hamiel, Co-Director 920 Parrish Street Philadelphia, PA 19123 Phone: 267-298-6285 or 215-501-6649 Email: [email protected] Mission: To enrich youth by helping them develop their skills in music, graphics, video, and life skills. We keep youth in schools, off the streets, and on stages. We foster a good sense of family values by enhancing youth in the areas of discipline, communication and teamwork. Services Provided: Education - Youth, Violence Prevention, Youth Development, Truancy Prevention, Visual Arts, Performing Arts Hours: School year: Monday to Friday, 4-6pm or 6-8pm (depending on recreation center availability); Summer: Monday to Friday, 12-3pm Smoke, Lilies and Jade Arts Initiative Zane Booker, Artistic Director/Founder 1427 Spruce Street Philadelphia, PA 19102 Phone: 215-828-6453 Fax: 215-387-8203 Email: [email protected] Website: www.liliesandjade.org Mission: Smoke, Lilies and Jade Arts Initiative is a socially conscious dance-theater production company that educates and explores experiences of the African American lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT)

community through dance, music, theater, film and spoken word. Goals are to provide education, services and support through the use of dance, spoken word and film to organizations that assist those affected by HIV/AIDS. We encourage youth support and individual and community responsibility. Services Provided: Education - Youth, HIV/AIDS Prevention/Education, Mentoring, Youth Development, Cultural Enrichment Performance, Performing Arts, Other Hours: Vary Source of H.E.L.P. (Hope, Empowerment, Love, Peace) Shakeira Ingram, Executive Director 1600 Harrison Street, Suite 8 Philadelphia, PA 19124 Phone: 215-820-6964 Fax: 215-522-3864 Mission: To provide youth with hope, empowerment, love, and peace while helping them develop into successful, well-rounded individuals who understand the importance of giving back to their community and paying forward to help others they encounter along life’s journey. Services Provided: Business/Entrepreneurship/Financial Literacy, Education - Youth, Health Issues Education, Mentoring, Violence Prevention, Youth Development Hours: Monday to Friday, 9am- 5pm; recreation activities have flexible hours Stars Within Reach Nichole Badger, Executive Director P.O. Box 145 Blue Bell, PA 19422 Phone: 888-604-3111 Email: [email protected]

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Mission: To create educational opportunities for underserved youth; develop affordable housing to remedy homelessness; promote green initiatives to preserve our planet; provide health education to prevent some of the most prevalent diseases facing our world; and promote programs to serve those with special needs. Services Provided: Advocacy, Housing and Education Hours: N/A Stop the Madness – Stop the Violence Abduh Al-Maliki, Co-Founder and President 807 N. 63rd Street, 2nd Floor Philadelphia, PA 19151 Phone: 215-983-7841 or 800-762-0620 Email: [email protected] Website: www.stmstv.org Mission: To teach alternatives to negative behavior and violence; to provide wholesome, positive activities for youth to encourage a sense of ethical, social and neighborhood responsibility; and to encourage community service and involvement. Services Provided: After School Activities, Mentoring, Neighborhood and Community Services, Parent Education/Training, Violence Prevention, Youth Development, Life Skills, Recreation, Summer College Tour Hours: Monday to Friday, 5-7:30pm Sultan Jihad Ahmad Community Foundation Sultan J. Ahmad, Founder 1646 Ridge Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19130 Phone: 215-787-0857 Email: [email protected]

Website: www.sultanjihadahmadfoundation.org Mission: To end youth violence through education and the choice of a different vocation. Services Provided: Advocacy, After School Activities, Job Training and Placement, Mentoring, Town Watch, Violence Prevention Hours: Tuesday to Friday, 10am-5pm Summer WorkReady Youth Employment Programs* Farrah Samuels, Director, Youth Division 1207 Chestnut Street, 4th Floor Philadelphia, PA 19107 Phone: 215-851-1713 Fax: 215- 851-1922 Email: [email protected] Website: www.uac.org Mission: Provides a paid work experience, educational activities and career exploration activities to youth over a six-week period. Services Provided: Job Training and Placement, Mentoring, Youth Development Hours: Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm Teenshop Elleanor J. Hendley, Founder and Chair 1207 Chestnut Street, 2nd Floor Philadelphia, PA 19107 Phone: 215-851-1842 Email: [email protected] Website: www.teenshop.org Mission: To develop adolescent girls into tomorrow's leaders through an innovative series of life skills workshops, community service and college tours.

