Total Donations to Local Philadelphia Organizations:
$470,825
Give and Go Athletics: May 2025 $11,100
Give and Go Althletics provides therapeutic and athletic programs designed to meet the emotional, educational, and physical needs of youth. Our donation will allow them to hire a coach for their new girls’ basketball program. Please join us on 9/11/25 for our next meeting!
The Neighbors Trust: February 2025 $11,350
The Neighbors Trust provides guaranteed income directly into the hands of some of our most vulnerable neighbors. Working in close collaboration with their trusted partner organizations, The Philadelphia Foundation and Puentes de Salud, The Neighbors Trust is part of a research-supported, leading-edge grassroots philanthropic movement to strengthen community by directly investing in some of our most vulnerable neighbors.
One House At A Time: November 2024 $11,375
One House At A Time (OHAAT) Beds for Kids Program supports low-income families who have obtained housing and need support making that housing into a functional home. OHAAT’s Beds for Kids program delivers beds, bedding, and tools that encourage healthy bedtime habits like books and toothbrushes, directly to the homes of children in need. With beds of their very own, children can get the quality and sufficient sleep they need to thrive. Every child in the program receives a new bed and a bedtime bag, which contains a set of sheets, a blanket, pillow, several age-appropriate books, toothbrush, and a stuffed animal. Our donation supports 56 kids getting a bed!
Uplift Center for Grieving Children: September 2024 $11,700
Uplift offers peer support groups for children and teens in grades K-12th who have experienced the death of someone significant in their lives. Uplift has multiple locations around the city of Philadelphia. Creative activities and games allow children to express their thoughts and feelings about death. Uplift also offers caregiver groups at the same time to provide support for adults raising a grieving child, which is what our donation will support. .All programs for grieving children and families are provided free of charge.
Women’s Community Revitalization Project: May 2024 $11,300
WCRP is committed to social and economic equity for low income women and their families. They develop affordable housing, provide supportive services, advocate for policy change, and honor and promote leadership, dignity and justice in our communities.
School Mindfulness Project: February 2024 $11,100
School Mindfulness Project is thrilled to receive our $11,000 donation. SMP has developed an educational model that aspires to improve the physical, emotional and academic well-being of entire school communities by providing sustainable mindfulness education and mindful movement education to staff and students on a school-wide basis.
Hand2Paw: November 2023 $11,300
Hand2Paw which provides paid internships working with rescue animals as a way to strengthen connection, compassion, and community for young adults from marginalized communities including those experiencing housing insecurity or foster care involvement. Hand2Paw supports young adults to develop socio-emotional and career readiness skills as they take an active role in building a compassionate community in their neighborhood. H2P accomplishes these goals by providing paid internships working with homeless animals. They offer a curriculum of programming that helps enhance coping skills, emotional regulation, and healing using animal-assisted interventions. Their programs focus on building conflict resolution, financial literacy, self-esteem, and job preparedness skills. Hand2Paw is the only nonprofit in Philadelphia whose mission is to teach youth practical work skills in a trauma-informed animal welfare setting.
CASA Philadelphia: August 2023 $11,000
Philadelphia County’s CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) works to support and connect each individual child in foster care with a volunteer who will be a consistent presence in the child’s life and to advocate for that child’s best interest. The volunteer advocacy program recruits, trains, and supervises volunteers to monitor the individual needs of each child or sibling group both in and out of the courtroom to ensure they receive needed support and services. As the “eyes and ears for the court,” CASA volunteers carefully review health and education records, interview foster parents, parents, doctors, teachers and therapists, and provide a complete picture of the child to the court. CASA volunteers ensure that services are provided so that children make faster progress toward placement in a permanent, loving home with parents, relatives, or an adoptive family. Our donation will support CASA Philadelphia to continue to do the important work they do.
Sankofa Healing Studio - Rhyme and Reason Initiative: May 2023 $11,600
Sankofa Healing Studio specializes in social justice-informed therapy, serving under-resourced youth and adults who are trauma-impacted and system-involved. Sankofa believes that holistic treatment approaches are needed to disrupt the development of re-traumatization and interrupt the cycle of intergenerational trauma. Our donation will support Sankofa’s new initiative: Rhyme and REASON (Resiliency and Expression through Art, Storytelling Outreach in Neighborhoods) which will support youth who have been directly impacted by gun violence and other trauma by providing a healing space to empower these youth to use their voices to co-create music to facilitate healing.
