Appropriations P-Z

 

Project Name: PEDIATRIC/ADOLESCENT TRAUMA AND RESUSCITATION
Recipient: The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, 34th Street and Civic Center Boulevard, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Amount Requested: $2,900,000
Purpose: The funding would be used for the development of a comprehensive pediatric trauma, shock and cardiac arrest resuscitation test bed to discover, implement, and disseminate evidence-based scaled interventions for resuscitation of infants, children and young adults.Pediatric injury/cardiac arrest occur in 10 percent of casualty care in the military, this program will enable rapid deployment and effective training in resource limited combat/civilian settings

Project Name: Pennsylvania Environmental Council
Recipient: Spencer Finch, Dir Sustainable Development
Amount Requested: $500,000
Purpose: In cooperation with the City of Philadelphia, the PEC's 58th Street Connector Greenway would construct a 1.2 mile green corridor that connects the Schuylkill River, the Schuylkill River Trail, Bartram's Garden, Cobbs Creek Trail and points south and west.  The project looks to revitalize and under-served community and spark economic development in the area.

Project Name: Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission
Recipient: John Martino, PA Turnpike Commission
Amount Requested: $15,000,000
Purpose: The Penn Turnpike-I95 interchange closes a missing link by rerouting I95 onto the Penn and NJ turnpikes as authorized in the 1982 Surface Transportation Act

Project Name: Philadelphia Industrial Development Corp
Recipient: Paul Deegan, PIDC
Amount Requested: $1,200,000
Purpose: Engineering and reconstruction of 800 foot long deteriorating causeway supporting Broad Street

Project Name: Philadelphia Museum of Art 
Recipient: Philadelphia Museaum of Art
Amount Requested: $15,000,000
Purpose: Intermodal trasportation improvement project to resolve pedestrian and vehicular issues at the convergence of Kelly Dr, Spring Garden St, Art Museum Dr, Pennsylvania Ave, and Fairmont Ave

Project Name: Philadelphia Navy Yard Seawall Reconstruction
Recipient: Philadelphia Industrial Development Corporation
Amount Requested: $3,500,000
Purpose: The seawall extends approximately 7,000 feet along the Delaware River.  Most portions of the structure are more than 100 years old. Severe deterioration threatens existing property in this National Register Historic District.  The seawall protects adjacent buildings and associated infrastructure, including the U.S. Navy's Billion-dollar power research facility.  The poor condition of the protective seawall severely limits the future redevelopment opportunities at The Navy Yard.  These repairs are needed to protect the adjacent buildings and associated infrastructure that include US Navy research facilities.  Additionally, the repairs are required prior to the implementation of a proposed riverfront greenway trail along the Delaware River waterfront.  Current public access and recreational opportunities along the Delaware River waterfront are very scarce.  The project would provide community and economic development by expanding urban greenway and recreational opportunities for the region.

Project Name: PHILADELPHIA RAPID and SECURE, GLOBAL SURFACE DISTRIBUTION HUB
Recipient: The Delaware River Maritime Enterprise Council, Inc., Two Neshaminy Interplex, Suite 208, Trevose, PA 19053. 
Amount Requested: $10,000,000
Purpose: The funding would be used for furtherance of the Philadelphia Model Strategic Seaport project. RAPID System has proven itself, in thirty+ actual military cargo operations, as a rapid and secure, global distribution network.  RAPID System has been collaboratively developed to respond to documented shortfalls noted in multiple GAO reports on DODs transportation network as well as a Defense Science Board Task Force Study on Mobility. RAPID System is being developed to respond to the numerous factors which impede the secure (against terrorism), efficient, timely, and accountable movement of equipment to the U.S. for repair (RESET/Retrograde) and return to units or the combatant theaters as well as war materiel between forts and the theaters.

