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https://vimeo.com/18393772] “We’re about to load up the van,” says Richard Finch, head of Impact Service’s Veterans Services. “You’ll want to get a shot of that.” A re-purposed eight-passenger van pulls into the shadow of Impact

https://vimeo.com/18393781] The sounds of hammers and talkative construction workers greet you as you enter the double doors of Hancock Manor. The towering building used to house a YMCA until it was transformed into Impact Service’s

https://vimeo.com/18393122] Janice Brown still remembers what it felt like to hear the phone call that would change her life. She was told her daughter Latoya and granddaughter Rimanee were in a car accident. She fell

https://vimeo.com/18393641] Being HIV positive is no longer a death sentence. Just ask Jennifer Poole. Poole lives in Hunting Park and sees her HIV status as no big deal. “Some people let their disease carry them

https://vimeo.com/18394190] In a conversation with Jeff Graybill, the project engineer for the Philadelphia Housing Authority, his enthusiasm about his current undertaking is nothing less than contagious. Graybill is presently leading a construction site at 22nd

https://vimeo.com/18394190] Temple University’s brand new School of Medicine building may look shiny, fancy and full of activity on the outside, but Tioga businessman Andrei Soldatov said the inside is a whole different story. “It’s like

Sitting in the courtroom after her cousin was murdered, Rose Middleton told the shooter that she forgave him. Middleton’s cousin, Robert Selvy, was 53 when he was murdered by someone who lived just a few

https://vimeo.com/18395175] A van pulls up at a side door of a large concrete structure and 10 petite, mostly gray- and white-haired women, each with her hands full, emerge from behind its double doors and make