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Citizens Bank Gives $50,000 to UAC
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(left to right) Keith Arrington, Principal, Thurgood Marshall School, Sharmain Matlock-Turner, President & CEO, UAC, Daniel Fitzpatrick, President & CEO, for PA, NJ, and DE, Citizens Bank, and Bill Smith, Sr. VP, Citizens Bank and UAC Executive Committee Member. |
This week, at Thurgood Marshall Elementary School in North Philadelphia, the Citizens Bank Foundation presented a $50,000 grant to UAC and its Community and Economic Development Department's Financial Advancement Network (FAN) Club program.
A portion of the grant will support further development of FAN Club financial education workshops specifically for youth. This will include six new FAN Clubs for 60 students with sessions on Getting, Keeping and Growing Your Money; Smart Shopping; and Living on Your Own. The FAN Clubs will be hosted by the School District of Philadelphia for seventh and eighth grade students.
"Financial education is an important focus for us at Citizens Bank," said Daniel K. Fitzpatrick, President and CEO of Citizens Bank and RBS Citizens for Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware. "Through our support of UAC, we hope students learn critical skills that can put them on a path to financial independence and success." Read more |
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We Won!
UAC is among the winners of the Digital Media Learning (DML) Competition funded largely by the MacArthur Foundation. The Coalition is a partner in the "Digital On-Ramps initiative," an online and mobile-based literacy and workforce training program for youth and adults. The group was the recipient of $200,000 award that was presented this week at the Digital Media Learning Conference. Arun Prabaharan, UAC's Director of Strategic and Goverment Relations, worked hard on the project and was in San Fransisco to accept the award.
The Digital On-Ramps project envisions a practical solution to one of Philadelphia's most formidable challenges: preparing all Philadelphians to work and compete in the 21 -century economy. Digital On-Ramps will provide a digital framework for delivering comprehensive education and workforce training to youth and adults. Accessible via the "cloud" from a full range of devices (mobile, tablets, netbooks, desktop computers, etc.), it will offer an array of educational and training tools from basic literacy and math to post-secondary education and employment training.
Lead partners are Philadelphia Academies, Inc., City of Philadelphia (Mayor's Commission on Literacy, Mayor's Office of Education, Mayor's Technology Office) Urban Affairs Coalition, Drexel University, Philadelphia Youth Network, and IBM. Read more |
Temple U. Joins Home Buy*Now*Program
 Temple University joins the host of participating employers that recognize the power of collaboration by nonprofits, businesses and government sectors in the Philadelphia Home*Buy*Now program.
Philadelphia Home*Buy*Now is a city-funded, employer-assisted housing program. It is designed to enable employers to better recruit and retain employees by helping employees become homeowners; give employers a tool to improve communities surrounding their facilities; and increase the demand for housing in the City of Philadelphia. UAC is manager of the Philadelphia Home*Buy*program.
"Philadelphia Home*Buy*Now is a very significant resource that, in combination with Temple's Employee Home Ownership Program, helps to contribute to the stability of areas surrounding the university while at the same time making homeownership accessible for Temple employees," said Beverly Coleman, Assistant Vice President for Community Relations and Economic Development. Temple University will also offer their employees home buying and financial education workshops which will be conducted by the Community and Economic Development Department's Speakers Bureau.
For more information about the Philadelphia Home*Buy*Now program, contact Christopher Waters, Program Manager at 215-851-1955 or cwaters@uac.org or visit the Home Buy Now website: http://www.uac.org/philadelphiahomebuynow |