Project Name: PORTABLE MOBILE EMERGENCY BROADBAND SYSTEM
Recipient: Rajant Corporation 400 East King Street, Malvern, PA 19355
Amount Requested: $5,900,000
Purpose: The PMEBS networks have unique applications for the military, and enable untrained personnel to rapidly establish, replace or augment communication systems with a secure, rugged, battery-powered, auto-configuring, high bandwidth, fully mobile network.  System features have been developed with direct input from the military in order to meet stringent functional requirements and unique needs for reliability and ease of use.

Project Name: Preparing Philadelphia's Future Global Leaders (PPFGL)
Recipient: Main Line Chinese Culture Center, Inc. (MLCCC), 704 Powder Mill Lane, Wynnewood, PA 19096
Amount Requested: $150,000
Purpose: To be located at the Russell Byers Charter School (RBCS) in Philadelphia, the PPFGL will build upon an innovative learning program that supports school children from underserved neighborhoods.  Via afterschool and weekend program offerings that share compelling insights on Chinese culture and language in a safe environment; the MLCCC will expand children’s horizons to better prepare them for competing in a global economy in which China is playing an increasingly more important role.  Through its creative usage of exciting content that integrates fun cultural insights of China along with some valuable conversational Mandarin phrases, children will be exposed to life-long learning skills that can support their short-term educational needs and long-term career aspirations.

Project Name: PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF PHILADELPHIA VIETNAM VETERANS MEMORIAL
Recipient: PHILADELPHIA VIETNAM VETERANS MEMORIAL  FUND 213 N. Fourth Street  Philadelphia, PA 19106
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
Purpose: Long-neglected maintenance and restoration work on 21 year old memorial.

Project Name: PRINTED and CONFORMAL ELECTRONICS for MILITARY APPLICATIONS
Recipient: FlexTech Alliance, 84 W. Santa Clara St., Suite 630, San Jose, CA 9511
Amount Requested: $3,000,000
Purpose: The funding would be used for FlexTech Alliance to develop and manage a supply chain and prototype development program for printed and conformal electronics that will support innovative military applications, under Army Research Lab oversight.

Project Name: PRODUCTION, TESTING AND APPROVAL OF SECOND SOURCE MANUFACTURERS OF CRITICALLY NEEDED FLIGHT SAFETY SPARES/PARTS FOR MILITARY AND CARGO HELICOPTERS
Recipient: NP Precision, 5 Horne Drive, Folcroft, PA 19032
Amount Requested: $3,000,000
Purpose: The  benefit to our soldiers in the field is that the helicopters presently grounded or with flying time reduced for lack of critical flight safety spares/parts would now be in service and supporting our troops and ground transport. It has been shown that helicopter protection and escort of our ground troops in transport, is the most effective deterrent against road side attacks. Incresed  troop numbers in remote, high altitude regions such as Afghanistan, which require greater helicopter  involvement,  particulary cargo helicopters, such as the CH 47, that have proven invaluable at high altitudes, have and will put great strain on the already limited supply of  helicopter spare parts and those forcasted for the future.

Project Name: PROTON BEAM THERAPY PROJECT
Recipient: University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 3620 Hamilton Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6055.
Amount Requested: $2,500,000
Purpose: The Funding will be used to complete work on the next generation of proton therapy equipment for the PENN Medicine Proton Therapy Facility that will revolutionize cancer treatment for military and medical beneficiaries. 

Project Name: RANGE SCRAP DEMIL
Recipient: Day & Zimmermann, 1500 Spring Garden Street, Philadelphia PA 19130.  
Amount Requested: $1,500,000
Purpose: The funding would be used for establishing a safe system for demilitarization of obsolete munitions and expended ordnance on Department of Defense training ranges in the western US.

