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GRANTEE SPOTLIGHT-HORIZONS AT GREENE STREET FRIENDS SCHOOL

Horizons at Greene Street Friends School (HGSFS) is an award-winning transformative summer enrichment program in Philadelphia’s Germantown neighborhood, offering six weeks of tuition-free education and holistic development for Prekindergarten through Seventh Grade students. The ‘special sauce’ in Horizons is the vision that a student is not enrolling initially for six weeks, but summer after summer,…

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Grantee Spotlight – College Possible Philadelphia

College Possible makes college admission and success possible for students from low-income backgrounds through an intensive curriculum of coaching and support. College Possible began serving students in Philadelphia and Delaware Counties during the 2014-2015 academic year. Our program begins in high school and continues to serve our students all the way through to college completion.…

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Grantee Spotlight – Rock to the Future

Rock to the Future provides student-driven music programs in a safe and supportive environment at no cost for Philadelphia youth in under-resourced communities. Through music, their students build life skills to unlock their fullest potential to support current and lifelong well-being. Rock to the Future partners with public, parochial, and charter schools and community organizations…

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Grantee Spotlight – Parkesburg POINT

The Parkesburg POINT’s mission is to empower youth and families to live victoriously by offering a safe, engaging, and spirit-filled environment. The POINT partners with 20+ local churches and over 270 volunteers to provide400+at-risk youth, ages 8-18 with a variety of after-school, evening, and summer programs designed to help them thrive physically, academically, emotionally, socially,…

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Grantee Spotlight – SquashSmarts

SquashSmarts is an award-winning youth enrichment program improving the lives of underserved youth from Philadelphia public schools by providing intensive, long-term academic tutoring and squash instruction while imparting high standards of personal integrity, health and fitness, and service to the community. The Nelson Foundation’s support is enabling SquashSmarts to expand its mentoring and education programs…

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Grantee Spotlight – After School Activities Partnerships

ASAP/After School Activities Partnerships’ mission is to develop high quality after school activities and resources to empower youth and strengthen communities in Philadelphia. Through six citywide initiatives, ASAP serves 5,000 youth annually, including: ASAP Chess, which has 170 club meetings weekly with monthly competitions, develops the problem-solving and strategic-thinking skills of 2,500 youth ASAP Debate serves over…

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Grantee Spotlight – Starfinder

Since 2002, Starfinder‘s soccer, educational, and personal development programs have inspired young people from underserved communities to achieve success both on and off the field. Each year Starfinder helps 600 youth become healthier, more successful in school, and focused on the future through after school and summer programs. Programs include: Health & Physical Fitness which…

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