PHILADELPHIA, PA — The Philadelphia Department of Labor’s Office of Worker Protections announced on Friday that it will award nearly $100,000 in funding to ten community organizations. This move is part of the second Community Outreach and Education Fund initiative. The aim is to promote the City’s labor laws within their communities and raise awareness about workplace protections until June 2024.
Candace Chewning, Director of the City’s Office of Worker Protections, stated, “Philadelphia labor laws aim to increase equity at work, raise economic security and keep families healthy at work. This fund provides an opportunity for the city to invest in our relationships with dedicated community leaders who are the human element that truly connects these laws to working people.”
Three organizations have been selected as Community Programming partners. Each will receive $20,000 to develop and integrate worker protection programming for their members or communities. These include the Coalition for Restaurant Safety and Health/El Comité de Trabajadorxs de Restaurantes, Vietlead, and Restaurant Opportunities Centers of Pennsylvania.
Seven organizations have been chosen as Resource Sharing partners. Each will receive $5,000 to share resources on worker protections directly with their communities online and in-person. These include Blackwell Culture Alliance Inc., Cambodian Association of Greater Philadelphia, Haitian Americans United for Change, National Domestic Workers Alliance – Pennsylvania Chapter, New Options More Opportunities (NoMo), Philly Black Worker Project, and Southeast Asian Mutual Assistance Associations Coalition (SEAMAAC).
The 2024 Community Outreach and Education Fund was the most competitive since the program’s launch. The ten awardees were selected by an impartial panel of City stakeholders, including representatives from the Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Public Health, and City Council. The first Community Outreach and Education Fund was made possible through funding from the City of Philadelphia’s Operations Transformation Fund.
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