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Sample of recipients for 2010:
ASSETS Montco, located in Norristown, offers training and support to low and moderate-income entrepreneurs who are beginning or expanding a microenterprise in Southeastern Pennsylvania, providing training, mentoring and technical assistance. Funding will provide support for their Business Design and Management Course, the core of their services. Business and professional people volunteer their time to teach the course, sharing their real world experiences and practical advice.
Inn Dwelling, located in Philadelphia, was founded to assist marginalized families in the Germantown and Northeast sections of the city. Education of typically at-risk youth is a major priority. Funding will support their Comprehensive Youth Program, serving at-risk youth, ages 11-18. The goal of the program is to enable financially-challenged, bright, underserved youth to attend college and return to their communities able to participate in the diminishment of neighborhood blight, devastation and poverty and ultimately to end systemic dependency. With the assistance of this program, one hundred percent of their children have been accepted to college.
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