Project Name: Ready, Willing & Able
Recipient: Ready, Willing & Able, 1211 Bainbridge Street, Philadelphia, PA 19147
Amount Requested: $584,436
Purpose: This funding will support Ready, Willing & Able’s paid transitional employment; intensive case management; vocational training; drug testing and counseling; and comprehensive educational and social services that formerly incarcerated individuals need to become contributing members of society and permanently close the revolving door of recidivism.  The program mission is to develop and implement cost-effective, holistic programs that meed the needs of a diverse population working to break the cycles of homelessness, addition, and criminal recidivism.  All of these programs ultimately strive to help homeless and formerly incarcerated individuals achieve permanent self-sufficiency.

Project Name: Regional All-Hazards Emergncy Response Integration Project 
Recipient: University of Pennsylvania/Critical Situation Management 3 Bala Plaza East Suite 102 Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004
Amount Requested: $8,050,000
Purpose: Application of expert system technology for disaster management in an urban environment

 

Project Name: Saint Joseph’s University Continuing Education Initiative
Recipient: Saint Joseph’s University 5600 City Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19131
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
Purpose: Federal funding for this initiative will enable the University to expand its continuing education and job retraining programs. More specifically funding will be used for the following program elements: Promote and create programs which will attract the target population to enroll in programs which will lead to employment opportunities. Provide economic support and personal mentoring to ensure the candidate’s ability to complete their chosen programs of study.  Expand the Saint Joseph’s University’s Career Development Center, currently serving the traditional college student, to meet the needs of the adult continuing education student at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

Project Name: Saint Joseph’s University Institute for Environmental Stewardship
Recipient: Saint Joseph’s University 5600 City Avenue Philadelphia, PA 19131
Amount Requested: $2,260,000
Purpose: Saint Joseph’s University is in the process of creating an Institute for Environmental Stewardship. The overarching mission of the Institute will be to promote socially, economically and ethically responsible environmental stewardship within Saint Joseph’s University (SJU), the greater Philadelphia community and throughout the country. The Institute will also provide an unparalleled educational opportunity for students, faculty and members of the community to explore the University’s efforts in raising environmental awareness and responsibility through cutting edge research and building initiatives.

Project Name: Saint Joseph's University Institute for Violence Research and Prevention
Recipient: Saint Joseph's University, 5600 City Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19131
Amount Requested: $750,000
Purpose: Urban violence is a complex issue necessitating multi-faceted solutions addressing victims, perpetrators, educators, community leaders and government officials. The primary mission of this project is to support and develop interdisciplinary approaches dealing with the crisis of violence in our society. The nationally recognized work of IVRP is accomplished by working with policy makers and affected parties to identify, create and advance state-of-the art strategies for violence prevention and intervention in our schools and communities, and, serve as a national model for other urban areas.

Project Name: School-Wide Positive Behavior Support Initiatives- School District of Philadelphia
Recipient: Devereux 444 Villanova Drive P.O. Box 638 Villanova, PA  19085
Amount Requested: $300,000
Purpose: School-wide Positive Behavior Support (SWPBS) is a systems approach for establishing the social culture and individual behavior supports needed for schools to be effective learning environments for all students.  The approach includes universal support for the school as a whole, specialized group interventions for at risk students, and individual interventions for students with chronic behavior problems.

Project Name: SHARED INFORMATION AND DATA EXCHANGE PLATFORM (SIDEP) for PROJECT NATIONAL SHIELD(PNS)
Recipient: Drakontas LLC, 115 East Glenside Avenue, Suite #1, Glenside PA 19038
Amount Requested: $4,000,000
Purpose: The funding would be used to develop a common data framework among heterogeneous data sources, such as chemical and biological sensors, computer aided dispatch systems, records management systems, traffic management systems, and other information gathering devices that are essential to the civil support function.  Expenditures will include software, hardware and professional services, under the management of US Army ARDEC and in collaboration with the City of Philadelphia and a number of surrounding jurisdictions.