Family Support Line: February 2023 $11,500
Family Support Line’s core mission is to advance the prevention and treatment of child sexual abuse. Their continuum of services helps children and families get the help they need to be safe, heal, break the cycle of abuse, and thrive. They also helps ensure that professionals who work with children and families have the support, training, and resources they need to recognize and respond to allegations of abuse, as well as meet the needs of children and families affected by sexual abuse. Our donation will help fund either a welcoming space for families receiving support, and/or a relaxation room for interviewers to decompress and attend to their own self-care.
Give and Go Athletics: November 2022 $11,300
Give and Go Athletics provides therapeutic and athletic programs designed to meet the emotional, educational, and physical needs of youth. Give and Go uses athletics and arts to promote health, human development, and informal learning. Give and Go envisions a world where youth are empowered through education, athletics, arts, and mentoring. They address trauma in communities and provide therapy to help youth prevail. Our donation will provide 30 children, now on a waiting list, opportunities to play baseball with Give and Go Athletics, as it will cover the cost of two coaches.
Greater Philadelphia Bicycle Coalition: August 2022 $10,700
Our donation will enable the Bicycle Coalition to create a Neighborhood Bike Hub to increase access to safe cycling with programming geared towards children and parents in a low income community of color in North Philadelphia leveraging the new “traffic park” called Lil’ Philly Safety Village, which is designed specifically as a space for learning how to ride a bicycle.
Chestnut Hill Meals on Wheels: May 2022 $11,200
CHMOW delivers nutritious lunches and dinners to the homes of neighbors who cannot buy or prepare their own food. Our gift will allow them to continue to welcome additional low-income clients who are greatly in need of their service and support.
Big Picture Philadelphia: February 2022 $12,200
Big Picture Philadelphia operates two public schools in Philadelphia, both of which are committed to providing student-centered, transformative educational experiences to low-income students and communities. El Centro is an alternative school that serves students who had formerly left high school and are re-engaging in the learning process. Vaux is a neighborhood high school in North Philadelphia that is operated in partnership with the Philadelphia Housing Authority. Big Picture’s innovative model emphasizes “real world learning,” including the opportunity for students to do internships outside of school in areas of interest to them, and meaningful relationships between students and adults. While the majority of Big Picture Philadelphia’s funds come from the School District of Philadelphia, the organization must also raise significant additional funds to support its extensive programming. Our donation helped support retaining Resilience and Real World Learning Specialists.
Unity in the Community: November 2021 $12,000
Unity in the Community’s Carpentry Program serves youth ages 14-19 (mostly in the SW section of the city) helping them learn the fundamental skills of carpentry and building and receive a small stipend each week for their work. This program is reducing gun violence and helping young people get into the workforce.
Sisters of Saint Joseph Welcoming Center: August 2021 $11,900
Sisters of Saint Joseph Welcome Center offers opportunities that enable immigrants and others to improve the quality of their lives through access to education, support services and programs leading to self-sufficiency. This neighborhood center in urban Philadelphia extends hospitality, linking newcomers and persons with resources for the enrichment of both. During the pandemic English classes have been taught over Zoom. Our donation will help purchase iPads for an iPad lending library to allow more access these classes. It will also allow the Welcoming Center to serve more families with food access cards, and help with utility bills and rent.
Black Doctors Covid-19 Consortium: May 2021 $11,800
Black Doctors Covid-19 Consortium’s mission is simple: Education and Advocacy for African Americans to reduce the incidence of disease and death from coronavirus. African Americans are being diagnosed at a disproportionately higher rate than other groups and are dying from coronavirus at a higher rate than other groups. We are grateful to then for providing an invaluable service to the people of our city.
Reading Allowed: February 2021 $12,025
Reading Allowed serves struggling readers with individualized, structured literacy tutoring in schools that are not receiving adequate services. Learning to read confidently can transform one’s life.
