September 30, 2025

PHENND Events/Activities

PHENND Seeks Nonprofit Host Sites for PHENND Fellows VISTA Program – Dec 5

PHENND

Nonprofit organizations in the Greater Philadelphia region are invited to apply to host a PHENND Fellow for the 2026-2027 program year. This application is for new host sites. PHENND Fellows serve in...

Other Local Events and Workshops

Virtual Candidate Forum for judges – Sep 30

Pennsylvanians for Modern Courts

CANDIDATE FORUM TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30th | 7:30PM – 8:30PM Join us for a virtual candidate forum for the Superior Court of Pennsylvania and the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvanian. This program...

Catto Legacy Conference, CCP – Oct 11

Community College of Philadelphia

Join us for a meaningful dialogue and innovative sessions aimed at expanding access to higher education and empowering individuals throughout the Philadelphia region and beyond. This free conference...

Indigenous Peoples Day Philly – Oct 13

IPD Philly

Monday, October 13th is Indigenous Peoples’ Day. In Philadelphia, an Indigenous led non-profit, IPD Philly, will be holding a cultural festival in Shackamaxon Park (1301 N Beach Street,...

SPARK Innovation Academy Info Session – Oct 1 or 22

City of Philadelphia

Imagine a food pantry that spends less time managing spreadsheets and more time delivering meals. Or a youth program that keeps sensitive data safe while reaching more families online. That’s the...

Technology Learning Collaborative Conference 2025: Resilience in Action – Oct 8 & 9

Technology Learning Collaborative

Please join Technology Learning Collaborative (TLC) on Thursday, October 9th, 2025 for our one-day annual conference hosted by Temple University. This year’s theme will be Resilience in Action:...

Comprehensive Healthcare Workforce Development Virtual Training

Once Upon a Preemie

Once Upon A Preemie, Inc. will host free virtual trainings for Pennsylvania’s healthcare workforce. This training will provide an interactive educational opportunity that will address the...

Philadelphia College Prep Roundtable: FAFSA Completion Training – Oct 30

Philadelphia College Prep Roundtable (PCPR)

Are you helping students and families with the FAFSA? Join us for essential FAFSA Completion Training! The 2026-2027 FAFSA season has begun. To ensure that Philadelphia students have the best...

Community of Practice Virtual Series: Government & Community Relations – Oct 9, Nov 6, Dec 4

Partners for Campus-Community Engagement (PCCE)

Join Partners for Campus-Community Engagement (PCCE) as we host this 3-part community of practice! Session one will be facilitated by Kendy Alvarez, Mayor of Lewisburg Borough and PCCE Board Member...

Zoom Event: Introduction to Community Engaged Learning – Oct 10

Partners for Campus-Community Engagement (PCCE)

Community Engaged Learning (CEL) is a powerful pedagogy that centers community impact along student learning in college level courses. But how do I do it? This workshop will introduce the pedagogical...

Adjunct Networking Event – Sep 30

Adjunctions

Adjunctions, the platform dedicated to connecting and supporting adjunct and non-tenured faculty, has announced a new collaboration with OneHE, the global learning community for higher education....

CURE Seminar Series with Tre Johnson, Author of Black Genius – Oct 2

Rutgers Camden

Join the Center for Urban Research and Education (CURE) at Rutgers University – Camden for our upcoming Seminar Series with cultural critic Tre Johnson. His new book, Black Genius, examines how...

New Resources

New Program Expanding Higher Ed Access to Refugee Students in PA

Community Sponsorship Hub

Too often, structural barriers and a lack of resources, information, and targeted support prevent qualified and ambitious students of refugee background from pursuing an undergraduate degree at a...

Math and Career Education Are Now Top Grant Priorities for U.S. Education Department

Education Week

The Department of Education has proposed two priorities for competitive grants: support for foundational subjects such as math and advancement of career and technical education. The proposal comes as...

CitizenCast Podcast: Cutting Poverty

Philadelphia Citizen

The original Citizen podcast, CitizenCast, dives deep into the political, social and cultural workings of our city with explainers on the issues of our day, interviews, conversations and solutions....

