WEST PHILADELPHIA: Help Shape What Comes Next for Haddington & Carroll Park. Your Voice. Our Community.

Share your experiences, ideas, and priorities to help guide future programs, partnerships, resources, and investments in our community. You know your neighborhood. You know what’s working, what needs to change, and what opportunities could make a difference. Episcopal Community Services wants to hear from the people who know our community best.

Community Needs Assessment – Episcopal Community Services – ECS Philly.

Join our fall Athletic Huddle! This virtual conversation will focus on collaborative partnerships between students, faculty, staff, and athletic personnels in regards to institutional nonpartisan civic engagement programming throughout the upcoming academic year.

The session will take place on Wednesday, October 21 at 2 PM ET.

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In this interactive webinar, Bridge Builder Leadership Philadelphia City Lead Dr. David E. Thomas will be joined by Lee Huang, Managing Director at DSG Global and longtime economic development and civic leader, and Dr. Virginia Covill, Mecklenburg County Assistant County Manager for Workforce Development & Upward Mobility and Bridge Builder alum. Virginia previously served as Deputy Director of Leading on Opportunity, where she led the organization’s social capital work.

Together, they’ll explore what research on social capital and economic connectedness can teach us about upward mobility. We’ll examine why connections across socioeconomic lines matter, how our social networks can expand or limit access to information and opportunity, and why simply bringing people into the same spaces doesn’t always result in meaningful connection.

Date and Time: Wednesday, November 11, 2026, 12:00-1:00 PM

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The Bridge Builder Leadership Cohort is an immersive journey for leaders who refuse to settle for the status quo. Through shared experience, introspection, peer coaching, and practical tools, you’ll strengthen your relational presence, foster psychological safety, and lead with authenticity—so your team, your organization, and your results can flourish.

Led by Dr. David E. Thomas, the cohort helps leaders strengthen their relational leadership capacity, build trust across difference, and develop meaningful connections that extend beyond the cohort.

Learn more and request to join.

The Reagan Institute Civic Leaders Fellowship is a semester-long leadership and professional development program designed to elevate student success in civic and professional life. The Fellowship, which runs from January to May 2027, utilizes a combination of hybrid and place-based learning at both the Reagan Library in California and the Reagan Institute in Washington, DC.

The deadline to apply is Saturday, October 31.

Learn more and submit your application today!

If you have any questions about the Fellowship, please contact emccoy@reaganfoundation.org.

Join us on Friday, October 30th from 12:00–1:00 pm ET for a webinar and hear from community college administrators, students, and experts who are leading civic efforts in their institutions including Campus Compact’s Vice President of Member & Student Engagement, Natalie Furlett.

Many community colleges were founded to prepare students for both their careers and their civic roles in U.S. democracy. Today, these schools are best known for their essential, open-access education opportunities. But they also act as vital platforms for civic learning, nonpartisan engagement, and innovative participatory experiments across our country.

Hear from leaders at the forefront at this work and explore what their experiences can teach us about building a stronger and more participatory democracy.

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This is an exciting opportunity for undergraduate students in the Philadelphia metropolitan region. Campus Compact, with support from the Peter G. Peterson Foundation, has launched Year 2 of the Up to Us Leadership Network Fiscal Leadership Lab, a six-month program designed to develop the next generation of civic leaders through fiscal policy and civic engagement education.

• Join a local cohort led by faculty/staff mentors
• Participate in national & regional virtual workshops and dialogues
• Build skills in civic leadership, collaboration, and fiscal policy engagement
• Travel to Washington, D.C. for an all-expenses-paid convening with peers from across the country

Up to Us Leadership Network Fiscal Leadership Lab details.

Program application link.

Info Session Date and Time: November 4, 1:00-2:00 PM

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This webinar will highlight research that looks into benefits cliffs using administrative data, longitudinal insights from over 2,000 low-wage workers, and new research on childcare subsidies and employment outcomes. Discover how these intersecting policies impact family stability and strategies to foster economic mobility.

Date and Time: Wednesday, October 28, 2026, 2:00–3:00 PM

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We are thrilled to announce the launch of “Free Speech on Campus,” a video module featuring real student storytelling, expert commentary, and interactive quizzes, that prepares students to engage thoughtfully across differences while upholding the principles of free expression and open inquiry that are central to higher education.

Developed by PEN America’s Higher Education and Free Expression team, the video training series responds to growing demand from colleges for engaging resources that can be integrated into student orientation, first-year seminars, and online learning platforms.

This webinar will include implementation guidance and direct insight from pilot partners on their experiences using this tool for orientation, first-year experience, residence life, civic engagement, student leadership, and related programming.

Date and Time: Thursday, October 29, 4:00 PM

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You can expect to:

• Walk away with an understanding of how to think about effective and responsible AI use in the context of community listening.
• Learn from peers who are using AI to accelerate, scale, and strengthen their feedback processes.
• Identify strategies and tools to support your organization’s feedback collection, analysis, and course correction.

