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BSM Featured in the Labs@Light City Baltimore!
May 4, 2018
This year, BSM was invited to participate in Light City Baltimore, produced by the Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts. Light City is the nation's only large-scale international light and ideas festival, inviting the public to be immersed in light, art, and innovation. In..
Women in Reentry Day: Free Our Mothers
May 4, 2018
For Mother’s Day last year, we were honored to host the Welcome Home Dinner for a group of women bailed out of jail by a newly coalesced group of grassroots volunteers. Since that time, that motley crew has evolved into the Philadelphia Community Bail..
New podcast
March 13, 2018
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PHS Receives Grant to Create “Farm for the City”
March 12, 2018
$300,00 award from Pew will fund project that spotlights access to healthy food PHILADELPHIA– The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage has awarded the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society a $300,000 grant to create an urban farm in the middle of the city. The green landscape created..
Staff Series: A Word From Geremi
March 12, 2018
By: Geremi James, Director of Concierge Services My career in social work began around 11 years ago. I got a job working as a paralegal that served people who have low to no income. My job was to help our clients access benefits such as..
The First Fridays Spring Series is Here!
March 9, 2018
The Spring Series of First Fridays at BSM launches April 6, 2018, 6:30-8:30 pm Becoming Free Documentary: A Night with the Filmmaker & the Reentry Community Doors open at 6:30 pm. Documentary screening begins at 7 pm. Becoming Free is a project of District of..
Volunteer Spotlight: Wali
March 9, 2018
This month we would like to spotlight Rodrigue, who goes by Wali! Wali is originally from Burkina Faso, located in West Africa. Wali came to the US in February 2016, and has been volunteering with us since November 2017! Before coming to the US, he..
Last Night at BSM
March 5, 2018
Last night at BSM, Rev. Raymond Bonwell III led us in meditating on Exodus 20:1-17 where we explored the covenantal heart of the Ten Commandments: to love God and love our neighbors! The community offered these prayers to God: Thanks be to God that my dad got..
Groundbreaking Partnership Connects Homeless People to Vital Health Care Services
March 5, 2018
Health Partners Plans, Philadelphia FIGHT and Broad Street Ministry Improve Health Outcomes and Increase Access to Care Health Partners Plans (HPP), a leading managed care organization, Broad Street Ministry (BSM) and Philadelphia FIGHT, a federally qualified health center, announced a groundbreaking collaboration in February that..