News and Perspectives

I recently had the opportunity to chat with some of the Fellows and Host Organizations who are part of the inaugural cohort of the Diversifying Early Education Leadership Fellowship (DEEL), a program that aims to build more inclusive and representative...

Cynthia Robinson ran Mrs. Cynthia’s Munchkin Romper Room, a family day care center in Germantown, for more than two decades. She taught nursery rhymes and the ABC tune to dozens of children — including her granddaughters, 3-year-old London, who lives with...

To finally achieve the people-centered Civic Vision articulated over a decade ago, we need to honor the wisdom of the community.

To our grantees and partners: We are deeply saddened by the death of George Floyd. But we can't claim to be surprised. My generation came of age during the late 1960s, a time of civil rights and war protests. We knew that a lot needed to change. When...

PHILADELPHIA (January 29, 2018) – The William Penn Foundation announced today the appointment of Hilary Rhodes as the organization’s new director of evaluation and learning. Rhodes is responsible for developing and implementing a new internal evaluation...