Upcoming Events & Volunteer Opportunities
Saturday, March 1
South Philadelphia Legal Clinic hosted by Christian Legal Clinics of Philadelphia and the Aquinas Center
9:00 am – 12:00 pm @ Aquinas Center, 1700 Fernon St. (Point Breeze)
Thursday, March 20
Brewerytown Kickoff Meeting
6:30 – 8:30 pm @ Camelot Academy, 1436 N 26th St. (Brewerytown)
Friday, March 21
BuildOn Volunteer Event
Join community members and volunteers in a community cleanup to tackle blight.
9:00 am – 2:00 pm, Location TBD (Penrose)
Saturday, March 22
Southeast Block Cleanup and Resource Sharing
10:00 am – 2:00 pm, 4th St. & Tasker St. to 5th St. & Morris St. (Southeast)
Ongoing throughout March
Alternative Spring Break Volunteering
This month, PhilyRising will host two teams of Alternative Spring Break volunteers from Drexel University in Philadelphia and Grand Valley State University in Michigan. The students will be working in Germantown, Kensington, Haddington, Hawthorne, Swampoodle, Strawberry Mansion, and Kingsessing to help with cleanups, gardening, and other tasks and programs at PhillyRising partner organizations. Check our Facebook throughout the month for updates and photos!
Dates, times, and locations are subject to change. Visit www.myphillyrising.com for the most up-to-date information.
Highlights from February
We’re Mobile!
Have you used the new MyPhillyRising app yet? MyPhillyRising is your online and mobile portal to everything going on in your neighborhood. Use it to find resources, connect with neighbors, and learn about events occurring throughout the city. Visit YouTube for a tutorial.
National Girls and Women in Sports Day
On Monday, February 25, Temple University’s Athletic Department hosted an event for National Girls and Women in Sports Day to bring together student athletes and girls from Philadelphia elementary schools. Temple student athletes led the girls to participate in soccer, volleyball, field hockey, rowing, tennis, fencing, gymnastics, cheerleading, and track and field during the event. PhillyRising helped in the planning as well as sharing this opportunity and providing transportation to girls from a number of our partner organizations.
STAMP Pass Museum Trips
This month, PhillyRising took students from Strawberry Mansion Learning Center, the Village of Arts and Humanities, and other partner programs to the National Constitution Center, the Philadelphia Art Museum, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts as part of a collaboration with the Philly STAMP Pass initiative. Philly STAMP Pass gives Philadelphia high school students free admission to 12 museums and attractions throughout the city. The students participated in a trivia contest and other interactive activities at the Constitution Center and got to see the Mural Arts Exhibit at PAFA.
For more information about Philly STAMP Pass or to learn how you can organize a STAMP Pass event, visit phillystamppass.org.
Strawberry Mansion High School Students Produce Mourning at Night
A film produced by Strawberry Mansion High School students was recently featured on Technical.ly Philly. Mourning at Night was created during a six-week workshop at the Village of Arts and Humanities last summer sponsored by the US Attorney’s Office and EducationWorks. The film recounts the events surrounding a local teen’s shooting.
For more information, contact Jacki Boone at Jaclyn.Boone@phila.gov or visit us online at Facebook or Twitter.
The Philly Rising Collaborative 