By Faith, Health and Healing
By Faith, Health and Healing aims to use trauma-informed programs to build resiliency and help Kensington families thrive. Through this grant, we look to expand and support our three foundational programs. Mothers Helping Mothers: Women of Power is a biweekly comprehensive program designed to support mothers experiencing grief and stress associated with various types of loss. […]
Urban Extreme Youth Development
Urban Extreme Youth Development is innovative and unique in comparison to other youth development efforts in that we have a generational leadership focus on children and youth ages 5-25. Our project seeks to rebuild communities by comprehensively influencing the lives of youth, and their families in addressing the education, health, economic, and social needs of […]
Ed Snider Youth Hockey & Education
Snider’s mission is to create opportunity for under-resourced youth of the Greater Philadelphia Region to prosper in life. Our goal is to arm youth with the knowledge, skills, behaviors, and attitudes required to build productive lives and be leaders in their families, communities, and workplaces. Our whole-child development model supports the changing needs of students […]
RAWtools Philly
Our goal is to work for the healing of our hearts, the healing of our streets, and the healing of our world. We are aspiring to build a neighborhood, and a City, that we are “proud to call home.” This particular project is about creating a way for neighbors to channel their pain into change, […]
Victoria Urban Outreach Tutoring Service
VUOTS goal is to implement educational services and mentoring around the city of Philadelphia. This is goal was set to support upcoming youth as alternative to streets violence. In addition to support adults and elders in the community with knowledge to support, housing, income and career choices. This grant will allow VUOTS to have a […]
Fab Youth Philly
Fab Youth Philly (FYP)’s funding from the 2023 Kensington Resiliency Fund will support the expansion of our youth workforce development programming in Kensington, in order to include a Babysitting Certification Training Program. This funding aligns with FYP’s goals of providing the Kensington community with engaged, full time FYP staff members who are skilled in training […]
Taller Puertorriqueño
As Taller continues on a trajectory of growth out of a stable foundation, support from the Kensington Community Resilience Fund would allow our organization to: 1) adjust to modifications inspired by new leadership; 2) endure administrative challenges, fundraising changes, and institutional growth in the immediate future; and 3) remain on track with implementation of our […]
Historic Fair Hill
Historic Fair Hill (HFH)’s goals are to serve as a responsive partner in the revitalization of Fairhill through youth development and education programs, urban farming/fresh food initiatives, and community-building and wellness projects. This grant will support our work by focusing resources on the Julia de Burgos Elementary School community, where our family and youth literacy […]
Los Bomberos de la Calle
One of our major goals is to preserve the rich cultural tradition of Bomba and Plena music and dance from Puerto Rico. The best way to preserve this tradition is to receive more exposure and build community amongst all especially in the young and growing Latino population which we have been doing for the past […]
Mad Beatz Philly
Here are our goals: The KCRF grant will help Mad Beatz Philly buy new drums, supporting the growth of the #djdrumline youth program; pay student section leaders to run additional, smaller sectional rehearsals between group meetings; and pay for rehearsal and new teacher training space at West Kensington Ministry.