Youth Services Inc.: November 2020 $11,800
YSI is dedicated to strengthening the family unit, helping at-risk teens and promoting child safety. A non-profit organization that provides immediate shelter and support services to children, youth and families — YSI offers unique programs and niche services throughout the city, including Philadelphia’s only Crisis Nursery program and the longest standing shelter for runaway and homeless teens.
Mighty Writers: August 2020 $12,100
The core mission of Mighty Writers is to teach kids ages 3-17 to think and write with clarity. The organization has impacted the lives of thousands of kids across Philly and other nearby urban areas with its literacy programs. When the pandemic hit and in-person programming stopped, Mighty Writers (MW) began offering lunches to kids at two locations hit hardest by the economic shutdown: MW El Futuro (serving the Mexican immigrant community in the Italian Market area) and MW West (serving West Philly). Mighty Writers knows that kids can’t learn to think and write with clarity when they are hungry. And no kid should go hungry. The distribution sites were also used as a way to get books and educational materials into the hands of children, and to promote MW’s new online literacy programming. To date, over 65,000 meals, 14,500 boxes of groceries and 116,000 diapers have been provided and distributed. While the pandemic lingers and the economic fallout continues with no end in sight, Mighty Writers needs all the support it can get for its Food and Literacy Program to help those most in need.
Philabundance: May 2020 $12,500
Thousands in our community are struggling financially due to the evolving crisis surrounding COVID-19. Lost work hours and school closings are significantly increasing the number of people in need. Philabundance https://www.philabundance.org/ increases our neighbors’ access to food through their network of partner agencies across nine counties in the Philadelphia area. Our donation will serve Philabundance by helping to fund the building and distributing emergency food boxes across their nine-county service area.
Sankofa Healing Studios: February 2020 $12,500
Sankofa Healing Studios https://sankofahealingstudio.org/ focus on the healing of trauma-impacted incarcerated women using artistic expression to address the complex trauma women are dealing with. Many women who have had traumatic experiences either don’t know how to verbally express their emotions in a healthy way or simply aren’t ready to talk about their past and how they feel. Using “craft” therapy women learn new skills, forge a safe therapeutic bond, and begin their healing journey. They are passionate about tackling the stigma related to both reentry and mental health within the black community as it relates to women. Our donation will help Sankofa expand their program to help more women, and to help with the purchase of art supplies
Philadelphia Mental Health Care Corps’ NAMI Ending The Silence: November 2019 $13,400
Philadelphia Mental Heath Care Corps’ - NAMI Ending the Silence a local affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness https://namiphilly.org/nami-ets.html The NAMI Ending the Silence (ETS) program helps middle and high schoolers understand mental health issues by teaching students how to recognize early warning signs for themselves and their friends, where and how to get help, and when it’s not okay to keep a secret. The in-school presentation helps to raise awareness and change perceptions around mental health problems. Our donation will help fund presenters and help purchase take-aways for the youth attending the programs.
Philadelphia Orchard Project: August 2019 $13,600
Philadelphia Orchard Project (POP) https://www.phillyorchards.org/ plants and supports community orchards in the city of Philadelphia. Since 2007, POP has worked with community-based groups and volunteers to plan and plant orchards filled with useful and edible plants in neighborhoods across the city. POP provides orchard design assistance, plant materials, and training in orchard care. Community organizations own, maintain, and harvest the orchards, expanding community-based food production. Orchards are planted in formerly vacant lots, community gardens, schoolyards, and other urban spaces, almost exclusively in low-wealth neighborhoods where people lack access to fresh fruit.
Rebuilding Together Philadelphia: May 2019 $14,700
Rebuilding Together Philadelphia https://www.rebuildingphilly.org revitalizes communities by transforming vulnerable houses into safe, healthy and energy-efficient homes. RTP brings volunteers and communities together to repair homes and improve lives. Each year, RTP and more than 1,300 volunteers provide free safe and healthy home repairs for 75 to 100 homeowners. Our donation will allow RTP to address the issues in a number of homes.
