Steve Kuzmicki

The Common Place Receives $75,000 Grant to Enhance Security

By Steve Kuzmicki | March 12, 2021 | Comments Off on The Common Place Receives $75,000 Grant to Enhance Security

Photo:   Members of the Salt and Light Congregation ready food parcels distributed weekly at The Common Place at 58th and Chester.  Addressing endemic food insecurity is just one of the […]

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How a Philly woman is building her business on a $10 house won in a lottery

By Steve Kuzmicki | March 11, 2021 | Comments Off on How a Philly woman is building her business on a $10 house won in a lottery

By Taylor Allen Racqueal Howard, 44 and born and raised in Philadelphia, knew she wanted to make a career in development. She’s gotten her feet wet with renting out a […]

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PHFA launches new, forgivable down payment and closing cost assistance loan

By Steve Kuzmicki | March 10, 2021 | Comments Off on PHFA launches new, forgivable down payment and closing cost assistance loan

Called K-FIT, the loan is forgivable 10% a year over 10 years HARRISBURG – The Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency today is launching a new home purchase assistance loan that is […]

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Southwest organizations receive $1 Million Grant to Assist Southwest Residents Rise out of Poverty

By Steve Kuzmicki | February 26, 2021 | Comments Off on Southwest organizations receive $1 Million Grant to Assist Southwest Residents Rise out of Poverty

African Cultural Alliance of North America (ACANA), Southwest Community Development Corporation (SWCDC) and the Philadelphia Chinatown Development Corporation (PCDC) have partnered together to receive a $1,000,000 grant million to conduct […]

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AMAZON Coming to Southwest?

By Steve Kuzmicki | February 26, 2021 | Comments Off on AMAZON Coming to Southwest?

By now, most people have heard that Amazon is interested in Southwest Philadelphia.  Well, apparently the rumors are true, as Amazon is preparing to take its case to open a […]

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Bartram’s Garden Receives Major Grant

By Steve Kuzmicki | December 18, 2020 | Comments Off on Bartram’s Garden Receives Major Grant

Allow youth to study our water environment House Democratic Leader Joanna McClinton announced today that Bartram’s Garden is receiving a $40,000 state grant to aid in their ongoing efforts to […]

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Black Scientist Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett

By Steve Kuzmicki | December 18, 2020 | Comments Off on Black Scientist Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett

At the core of Covid-19 Vaccine research Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation’s top infectious disease expert recently paid tribute at an Urban League forum to Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett of the […]

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Covid-19 Vaccination – Safe, Effective, Needed!

By Steve Kuzmicki | December 18, 2020 | Comments Off on Covid-19 Vaccination – Safe, Effective, Needed!

A screen shot of members of the last Tuesday’s town Hall “Faith, (Mis)Trust and Covid-19” (upper row) Dr. Florence Monplaisir, MD, Penn Med; Rev. Cean James, Salt and Light Congregation (MC of the panel); Rev. Dr. Donna Lawrence Jones, Cookman, Beloved Comm. Church; (lower row)Rev. Bertram Johnson, Union Theological Seminary, New York; Khadijah Abdullah, Reaching all HIV+ Muslims in America. On the panel but not in the photo: U.S. Rep. Dwight Evans; Imam Quaiser Abdullah, PhD, Temple University; and Dr. Carmen Guerra, MD, Penn Med.

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Cobbs Creek Cleanup Cancelled for Sat, Dec 19

By Steve Kuzmicki | December 18, 2020 | Comments Off on Cobbs Creek Cleanup Cancelled for Sat, Dec 19

Cobbs Creek Cleanup Cancelled for Sat, Dec 19The snow has covered the recreational path, grass, and of course, the litter.Often, when we cancelled Sat we had a Sun afternoon, 1-3, […]

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