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Project Name: Keeping Kids Safe
Recipient: ASAP/After School Activities Partnerships, 1520 Locust Street, Suite 1104, Philadelphia, PA  19102
Amount Requested: $250,000
Purpose: An estimated 45,000 kids in Philadelphia spend between 20-25 hours a week alone after school. These unsupervised young people are much more likely to be the victims of violence or commit crimes, and are at a higher risk of abusing alcohol, tobacco and drugs, becoming pregnant at a young age and contracting sexually transmitted diseases. ASAP addresses this need through ongoing sustainable after school enrichment activities for Philadelphia youth (K-12), by recruiting volunteers and organizations to lead clubs in largely underserved areas and by providing comprehensive information on citywide after school activities to parents and caregivers through a published directory of after school programs.  Research shows that after school clubs improve kids’ academic and attendance records.  They also help to address truancy – ASAP kids are less likely to be absent on club days – and are an anti-violence measure, keeping kids off the streets during the most dangerous hours of the day, 3-6pm. 

Project Name: Keystone Honors Academy
Recipient: Cheyney University of Pennsylvania1837 University Circle P.O. Box 200 Cheyney, Pennsylvania  19319-0200
Amount Requested: $190,000
Purpose: This program provides  opportunities to underprivileged, yet talented Pennsylvanians, who are committed to attaining advanced education and professional employment.  Funding will support the following initiatives: Advanced Honors Curriculum (Prep overloads and professional development -results in an honors designation on the diploma and transcript ), Leadership Development (conferences and workshops), Graduate and Professional Development (workshops, fairs and school visitations), Cultural Events and Learning Activities (distinguished scholars, film series, museum visits, literature readings, performances and the national Honda Campus All-Star Challenge academic competition), and a Living/Learning Center (scholar-in-residence).

Project Name: Liberty Academy
Recipient: Liberty Resources, Inc., 714 Market Street, Suite 100, Philadelphia, PA 19106
Amount Requested: $500,000
Purpose: The program has delivered this non-traditional and consumer driven skills training model for persons with disabilities since 2001.  The Academy’s role is to provide education and feedback to vocational students, regularly permitting them to assess and redefine their motivations, enabling them to strive towards their own, self-directed goals better.  The self-directed approach encourages students to recognize when commitment to a presumed path drops.  At the core of the Academy’s philosophy is that self-directed successes will be the most complete and lasting successes.

Project Name: MAINTENANCE PLANNING and ASSESSMENT TECHNOLOGY(MPAT) INSERTION
Recipient: Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Detachment Philadelphia and Progeny Systems, located at Naval Surface Warfare Center, Philadelphia Naval Business Center, 5001 South Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19112 and Progeny Systems - Philadelphia Naval Business Center, 4900 S. Broad Street, Philadelphia, Pa 19112.
Amount Requested: $4,000,000
Purpose: The funding would be used to transition the software and functionality developed for the VIRGINIA Class submarine and create a Maintenance Planning and Assessment Technology Insertion Open Architecture (OA) solution using existing program and technical relationships between the U.S. Navy submarines, DDG 1000, and aircraft carriers.  Funding will create a common set of open standard/open system applications for a Common Open Architecture Technology Insertion approach.  The new technologies that are being transitioned from this effort offer substantial performance improvement and/or affordability payoffs.

Project Name: MARK 75 GUN MAINTAINENCE CAPABILITY UPGRADE 
Recipient: Oto Melara North America, Inc., 10 Industrial Highway, Lester, Pennsylvania 19113.
Amount Requested: $2,400,000
Purpose: Project funds will continue the maintenance capability upgrading for USN and USCG fleet-wide support and depot level repairs for Mk 75 gun needs with a qualified second source to overhaul the aging Mk 75 guns.  USN is extending Frigate and Mk 75 service life due to LCS delays and seeks a reliable O&M source. 

