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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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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 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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Drexel University, Philadelphia Parks & Recreation and Fab Youth Philly Partner for Teen Lifeguard Training

To fill Philadelphia's need for lifeguards at City pools this summer, a public-private partnership was created to train 13 local teens for the positions while providing employment and professional ...
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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) ...
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Writers Room Creates Community Through Stories, Photos With Canon Project

For the last three years, members and supporters of Drexel University’s Writers Room have celebrated the release of a collective published work which, in essence, makes them all published authors.
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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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Dornsife Center for Neighborhood Partnerships Hosts Dinner Cooked by Drexel Alum

On Aug. 9, Chef Daniel Lee packed his SUV full to the brim with pasta, dessert and cooking supplies. Though Lee, owner and chef of Farina Pasta and Noodle , is now based in Center City, he was headed ...
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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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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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Q&A: The Drexel Employee Using His Front Porch to Support the Community

Since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Promise Neighborhood team in Drexel University’s Office of University and Community Partnerships has distributed the following items to community ...