Project Name: Stem Cell and Gene Therapy: Personalized Medicine Approach to Coronary and Peripheral Artery Disease
Recipient: Sbarro Health Research Organization (SHRO), Temple University - Bio Life Sciences Bldg. 333, 1900 N. 12th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
Purpose: SHRO is affiliated with Temple University and is a nonprofit organization that finances and promotes the work of established researchers and young scientists in medicine, molecular biology, genetics, physics, chemistry and biomathematics.  Because biology is likely to become the greatest single driver of the global economy, stem cell and genetic therapy will be the most significant within biology, this project will benefit Philadelphia in several ways.  In addition to jobs and economic benefits, the citizens of Philadelphia and the Delaware Valley are going to be among the first to benefit from less surgery and from less invasive cardiac interventions for the treatment of coronary artery and peripheral artery disease and heart failure.

Project Name: TELEHEALTH ROBOTIC MEDICINE DELIVERY UNIT (TRMDU)
Recipient: INRange Systems, Inc., 115 Union Avenue Altoona, PA 16602.
Amount Requested: $2,000,000
Purpose: The funding would be used for the continuation of TRMDU to provide Wounded Warrior patient drug therapy for home/service transition and modifications to control access & narcotics use to prevent high risk &  medication misuse.

Project Name: Temple University Hospital - Clinical Information System 
Recipient: Temple University Health System, 2450 West Hunting Park Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19129
Amount Requested: $5,000,000
Purpose: Support implementation of a cutting edge clinical information system, incorporating an electronic medical record.  The System will be implemented across all hospitals and community based physicians of the Temple University Health System and the Temple University Physicians faculty practice plan, enabling dramatic improvements in care in Temple’s North Philadelphia community. Temple is Pennsylvania’s highest volume provider of care to Medicaid beneficiaries, cost savings incurred through elimination of redundant testing and other efficiencies will reduce overall cost of administration of the Commonwealth’s Medicaid program.  Additionally, funding for this project will help meet the federal goasl of reducing health disparities among minority and disadvantaged populations, assist with research initiatives, reporting requirements, assist in the improvement of pay-for-performance, and disease surveillance and potential bioterrorism detection.

Project Name: Temple University Hospital - Episcopal Campus Infrastructure Renewal Project
Recipient: Temple University Health System, 2450 West Hunting Park Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19129
Amount Requested: $5,000,000
Purpose: Renovation and upgrades of the Episcopal Campus’s failing physical infrastructure.  The antiquated facility continues to serve a vital role in its economically disadvantaged inner-city community (since 1852) as both a health care provider and a major employer (more than 600 employees and pays more than $26 million in salaries), and Temple is committed to maintaining its long term viability.  The Episcopal Campus contains all of the Health System's behavioral health services and the crisis response center is one of the busiest on the East Coast.

Project Name: TERRORISM THREAT DETECTION RESEARCH
Recipient:
Amount Requested: $5,000,000
Purpose: The entity to receive funding for this project is the Temple University Center for Advanced Photonics Research, located at 244 Beury Hall, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122.  The current collection rates for this type of data have exceeded analysts’ ability to exploit them in a timely manner.  This kind of new technology is needed if the U.S. is stay one step ahead of its terrorist adversaries.  The critical deliverables for this project include: 1) integrated laser and detection systems for chemical mapping of IED’s, urban and battlefield terrains, and possible threats to ports and coastlines, and 2) a computer automation system to expedite as well as tirelessly perform object recognition from aerial, satellite, and surveillance images.  Obviously, the capabilities that will result from this project will have broad applicability in many defense and homeland security missions.

Project Name: The Bigger Brain and Neuroscience Exhibit
Recipient: Franklin Institute 222 North 20th Street Philadelphia, PA 19103
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
Purpose: The Franklin Institute is in the proess of constructing a new flagship exhibit on the brain, to be housed in a new stat of the art neuroscience center.  The exhibit is in keeping with the tradition of The Franklin Institute’s walk-through heart, and will include an enormous dimensional human brain similar to the walk-through heart exhibit.  Media walls across the exhibit will provide the entry statement to a different brain subject. Video panels will be alive with images: numbers, letters, faces, a heart beating, and so on. The media in each area will explore the various functions and aspects of the brain in a visually rich, non-linear, and most importantly, non-didactic way.

