Mayor Kenney has touted the Rebuild program - funded by the tax on sweetened beverages - to improve parks, recreation centers, and libraries. He held three consecutive groundbreaking ceremonies at Heitzman Recreation Center in Harrowgate, Glavin Playground in Port Richmond, and the Olney Recreation Center in Olney to highlight the program’s impact.

Philadelphia, September 27, 2021 – The Pennsylvania CDFI Network, a coalition of 17 PA-based community development financial institutions, has tapped Varsovia Fernandez as its Executive Director. The announcement comes on the heels of a new report from the Network on the impact of the COVID-19 Relief Pennsylvania Statewide Small Business Assistance Program, which awarded $249 million in grants to small businesses across the Commonwealth affected by the COVID crisis.

On the morning of August 18, underneath the El stop at Kensington and Allegheny avenues, a train rattles by overhead as a man in basketball shorts crosses the street before lurching to a stop. His eyes close. Horns start honking. And when the traffic light turns green, he’s still there, a man now yelling from a Mack truck at him to “get out of the road.”

A spirited protest took place in Philadelphia’s Kensington area Aug. 11, with a large group of neighbors, concerned people and organizations marching from McPherson Square Park to a City Council meeting at Elkins Elementary School.

Image and hair care businesses that were hit hard by the pandemic are now eligible for $20 million in relief funding, state Sen. Vince Hughes, House Democratic Leader Joanna McClinton and other state leaders announced today.

Councilmember Maria Quinones Sanchez held the hearing with community stakeholders and city officials to highlight Kensington’s significant problems. It was organized by City Council’s Committee on Public Health and Human Services. One city official was missing though — Mayor Jim Kenney.

Harrowgate resident Sonja Bingham begins every day before sunrise with a shovel and broom in one hand and a 40-gallon trash bag in the other. She often jokes about sending the City of Philadelphia an invoice for all of the hours she spends cleaning and advocating for her community.

On Wednesday night, at least six dozen Kensington community members marched through Clearfield and D Streets to a public City Council hearing with one question:

“Where is Jim Kenney?” protesters shouted through their megaphones.

It’s been a long year… and we are excited to share some updates on the upcoming Heitzman Rebuild Project.

PHILADELPHIA — The nonprofit Creative Praxis recently wrapped up the youth-centric study My Voice Matters in partnership with the We CAN Collaborative (Change and Action Now). The study focuses on ways of ameliorating community policing and public safety in Philadelphia’s Kensington and Fairhill neighborhoods.

A group of 14-24 year-olds are leading their neighborhoods in a series of conversations and focus group sessions dedicated to creating safer, more equitable communities within the Philadelphia neighborhoods of Kensington and Fairhill.

ore than 7,000 U.S. military members have died fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001, a 20-year stretch of time that has included the longest wars in our nation’s history—so long, in fact, that for many Americans the conflicts have faded from memory.

Mayor Kenney has touted the Rebuild program - funded by the tax on sweetened beverages - to improve parks, recreation centers, and libraries. He held three consecutive groundbreaking ceremonies at Heitzman Recreation Center in Harrowgate, Glavin Playground in Port Richmond, and the Olney Recreation Center in Olney to highlight the program’s impact.

A new public-private, community partnership hopes to draw on Kensington’s “most valuable resource” to improve the quality of life for residents in the Kensington, Harrowgate and Fairhill neighborhoods.

Last Tuesday I was one of several hundred neighbors, community members, and representatives of nonprofit organizations who attended the protests surrounding the closure of the Somerset El stop…

When Casey O’Donnell and Daniel Betancourt first met in 2018, in an abandoned warehouse near A Street and Indiana Avenue in Kensington, they recognized in each other a vision that not everyone could share…

Seven years ago, trying to recover from the death of her daughter, Brenda Mosley was introduced to the concept of trauma-informed care…

Kensington residents scored a victory Thursday, when SEPTA General Manager Leslie Richards announced that Somerset Station would be reopened…

The closure was met with immense backlash from community members, who marched up Kensington Ave. two days after it closed on March 23.

The most recent work of community members in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia has been years in the making…