This webinar will be led by Alexis Banks, Director of Learning and Operations at Feedback Labs, and Annie Grier, Director of Community and Equity at Feedback Labs. They will be joined by guest speakers Mariel Beasley, Head of Product and Insights of SaverLife, and Ayawa Fiagbedzi, Manager of Strategic Learning and Impact at Rockefeller Foundation.

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Join Santander’s Information Security team for a virtual workshop, in partnership with CEIBA, exploring common and emerging cyber threats, strategies for recognizing and mitigating risks, and practical steps organizations and their staff can take to better protect organizational information and reduce exposure to fraud. Participants will leave with actionable insights they can apply to strengthen cybersecurity awareness and practices within their organization.

Date and Time: Friday, October 16, 12:00 PM

Register here.

Here are the three categories:

Youth Leadership for Service-Learning Excellence Award
The Youth Leadership for Service-Learning Excellence Award recognizes K-12 service-learning programs and projects that demonstrate outstanding youth leadership. The award focuses on projects that uniquely demonstrate youth leadership for service-learning excellence — incorporating key elements of high-quality service-learning and having a sustainable impact on the participants and the broader community.

Service-Learning Practitioner Leadership Award
The Service-Learning Practitioner Leadership Award recognizes practitioners who have equipped young people to lead and serve, both through their direct service-learning instruction with youths and by nurturing other practitioners to expand their service-learning skills and knowledge. Each year, this award is presented to a teacher or community member who has created a living legacy through service-learning practice.

Alec Dickson Servant Leader Award
Given every other year, this award honors exemplary leaders who have inspired the service-learning field, positively impacting the lives of young people, and motivating others to take up the banner of service. This award recognizes an individual whose life has had a distinctive impact on service-learning. The recipient of the award personifies leadership, courage, creativity, and compassion — values Dickson felt characterized people he most respected.

Learn more and make nominations by November 2, 2026.

Date and Time: November 16, 2026, 1:00 PM

Register.

Date and Time: Thursday, October 22, 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM

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Here’s how it works: district students in grades 6–12 design an original graphic inspired by this year’s theme, I AM a Dreamer – because public education gives every student the opportunity to dream boldly, and the support to turn those dreams into reality.

The public then votes on their favorite, and the winning design is printed on real merchandise – t-shirts, hoodies, mugs and more – sold to Philadelphians citywide. Proceeds go to support district schools. Since 2018, this initiative has raised $250,000, funding field trips, STEM supplies, updated technology, and library books.

Key dates:

• Entries open now through Friday, October 23
• Public voting: October 27 – November 6
• Winner announced: week of November 16

Prizes: $1,500 for 1st place, $500 for 2nd, $250 for 3rd. The 1st place winning artist also sees their design worn across the city.

Learn more.

If you’re a school leader, we’d appreciate you sharing this with your art teachers, student council, or advisory groups. The more students who enter, the more designs the city gets to vote on. If you’re a parent or guardian of a grade 6 – 12 student, encourage your young creator to give it a shot; no design experience required, just an original idea.

Questions? Reach out to Leo Lopez at llopez@thefundsdp.org.

Each session features a guest from a Campus Compact program, initiative, or partnership who will share a preview of upcoming opportunities to engage across our coalition.

Whether you’re exploring membership, newly connected to Campus Compact, or looking for new ways to engage, we invite you to join the conversation.

Join us on Monday, October 19, 2026, 12:00-1:00 PM for Featuring Campus Compact’s Annual Conference.

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Community partners encompass a wide range of non-profit, for-profit, and governmental organizations that promote the learning, well-being, and safety of children, both inside and beyond the school walls. From providing meals and quality after-school care opportunities to promote mental and physical health, civic leadership, creativity and exploration, these organizations help strengthen the broader ecosystems in which children learn and thrive.

On October 13, the Center for Universal Education at Brookings will bring together innovative leaders working with rural and urban communities and schools in the U.S. and Uruguay to explore how community partnerships can strengthen trust and build more connected learning ecosystems.

Each session features a guest from a Campus Compact program, initiative, or partnership who will share a preview of upcoming opportunities to engage across our coalition.

Whether you’re exploring membership, newly connected to Campus Compact, or looking for new ways to engage, we invite you to join the conversation.

Join us on Thursday, October 8, 2026, 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM for Featuring Fiscal Leadership Lab: Empowering Student Civic Leaders.

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We are seeking a wide and broad range of directors to join our Board. People with experience in: board of directors, finance, philanthropy, development, city government, human resources, legal, marketing & PR and community engagement are especially encouraged to apply. NO previous board of director experience is required.

Fab Youth Philly’s mission is to “build bridges to adulthood through meaningful employment, strong community connections, and opportunities for teens to explore their passions”. In practice this looks like paid training and employment for more than 600 teens since 2017.

Learn more and apply.

For questions, please contact Rebecca Fabiano, Executive Director, Rebecca@fabyouthphilly.org.