Project Name: The Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine (Center) model integrative programs of clinical excellence
Recipient: The Myrna Brind Center of Integrative Medicine, Thomas Jefferson University and Hospital, 111 South 11th Street, Suite 6215 Gibbon Bldg., Philadelphia, PA 19107
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
Purpose: The primary goal of the proposed project is to develop two model integrative programs of clinical excellence within the Center (Advanced Comprehensive Health Screening and Traditional Chinese Medicine Clinical and Training Programs).  These programs will build upon the Center’s existing strong framework of combining state-of-the art conventional medicine with cutting edge complementary modalities, and the programs are formulated within the context of the key elements of integrative health care delivery.  The content and clinical services embodied by the proposed programs are chosen based upon promising evidence of the tremendous impact these services would potentially provide.  This project will expand available resources in the greater Philadelphia area for quality integrative medical care, and increase the opportunity for many patients to evaluate and address a variety of unremitting health problems in a manner that would not otherwise be available to them.  No comparable programs exist.

Project Name: The Parents Help Line for Drug and Alcohol Abuse Solutions
Recipient: The Treatment Research Institute, 600 Public Ledger Building, 150 S. Independence Mall West, Philadelphia, PA 19106
Amount Requested: $1,500,00
Purpose: The Parents Help Line for Drug and Alcohol Abuse Solutions will be the first national toll-free call center serving parents and other caregivers who are concerned, uncertain or fearful about a child’s drug and alcohol abuse, and who seek actionable information from highly-trained healthcare professionals in real-time. This Help Line will complement the comprehensive on-line resource center for parents (available at drugfree.org) created by the Treatment Research Institute and the Partnership for a Drug-Free America.  The toll-free line will serve the approximately 30 percent of parents and caregivers who lack internet access, as well as those who wish to speak with an expert who will provide them the one-on-one guidance they seek. 

Project Name: THREE DIMENSIONAL PROJECTION ENVIRONMENT FOR MOLECULAR DESIGN AND SURGICAL SIMULATION
Recipient: Thomas Jefferson University, 1020 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107
Amount Requested: $2,000,000
Purpose:

Project Name: TOCP West Philadelphia After School Crime Prevention, IT & Career Preparation Program
Recipient: Technology Opportunities in Communities of Promise, Inc., 3801 Market Street, Suite 200, Philadelphia, PA 
Amount Requested:$348,124
Purpose: The TOCP After School Extra Curricula  Program will serve 125 disadvantaged and at risk youth.  Special self-sufficiency services will also be provided to parents and guardians.  Major activities will consist of computer and new technology training, computer certification prep, college career exposure, workforce development skills building, homework help, mentoring, tutoring, coaching and various types community service learning, internships and paid work placements. Students will be placed in  community service learning, private sector internships and work experience opportunities.  Students and families will be provided crime prevention/safety conflict identification and conflict resolution training and self-sufficiency case management services to ensure long term success. The program is targeted to benefit 125 disadvantaged students in grades 8 through 12 and their parents with enrollment targeted to TANF populations, families on public assistance and the working poor in Philadelphia, PA.

Project Name: Township of Darby
Recipient: Township of Darby, 21 Bartram Avenue, Glenolden, PA
Amount Requested:$455,000
Purpose: The Darby street resurfacing project will ease traffic conjestion and improve road safety.  Additionally, increased access for businesses and residents will aid economic recovery in the area.  The Township of Darby would like this to be a comprehensive project, resurfacing all township streets

Project Name: UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLE PROPULSION and PLATFORM UPGRADE
Recipient: Navmar Corporation, located at 1350 Edgemont Ave Ste 2100, Chester PA
Amount Requested:$2,500,000
Purpose: The funding would be used for UAV range increases and quieting of the engine for covert missions. The UAV propulsion and platform upgrade increases the range and payload of the UAV and quiets the engine for increased covertness.  Fulfills requirements of DoD unmanned systems roadmap 2007-2032.

