Nonprofit Partner Round-Up 2/19/21 - 2/26/21

The Philadelphia Bar Foundation funds nearly 40 legal aid nonprofits, all of whom are doing incredible work in Philadelphia and across Pennsylvania for the communities they serve. Our news round-ups highlight their recent activities:

2/26/2021 - Community Legal Services of Philadelphia (CLS) conducted research that found low and middle income Black and Hispanic households are most heavily impacted by debt.

2/25/2021 - The Mazzoni Center has worked to counter vaccine skepticism in the Philadelphia transgender community and continues to provide COVID-19 vaccines.

2/24/2021 - The Philadelphia Eagles highlighted the work of Face to Face as a critical one-stop-shop that provides services to Germantown residents.

2/22/2021 - HIAS Pennsylvania has announced their support of the U.S. Citizenship Act, introduced on February 18th, that recognizes immigrants as a public good and provides them with a pathway to citizenship.

2/19/2021 - Advocates from the Juvenile Law Center, Youth Sentencing & Reentry Project, and other organizations have joined together to form the Care, Not Control Coalition and produced a list of demands to reform the juvenile justice system.