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Knight's work in the region embraces the two Philadelphias. One is a cosmopolitan city with the most walkable big-city downtown in the nation, booming tourism, the buzz of 300,000 college students, and the treasure of world-class arts and cultural institutions. The other is a struggling post-industrial city where just one resident in seven has a college degree, and 52,000 young adults from 18 to 24 are idle, neither working nor in school.
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The 2009 Soul of the Community Survey explores the link between residents' emotional ties to where they live and the community's economic growth. Three main factors emotionally attach residents to the area: openness (how welcoming a place is), social offerings (fun places to gather) and aesthetics (an area’s physical beauty and green spaces). The study found that Philadelphia’s aesthetics is a community strength. However, resident perceptions of social offerings and openness were found to need improvement to encourage resident attachment to the area.
See survey details for Philadelphia at http://www.soulofthecommunity.org/philadelphia .
- Monday, February 1, 2010
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- Wednesday, January 13, 2010
- Knight Foundation Spurs New Round of Local News and Information Projects Nationwide
- Thursday, January 7, 2010
- Knight Foundation Commits $70 Million to Community Foundations
Community Grants in Philadelphia
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The Committee of Seventy
Amount: $75,000
To strengthen a permanent campaign in the Philadelphia region to demand ethical conduct of public officials, educate citizens and safeguard elections -
Sustainable Business Network
Amount: $125,000
To advance lower-skilled Philadelphians into career ladder positions through the creation of the Philadelphia Green Jobs Corps -
National Constitution Center
Amount: $200,000
To launch in Philadelphia a national platform for public dialogue on the most important constitutional issues facing Americans today by creating the Knight Constitutional Conversations series -
Goodwill Industries of Southern New Jersey and Philadelphia
Amount: $1,400,000
To create a new standard practice in Philadelphia for transitioning ex-offenders to the workplace by launching the Sheltered Workshop Initiative -
Energy Coordinating Agency of Philadelphia, Inc.
Amount: $1,100,000
To advance lower-skilled Philadelphians into careers by opening the John S. and James L. Knight Green Jobs Training Center -
United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania
Amount: $750,000
To create the Job Opportunity Investment Network, which will prepare lower-skilled Philadelphians for careers.
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