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Services Provided: Business/Entrepreneurship/Financial Literacy, Education - Youth, Health Issues Education, Mentoring, Violence Prevention, Youth Development Hours: School year: Monday to Saturday, 9am-5pm; July workshops: Saturday, 10am-1pm Thanksgiving Basket Program* 1207 Chestnut Street, 6th Floor Philadelphia, PA 19107 Phone: 215-851-0110 Email: [email protected] Website: www.uac.org/programsThanksgivingBasketProgram.html Mission: Provide families in the community with nutritious ingredients for traditional Thanksgiving so they can enjoy family, hope and tradition. Services Provided: Neighborhood and Communities Hours: Boxes packed the Saturday before Thanksgiving; boxes distributed through community groups the Monday before Thanksgiving. Town Watch Integrated Services Anthony Murphy, Executive Director 1441 Sansom Street, 2nd Floor Philadelphia, PA 19102 Phone: 215-686-1459 Email: [email protected] Website: www.phila.gov/townwatch Mission: To assist residents with quality of life issues through community policing and participation Services Provided: Advocacy, Education - Adult, Education - Youth, Mentoring, Neighborhood

and Community Service, Town Watch, Violence Prevention, Youth Development Hours: Office: Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm; Outreach: Vary West Chester Food Cupboard Ed Breiner, Advisory Board President 545 East Gay Street West Chester, PA 19380 Phone: 610-909-4635 Fax: 610-344-6158 Email: [email protected] Mission: We believe that no one should go hungry and that there is enough food for everyone. The West Chester Food Cupboard exists to provide supplemental food assistance to eligible, low-income families and individuals in need. With the support of federal and state food programs, donations from generous county and community Services Provided: Food Bank Hours: Tuesday/Thursday, 9am-4pm (Clients 9:30am-11:30am and 2-4pm) Wednesday 9am-7pm (Clients 2-7pm) West Philadelphia High School Class of ’66 Scholarship Reunion Committee Jerome H. Johnson, Chairman 702 Bullock Avenue Yeadon, PA 19050 Phone: 610-626-0906 Fax: 610-623-4518 Email: [email protected] Mission: To provide education, training, and community support to students of West Philadelphia High School, enabling them to achieve academically, socially, and with civic commitment. To help students prepare for, and successfully complete, the national and state examinations that will determine their ability to

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enter and successfully perform in institutions of higher education, professional training, and the challenges of everyday life. Services Provided: Education - Youth, Youth Development, Scholarship Program for West Philadelphia High School Students Hours: Vary West Philly Tool Lending Library Michael Froehlich, Steering Committee Member 4620 Woodland Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19143 Phone: 215-833-3190 Email: [email protected] Website: www.westphillytools.org Mission: To serve as a community resource to provide homeowners, tenants, long-time residents, and newcomers with tools and the knowledge to work with the tools they need. Services Provided: Neighborhood and Community Services Hours: Monday - Thursday, 6:30-8:30pm; Saturday, 9am-3pm Work-Stream* Jill Welsh-Davis, Executive Director 1207 Chestnut Street, 4th Floor Philadelphia, PA 19107 Phone: 215-851-1776 Email: [email protected] Website: www.uac.org/programs Mission: To prepare out-of-school youth and young adults with physical, sensory or learning disabilities, ages 17-30, for employment. Provides paid work experience leading to job placement, ongoing case management, and job

coaching. Trains and educates youth providers in best practices to enable youth with disabilities to participate in mainstream programs. Services Provided: After School Activities, Education - Adult, Education - Youth, Job Training and Placement, Mentoring, Literacy, Workforce Development Hours: Monday to Friday, 9am-5pm; Saturday, 9am-3pm X-Offenders for Community Empowerment Wayne Jacobs, Co-Founder and Executive Director 2540 West Hagert Street, Suite 200 Philadelphia, PA 19132 Phone: 215-668-8477 Fax: 215-223-5688 Email: [email protected] Website: www.x-offenders.org Mission: To empower formerly convicted people to become change agents in mobilizing the community to address issues threatening healthy family and community life, and to reduce recidivism Services Provided: Advocacy, Education – Adult, Clean Up The Criminal Background Records Of People Who Are No Longer On Probation Or Parole Hours: Flexible hours daily; Ex-offender meetings the Second Monday of each month, 6-8pm Youth Outreach Adolescent Community Awareness Program (YO-ACAP) Linda L. Burnette, President and CEO 1207 Chestnut Street, 3rd Floor

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Philadelphia, PA 19107 Phone: 215-851-1960 Email: [email protected] Website: www.yoacap.org Mission: To enhance the quality of life and health for Philadelphians through community-based and culturally competent interventions. Services Provided: Advocacy, After School Activities, Health, Health Issues Treatment, Health Issues Education, HIV/AIDS Prevention/ Education, Job Training and Placement, Mentoring, Neighberhood and Community Service, Parent Education Hours: Monday and Friday, 9am-5pm; Tuesday, Wednesday, 9am-7pm