Project Name: Mercy Fitzgerald Digital Mammography Equipment 
Recipient: Mercy Fitzgeral Hospital, 1500 Landsdowne Ave., Darby, PA 19023
Amount Requested: $500,000
Purpose:  Established in 1933, Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital, located in Darby, PA, is a 218-bed acute care community teaching hospital serving a large number of economically fragile neighborhoods in Delaware County and Southwest Philadelphia. Currently, the hospital performs approximately 600 mammograms each month.  With only one digital mammography machine, not all patients have the option to have a digital mammogram.  Most healthcare insurances are accepted with “no cost” mammograms provided to un-insured patients.  This option has been made available through funding from Susan G. Komen for the Cure. The age of patients visiting Mercy Fitzgerald Hospital, coupled with the vast benefits of digital mammography, make it a logical next step for the hospital to take in achieving their vision.  Among other variables, research of the effects of age on the accuracy of digital mammography results strongly suggests that this method of screening was significantly better at detecting breast cancer than film mammography in women who were younger than 50. 

Project Name: Mid-Atlantic River Basin Commission
Recipient: Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC), 25 State Police Drive, P.O. Box 7360, West Trenton, N J 08628
Amount Requested: $715,000
Purpose: To fulfill the federal obligation to support the current expense budgets of the three commissions pursuant to the Delaware River Basin Compact (P.L. 87-328), Susquehanna River Basin Compact (P.L. 91-575), and the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin Compact (P.L. 91-407 ), and in accordance with the Water Resources Development Act of 2007 (P.L. 110-114, Section 5019[b]).
The compacts creating the three commissions were adopted by Congress with the expressed recognition that it was in the federal interest to manage these shared waters without regard to political boundaries.  The federal government is a member of all three commissions, as is Pennsylvania.

Project Name: Modern Approach to Drug Safety at the FDA
Recipient: University of Pennsylvania, 3451 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104 
Purpose: Extramural Research Support Through Critical Path Public-Private Partnerships.  The program is charged with fostering medical product innovation and enabling the acceleration of medical product development.  Penn would use funds to devlop research tools for safer, more useful drugs and increase the speed of FDA approval.  Additionally Penn would be able to expand the pool of professionals working in the field of medicine and thereputics

Project Name: MULTI-SCALE MODELING of 3-D DAMAGE TOLERANT COMPOSITE MATERIALS 
Recipient: Widener University, located at One University Place, Chester, PA 19013
Amount Requested: $2,000,000
Purpose: The funding would be used for Multi-Scale Modeling of 3-D Damage Tolerant Composite Materials. Widener University will develop and validate needed multi-scale modeling for lightweight 3-D composite materials that will provide the high level of damage tolerance required for US Army platforms. Damage-tolerant 3-D woven composite materials will enable the development of military vehicles that protect our soldiers, while minimizing weight to improving efficiency and survivability.

Project Name: Multi-tenant Arts Facility
Recipient: Asian Arts Initiative 1219-1223 Vine Street Philadelphia, PA 19107
Amount Requested: $750,000
Purpose: Anchored at 12th and Vine Streets in Chinatown, the Asian Arts Initiative’s multi-tenant arts facility will offer opportunities for creating and viewing art, and exchanging ideas and dialogue between and among individual artists, arts organizations, local youth and neighborhood residents, and the greater Philadelphia community. Incorporating individual artists studios and office and program space—including room for workshops and meetings, gallery and exhibition areas, and a black box-style theater—the facility will serve as a “lab” exploring the intersections of contemporary art-making and community building, and furthering the vision of Philadelphia as a vibrant and creative city.

Project Name: National Liberty Museum Historic Preservation Project  
Recipient: National Liberty Museum 321 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia PA 19106
Amount Requested: $375,000
Purpose: The Project would assist the National Liberty Museum to repair and rehabilitate the front and side façades of its historic building and redesign its “American Freedom” gallery, to fully utilize the Museum’s most significant glass sculpture, the 21-foot Flame of Liberty, by Dale Chihuly.

