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sydelph t1_iuavvxf wrote

The Charles A Melton Arts and Education Center - <<fantastic org>>> & fits the "financial literacy/education/assistance for disadvantaged groups" category - and they always need funding. They do early childhood development, teen mentoring, affordable housing, summer STEAM programs, afterschool programs, community gardening & more:

"The Charles A Melton Arts & Education Center is dedicated to providing the greater West Chester area with a wide variety of low-cost or free programs ranging from the educational (New Directions) to the ever–popular summer basketball league and summer STEAM camp. The Center is widely used by the community as a rental space for family gatherings, sporting and community events; after-school program for elementary and middle-school aged youth; currently the home for two church programs from two different denominations; summer basketball league for youth in Chester County; distributes scholarships to West Chester Area School District graduating seniors; and voting poll center. The Melton Center is also dedicated to hosting community events, recovery meetings, a culinary school for underserved youth and many events and activities that focus on the target population of the least, the last, the left out and the left behind."

About the center' creation, from this article: "Providing resources for the marginalized and disenfranchised was the organizing mission of the Melton Center, initially called the West Chester Community Center when it was founded in 1918 by Leslie Pinckney Hill. Born in 1880 to a former slave, Hill graduated from Harvard University cum laude. After earning his master’s degree in education, Hill taught at Tuskegee Institute, eventually becoming president of Cheyney State Teachers College (now Cheyney University), a historically Black college."

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