Students Run Philly Style
SRPS will use its 2024 KCR Fund grant to support the implementation of a Community Outreach Program to help youth attending schools in communities facing high levels of adversity achieve positive youth development outcomes through enhanced team support. The Community Outreach program will serve as a scaled enhancement of the SRPS model. Funds will be […]
Rock to the Future
Rock to the Future supports positive youth development and economic empowerment through free, student-driven music programs for Philadelphia youth. We provide a bridge to well-being, professional pathways, economic empowerment, and violence reduction through music. We are dedicated to the Kensington Community and have served this neighborhood since 2010. In 2024, our goals for MusiCore After […]
Klean Kensington
This 2024 KCR Fund grant will be used to expand our ability to pay more teens to beautify and garden in Kensington. We will pay local teens to beautify the neighborhood, turning problem spots connected to drugs, trash, and violence in the neighborhood into thriving garden spaces and gathering spots for kids and neighbors to […]
Iglesia Internacional Peña De Horeb, Inc.
The grant will be used for the beginning of a building, in order to provide more help and information to the resilient people of Kensington. To have healthy families. Work in the emotional, physical, spiritual area, bring events to the community in a massive, creative, dynamic way, educate, inform, heal, among others.
Hope Partnership for Education
Hope Partnership for Education offers neighbors and youth a safe, joy-filled learning environment 11 months of the year. The talented, and tenured, staff uses research-based strategies and relationship-building techniques to inform practices. By focusing on achievement, exposure, and outstanding mentorship, we know that our students and alumni will build a legacy of success driving towards […]
Firm Hope Baptist Church
Firm Hope Baptist Church (FHBC) plans to use the Kensington Community Fund to continue developing youth service. Firm Hope (FHBC) will offer young people a safe environment in which to experience engaging and educational activities. The program will connect youth with mentors, workshops geared towards character and leadership development, field trips, and employment. Firm Hope […]
Fab Youth Philly
For 2024, we are requesting funding for our Babysitter Certification Training Program. The Red Cross has an online babysitter certificate that trains teens in child development, child-friendly activities, and safety protocols. While a teen could pay the $40 fee and take the 4-hour course on their own, many teens don’t even know it exists and […]
By Faith Health and Healing
By Faith, Health and Healing will utilize the funds of this grant to further address the impacts of community trauma in the Kensington, Harrowgate, and Fairhill communities. In partnership with local organizations and residents, over the next 12 months we expect to continue to build strong community networks to provide struggling families with peer support […]
Big Picture Philadelphia
With generational poverty and structural racism at the root of educational inequity, BPP approaches education through the lens of economic empowerment. Our programs use mentorship-based internships and social-emotional skill-building to support young people in managing and healing from trauma while preparing them for success during and after high school. Ultimately, we want the young people […]
Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia
With the support of the 2024 KCR Fund grant, the Bicycle Coalition Youth Cycling Program (BCYC) will build strong futures for youth in the Kensington, Harrowgate and Fairhill Communities, through wellness programming leading to lifelong healthy habits and youth leadership development to be lifelong engaged citizens. Funds will support BCYC programming with the Kensington High […]