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  2. Youth Empowerment for Advancement Hangout - Wikipedia

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    yeahphilly .org. Youth Empowerment for Advancement Hangout, also known as YEAH Philly, is a non-profit community organization based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, that works with teens and young adults who have been impacted by violence. [1] It was founded in 2018 by Kendra Van de Water and James Aye as a Black-led organization in an effort to ...

  3. Beth Sholom Congregation (Elkins Park, Pennsylvania)

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    Designated PHMC. September 21, 2008 [2] Beth Sholom Congregation ( transliterated from Hebrew as "House of Peace") is a Conservative Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 8231 Old York Road in Elkins Park, a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States. It is the only synagogue designed by famed architect Frank Lloyd Wright ...

  4. Banking model of education - Wikipedia

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    Banking model of education ( Portuguese: modelo bancário de educação) is a term coined by Paulo Freire to describe and critique the established education system in his book Pedagogy of the Oppressed. [1] [2] The name refers to the metaphor of students as containers into which educators must put knowledge.

  5. The Philadelphia Foundation - Wikipedia

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    Website. www .philafound .org. The Philadelphia Foundation is a community foundation that serves the metropolitan Philadelphia community. The five primary counties served are Philadelphia, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, and Montgomery. [2] It is one of the oldest and largest community foundations in the United States, awarding more than $20 million ...

  6. Solomon House (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) - Wikipedia

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    Solomon House is an 1887 brick-and-brownstone building at 17th and Moravian Streets in Center City Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It was designed by the architectural firm of Furness & Evans , headed by Frank Furness , Philadelphia's leading architect in the last quarter of the 19th century.

  7. Paulo Freire - Wikipedia

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    Paulo Reglus Neves Freire (19 September 1921 – 2 May 1997) was a Brazilian educator and philosopher who was a leading advocate of critical pedagogy. His influential work Pedagogy of the Oppressed is generally considered one of the foundational texts of the critical pedagogy movement, [37] [38] [39] and was the third most cited book in the ...

  8. The Pew Charitable Trusts - Wikipedia

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    Address. 2005 Market Street, Suite 1700. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103-7077. Website. pewtrusts.org. The Pew Charitable Trusts is an independent non-profit, non-governmental organization (NGO), founded in 1948. [1] [2] [3] Pew's stated mission is to serve the public interest by "improving public policy, informing the public, and invigorating ...

  9. Congregation Rodeph Shalom (Philadelphia) - Wikipedia

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    Congregation Rodeph Shalom ( Hebrew: רודף שלום, lit. 'Pursuer of Peace'), is an historic Reform Jewish congregation and synagogue located at 615 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in the United States. Established in 1795, it is the oldest Ashkenazic synagogue in the Western Hemisphere.