Come volunteer! Northwest Philadelphia
A neighborhood church hosts an event to connect volunteers with community, social service and environmental organizations in Germantown and Mt. Airy.
Category: Poverty
Religious activity: feeding the hungry, reaching out to youth
On a Saturday, one church gives out free food, another makes a video for youth group outreach
Selling roses in heavy traffic
Vendor selling flowers works long days outside, sandwiched on narrow concrete between two very busy traffic lanes.
Family moves into their Habitat Home
Habitat for Humanity of Montgomery County, PA supported by a coalition of community partners including AmeriCorps National Community Service members along with sweat equity put [Read More…]
She helps people find work
Sandy Ellis-Johnson, an interviewer at the Pa Career Link in Germantown (Philadelphia) office for helping people get jobs is the first staffer a person meets. [Read More…]
Urges passage of paid sick leave bill in Philly
Dee Servance was canvassing door-to-door on a bitter cold winter night to raise support for a paid sick leave bill in Philadelphia. As it is [Read More…]
87years old, plays her keyboard on street for donations
Eighty-seven year old Pat Sellers, laid off from the Philadelphia Cricket Club three years ago, has started doing what she has seen young people doing [Read More…]
Goodwill donation center opens in Mount Airy
Saleece came smiling and protectively gloved out of the brand new Goodwill Donation Center in Mount Airy as soon as I pulled up in my [Read More…]
Antonelli Institute teachers and students got talent
Most students at the Antonelli Institute of Graphic Design and Photography in Erdenheim, Pa, just outside of Philadelphia, enroll coming out of high school. They [Read More…]
Taking a step away from homelessness
On the eve before Christmas Eve, Paul Rossetti was standing in the rain at the corner of Highland and Germantown Avenues hawking “One Step Away” [Read More…]