Tabla de contenidos para December 2023 en ScoopVizion

PHILADELPHIA, November 2023 – Support Center for Child Advocates (Child Advocates) named Dominic Prophete, JD, as its new Bob & Penny Fox Executive Director. Prophete, currently the chief executive officer of Wynona’s House in Essex County, NJ, will start on December 20, 2023. Prophete’s appointment ends a thorough and wide-ranging search for a replacement for Child Advocates’ longtime executive director, Frank Cervone, who led the organization for more than 30 years and announced his retirement earlier this year. “In Dominic, we have found an experienced child advocate and nonprofit leader who brings with him a lifelong commitment to our mission of advocating for victims of child abuse and neglect,” said Alisa Gifford, Child Advocates Board President. “Dominic has fought for children his whole career in a series of increasingly senior…

The second-largest favela in São Paulo, Paraisópolis has close to 100,000 residents – including Estevão Silva Conceição, known as the Brazilian Gaudi for his unique architectural stylings. The Gaudi Foundation was so impressed with the Casa de Pedra that they flew Estevado to Barcelona so that he could see the works of the artist he admired in person. Estevão also created a cow for the International Cow Parade. His work, Cowdi, got auctioned off for charity, bringing in R$ 31 thousand Reais. In 2019, Conceição's house was part of a project called Circuito Paraisópolis das Artes – an artistic tour of Paraisópolis that also included the Ballet Paraisópolis, Biblioteca BECEI (BECEI Library) and Casa de PET, a house constructed from green plastic PET bottles by Sr. Antenor, another artist from…

PHILADELPHIA, December 6, 2023 — The Philadelphia Department of Labor’s Office of Worker Protections announced ten community organizations will be awarded nearly $100,000 in funding--as part of the second Community Outreach and Education Fund. Through June 2024, these trusted organizations will partner with the Office of Worker Protections to promote the City’s labor laws in their communities and raise awareness about workplace protections they may not know they have. “Philadelphia labor laws aim to increase equity at work, raise economic security, and keep families healthy at work,” said Candace Chewning, Director of the City’s Office of Worker Protections. “Through last year’s Fund, we built a network of over forty community institutions distributing resources about the city’s labor laws in over 25 languages. This fund provides an opportunity for the city…

PHILADELPHIA– On Monday, December 11, Global Philadelphia’s prestigious 2023 Globy Awards honored Michael Gary, Head of School at Friends Select School (FSS), for educational leadership. Global Philadelphia recognized Gary’s pioneering approach to education at the event, which annually honors the city’s civic leaders. “I’m honored and humbled to be recognized among such great Philadelphia leaders,” said Michael Gary, Head of Friends Select School, Center City Philadelphia’s only pre-K-12 Quaker school. “Friends Select School strives daily to be an institution--that is both in the city and of the city, with Philadelphia acting as a classroom, playground, and laboratory for our students and teachers. I admire how all the Global Philadelphia honorees work to make a similar connection and I’m excited for us all to collaborate to better educate both our community…

I absolutely love the Christmas holiday season. It’s filled with great joy, exuberance, and great merriment abounds! When it comes to holiday office parties, the merriment can sometimes cross the line and violate rules, policies, and laws that can land an overly-exuberant partygoing employee in deep trouble with the Human Resources department and/or local law enforcement. Holiday parties are great opportunities to have great social time with gathered employees and managers, but such parties can also be potential high-risk events for people behaving badly, especially if booze and other intoxicants are indulged by participants. Here’s some fun trivia, HR Digests reports that the first recorded holiday office party “took place in 1923 at the Engineering Societies Building in New York City. The event was organized by the Society for Personnel…

PHILADELPHIA, PA- December 15, 2023: The Economy League of Greater Philadelphia (ELGP) is excited to announce a grant of $300,000 from JP Morgan Chase, supporting the Philadelphia Anchors for Growth & Equity (PAGE) initiative. Through research, education, business advisory services, deployment of capital, and policy solutions funded by the grant, PAGE plans to facilitate more than $300M in new growth opportunities for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) businesses in the next 5 years. "With this funding, we can intensify our efforts to dismantle systemic barriers and unlock new opportunities for BIPOC entrepreneurs," said Kenyatta James of the Economy League. “JP Morgan Chase's investment in the Economy League’s vision reinforces a shared commitment to driving meaningful change in the Philadelphia community.” Philadelphia Anchors for Growth & Equity (PAGE) was…

Prominent experts from the coffee sector gathered in New York to discuss the future of coffee production, with a focus on two key topics: social development and the need to adapt to climate change. Organized by illycaffè at the UN headquarters, the panel discussion featured the Ernesto Illy International Coffee Award 2023, with notable participants including Vanessa Facenda, editor-in-chief of Tea & Coffee magazine, Vanusia Nogueira, Executive Director of the International Coffee Organization, Andrea Illy, president of illycaffè and co-president of the Regenerative Society Foundation, Jeffrey Sachs, economist and co-president of the Regenerative Society Foundation, Oscar Schaps, president of the Latin America division of Trading StoneX Financial Inc. and commodities trader, and Glaucio De Castro, president of the Cerrado Mineiro Coffee Growers Federation. Coffee stands as one of the most…

HARRISBURG, PA– Beginning Jan. 1, 2024, many companies in the United States will have to report information about their beneficial owners – the individuals who ultimately own or control the company – to the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), a bureau of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. “While this is a federal requirement and not a Pennsylvania requirement, we are informing our business customers so that they can be prepared to comply,” Secretary of the Commonwealth Al Schmidt said. “The Department’s Bureau of Corporations and Charitable Organizations maintains records of more than 3 million companies that do business in the Commonwealth and serves as the centralized filing office for Uniform Commercial Code financing statements.” According to FinCEN, existing companies created or registered to do business in the United States…