Our Partners
Swarthmore College Library
As the library for an academic institution, Swarthmore College Library is committed to fostering the College’s mission of education for impact and lifting up its commitment to social justice. They value creativity and innovation in the delivery of the core services provided to the academic community. They also believe that the Library’s role is not simply to disseminate information, but to be an active force itself in activating the resources at their disposal for deeper public engagement outside their existing constituencies. Additionally, the Library’s day-to-day work involves collecting and preserving resources related to the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) to ensure they are available to the public for research.
Photograph by Zissel Aronow.
Friends Historical Library
Friends Historical Library was established in 1871 to collect, preserve, and make available archival, manuscript, printed, and visual records concerning the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) from their origins in the mid-seventeenth century to the present. Friends Historical Library is one of the outstanding research facilities for the study of Quaker history. Besides the obvious focus on Quaker history, the holdings are a significant research collection for the regional and local history of the middle-Atlantic region of the United States and the history of American social reform. Quakers played prominent roles in almost every major reform movement in American history, including abolition, African-American history, Indian rights, women's rights, prison reform, humane treatment of the mentally ill, and temperance. The collections also reflect the significant role Friends played in the development of science, technology, education, and business in Britain and America. The Library also maintains the collections of the Swarthmore Historical Society.
To learn more, visit their website here.
Photograph by Zissel Aronow.
Lang Center
Through engaged scholarship, the Eugene M. Lang Center for Civic and Social Responsibility provides vision, leadership, and support for Swarthmore College’s commitment to intellectual rigor, ethical engagement, and social responsibility. The Lang Center creates, organizes, administers and evaluates activities that link rigorous intellectual training to preparing students to take leadership in shaping a more just and humane world. They foster understanding of the role democratic institutions and processes can play in creating such a world through critical reflection, teaching, research, publications, and experimentation. Through conferences, collaborative relationships, constructive initiatives, and student and faculty research, the Center promotes the College’s leadership in making participatory citizenship and socially responsible action a nation-wide feature of higher education.
To learn more, visit their website here.
Photograph by Lisa Kelley.
Mural Arts - Porch Light Program, The Kensington Storefront
The Kensington Storefront builds on the work done in other parts of Porch Light, an ongoing partnership between Mural Arts Philadelphia, the Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbilities Services, the New Kensington Community Development Corporation, Prevention Point Philadelphia and IMPACT Services. The Kensington Storefront is a hub for arts, culture and wellness programming in Kensington. Up until the stay-at-home order in March of 2020, this work was primarily done through the location at Kensington and Somerset, where most participants were unsheltered and using drugs. That location is now closed, but the work of supporting community-driving, trauma-informed programming continues at locations throughout the neighborhood.
To learn more, visit their website here.
Photograph by Akeil Robertson.
Prevention Point Philadelphia
PPP is a non-profit, public health organization committed to promoting health, empowerment and safety for communities affected by drug use, sex work, housing insecurity and poverty. We were made legal in 1992 by then Philadelphia Mayor, Edward G. Rendell, on July 27th 1992, via Executive Order 4-92. PPP uses harm reduction theory to reduce the harm associated with high risk behaviors by offering a safe and humane alternative.
To learn more, visit their website here.
Work by Raani Begum.
Project SAFE
Project SAFE is a mutual-aid based harm reduction organization for women, queer and trans people involved in the street economies of Philadelphia. We are based in the Kensington neighborhood and organize at the intersection of sex work, drug use, and homelessness. Project SAFE was founded in 2004 and advocates for the decriminalization of sex work and drug use in Philadelphia.
To learn more, visit their Instagram here.