The Young Caribbean Professional Network: February 2019 $14,200
Young Caribbean Professional Network https://ycpn.org/ is dedicated to engaging Caribbean and Latino students and professionals (ages 18-45), for personal, professional and business growth in the Greater Northeast Region of the United States. Our donation will help pay for lodging, transportation and food for student athletes from the Caribbean to participate in the 2019 Penn Relays. Chikezie Wood, treasurer of the Board of YCPN, and Shaenah Lewis, secretary of the YCPN Board accepted the donation.
The Kelly Anne Dolan Memorial Fund: November 2018 $12,600
The Kelly Anne Dolan Memorial Fund https://www.dolanfund.org/ helps to lighten the burden and lifts the spirits of families caring for children with serious illnesses, disabilities, and injuries, while respecting the pride and dignity of families in need. They provide financial assistance for needs not covered by insurance, Family Fun Day programs, non-cash items, and financial management education to families living or seeking treatment in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware.
Women of Tomorrow: August 2018 $13,450
Women of Tomorrow https://womenoftomorrow.org/about/our-mission/ inspires, motivates and empowers at-risk young women to live up to their full potential through a unique groups mentoring program with highly accomplished professional women and scholarship opportunities. Our donation will help with scholarship funding.
The Center for Grieving Children: May 2018 $13,000
The Center for Grieving Children http://grievingchildren.org/ helps children grieving a death, heal and grow through their grief while strengthening families, communities, and professionals’ understanding of how best to respond to their needs by providing free peer support groups for people age 5-23. Our donation will help provide meals for children in after school grief groups. Photo includes: Teresa Méndez-Quigley, Special Populations Coordinator, Crystal Wortham, Family Services Coordinator, Darcie Rudolf, Family Services Coordinator, Kevin Carter, Clinical Director, Darcy Walker-Krause, Executive Director, Elizabeth Zack, Founder of 100 Women Philadelphia, Sarah Sweda, School and Community Services Clinician and Jack Small, Development and Communications Associate
Time Out for Teens and Tots Program at Turning Points for Children: February 2018 $13,200
(http://www.turningpointsforchildren.org/programs), Time Our for Teens and Tots is a parenting education and support group for teen-aged mothers and fathers who are juggling the conflicting demands of adolescence with parenthood. The group meets for two hours every week for ten weeks and teaches child development, basic parenting, discipline and communication skills. Our donation will help to purchase “care kits” for new parents which include: diapers for a year, wipes for a year, formula for a year, feminine products, and hygiene kits full of toiletries.
Women in Natural Sciences: November 2017 $12,300
(WINS -http://www.ansp.org/education/programs/wins/). WINS is a free after-school and summer science enrichment program at the Academy of Natural Sciences. Since its founding in 1982, WINS has introduced hundreds of high school girls to future careers in science and other professions by providing hands-on science workshops, career and college exploration, and positive youth development. WINS provides young women with the information, encouragement, and confidence they need to shape their futures. The program’s mentoring and support has resulted in 100% of WINS students graduating high school and over 96% attending college. In addition to a strong emphasis on academics and science, WINS also provides a uniquely nurturing environment, a community of like-minded friends, and experiences not typically found in school. Our donation will allow three girls to participate in the WINS program.
HMS School for Children with Cerebral Palsy: August 2017 $12,275
HMS School for Children with Cerebral Palsy http://hmsschool.org is located in the University City neighborhood of Philadelphia serving school-age children and young adults through age 21 who have complex, multiple disabilities usually resulting from cerebral palsy, traumatic brain injury or other neurological impairment. Renowned for their success in empowering students, HMS’s day and residential programs maximize achievement and promote independence. Our donation will help HMS with their “Independence Room,” a dorm room set up like an adult facility to help older students prepare for an independent adulthood.
HIAS PA (Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society Pennsylvania): May 2017 $12,350
HIAS PA http://hiaspa.org. works to create a welcoming and secure environment for immigrants and their families from any ethnic, cultural, or religious background. Our donation will help them with either their Emergency Housing Fund, go towards their Technology Sponsor Program which helps refugees obtain Chromebooks and internet access, help with the creation of a social/mental health program for new refugees or help with an education program for new immigrants and refugees.
