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Dornsife Center for Neighborhood Partnerships Honors Tuskegee Airmen

This recap was put together with the help of Rachel Viddy, interim director of the Dornsife Center for Neighborhood Partnerships, and Roxzine Scott, executive assistant and program manager in the ...
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Beating the Heat — Safely and Sustainably — During the Pandemic

When public pools and many cooling centers closed this summer due to COVID-19, Drexel University researchers teamed up with the William Penn foundation and members of the Hunting Park community to ...
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Drexel and Partners Receive $5 Million Lenfest Foundation Grant to Accelerate Career Training for Local Residents

The Lenfest Foundation has awarded a three-year $5 million grant to University City District (UCD), the University City Science Center and Drexel University to accelerate career opportunities for ...
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B Smart Program Commits $25,000 to Support Small Businesses Owned by Women of Color

This story was written by Soneyet Muhammad, director of workforce and economic inclusion in the Office of University and Community Partnerships at Drexel University. On Jan. 14, the B Smart small ...
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Drexel Program Offers Support for Children Starting Kindergarten in Promise Neighborhood

In Philadelphia, the path to kindergarten is made of many roads in different directions with various endpoints — even without a pandemic looming over that decision-making process. Neither ...
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Drexel's Focus on Hiring in its Neighborhoods

Mantua resident Myna Whitney sometimes thinks about what Robert Frost immortalized as “the road not taken.” “I find myself thinking where I would have been or who I would have been,” she said. “But I ...
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With $3 Million Gift to Drexel, Lenfest Foundation to Fund Student Co-op Jobs in Cultural Nonprofits

With a $3 million gift to Drexel University, the Lenfest Foundation will fund paid cooperative education jobs for students in the nonprofit, cultural sector. In recognition of this generous gift, the ...
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Philly Community Groups Face Significant Barriers to Creating Public Amenities Like Parklets and Pedestrian Plazas

Drexel University’s Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation today released Catalyzing Community Capacity: How Philadelphia Can Create Equitable Right-of-Way Stewardship, a report on how to improve the ...
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'West Africa to West Philly' Course Connects Language With Community

"Following the murder of George Floyd in May 2020, racial injustice was ripe and ready to be discussed. I started thinking about a course that would strengthen the curriculum and support the ...
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How Drexel Students Can Help Bridge the Digital Divide in Philadelphia

Countless students at Drexel University have a passion for making a difference, whether it’s through racial equity/justice work, climate advocacy or fighting food insecurity. But what about bridging ...
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Drexel Awarded $1 Million NSF Grant for Arts-Centered Model for Intergenerational Co-Housing

Grant will support Drexel's Second Story Collective, an arts-centered model for intergenerational co-housing, focused on affordable homeownership in West Philadelphia The Second Story Collective (2SC) ...