Project Name: Uptown Theater
Recipient: Uptown Entertainment and Development Corporation, 2227 N. Broad Street, Suite 2F, Philadelphia, PA 19132-4502
Amount Requested:$1,000,000
Purpose: This project aims to provide employment and job training to disadvantaged citizens in our community. We are a non profit 501c3 organization dedicated to community revitalization. UEDC has identified the historic Uptown Theater, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, as its first acquisition and revitalization project. The 50,229 square foot theater, with a 2,100 seat auditorium located at 2240 N. Broad Street, was acquired in 2002. The development plans include renovating the theater as an entertainment venue, creating a museum dedicated to preserving Black music, developing a technology center and providing an entertainment management training program for local youth and commercial leasing space to area arts institutions.

Project Name: Urban League Entrepreneurship Center
Recipient: Urban League of Philadelphia 121 South Broad Street, 9th Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19107
Amount Requested: $100,000
Purpose: ULEC’s goal is to help small businesses grow; to enable minority entrepreneurs to take advantage of new business opportunities and to qualify for financing that will lead to a high level of business growth through proper management skills. Entrepreneurs will receive individualized management assistance and group training services designed to increase their market share and offer living wage employment opportunities to residents in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and its surrounding counties of Bucks, Chester, Delaware and Montgomery.

Project Name: Using Advanced Imaging Technology to Treat Complex Inoperable Neoplasms and Arteriovenous Malformations
Recipient: Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, 925 Chestnut Street, Suite 311, Philadelphia, PA 19107
Amount Requested: $1,000,000
Purpose: This new technology will allow TJUH to continue to treat patients more effectively without surgery and in a way that few other cancer centers can, drawing patients and their families to the area.  Further, minimally invasive procedures allow patients to recover more quickly and return to work and other matters of daily living without lengthy healing periods.  Finally, this project will create three new full-time medical professional positions at the hospital as well as temporary construction jobs related to the installation and renovations of the new interventional procedure room, contributing hundreds of thousands of dollars in salaries and benefits to the local economy.

Project Name: Walnut Street Theatre Touring Outreach and After-School Programs
Recipient: Walnut Street Theater, 825 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107
Amount Requested: $100,000
Purpose: The funding would be used for the Walnut’s Touring Outreach initiative which uses theatre to address issues such as multiculturalism, race, gender, the environment, bullying and conflict resolution in local schools.   Funding will also help the Walnut continue to expand its Adopt-a-School program, which provides after-school programming in  inner-city partner schools, fostering greater participation by the student body, further integrating special education students into the program and helping keep more students engaged in safe, productive school-based activities during evening hours. 

Project Name: Widener University Allied Health Equipment Initiative
Recipient: Widener University, One University Place, Chester, PA 19013
Amount Requested: $844,600
Purpose: This request will support the development of simulated patient care environments in the School of Nursing, including a hospital unit, critical care/trauma unit, primary care provider office, and homecare, that incorporate the use of high-fidelity manikins, such as MediMan or SimMan, SimBaby, or the Noelle Birth Simulation model.  High-fidelity manikins afford faculty the opportunity to create scenarios that represent critical events encountered in the hospital setting as well as to test students' ability to manage high risk situations, such as cardiac arrest, in a risk-free setting that will facilitate students' mastery of critical thinking and urgent response.  Manikins are, for the health care professions, parallel to flight simulators for pilots.  The availability of clinical experiences for nursing students is becoming increasingly limited.

