The Independence Blue Cross Foundation and the Urban Affairs Coalition are proud to announce our ongoing collaboration through the Coalition U Community, a free web-based learning hub exclusively for eligible nonprofits to access resources for professional development, best practices in innovation, and building organizational capacity. The web-based community is open at no cost to all eligible nonprofits in the southeastern region of…
The Urban Affairs Coalition (UAC) has been a leader and critical partner to WorkReady Philadelphia, providing Philadelphia teens with their first job, career exposure, resume preparation, interview experience, on-the-job mentoring, and paid, part-time opportunity each summer for more than 30 years. UAC is proud to introduce a new hub for the UAC Summer Youth Employment Program: phillyyouthemployment.org.Beginning Summer 2021, PhillyYouthEmployment.org will be…
Earlier this month, Generocity.org launched a year-long reporting project called TRACE, “which is itself the project’s approach, and an acronym for Toward Response and Community Equity,” writes Christopher Wink, co-founder and CEO of Technically Media, and Friend of the Coalition Honoree. “The year-long series will track how and where the region’s government, philanthropic, civic and private sector is working toward a more…
On July 1, the UAC Family welcomed Arun S. Prabhakaran back to the Coalition staff. Arun is the Urban Affairs Coalition’s Executive Vice President, where he oversees all of the $46M organization’s operations. Most recently, Arun entered the Philadelphia District Attorney’s Office (DAO) to serve as Chief of Staff to Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner in January 2018, following…
Dear Friends and Family, Over the past four months, I’ve used this space to share my thoughts on some of the most pressing issues of our time — the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on communities of color, and a resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement stemming from repeated acts of racial injustice. These…
Nonprofits, small businesses, and the citizens they serve – particularly those within our communities of color – have been impacted particularly hard during the COVID-19 pandemic. We know the recovery process is going be a community effort; but we also know that recovery will be quicker and more affective with direct help from private and…