Welcoming Center For New Pennsylvanians: February 2017 $13,000
The Welcoming Center. http://welcomingcenter.org/ connects newly arrived individuals from around the world with the economic opportunities that they need to succeed in our region. Since 2003, they have assisted more than 15,000 people from over 140 countries. Our donation will help the Welcoming Center strengthen the capacity of their Immigrant Professionals Program, which addresses hurdles immigrant professionals face in obtaining gainful employment in their chosen career fields.
Broad Street Ministries: November 2016 $12,250
http://www.broadstreethospitality.org/ Broad Street Ministries is a 501(c)3 that practices “radical hospitality” by offering many services to those experiences homelessness in our city. They serve 80,000 hot meals a week along with comprehensive services that are critical to stabilizing men and women experiencing homelessness and poverty. Prepared by a professional chef and served table side, meals offer an entry point for guests to build trust and access to stabilizing services that lead toward self sufficiency. Services offered by BSM include legal and medical services, clothing, mending, personal care items, therapeutic art services, and mail service. Over 3000 individuals use BSM’s address as their own. This address provides homeless Philadelphians to access benefits, communicate with hospitals and banks, and even obtain something as simple as a government-issued identification card, which one needs to access food stamps, welfare checks and social security. Our donation would help to cover the costs for people to receive their Pennsylvania State identification cards, an important first step for getting people back on the path toward stability.
Turning Points for Children: August 2016 $13,000
http://www.turningpointsforchildren.org Turning Points is the largest foster care and adoption services organization in Philadelphia. Our funds will go to support their Family Finding program which enables children in out-of-home-care to reconnect with family members or other significant people from their past with whom they have lost contact. A large portion of a Family Finding case manager’s day is spent locating and engaging potential family members. Each case manager needs data-linking technology to search for potential family members. It costs $125/month per user. 100 Women’s donations will go to help cover the costs of the locate and research tool.
The Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation's Read by 4th initiative: May 2016 $11,550
http://libwww.freelibrary.org/readby4th Read by 4th is a citywide effort of over 80 organizations, public and private, large and small, convened and managed by the Free Library of Philadelphia, aiming to majorly increase the number of students in Philadelphia entering the 4th grade at reading level by 2020. This is the largest effort of its kind in the city of Philadelphia. This initiative attempts to tackle the literacy crisis in our city—over half of all Philadelphia public school students (and about 65 percent of public school students nationwide) cannot read at grade level by 4th grade. On-track literacy is an important indicator of a child’s future academic and professional success, and the inability to read at grade level by the fourth grade is correlated to higher rates of dropping out of school, risky behavior, and incarceration later in life. Our donation went toward teacher training and books that Philadelphia summer camp counselors and campers will use to increase literacy skills and reading fluency.
Interim House: February 2016 $8800
Interim House is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit agency that provides a continuum of comprehensive services to women with substance abuse and mental health issues. Interim House serves approximately 100 clients each year through its 60 licensed outpatient service slots and 25-bed residential program. As the first specialized treatment program for women in Pennsylvania and one of the first in the nation, Interim House has been a model for innovative treatment for approximately 40 years. Our donation went toward the organization’s job training program.
Nationalities Service Center: November 2015 $6300
Nationalities Service Center https://nscphila.org/. It is a 501c3 on 12th and Arch that helps new immigrants to Philadelphia with housing, English as a second language training, health care, and legal services. Our donation helped provide these things to immigrant families coming to Philadelphia.
The CB Community School: August 2015 $5300
The CB Community School, formerly known as the Arise Academy was a Charter School but is no longer affiliated with the school district and is now a nonprofit 501(c)3. The CB Community School strives to provide a high-quality academic program combined with high quality on-site support services for foster care youth ages fourteen to twenty-one, who are moving toward emancipation. Staff and administration focus on assisting students in reaching their full potential. The CB Community School students learn and grow in an atmosphere of mutual respect and appreciation for individual talent. Its students will realize the intrinsic value of education and family, and will become part of a community of life-long learners. The CB Community School prepares students to take their places in society as responsible workers or students of higher education. The school is putting in a kitchen in order to provide its students with healthy lunches. Our donation helped purchase appliances for The CB Community School’s kitchen.
