We applied for and received the $3,000 SCI-West Community Grant award. SCI-West’s mission is to improve whole communities by making them healthier, more competitive, and better connected to the economic mainstream, and they have deemed the CY team at West Philly to be an able contributor to that goal. In the award letter, they wrote, “We recognize the strong link between the great work that you do to the overall health of West Philadelphia. Organizations such as yours play a fundamental role in the success of our neighborhoods.”
This grant will help to fund a Celebration of the Arts event here at West. The day will include a poetry slam, dance performances, outside facilitators/performers and food. We are hoping to bring in the Twin Poets, a break dancing group, and some other local talent. Another part of the project is the construction of a new mural in the Student Success Center that we can move to the new West when that building opens in a few years.
Miles, 22, service leader, First Trust team at West Philadelphia High School
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
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