Healing Verse Germantown is a community-driven public art project using poetry to address gun violence and mental health through free workshops, public art, and access 24/7 poetry and mental health resources.
1 in 2 families are struggling with affording clean diapers according to data from the National Diaper Bank Network. Local organizations are stepping up to help fill the need, and Germantown churches and community leaders are finding ways to help.
The Raise Your Pay East Germantown Initiative aims to increase wages and incomes of selected residents of East Germantown through a four-step plan created by a task force of employers and community organizations.
In the spirit of giving, community group GREAT hosted an item swap promoting community connection and item sustainability.
Philly Birth Fund becomes nonprofit, provides safe home births to Black families in Philadelphia
The Philly Birth Fund is now officially a non-profit, raising funds to provide lower cost and free home birth to Black families in the area.
ENON Tabernacle Baptist Church is huge, and well known in Philly. But you might not know about their ministry program that provides doulas to the community.
Germantown’s Face to Face hosts monthly birth certificate clinics to help residents live fuller lives and unlock opportunities.
On May 14th, Vernon Park will house an event centering on connection and collective grief as a means to de-stigmatize the drug-related loss of a loved one. Here’s what’s planned and why it matters.