Keeping America Beautiful: PHS’s ‘Cleaning and Greening’ LandCare Program
April is Keep America Beautiful Month. Urban vacant lots attract litter and illegal dumping, function as a breeding ground for pests, degrade the quality…
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Center for Employment Opportunities
Providing jobs and connections to returning individuals Returning home from incarceration is a time of economic risk, worsened in recent months by the effects...
Disaster Relief: 2019 High Impact Giving Guide
Disasters may involve human negligence or be a by-product of human actions, but in general are not the primary intended consequence of human actions....
Combating neighborhood blight by transforming neglected lots
Posted by Rebecca Hobble This blog is part of our 2016 High Impact Giving Guide preview series. Now in its sixth year, the…
When Am I Ready to Fund?
When Am I Ready to Fund? Originally published on the CEP blog. The Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) is a nonprofit organization focused on the development of…
Fixing Neighborhoods from the Outside In
What happens when you fix up abandoned buildings in inner-city Philadelphia neighborhoods? Besides improving the look of the space, minor building remediation can cause…
Aligning Impact for Healthy Communities: Q&A with the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
2015 Update: Greening Urban Lots Delivers Additional Health Impact In addition to the findings discussed below regarding greened vacant lots lowering crime and increasing…
Hurricane Sandy: How Can I Help?
In the U.S., Hurricane Sandy’s path of destruction swept through communities in South Carolina through Maine and as far west as Michigan. At its…