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181 Kids Zone Network...................................................................................................................... 1

Achieving Reunification Center (ARC)................................................................................................ 1

African American United Fund.......................................................................................................... 1

AIDS Policy Project............................................................................................................................. 1

AIDS Services in Asian Communities (ASIAC)..................................................................................... 1

All Wars Memorial Committee.......................................................................................................... 2

Big Pitch, The..................................................................................................................................... 2

Bill Pickett Riding Academy............................................................................................................... 2

Black Alliance for Educational Options (BAEO).................................................................................. 2

Black Writers Museum……................................................................................................................. 3

Bridges to the Community................................................................................................................3

Campaign for Working Families......................................................................................................... 3

Carroll Park Community Council........................................................................................................ 3

Cedar Avenue Relief Committee ....................................................................................................... 4

COLOURS........................................................................................................................................... 4

Community and Economic Development (CED)................................................................................ 4

Consortium for Latino Health (CLH).................................................................................................. 4

DeAnn White Scholarship Fund.........................................................................................................5

Destined for a Dream Foundation.....................................................................................................5

Destiny Productions Theater Ensemble............................................................................................. 5

Economic Development Projects (EDP)*...........................................................................................6

Entrepreneur Works..........................................................................................................................6

Explorers San Frontières.................................................................................................................... 6

Father’s Day Committee (FDRC)........................................................................................................ 6

Freedom Rings Sustainable Broadband Adoption…………………………………………………………………………..7

Fresh Visions Youth Theatre.............................................................................................................. 7

Full of Grace....................................................................................................................................... 7

Gay and Lesbian Latino AIDS Education Initiative ............................................................................. 8

Grand Central..................................................................................................................................... 8

Haitian Professionals of Philadelphia, The........................................................................................8

Hardy Williams Education Fund......................................................................................................... 9

HIV Early Intervention Project........................................................................................................... 9

K.A.P.P.A. House................................................................................................................................ 9

Keystone Health Promotion Program................................................................................................ 9

Logan CDC.......................................................................................................................................... 9

MasterMinds Chess Foundation .......................................................................................................10

Mayor’s Office of Reintegration Services for Ex-Offenders (RISE) ................................................... 10

Mitchell Performing Arts and Cultural Center................................................................................... 10

MLK 365............................................................................................................................................. 11

Neighborhood Education Workshop................................................................................................. 11

Neighborhood Enrichment Transformation CDC (NET CDC)............................................................. 11

Neighborhood United Against Drugs (NUAD).................................................................................... 12

New Start Foundation Project Build-Up............................................................................................ 12

North Philadelphia Human Services Development Corporation....................................................... 12

Nu Sigma Youth Services................................................................................................................... 13

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One Day at a Time (ODAAT).............................................................................................................. 13

OPPORTUNITIES................................................................................................................................. 13

Parents United for Public Education.................................................................................................. 13

Parkside Association of Philadelphia................................................................................................. 14

Performing Arts Tradition.................................................................................................................. 14

Philadelphia Anti-Drug/Anti-Violence Network (PAAN).................................................................... 14

Philadelphia Ballhawks...................................................................................................................... 14

The Trudy Haynes Foundation…………………………………………………………………………………………………………15

PhillyCHANGE....................................................................................................................................15

Preventing HIV Project....................................................................................................................... 15

Project Stigma: Breaking the Silence................................................................................................. 16

Reaching Impacted Students Everywhere (RISE)............................................................................... 16

RESULTS Academic Institute.............................................................................................................. 16

Reunification Transportation Service................................................................................................ 16

Shadow Trax Media Arts.................................................................................................................... 17

Smoke, Lilies and Jade Arts Initiative................................................................................................. 17

Source of H.E.L.P................................................................................................................................ 17

Stars Within Reach............................................................................................................................. 17

Stop the Madness—Stop the Violence.............................................................................................. 18

Sultan Jihad Ahmad Community Foundation.................................................................................... 18

Summer WorkReady Youth Employment

Programs*.........................................................................................................................................18

Teenshop........................................................................................................................................... 18

Thanksgiving Basket Program*.......................................................................................................... 19

Town Watch Integrated Services......................................................................................................19

West Chester Food Cupboard........................................................................................................... 19

West Philadelphia High School Class of ‘66 Scholarship Reunion Committee..................................19

West Philly Tool Lending Library.......................................................................................................20

Work-Stream*.................................................................................................................................... 20

X-Offenders for Community Empowerment...................................................................................... 20

Youth Outreach Adolescent Community Awareness Program (YO-ACAP)........................................ 20

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