Project Name: Widener University Delaware County Violence Prevention Collaborative
Recipient: Widener University, One University Place, Chester, PA 19013
Amount Requested: $250,000
Purpose: Since 2004, Widener University has been a leading member of the Delaware County Violence Prevention Collaborative ("Collaborative").  Formed as part of a joint project between Widener University and Crozer-Keystone System, the Collaborative is now comprised of volunteer staff from both institutions as well as representatives from approximately 30 community agencies, including the Chester and Upper Darby Police Departments, the Delaware County Office of Behavioral Health, the Delaware County Juvenile and District Courts, the Domestic Abuse Project, schools, social service agencies, grassroots organizations, and the City of Chester Anti-Violence Initiative.  Extending these and other accomplishments to a broad, regional constituency will require the creation of the Center on Reducing Adolescent and Family Violence ("Center"). 

Project Name: Work’n Progress: Philadelphia’s Monument to American Labor
Recipient: Fairmount Park Art Association 1616 Walnut Street, Suite 2012 Philadelphia, PA 19103
Amount Requested: $100,000
Purpose: The monument will serve as a permanent public art project to be located in the heart of a working class neighborhood in Southwest Philadelphia.  It honors the contributions of organized labor nationwide and emphasizes the pivotal and unique role that Philadelphia has played in the American Labor Movement. Work’n Progress was created for historic Elmwood Park by artist John Kindness through the Fairmount Park Art Association’s New•Land•Marks program, which brings high-quality public art to communities seeking significant cultural assets.

Project Name: Workers Working the Works CDC
Recipient: Workers Working the Works CDC, 6801 Cedar Park Avenue, Philaelphia, PA, 19126-2039
Amount Requested: $250,000
Purpose: The program endeavors to serve the senior and youth population in surrounding communities, specifically with the construction of a senior housing complex and multipurpose community center.  Money will assist with demolition of the existing sites that our organization currently owns so we can develop our affordable senior housing project and community center along with implementing  strategic programs that will enhance the lives of the seniors in our community. Our nonprofit organization was established in 1990 to provide needed social services to the West Oak Lane/Mt Airy (blighted) communities and to provide a safe, drug and weapon frere environment for everyone in the community.

Project Name: Workforce Development Training in Aquaculture & Aquaponics
Recipient: Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, 1837 University Circle, PO Box 200, Cheyney, PA 19319-0200
Amount Requested: $645,000
Purpose: The project will focus on the development of certificate programs (15 hours, 30 hours, and 100 hours) to prepare women and men to gain meaningful employment in aquaculture and aquaculture related industries (ornamental fish industry, aquariums, traditional farms, privately owned businesses, government or university owned facilities etc.).  The varied certificate programs will prepare participants to hold positions from entry level to technical assistants.  This projects proposes to train both displaced workers and those who are just entering the world of work.  In addition to skill training, each enrollee will also participate in life-skills workshops.  These will provide pre-employment readiness, basic skills development, reading comprehension, time management, conflict resolution, and sociability skills.

Project Name: X-49A ENVELOPE EXPANSION MODS 
Recipient: Piasecki Aircraft Corporation, 2nd Street West, Essington, Pennsylvania, 19029
Amount Requested: $4,500,000
Purpose: The funding would be used for the modification of the X-49A VTDP Compound Helicopter Technology Demonstrator to incorporate the Adaptive Digital Automated Pilot Technology (ADAPT) and Supplementary Power Unit (SPU) system to enable full flight envelope expansion.

Project Name: Youth Programming for the Learning Lab at WHYY
Recipient: WHYY, Inc., 150 North 6th Street, Philadelphia, PA  19106
Amount Requested: $112,407
Purpose: This program focuses on the importance of media literacy for 21st Century success. The Learning Lab develops media production skills through a hands-on, project-based curriculum.  Funding will cover operating costs for expanded youth programs, including doubling the size of the after school documentary program, a new youth radio program, and a new studio production course, and will also go to the creation of a new youth media curricula tied to state standards and to be offered at other Philadelphia schools.