News and Perspectives

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...

The Delaware River watershed encompasses an amazing network of 25,000 miles of flowing rivers and streams. Last weekend I had the privilege of paddling some 35 of those miles with a group of the region’s experts in outdoor education, environmental policy...

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...

A recent article in The Philadelphia Inquirer covered the impact of plastics pollution – when physical trash ends up in our waterways and washes ashore – in the Delaware River. The article pointed to the fact that the source of the pollution is likely...