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Educational Equality
• Change Our Future seeks to empower people through education, advocacy, and awareness in the areas of youth development, healthy lifestyles, and community enrichment. Our passion is to collaboratively eliminate barriers seen in healthcare, education, and civic engagement by advancing programs, opportunities and resources that give youth, families, and communities a path toward a healthy and hopeful future.
• Collective Success Network supports low-income first-generation college students to achieve their academic and career aspirations through empowering mentorship, professional development, and leadership opportunities.
• College Possible Philadelphia evidence-based programming is based on four key pillars: near-peer coaching, research-based curriculum, peer support network, and commitment to college success.
• Education Law Center ensures access to a quality public education for all children in Pennsylvania. We pursue this mission by focusing on the most underserved students: children living in poverty, children of color, children with disabilities, children in the foster care and juvenile justice systems, children experiencing homelessness, English learners, LGBTQ and gender-nonconforming students – and many who are at the intersection of these identities.
• Free Library of Philadelphia advances literacy, guides learning, and inspires curiosity. Its vision is to build an enlightened community devoted to lifelong learning.
• Philadelphia Futures provides low-income, first-generation-to-college students with the tools, resources and opportunities needed to succeed in college and life.
• Steppingstone Scholars, working with families and school partners, provides rigorous educational programming and support for talented underserved students in the Philadelphia Region to achieve academic success, opportunity, and a college degree.
Workforce Development
• Baker Industries is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit workforce development program that has been changing the lives of hard to employ adults since 1980. The mission of Baker Industries has remained relevant throughout our history – and never more than now.
• Center for Employment Opportunities believes in the transformational power of work and our mission is to provide immediate, effective, and comprehensive employment services to individuals with criminal convictions who have recently returned home from incarceration.
• ManUpPHL steps into the lives of the men who are statistically most likely to be victims or perpetrators of gun violence in our city, and to provide them with the mentoring, accountability, resources and consistency they require to change their lives and make our communities better.
• MenzFit combats unemployment and underemployment by providing disadvantaged men with job interview preparation, apparel such as suits, shirts and shoes and mentorship as they seek and achieve employment to support themselves and their families.
• Philadelphia Youth Network alleviates poverty and inequity through education and employment.
• Project HOME empowers adults, children, and families to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty, alleviates the underlying causes of poverty, and enables all of us to attain our fullest potential as individuals and as members of the broader society.
• Why Not Prosper helps women from prison systems discover their own strength by providing them with the support and resources that will empower them to become responsible, economically self-sufficient and contributing members of the community.
• Community Legal Services fights poverty, challenges systems that perpetuate injustice, and changes lives through cutting-edge advocacy and exceptional legal representation.
• Face to Face has served Philadelphia's impoverished Germantown neighborhood for 36 years. We relieve suffering and empower adults potential as we work to break the cycle of poverty for the next generation. Guests are given support to meet their immediate and long-term needs through our core programs which center on improving the Social Determinants of Health & food, economic stability, health care, education, community, and neighborhood.
• Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network is a client-centered organization that provides leadership, funding, and support to improve the availability and quality of civil legal aid and direct legal services for low income people and victims of domestic violence in Pennsylvania.
• Philadelphia Auto and Parole provides formerly incarcerated individuals and youth transitioning back into society an opportunity to earn a living wage in courses of automotive repair. Participants will be provided with interactive activities, supervised instruction and learn automotive repair. This helps program participants develop the necessary skills to make a successful transition back into society.
Community and Police Relations
• Pennsylvania Prison Society advocates for humane prisons and a rational approach to criminal justice.
• Police Athletic League of Philadelphia reduces crime, promotes character development, and improves education outcomes.
Mentorship and Leadership Development
• Frontline Dads addresses social justice issues, achieves criminal justice reform, and empowers marginalized communities impacted by poverty, crime, violence, unemployment, addiction, and mass incarceration to become leaders by providing mentoring and leadership development, violence prevention, economic development, political education, mutual aid, and transformative interventions to directly impacted people that facilitates their intellectual, emotional, spiritual, economic, and cultural development.
• Girls on the Run Philadelphia inspires girls to be joyful, healthy and confident using a fun, experience-based curriculum which creatively integrates running.
Racial Equality
• Big Brothers Big Sisters Independence ignites the power and promise of youth and closes the mentoring gap.
Youth Development
• Philly Ballhawks promotes education, social and cultural growth through mentorship and a variety of learning concepts from basketball, travel opportunities, and to positively motivate the participants while promoting self-respect.
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