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Featured Stories

Spruce Hill: Renovations Underway For Homeless Veteran Shelter

April 24, 2017Erin Patterson

Many organizations in Philadelphia serve a very specific niche. With more than 22 years of service, the Philadelphia Veterans Comfort House hopes to give homeless veterans a chance to start over and become productive members

Germantown

Germantown: A Place for Young Mothers to Call Home

November 20, 2015pnadmin

Covenant House is a non-governmental, international organization that serves teenage and adolescent runaway homeless and trafficked youth. They have the only five beds in the entire city of Philadelphia that is specifically targeted for teenage

Economy

South Philadelphia: Homeless Take Shelter At Bethesda Project

July 14, 2015Emily Catharine Ganser

Laughter could be heard from the sidewalk outside of the homeless shelter known as My Brother’s House. A large blue-and-white-tiled mural stretches along the side of the building, along with the words, ‘Home away from

Cedar Park

Spruce Hill: Veterans House Gives Hope and Help to Homeless Heroes

January 13, 2015

The Philadelphia Veterans House, located on Baltimore Avenue, has been a place of refuge for those who served in the military since it opened in 1994. The temporary housing gives those who fought for the country

Chinatown

Chinatown/Loft District: Sunday Breakfast Rescue Mission Provides Stability for Homeless

October 21, 2014

Sunday Breakfast Rescue Mission, located on 13th at Vine Street, is both the largest emergency shelter and largest indoor feeder of the homeless in the Center City area. Executive Director Dick McMillen (above) was first

Economy

Powelton Village: Respite and Emergency Care Makes a Difference in West Philadelphia

October 4, 2013

[vimeo 75233536] Youth Service, Inc.  is a nonprofit child welfare agency that’s been in operation for over 60 years. It provides a range of services to youth and families. They have a teen shelter and a mother/baby

Environment

South of South Street: Time for the Homeless

June 28, 2013

https://vimeo.com/69136843] The program coordinators of My Brother’s House and the Bainbridge house work diligently to help the men in  their community. Choosing to dedicate your entire life to work for a charity is no easy

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  • People stand on a sidewalk beneath a pale gray sky. The street behind them is between two tan stone buildings with floor-to-ceiling glass windows on their ground levels, and the multicolored glass exterior of a parking garage shines further down the street, next to some taller red brick buildings. Glass windows are visible behind the people on the sidewalk. Some of them wear raincoats or windbreakers, and some of them hold umbrellas of various colors. Two men in the right half of the image, one southeast Asian and one white, wear clerical collars. They are all waving wooden rods with thick red ribbons tied to the ends of them in the air. Most of the people present appear to be white and/or over the age of 50. One bearded, middle-aged man in a gray and black windbreaker and black pants points a camera towards the bottom right corner of the image, where a blue banner reads “GOD STANDS WITH THE OPPRESSED.” To the banner’s left, a canvas with a monarch butterfly painted on it is draped over a concrete sidewalk barrier. A blue bicycle is parked behind the man with the camera, and a black car in the street drives past the group of people.
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  • The crowd during a performance by The DOJD, Claire Brown's band, in a West Philadelphia basement. (Image-Jacob Magaldi)
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