Current and Past Partners
- Beyond Literacy - provides opportunities for adults and families by harnessing the power of literacy through free, high-quality education.
- Beachell Family Learning Center (BFLC) – (Drexel University & Community Partnerships)- a place-based strategy for Equitable Economic Opportunity in four areas including Digital Literacy, Entrepreneurship, Financial Wellness, and Workforce Development to help community members complete education goals, earn family-sustaining wages, build wealth and income security, and sustain their businesses.
- Lazarex Cancer Wellness HUB (Drexel College of Nursing and Health Professions) - is dedicated to reducing the impact of cancer on our community and to increasing access to care drawing on community voices to empower residents across diverse neighborhoods to actively engage with prevention and treatment efforts.
- Drexel Klein School of Law
- Stern Community Lawyering Clinic: allows students to serve as true community lawyers, addressing a variety of issues that affect Drexel’s neighbors. Students represent individual clients and families facing legal issues, provide training to community residents who face common problems and publish reports that advocate for policy changes that would promote justice and equality for Drexel’s neighbors.
- Pro Bono & Public Interest Programs:
- Criminal Record Expungement Clinic - is dedicated to working with the community to reduce the collateral effects of criminal records. In partnership with the Philadelphia Lawyers for Social Equity (PLSE), C-REP provides free direct legal services to individuals seeking to expunge non-conviction records in Philadelphia County.
- Estate Planning Clinic - Students trained in simple estate planning draft Powers of Attorneys, Advanced Medical Directives, and Wills for clients in our community.
- Name Change Clinic – law students meet with transgender, non-binary, and gender diverse Philadelphia residents who are seeking legal name changes in order to update their identification documents to match their identities and lived experience
- Creator’s Studio (Drexel Westphal) – Drexel students and faculty introduce community members to modern music recording and production techniques. Offered in a lab setting, this program encourages creativity and fosters music and computer recording proficiency.
- CNHP Community Wellness HUB (Drexel College of Nursing and Health Professions) - The HUB seeks to HEAL the community through preventative care, UNITE the community around better health, and BRIDGE the community to health services and health education programming, while tackling the social determinants that underlie their health disparities.
- Dance at Dornsife (Drexel Westphal) - offer free dance classes to youth and adults in West Philadelphia. Weekly dance classes are taught by Drexel dance students and mentored by Drexel dance faculty to extend the physical, intellectual, creative, and therapeutic aspects of dance to the community.
- Digital Navigators (Drexel University & Community Partnerships) - assist the local community around Drexel University with finding low-cost Internet access, basic technical support, refurbished computers, and digital skills classes.
- Dornsife After-School Music Program (Drexel Westphal) - offer free after school music classes to youth in the community. Classes are taught by Drexel music students and directed by Drexel faculty member Lynn Riley.
- Dornsife Center Community Garden (Drexel Urban Growers and Trellis for Tomorrow) - Participants help maintain and harvest the garden at the Dornsife Center. Come join us and learn urban farming skills with the Drexel Urban Growers (DUG).
- EAT Right Philly (Drexel College of Nursing and Health Professions) - conducts interactive nutrition education programming using a variety of interventions to promote healthful eating and physically active lifestyles.
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Educators 4 Education (E4E):
- Auto Theft Reduction Program - co-created with the Philadelphia District Attorney’s office and focuses on youth ages 13-19 years old, referred from the District Attorney’s office for non-violent auto-theft, who meet the criteria to participate in this curriculum which consists of learning juvenile justice laws, knowledge-based skills surrounding empathy, victim impact, emotional vulnerability, and positive influences.
- Transforming Justice Hub - provides popular education to Philadelphia youth, in neighborhoods most familiar with the conditions of gun violence, to interrupt cycles of conflict, and the systems of oppression that cause them, through community organizing and community dialogue. Giving youth the opportunity to lead community dialogues, restorative justice processes and organizing initiatives in their community to mitigate gun violence, rooted in restorative justice and crisis response.
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FAB Youth Philly –youth development organization that provides innovative, award-winning programming for youth, with a focus on creating workforce development opportunities for teens ages 15-19.
- Youth Programming - utilizes a strengths-based positive youth development framework designed to integrate three protective factors that research has shown to help youth thrive.
- Professional Development - connect individuals to networking, training and professional development as well as to various resources including grants and funding opportunities, other youth development professionals, research, curriculum and more.
- FamFrequency – music production and entrepreneurship program for youth and young people who are interested in creative entrepreneurship.
- Food and Hospitality Management (Drexel College of Nursing and Health Professions) – Chef Pepino along with his students prepare meals for our monthly community dinners where participants can meet their neighbors and find out more about what programs are offered at the Dornsife Center.
- Lindy Scholars (Drexel University and Community Partnerships) - provide enhanced educational services to students, families, and schools in West Philadelphia inspiring children to see a personal future in a technologically driven global economy and provide them with the enrichment and support that will ultimately enable them to be admitted to and succeed in college.
- Museum of Black Joy – an interactive archive, a hybrid exhibition space, and living document of non-traumatic Black life in Philadelphia and beyond, utilizing traditional storytelling and emerging technologies to acknowledge and advance experiences rooted in Black joy.
- Philly WINs (Workforce Inclusion Network) – (Drexel - A.J. Drexel Autism Institute) – part of the NextGen study, which assesses the effectiveness of programs designed to help people find employment and to evaluate innovative programs serving individuals facing challenges to employment.
- Samuel Staten Sr. Pre-Apprenticeship Program (SSSPAP)- increases economic opportunity and prepares under-represented, disadvantaged individuals to enter and succeed in the Philadelphia Building Trades Unions' apprenticeship programs.
- Sharing Excess – dedicated to reducing food waste and increasing food access by working with both food businesses and food banks to share fresh produce with the community.
- Trellis for Tomorrow – manages over 25 garden sites that generate organic produce and positively impact meals for neighbors in need. Provide youth programs with hands on work that help improve self-esteem and future potential through paid internships, career readiness programming, leadership development, and entrepreneurial experience.
- Urban League of Philadelphia (ULP) – Digital Literacy, Housing, Youth programming, workforce development - affiliate of the National Urban League, one of the nation’s oldest and largest community-based movements dedicated to empowering underserved urban communities.
- Writers Room (Drexel University & Community Partnerships) - literary arts program engaged in creative placemaking and art for social justice. This diverse, intergenerational collective of students, alumni, faculty, staff and West Philadelphia neighbors is focused on building co-creative places that foster connection and a sense of belonging. Writers Room provides its members with the time, space, and expertise needed to tell their stories, listen to others' stories, and examine their experiences for commonality, discord, and meaning.
- Youth & Adult Martial Arts (Drexel Athletics) – Free Martial Arts classes for youth and adults taught by the Drexel University's Tae Kwon Do (TKD) Club. The program pairs community participants with Drexel student mentors who are part of the Drexel TKD club sharing their TKD skills and thus becoming responsible for their education, the Drexel students in turn broaden their own personal development.
- Phlebotomy Vocational Training (Cultural Institute of Health and Education (CIHE) - Our phlebotomy program is an 8-week vocational training designed to equip participants with the skills and knowledge required to perform blood collection procedures. The program emphasizes technical proficiency and patient-centered care, preparing students for entry-level roles in healthcare. Through hands-on training, participants gain experience in venipuncture, capillary collection, and specimen handling while also learning about laboratory safety and professional ethics.