Announcements/News
Fab Youth Philly - Sandbox Networking Meeting
Adults that work with or on behalf of children and teens should join Fab Youth Philly each month for networking, resource sharing, and peer learning.
Topics & Dates:
- April 20th- Story telling for youth programs. Learn how to use story telling techniques for your grant reports, proposals, outreach and programming. Facilitated by Reggie Jones.
- May 18th-Self-Care for Youth Development Professionals. Join us at the lovely Las Parcelas gardens in Norris Square for a variety of self-care activities. Multiple facilitators.
All meetings are always FREE. Facilitators & topics change month to month.
The March & April sessions take place at IL Sorriso Café, 2400 Howard Street (19133), just a few blocks from the York-Dauphin El Stop.
You can RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sandbox-networking-for-youth-development-professionals-tickets-523689749137
RSVP’s Volunteer Executive Consultants
VEC Spring Workshop Series 2023 - all workshops are held 10:00am - 11:30am via Zoom
RSVP’s Volunteer Executive Consultants (VEC) provide free managerial consulting and educational services to existing and potential nonprofits in the Greater Philadelphia area.
- Questions? Contact Sheri Wilensky Burke, VEC Program Manager at sherib@rsvpmc.org or 610-834-1040 x135
DIY Branding: Strategic Messaging with a Distinctive Voice, April 18, 2023
You don’t need to be a branding expert to create strategic messages that can help distinguish the unique value your organization delivers to the community. In this workshop, we will briefly survey the elements that work together to build a brand identity – and personality – for your nonprofit organization. Then we will delve deeper into the power of words: what you say (messaging) and how you say it (tone of voice). Whether you’re new to branding or looking to refresh what you’ve got, join us as we practice how to develop messages that are authentic and memorable.
Learn more and register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/diy-branding-strategic-messaging-with-a-distinctive-voice-registration-522581414077
Build Your Board to Ensure Mission Achievement, May 24, 2023
Having an effective board is one of the most important ways to ensure the long-term success of your organization. Yet finding and recruiting board members is one of the most difficult challenges for many nonprofits. Often board recruitment is addressed as needed, rather than strategically. Joined by a panel of executive directors and board members, we will examine how to consider your organization’s ongoing and long-term needs to create a framework and build a board best suited to meet your organization's goals.
Learn more and register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/how-to-build-your-board-to-ensure-mission-achievement-registration-522614533137
Our Mission
The mission of the Foundation is to financially support organizations that help those struggling daily with the effects of poverty.
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Anderson Monarchs
The Anderson Monarchs are regarded as a premiere youth sports program in Philadelphia and have gained local and national attention as a unique model of sports-based youth development. In route to winning dozens of soccer, basketball and baseball championships in local, regional and even national leagues and tournaments, the Monarchs have earned a reputation for playing smart, playing hard, and playing with class. The program has always been about more than sports. Locally, teams have engaged in community service and mentoring projects, and have participated in classes and workshops on topics ranging from the Civil Rights movement to financial literacy to college prep. In recent years, the Monarchs have deepened their commitment to expanding opportunity through athletics and promoting equitable access to youth sports. The organization launched a girls travel program, which currently supports three cohorts of girls between the ages of 8 and 11. The Monarchs have established relationships with South Philadelphia public and charter elementary schools, and currently provide in-school sports programs for more than three hundred youth each school year.
2022
Patricia & Philip Kind, Jr.
Patricia van Ameringen Kind, born in 1924, was the middle child of Arnold and Hedwig van Ameringen. She was raised in South Orange, N.J. with her two siblings, Henry van Ameringen and Lily Auchincloss. She attended Kent Place School, where she was a star athlete and was voted “best personality” by her classmates. She went on to become a registered nurse at the Monmouth Memorial Hospital School of Nursing, foreshadowing a lifetime devoted to caring for others. Her first nursing job was in Philadelphia where she met the love of her life, Philip Kind, Jr.