Our Mission
Encouraging practical and caring solutions to community problems by supporting preventive and direct service efforts
Funding Areas
Featured Grantee
Big Picture Philadelphia
Big Picture Philadelphia is comprised of two innovative public Philadelphia High Schools. El Centro de Estudiantes is an alternative high school in North Philadelphia serving 200 students who are over-age, under-credited and about two years behind or “off track”. Vaux Big Picture High School is a neighborhood public school providing an internship-based, college preparatory educational experience.
Impact 2018
Grant Awards
203
Region Served
Dollars Given
$2,348,500
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.