Project Name: NCCF Capacity Building and "NCCF Security Training & Job Placement Program
Recipient: The National Comprehensive Center for Fathers/GPUAC, 714 Market Street 7th Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19106
Amount Requested: $1,083,288
Purpose: Funding requests for a pilot security training program which will provide traditional and specialized training in all facets of the security industry for 300 participants in varying training regimes ranging from thirty (30) days to six (6) months depending on the training which will include but not be limited to: 235 Certification Training(s) with and without firearms training ;Section 80  and 120 Security Certification Training for Law Enforcement Candidates; Specialized Technological Security Trainings.  The program's mission is to provide father's, who have children 18 or younger, with the educational and job training skills and supportive services to enable them to secure and maintain employment.

Project Name: New Civil War Museum
Recipient: Civil War Museum of Philadelphia 2301 Market Street, N1-1, Philadelphia, PA 19103
Amount Requested: $6,000,000
Purpose: The Civil War Museum of Philadelphia will build a new museum in the historic district of Philadelphia in close proximity to Independence National Historical Park to house its nationally significant collection of artifacts and archival material about the Civil War. This collection is the largest Civil War collection outside of government hands and represents the story of the Union officers and enlisted men from a personal perspective, as well as, the actions they took as soldiers. The new museum is scheduled to open in time for the 150th anniversary of the Civil War in 2011.

Project Name: NEW EQUIPMENT AND UNIFORMS
Recipient: FRANKFORD CHARGERS SPORTS AND MENTORING
Amount Requested: $60,000
Purpose: To provide the youth involved with the Frankford Chargers with equipment and uniforms.   The Frankford Chargers Sports Association has been a viable community resource since 1967.  The Frankford Charger’s Football Team is an organized recreational development alternative to the lure of Philadelphia’s City streets that now serves over 300 youth ages 5-15.  The program focuses on various aspects of competitive team sports, training, and conditioning, and now has over eight football and cheerleading teams governed by the Pop Warner Little Scholar’s Program.

Project Name: New Hope Development Corporation -Renovation of New Visions Learning Center
Recipient: New Hope Development Corporation- 717 South 12th Street, Philadelphia, Pa, 19147-1803
Amount Requested: $150,000
Purpose: The New Visions Learning Center provides education and daycare for low-income children.  It currently accomodates 45 students ranging from 2-4 years of age, all of which are from low-income families.  These funds will be used for necessary repairs at the facility and to provide new desks and other school supplies.

Project Name: NIR SIGHT(NEAR INFA-RED RANGING)
Recipient: RL Associates, AMPAC and Seneca located at UTP, Bldg #2, #2300, 1350 Edgemont Ave., Chester, PA 19013.
Amount Requested: $4,000,000
Purpose: The funding would be used for Navy RDTE validated component system integration. NIR Sight will enhance mission performance  for our military, provide better protection for our country, service members and mechanical assets/platforms by significantly reducing risk for those in harm’s way.   Having greater accuracy, diminished manpower/maintenance needs and being a greater distance from the enemy is the benefit to DoD.

Project Name: Nutrient Water Quality Model for the Delaware Estuary and Bay
Recipient: Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC), 25 State Police Drive, P.O. Box 7360, West Trenton, N J 08628
Amount Requested: $250,000
Purpose: Control of nutrients has been determined by the U.S. EPA to be a priority water quality issue.  A water quality model is essential for evaluating the multiple impacts of these pollutants which include low dissolved oxygen, excessive algae and plant growth, and changes in species composition.  A nutrient model for the Delaware Estuary and Bay will be developed, calibrated and utilized to establish controls for point and non-point sources.

Project Name: Opthalmic Pediatric Outreach Program
Recipient: Wills Eye Health System, 840 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107-5109
Amount Requested: $750,000
Purpose: Renovation of the pediatric ophthalmology clinic at Wills Eye Institute (founded in 1832), to include upgrading equipment and purchasing a van to create an ophthalmic pediatric mobile diagnostic unit to be used for a community screening program that will provide access to eye care for children in Philadelphia PA.  Wills pediatric ophthalmology service provides care to children regardless of their families’ ability to pay and is a world-renowned center for patient care and medical education with sub-specialty services.