InnerView Youth Impact & Insights Report 2024–25

InnerView

Youth Impact & Insights: National Summary 2024 – 2025 School Year College & High School Students was created by InnerView from hundreds of thousands of student volunteer experiences...

Banned Books Week and Let Freedom Read Day – Oct 5-11

Youth Service America

Current efforts to ban books and information held in schools, libraries, archives, and bookstores are a truth close to fiction – namely, the depiction of extreme censorship by an oppressive regime...

New Book: Pathways of Social Impact: Higher Education for the Public Good

Campus Compact

This book brings together a range of perspectives to deepen our understanding of students’ interests, motivations, and approaches to social change. At its core is the Pathways framework—a tool...

Book: Once Upon A Preemie

Once Upon a Preemie

Once Upon A Preemie is a short inspirational book that is written for parents whose children were born prematurely, and had a NICU stay. The book is a bedside companion to support any parent who...

New Toolkit: Navigating Pathways to Next

Partnership for Student Success

For many young people, the path from high school to a career or college can be hard to navigate. But the right resources and guidance can ease the transition. We’re excited to introduce our new...

Inside Higher Ed: What’s So Conservative About Civics, Anyway?

Inside Higher Ed

Amid rising political violence, the need for nonpartisan civic education has never been clearer. Yet saying, “civic thought” or “civic life and leadership” now reads conservative. Should it?...

Key Annual Report on Food Insecurity is Cancelled

Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity

Two months after pushing through Congress the largest food stamp cuts in the program’s history, the Trump administration has canceled the government’s annual report measuring household food...

New Directions for Data, Research, and Policy on Economic and Social Mobility

Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity

A new study from the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine provides a forward-looking framework for data, research, and policy initiatives to boost upward mobility and better...

National Conferences & Calls for Proposal

2026 IMPACT Conference Workshop & Poster Call for Proposals – Nov 1

IMPACT Conference

***Deadline for submitting workshop & poster proposals has been extended to November 1, 2025*** The IMPACT Conference invites proposals for informative, engaging, and timely workshops and posters...

Call for Proposals: Empowering Nonprofits Conference 2026 – Oct 22

Temple University

The Empowering Nonprofits Conference is back, and we are now accepting proposals for workshops and presentations. Our 2026 theme, Sector Resiliency, emphasizes the importance of nonprofits supporting...

Community Engaged Scholarship 2025 Writing Retreat – Oct 16-17

Michigan State University

Michigan State University is hosting an in-person writing retreat to provide dedicated time to focus on writing about your community engagement work. Faculty, staff, post-docs, and graduate students...

Grant Opportunities

Organizing Grants program – Oct 20

AJ Muste Foundation

AJ Muste Foundation invites applications for Organizing Grants program For 50 years, the AJ Muste Foundation in New York City has supported grassroots movements committed to advancing human rights,...

increase urban trees in Philadelphia – Oct 23

William Penn Foundation

William Penn Foundation invites applications to increase urban trees in Philadelphia William Penn Foundation (WPF) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania has issued a request for proposals to increase urban...

climate resilience planning efforts – Oct 23

William Penn Foundation

William Penn Foundation issues RFP for climate resilience planning efforts The William Penn Foundation in Philadelphia has issued an RFP for climate resilience planning. The greater Philadelphia...

arts education programs – Oct 23

William Penn Foundation

William Penn Foundation invites applications for arts education programs William Penn Foundation (WPF) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, invites applications for out-of-school community-based arts...

arts and culture programming – Oct 23

William Penn Foundation

William Penn Foundation invites applications for arts and culture programming William Penn Foundation (WPF) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania invites applications for arts and culture programming....

H2O for Life Service-Learning Mini-Grants – Oct 17

H2O for Life

At H2O for Life, we never want finances to be a barrier to participating in a service project. The H2O for Life Mini-Grants are meant to be a supportive resource for teachers and students who want to...

