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Women's Way. Women's Way is a grantmaking, advocacy, and education 501 (c) (3) status nonprofit that deals with current issues facing women and girls in the greater Philadelphia region. [1] Several women-focused nonprofits formed the organization in the late-1970s in response to financial struggles. The causes they served at the time were ...
Dawn Michelle Staley (born May 4, 1970) [1] is an American basketball Hall of Fame player and coach who is currently the head coach for the reigning champion South Carolina Gamecocks women's team. Staley won three Olympic gold medals with Team USA as a player and later was head coach of another U.S. gold-medal winning team.
Gloria Casarez. Gloria Casarez (December 13, 1971 – October 19, 2014) was an American civil rights leader and LGBT activist in Philadelphia. [1] Casarez served as Philadelphia's first director of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) affairs. [2] During her tenure as director, Philadelphia ranked as the number one city nationwide for ...
Blondell Reynolds Brown. Blondell Reynolds Brown (born October 16, 1952) is an American politician and member of the Democratic Party. She served as a member of the Philadelphia City Council . Reynolds Brown was the only woman to serve At-Large in City Council from 1999 to 2015. [1] On January 2, 2012, Reynolds Brown was elected the council's ...
Background. The Woman's Exchange Movement in the United States dates to 1832, with the establishment of the Philadelphia Ladies' Depository. Exchanges are non-profit establishments. In the 19th century they were mainly set up by philanthropic women, providing a setting for women to sell their embroidery, sewin
U.S. Founded in 1850, The Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania ( WMCP ), formally known as The Female Medical College of Pennsylvania, was the first American medical college dedicated to teaching women medicine and allowing them to earn the Doctor of Medicine degree, M.D. [1] 1867- The Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania was renamed the ...
Lincoln Financial Field is an American football stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is the home stadium of the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League (NFL) and the Temple Owls football team of Temple University. The stadium is located in South Philadelphia on Pattison Avenue between 11th and South Darien streets alongside I ...
The Philadelphia LGBT community has roots as far back as the 1930s and 1940s. Early gay networks would meet privately at underground house parties and other private venues within Center City, West Philadelphia, and Germantown. [1] In tandem with the substantial post-WWII expansion of American suburbia, which resulted in white-collar families ...