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IN PHILADELPHIA

  1. IVC- International Visitors Council of Philadelphia

http://www.ivc.org
Address:1515 Arch Street,
Philadelphia, PA 19102
Phone:215.683.0999
Fax 215.683.0998

  1. AL-AQSA Islamic Community and Muslim religious high school

1501 Germantown Ave.
Philadelphia, PA19122
Phone:215.915.2306

Al-Aqsa was founded in 1989, with the purpose of preserving Islamic identity. The community is led by Steering Committee. The community is central gathering-place for social, religious and cultural matters for many Arabs and other Muslims who live in Philadelphia.

  1. Committee for Human Relations

The Curtis Center
601 Walnut Street, Suite 500 South
Philadelphia, PA 19106
Phone:215.686.4698

Committee is the city-service that implements the civil laws and that is involved in all aspects of conflict between groups within the city. Many programs involve youth and religion. Department for relations with community offers program for conflict resolution.

 

  1. Epiphany of Our Lord- Catholic Church

Address: 1144 Jackson Street
Philadelphia, PA 19148
Phone: 215.334.1035

 

 

  1. School-Friends select

Address: 17th Street&Benjamin Franklin Parkway
Philadelphia,PS 19103
Phone:215.561.5900

Besides excellent educational services, the school Friends Select is entirely dedicated to work and activities of Religious society of friends-Quakers, which makes integral part of school and community. This influence of Quakers in daily manifested in practice of peaceful conflict resolution, service and other respectsand inclusions. The school is forchildren of pre-primary to mid-school ages.

  1. Mayor's Office for religious and civil initiatives

Room 201
City Hall
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Phone: 215.686.3958

This Office serves as relation between city authorities, local religious communities and alike, and it establishes collaborative relations among religious groups and supports the inclusion of groups in providing services for poor and solving social problems, including problems of young people.

 

  1. Department for Recreation of Philadelphia City-Theatre and Workshop for Creative Solutions

Vare Recreation Center
2600 Morris Street
Philadelphia, PA
Phone:215.685.1871
Mobile:215.906.8916

 

  1. Women Scouts of Eastern Pennsylvania (GSEP)

330 Manor Road
Miquon, PA 19144
Phone:215.564.2030

GSEP gathers more than 50.000 girls (age 5 to 17) from municipalities of Berks, Bucks, Carbon, Chester, Delaware,Lehugh, Montgomery,Northampton and Philadelphia. Scouts are voluntary, non-profit organization with more than 17,000 volunteers. Female scouts of America were founded by Juliette Gordon Low in 1912., as an organization that enables its memebers to have different experiences which enrich them, like unusual excursions, workshops for developing sports skills, projects for enrichment of community,cultural exchangesamnd programs for protections of environment.

  1. Roman Catholichigh school for boys

301 North Broad Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Phone: 215.627.1270

This school was established as part of educational system of Philadelphia diocese. It is situated in the centre of the city, but it attracts males from all parts of town. The school is proud of its academic schedule,competitive sports and many other activities.    

  1. Operation Understanding-civil organization

30 South 15th Street, Suite 801
Philadelphia, PA 19102
Phone:215.665.8575

Operation Understanding is civil organization established in 1985. with the goal of educating young people in inter-cultural leadership and for improving dialogue between Jewish and Afro-American communities. Early in February every year,six to eight students in third year of secondary school, who are of Afro-american or Jewish origin are chosen on competitive basis, among the applications for cultural exchange lasting one and a half year. Accents is puit on choice of participantsfrom different social and economic environment. Within program, participantstravel to new York, to American south, to Senegal and Israel, WqilliamGrey, ex memeber ofAmerican Congress has founded this organization; and he is also honorablepastor in the biggest and best known afro-american church in Philadelphia.

 

  1. Mennonite Information Center

Address: 2209 Millstream Road
Lancaster, PA 17602
Phone: 800.858.8320

  1. Amish farm-authentic functional farm

Address: 2395 Route 30 East
Lancaster, PA 17602
Phone:717.394.6185

Municipality Lancaster, one hour and a half west from Philadelphia. In municipality Lancaster live 'Pennsylvania Dutch' religious groupsof Amishes, Mennonites, and Brethrens- who stilllive in different non-modern ways and practice their religions, as they did a few hundreds years ago. Amishes live in communities in 22 states of USA and in Ontaria, Canada. The oldest grouo, Old Order Amish, 16-18,000 people live in municipality Lancaster, In Pennsylvania. Amishes stress humility,family and community, and distance from the rest of the world They originate from Mennoinites, and both make part of ana-baptisit movemnet in Europe which happened during the Restoration times. Anabaptists believed that only adult persons that confirmed their faith should be baptised and should live distances from the rest of the worlks. Many of the early Anabaptists were killed as heretics ny Catholics and protestants, and some escaped to mountains of Switzerland and southern Germany. This is where Amisheagruicultural tradition started and the servbicesof praying in houses instead of churches. They are different in  their way od dressing, their use of technoilogy, language, the way of prayeing and Bible interpretation. Amishes and Mennonites settlement in Pennsylvania was part pofthe sso called ' sacred experiment' pf the rečligious tolerance by William penn. The first bigger groupo od Amished settled in municiplaity Lancasterf during 20's and 30's of the 18th century.

  1. Police Athletic League of Philadelphia (PAL)

Address: Cozen PAL Center
732 North 17th Street (17th &Brown Streets)
Philadelphia, PA 19130
Phone: 215.232.2101

Police Athletic League of Philadelphia is independent non-profit corporation dedicated to 'policemen who help children'. All their centers are under surveillance of Philadelphiapolicemen, whospend their full working timein surveillance of work with young peoiple. With help of the volunteers, policemen helpyoung people by fgiving sušpport, delivering tranings and activities which enable them for more success in life.

  1. Fund for Islamic Education and Villan Academy

Address: 1860Montgomery Ave.
Villan street, PA 19085
Phone:610.520.9624
Fax.610.520.0725

This Fund is private institution, led by Steering Committee,and dedicated to providing servuices to Muslims in wider area of Philadelphia. It is situated on the territory of few hectares , and involves mosque, Villan Academy for high studies education (Muslim religious high school, for ages from kindergarten to 6th year),Villan Weekendschool (studies of Qurran, Islamic and Arab studies and other educational and recreational actzivities), Da'wah and Department for meadia, but also Department for working with Community.

 

  1. Greek Orthodox church of Saint George

Address: 256 S.8th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107
Phone 215.627.4389

 

  1. University of Pennsylvania

Address: 215 South 39th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phone 215.573.7596

 


by Adis Kapetan