Human Services

The Foundation dedicates approximately 30% of its annual funding to human service organizations in the region (allocation will vary slightly year to year, as we respond to each year’s requests). Preference will be given to those organizations whose programs serve a disadvantaged or underserved population.

CASA/Youth Advocates, Inc., with offices in Media, PA, recruits, trains and supervises volunteer advocates who contribute over 12,000 hours annually of advocacy on behalf of abused and neglected children in Delaware County. The volunteers work with the court, the families, professionals and Guardian ad Litem attorneys to ensure that the needs of the children are being met until they can be placed in safe, permanent homes. Funding supports general operating expenses.

Interfaith Hospitality Network of the Main Line, with offices and a Learning Skills Center in Norristown, PA, is a network of area congregations, whose thousands of volunteers draw together with the purpose of providing hope and help to homeless families and their children. They provide emergency housing and a network of supportive services to help families design and implement a plan to break the cycle of homelessness in their lives. Funding supports general operating expenses.

The Salvation Army of Greater Philadelphia continues to thrive, and today is one of the most respected charitable organizations in the United States. Funding supports Soup’s On!,
a culinary job-training program that provides training and job placement in the culinary arts industry for economically disadvantaged people. Upon completion of the 12-week program, participants are placed in well-paying jobs
within the food service industry.

Urban Tree Connection, founded in 1989
by one man and a shovel, has grown and collaborated with hundreds of children and
their families, primarily from disadvantaged African American neighborhoods in Philadelphia, to build gardens on abandoned public open spaces, transforming urban blight into urban oases. It was funded to expand their food distribution and after-school youth program, VeggieKids. Started in 2008, the program has harvested over 800 pounds of fresh produce, engaging local at-risk youth and distributing harvested food to needy residents in North Central Philadelphia.