Other Nominated Organizations:
Nothing Down
The Common Market
Maternity Care Coalition
St. James School,
Playworks
Herb It Forward Foundation
Planned Parenthood of SE Pennsylvania
Coded by Kids
The Women’s Law Project
Philadelphia Outward Bound School
South Philly Food Co-op
Unite for HER
Neighborhood Bike Works
Access Sports Experiences
Taller Puertorriqueño
Spiral Q
Raja Yoga and Meditation
Tech Girlz
Fresh Artists
Smith Playground
Living Beyond Breast Cancer
Supportive Older Woman’s Network
CASA of Philadelphia
New Jersey Angels
SOWN
Philadelphia Children’s Alliance
Hosts for Hospitals
The Women’s Community Revitalization Project
Give and Go Athletics
Youth Empowerment for Advancement Hangout (YEAH)
ManUpPHL
Overbrook Educational Center
Maternity Care Coalition
Women’s Re-Entry Pilot Program
Child’s Play
Leeway Foundation
Acelero Learning
Access Sports Experiences
AIDS Law Project
Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture
The Anderson Monarchs
Anti-Defamation League - Philly Regional Office
Art Through Youth
Big Brothers, Big Sisters of South Eastern PA
Breathing Room Foundation
Broad Street Ministry
CB Community School
Camp Sojourner
Cancer Support Community of Greater Philadelphia
Center for Literacy
Center for Public Health Initiatives
Centering Pregnancy Jefferson
Chew & Belfield Neighbors Club
Chestnut Hill Meals on Wheels
Children’s Village
Coded by Kids
The Common Market
Common Wealth Youth Choirs
Community Legal Services
Covenant House Philadelphia
Dawn’s Place
Delaware County ASPCA
Education Law Center
Emily’s Entourage - fight to cure cystic fibrosis
Equal Access Legal Services
Faith in the Future
Family Lives on Foundation
Find Your Instrument
Fred’s Footsteps
Fresh Artists
Fuentes de Salud
Girl Develop It
Girls on the Run, Philadelphia
Give and Go Athletics
Healthy in All
Healthy Library Initiative - Penn’s Center for Public Health Initiatives
Herb It Forward Foundation
Helping Hands Rescue Mission
HIAS - Pennsylvania - Refugee Resettlement
HIs Breast Cancer Awareness
HMS School for Children with Cerebral Palsey
Hope Partnership for Education
Host for Hospitals
I’m Free
Inglis Adapted Tech Program
Jewish Federation of SNJ
Jill Melmed-Buzzeo Award
La Comunidad HIspana Women’s Health Program
Living Beyond Breast Cancer
MacGuffin Theater and Film
Masterman Home and School Association
Maternity Care Coalition
The Maurice Rush Foundation
Medical Students for Choice
Miquon School
Moms Demand Action
Monkey and the Elephant
Neighborhood Bike Works
New Leash on Life
Nothing Down
Parent-Infant Center
Pathways to Housing, PA
Pennsylvania Arts in Education Partnership
Philabundance
Philadelphia Diaper Bank
Philadelphia Futures
Philadelphia Horticultural Society
Philadelphia Women’s Center
Philadelphia Women’s Theater Festival
The Philly Goat Project
Planned Parenthood SE Pennsylvania
Portside Arts Center
Prevention Point Philadelphia
Project Home
Project Pixie
Project Safe
Providence Animal Rescue
Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia
Raja Yoga and Meditation
Reading Allowed
Ready, Willing and Able
Rebuilding Together Philadelphia
Ronald McDonald House
St. James School Summer Camp
St. James School Philadelphia
Schuylkill Banks
Shambhala Meditation Center
Sister Cities Choir
Smith Memorial Playhouse and Playground
SPARK
Spiral Q
Student Run Emergency Housing Unit of Philadelphia (SREHUP)
Summer Search Philadelphia
The Sunday Love Project
Sunday Suppers
Support Center for Child Advocates
TechGirlz Organization
Training for Change
Tree House Books
Turning Points for Children
Unite for Her
University City Arts League
Valley Youth House
WePAC (West Philadelphia Alliance for Children)
West Philadelphia Alliance for Children
Women of Tomorrow
Women’s Community Revitalization Project
Women's Law Project
Women’s Medical Fund
Yoga Program at Abramson Cancer Center
Youth Services