Total Donations to Local Philadelphia Organizations:  $414,000

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 - $12,000 November 2021

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 - $11,900 August 2021

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 - $11,800 May 2021

Black Doctors Covid-19 Consortum’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 - $12,025 February 2021

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. - $11,800 November 2020

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 - $12,100 August 2020

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 - $12,500 May 2020

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 $12,500 February 2020

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 $13,400 November 2019

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 $13,600 August 2019

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 $14,700 May 2019

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 $14,200 February 2019

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 $12,600 November 2018

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 $13,450 August 2018

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   $13,000      May 2018

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     -        $13,200            February 2018

(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 $12,300     November 2017

(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 - $12,275          August 2017 

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) - $12,350   May 2017

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  - $13,000      February  2017

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  - $12,250     November 2016 

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 - $13,000      August 2016

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 -

$11,550 May 2016

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 - $8800  February 2016

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 - $6300   November 2015

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 - $5300     August 2015

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:

The JMB Award

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