Year 1 Awardees
Heat Islands
This project aims to address the problem of urban heat stress in the Hunting Park / East Tioga area of Philadelphia. This pilot work will include the development and construction of a prototype for a cooling shelter that can be integrated into local bus stops in areas that people use regularly.
Nikki Bagby
Chief External Affairs Officer
North10 Philadelphia
Sara Jacoby, MPH, MSN, PhD, FAAN
Associate Professor of Nursing
Paulo Arratia, PhD
Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics
Dorit Aviv, PhD, AIA
Assistant Professor of Architecture at the Weitzman School of Design
Community Site
North10, Philadelphia works to improve life outcomes for community members of the North Philadelphia Hunting Park-East Tioga community so current residents and future generations live happy, healthy, and civically engaged lives. They work with their neighbors to address issues of systemic violence, poverty, and disinvestment that have induced trauma, built barriers, and challenged the health and prosperity of this community. Taking a holistic approach, North10 is striving to make impactful change not only by delivering high-quality programs and services in response to stated community preferences, but also by serving as the community backbone.
Project Updates
Smoothie Bike
The Smoothie Bike Project is a collaboration that engages Penn students, local high school students, and Netter Center staff in re-purposing used bikes and used blenders into educational and joyful kid-powered smoothie making machines.
Daniel Merin, MS
Rebel Ventures Board Chairperson
Monique Dowd, EdD, RD, LDN
Advanced Senior Lecturer of Nutrition Science
Associate Director of Undergraduate Nutrition Programs, School of Nursing
Dustyn Roberts, PE, PhD
Practice Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Applied Mechanics
Community Site
Rebel Ventures is a youth-driven healthy food business run by high school students and supported by Penn students that includes a non-profit business entity. At its core it is an educational activity. Students learn about the food system by competing in the real-world competitive food marketplace – the pedagogy is deep engagement through projects, problem-solving, and partnership. To examine these issues the Rebel Crew researches, shares knowledge, seeks out expertise, and makes decisions democratically.
Project Updates
Digital Healing: Co-Creating Youth Digital Creative Arts Space for Community Wellbeing
Digital Healing is a web-based platform, which will be co-designed and co-developed as an AI-driven culturally responsive youth digital co-creative arts space for community healing in partnership with youth-led organization called Creative Resilient Youth (CRY) in Philadelphia.
Andrea Ngan
Co-Director
Creative Resilient Youth (CRY)
Siva Mathiyazhagan, PhD, MSW
Research Assistant Professor
School of Social Policy and Practice
Sharath Chandra Guntuku, PhD
Research Assistant Professor of
Computer & Information Science
Seul Ki Choi, PhD, MPH
Research Assistant Professor
School of Nursing
Community Site
CRY is an intergenerational collective promoting equitable mental health care by realizing youth-led models of care through co-learning, socially engaged art, and leadership training. CRY envisions a future where every young person has the healing resources and skills needed to: Access their authentic selves to define and communicate care for themselves on their own terms; Influence how mental health is talked about and cared for in their peer group, families, and communities, and other youth-serving spaces; and create tools to address injustices in youth mental health care systems
Project Updates
Re-Imagining Childhood Asthma and Electronic Health Records: A Community-Based Approach
Asthma is a major non-communicable disease affecting children, especially those from marginalized communities, because of limited access to information. This project will explore how medical information systems can be improved to provide better care for young, marginalized asthma patients.
Sonya Sanders
Community Organizer
Philly Thrive
Kenrick Cato, PhD, RN, CPHIMS, FAAN
Professor of Nursing CE
Andrew Head, PhD
Assistant Professor of Computer and Information Science
Aviv Landau, PhD, MSW
Research Assistant Professor
School of Social Policy and Practice
Community Site
Philly Thrive won the permanent closure of the South Philly oil refinery, ending 150 years of deadly pollution. Now Philly Thrive organizes to protect affordable housing and fight displacement of Grays Ferry residents, and to win a robust cleanup of the refinery site, family sustaining jobs, and community-reinvestment as the historic refinery redevelopment progresses.
Project Updates
The impact of land care in North Tioga-East Huntington Neighborhood of Philadelphia: Building occupational and public safety into North10’s neighborhood beautification initiatives
The focus of this project is to create a tool to assist in removing debris to improve the wellbeing of the community and individuals in the North Tioga neighborhoods.
Jamese Newsome-Williams, MA
Director of Adult Programs & Community Services
North10 Philadelphia
Sara Jacoby, MPH, MSN, PhD, FAAN
Associate Professor of Nursing
Devin Carroll, PhD
Lecturer
Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics
Community Site
North10, Philadelphia works to improve life outcomes for community members of the North Philadelphia Hunting Park-East Tioga community so current residents and future generations live happy, healthy, and civically engaged lives. They work with their neighbors to address issues of systemic violence, poverty, and disinvestment that have induced trauma, built barriers, and challenged the health and prosperity of this community. Taking a holistic approach, North10 is striving to make impactful change not only by delivering high-quality programs and services in response to stated community preferences, but also by serving as the community backbone.