Longtime friends Jane Brooks and Joyce Burd decided to combine their skills, Jane as a writer and Joyce as an arts administrator, to bring ballroom dancing to 5th grade classrooms in Philadelphia.
Longtime friends Jane Brooks and Joyce Burd decided to combine their skills, Jane as a writer and Joyce as an arts administrator, to bring ballroom dancing to 5th grade classrooms in Philadelphia.
Iris Brown and Tomasita Romero, along with the Philadelphia Horticultural Society, have built 6 community gardens, adding a splash of rural Puerto Rican color to a blighted area of the city.
After being paralyzed, Juliet Goodfriend decided to put her energy and knowledge about marketing strategies into something she really cared about, turning the Bryn Mawr movie theater into a thriving art movie house and learning center.
After the murder of her son, Khaaliq, Dorothy took both her personal and professional experiences as a grief and loss counselor to guide others towards healing. She founded Mothers in Charge, an organization against violence in Philadelphia.
Faced with the death of his wife and feeling as though his life lacked focus or purpose, Vernick started volunteering at an organization that prepares and delivers meals to terminally ill people. It changed his life.
Voluntad spent most of his professional life in the restaurant business where he got to know Asian immigrants and the difficulties they face. He now helps Vietnamese, Cambodian and Laotian elders adjust at the Nationalities Senior Center in North Philadelphia.
Erik, a reporter for Philly newspaper One Step Away, has been living in a shelter for 2 years now, and says that working at the newspaper has helped him get back on his feet.
For most of his adult life Jack Yampolsky has been a numbers guy, but his life took a different turn when he started writing, and at the age of 81 he published his first book, a novel called Boardwalk Story.