PA Environmental Education Grants Now Open – Nov 14

PA Department of Environmental Education

2026 PA Environmental Education Grants are open to schools, businesses, county conservation districts, and non-profit organizations Multiple grant tiers are available for all sizes of projects. More...

PCCE AmeriCorps Funding for Host Sites – Sep 30

Partners for Campus-Community Engagement (PCCE)

Partners for Campus-Community Engagement (PCCE) is exited to share that our AmeriCorps VISTA funding has been extended through April 2028! This allows us to maintain pace with current operations,...

Job Opportunities/AmeriCorps Opportunities

Serve Philadelphia VISTA Member Experience Coordinator – Oct 13

City of Philadelphia

The Serve Philadelphia VISTA Program places 30+ full-time AmeriCorps service members across 20+ City Departments for one year to address the root causes and impacts of poverty for Philadelphians. The...

Miscellaneous

Webinar: Three College Presidents on Cogeneration, Innovation, and Higher Ed’s Bottom Line – Oct 7

Campus Compact

Higher education is at a turning point. Changing conditions – demographic shifts, evolving learner needs, declining enrollments, and financial instability – are forcing leaders to rethink the...

Dissertation Dish: Examining the Potential of Online Community-Based Learning to Foster Global Citizenship Capacities in College Students – Oct 7

LEAD California

LEAD California, IARSLCE and GivePulse are proud to announce our next speaker, Dr. Caitlin Ferrarini, Assistant Teaching Professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). Dr. Ferrarini’s...

Pathways of Public Service & Civic Engagement: Join the Pathways Working Group

Campus Compact

Campus Compact is proud to partner with the Haas Center for Public Service at Stanford University to expand the reach of the Pathways of Public Service and Civic Engagement and support its associated...

Book Launch: Pathways of Social Impact: Higher Education for the Public Good – Oct 28

Campus Compact

Join us for the Pathways of Social Impact: Higher Education for the Public Good book launch! This book brings together a range of perspectives to deepen our understanding of students’ interests,...

Career-Connected Learning Virtual Training: Building Broad Skills to Support Youth in the Workforce – Oct 8

STEM Next

As the modern workforce evolves at an unprecedented pace, durable—or “soft”—skills are increasingly as important as technical skills in high-demand STEM jobs. Helping youth develop these...

Webinar: Understanding the Cost of Housing Quality on Families and Communities – Sep 30

Institute for Research on Poverty

Discussion of the housing crisis in the typically focuses on the issue of supply and demand and the lack of access to affordable homes. However, housing quality, or the physical conditions and...

Fall 2025 Coalition Virtual Conversations: Navigating Uncertainty in Higher Ed – Oct 3

Campus Compact

Back by popular demand, The Navigating Uncertainty in Higher Ed coalition conversations will bring us together throughout the fall semester to navigate the challenges of today’s climate,...

College Success Network

New Toolkit: Navigating Pathways to Next

Partnership for Student Success

For many young people, the path from high school to a career or college can be hard to navigate. But the right resources and guidance can ease the transition. We’re excited to introduce our new...

Philadelphia College Prep Roundtable: FAFSA Completion Training – Oct 30

Philadelphia College Prep Roundtable (PCPR)

Are you helping students and families with the FAFSA? Join us for essential FAFSA Completion Training! The 2026-2027 FAFSA season has begun. To ensure that Philadelphia students have the best...

Faculty Updates

Webinar: Three College Presidents on Cogeneration, Innovation, and Higher Ed’s Bottom Line – Oct 7

Campus Compact

Higher education is at a turning point. Changing conditions – demographic shifts, evolving learner needs, declining enrollments, and financial instability – are forcing leaders to rethink the...

Dissertation Dish: Examining the Potential of Online Community-Based Learning to Foster Global Citizenship Capacities in College Students – Oct 7

LEAD California

LEAD California, IARSLCE and GivePulse are proud to announce our next speaker, Dr. Caitlin Ferrarini, Assistant Teaching Professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI). Dr. Ferrarini’s...

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