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…
Dear Friends and Family, The details are all too familiar to us now, the incident caught on video and shared with the world. On Monday, May 25, 2020, George Floyd, an unarmed 46-year-old black man from Minneapolis, died after a deadly incident involving four police officers. One of the officers, Derek Chauvin, used his knee…
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world around us in more ways than we could have ever anticipated. Philadelphia’s youth have been hit particularly hard, dealing with changes to the way they learn, interact, recreate, earn money, and even eat. Summer jobs have always been and still are a critical experience for many Philadelphia youth.…
