About
Vision: To create a positive professional environment that values and convenes educators from diverse backgrounds, and brings creative and exciting ideas to life in classrooms across the city.
Our Dinners: Participants come together for a simple supper. Everyone brings $15, which becomes the grant for the night. During dinner, educators present their ideas for projects they would like to fund with the night’s microgrant. Each presenter has 3 minutes to present and then a few minutes to answer questions. At the end of the presentations, everyone votes for the project that they would like to give the largest portion of the night's grant to. Every teacher receives a percentage of the funds, and PhilaSoup matches the night's sales to make grants even bigger!
To Apply for a Grant: here.
Marc Brasof
secondary
I am a professor of education at Arcadia University developing the next generation of social studies teachers.
Danielle Mancinelli
Early Literacy Specialist
Hi! My name is Danielle and I love my students, reading, writing, teacher leadership, and yoga! Right now, I work as an Early Literacy Specialist with the Children's Literacy Initiative. I am also Co-Founder of BRIDGE, a program that uses the fundamentals of yoga and narrative writing to cultivate self-discovery, engagement, and empowerment in students 1-12 and the communities that surround them.
Sheila Myers
5th grade Teacher
My name is Sheila Myers. I have been working in urban schools for almost 10 years with predominantly Latino/ESOL populations. Teaching is my passion so it never feels like work, but it has definitely become more difficult as budgets tighten and supplies dwindle and children get seemingly hungrier, poorer and more neglected each year I do this. I started as an ESOL teacher for two years in central PA. Then deciding I could have more of an impact as a classroom teacher, I put myself through graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania so I could gain the critical skills I needed as an urban educator. In 2010, I started working at a school in the most impoverished section of Philadelphia. For six years now I have worked hard to give my students everything I can. I create partnerships with the community and parents because I am a firm believer in "it takes a village." That is why I am applying at PledgeCents. I hope you want to be apart of my village!
