dragonballyee.com/With the help of the Philadelphia Youth Orchestra, Stanford Thompson, a graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, launched Tune Up Philly, an afterschool music education program, last September in hopes of demonstrating the lasting effect ensemble music can have on the lives of urban youth.
Inspired by El Sistema, an organization started in Venezuela to transform

Steelers vs. Packers. PennFuture vs. Clean Wisconsin. It’s an intense challenge between Clean Wisconsin and PennFuture, an environmental organization race to win online donations. So, here is the deal: Clean Wisconsin has bet that they can get more donations than PennFuture by noon on Super Bowl Sunday (Feb. 6). It’s a battle like this that can get

online.wsj.com/It’s safe to say we’ve received our fair share of snow this winter (with news of even more on the way!) The seemingly endless hours of snow removal can get frustrating, and for most the main goal is to travel safely to and from home without slipping on a slick patch of ice. However, try

Dennis Curran for The New York TimesAfter years of finding illegal levels of antibiotics in dairy cows, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) believe the drugs could be tainting the milk consumers drink. According to the New York Times, current tests found that hundreds of older dairy cows have these illegal amounts of antibiotics in their system

This Sunday, January 30th, from 5 to 8pm, First Unitarian Church, 22nd and Chestnut Streets.
 

Philly Stake, a local member of The Soup Network, honors outside-the-box ideas by hosting Sunday benefit dinners. Attendants give $10 to $20 towards a Philly Stake "Grant," eat a locally-sourced meal, and watch presentations from 10 community projects. At the end

Image courtesy senatoranthonyhwilliams.com Senator Anthony H. Williams and the Philadelphia Housing Authority are co-hosting a five-week nutrition program for the residents (specifically parents) of Bartram Village in Southwest Philadelphia. The newly dubbed Healthy Eating Program is a free event meant to serve as a pilot program that Williams hopes will develop into a broader community effort.
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Pyrite (also known as fool’s gold) can be a real con-artist that often deceives gold miners. But, as researchers at the University of California, Irvine are discovering, Pyrite may be of value to anyone involved or interested in the solar industry. According to the Los Angeles Times (via Philly.com) the UC-Irvine team believes the mineral

Image courtesy http://philafood.net/wp/The Enterprise Center CDC (TEC-CDC) is currently accepting requests for proposals from General Contractors interested in developing the organization’s Center for Culinary Enterprises (CCE). The CCE made an appearance in our December 2010 issue, and is a shared-use culinary business center that will be housed in a former supermarket on 48th Street between Spruce and

pennlive.comThink your nonprofit organization needs a makeover? Does your nonprofit deserve more attention? You may be in luck. From now until March 1, Letter27, a Philadelphia branding agency, will be accepting nominations for nonprofits to win the ultimate BuildingBlocks package, valued at $10,000. It is promised to include a new logo, tagline, five-page website, brochure,

Image courtesy evxteam.org President Obama will give his second State of the Union Address tonight at 9 pm EST. The Adress will give the President a chance to share his agenda for the year ahead with an audience of members of Congress, but there will also be a familiar face among them. Brandon Ford, a junior