CPS students greeting visitors at the School's first Open House. Photo: Carla Zighelboin
The Honickman Foundation has a fundamental belief in the power of the family unit and in the necessity of a strong community to support it. THF is dedicated to a variety of education programs aimed at social change and projects that strengthen and bolster both individuals and families. The current focus in this area is to fund programs that seek to provide computer literacy and equal opportunity to at-risk children and their families. Our best example of this strategy today is our partnership with Project H.O.M.E.'s new Honickman Learning Center and Comcast Technology Labs.
In what national education officials say is a first in the country, the prestigious private school, Germantown Academy and Project H.O.M.E., an organization that helps to break the cycle of poverty and homelessness by providing a range of services to adults, children, and families, teamed up to ready pupils in North Philadelphia for top private schools in the area. The new school is located at the Honickman Learning Center and Comcast Technology Labs which already operates an after-school program for the community.
The exterior of the 38,000 square
foot Honickman Learning Center and Comcast Technology Labs in North Philadelphia
The Honickman Foundation, in partnership with Project H.O.M.E.'s founders Sister Mary Scullion and Joan McConnon and the Comcast Corporation, has built a 38,000-square-foot comprehensive learning center in North Central Philadelphia.
The Learning Center is the centerpiece of Project H.O.M.E.'s educational services for children, youth, adults and families in the community. The programs housed at the center focus on the integration of technology with arts, education and employment and are designed to create opportunity for all the residents.
The HLCCTL Kindergarten – Sixth Grade After School Program has a new website. The site demonstrates a lot of the technology work that the students are doing at the Center. Please visit the site and share it with your friends.
The goal of the Teen Program at HLCCTL is to provide a safe and nurturing environment, while encouraging educational development and improving technology, literacy, and critical thinking skills of neighborhood teens. The Teen Technology Proficiency Program develops media awareness and empowers teens by giving them access to information and diverse cultures and people. It provides training so that teens are not only skilled "users and consumers" of media and technology, but it also supports them in their current and future academic pursuits. View the teen website.
The Cross Bridge Scholars Program is an academically rigorous enrichment program designed to build a unique collaborative learning experience among students from the Honickman Learning Center Comcast Technology Labs in Philadelphia and Episcopal Academy in Merion, Pennsylvania. Students design an on-line magazine to promote open discussions around issues of race, class, culture, and mass media. View the website
Established with a grant from The Honickman Foundation, the Harold A. Honickman Entrepreneurial Program (HAHEP) was created in partnership with Project H.O.M.E. to provide Philadelphia Teens who are in the 9th through 12th grades with the opportunity to develop business skills while enhancing their sense of responsibility, creativity, and management.
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