On December 18, 2018, Get Healthy Philly held a final THANK YOU meeting to close out our four years of work under the CDC’s State and Local Public Health Actions…

Last Friday I had the privilege to speak to the 300 plus leaders that crowded to the rim a huge  room of the Hilton Hotel in MidTown Manhattan, in NYC,…

When Charlie Pérez and wife Daisy Rivera Pérez arrived in Philadelphia with their three teenage daughters last December, leaving behind their two sons and everything they knew, they felt completely disoriented.…

Since its creation in 2008, Philadelphia’s Office of Sustainability had been poor at outreach. While it focused on its internal operations — working on the policies that regulate energy consumption;…

Three Kings Day and Octavitas are two post-Christmas holiday celebrations important in Latin America. For recent arrivals from Puerto Rico it felt like home when they visited a community center…

The Independence Blue Cross Foundation through its Supporting Treatment and Overdose Prevention (STOP) initiative, awarded $200,000 to five nonprofits to improve access to effective prevention and treatment for people struggling…

City Councilmembers Blondell Reynolds-Brown and Bill Greenlee introduced City Council’s best economic development idea in years last week, and it won’t even cost the city any money (except for some…

NBC 10 news story 04/30/16 on Comcast Cares Day at APM Marshall

Philadelphia receives funding from William Penn Foundation

Philadelphia Awarded $30 Million HUD Choice Neighborhoods Grant – Asociación Puertorriqueños en Marcha will play major role in the relocation process and social services provided to residents Philadelphia has been…