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  2. Women's Way - Wikipedia

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    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 controversial and ...

  3. LGBT culture in Philadelphia - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Women's empowerment - Wikipedia

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    Feminism. Women's empowerment (or female empowerment) may be defined in several ways, including accepting women's viewpoints, making an effort to seek them and raising the status of women through education, awareness, literacy, and training. [1] [2] [3] Women's empowerment equips and allows women to make life-determining decisions through the ...

  5. How 'Women's Empowerment' Lost Its Meaning - AOL

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    Today the phrase “women’s empowerment” has eclipsed “community empowerment” and “employee empowerment.” It, too, came to prominence in the 1980s and 1990s. It, too, came to ...

  6. The Knickerbocker Hotel - Wikipedia

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    The Armenonville restaurant, a 600-seat cafe on the ground floor, opened in June 1908. The 42nd Street frontage was slightly rebuilt two years later when 42nd Street was widened, and the Armenonville restaurant was renovated. Also in 1911, the Knickerbocker expanded into the neighboring Ryan Hotel, adding about one hundred more suites.

  7. 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 ...

  8. 75 Women Empowerment Quotes from the Most Inspirational ... - AOL

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    Chelsea Candelario/PureWow. 3. “If they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.”. — Shirley Chisholm. Chelsea Candelario/PureWow. 4. “Women don’t need to find a ...

  9. Philadelphia Pepper Pot - Wikipedia

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    A lasting record of Pepper Pot's not-so-distant popularity is one of Andy Warhol 's iconic Campbell Soup's works. Created by Warhol in 1962, it features the Pepper Pot variety and sold in 2006 for $12 million. In 1968, the Philadelphia chapter of the Public Relations Society of America chose the Pepper Pot as the symbol for its annual awards.