Our Talented Colleagues
This colleague completed the Broad Street Run for the first time in 2025.
This two-sentence, five-word phrase is PEF's new tagline, as of September 2025.
What is, "Sparking Success. Fueling the Future"?
The College Access Program supports this number of Philadelphia public high schools.
What is 6?
TRIO
What is CAP?
This program's Action Teams include on-time high school graduation, on track to college graduation, and data & evaluation.
What is CASE?
With the expansion into 2 new partners (and transition out of one legacy school), PPSP now partners with this number of schools.
What is 5 schools?
Chubb
What is PPSP?
This colleague has a side hustle as a knitter.
Who is Allison Kelsey?
This program offers access to the Lenfest Immensitas Scholarship for college room and board, among many other services.
What is Fostering College Readiness?
112 PEF scholars received this much in financial aid last academic year. (Guesses should be to the nearest thousand.)
What is $550,000?
PECO
What is the McKinney STEM Center?
This baker has gotten really into making breads and pizzas.
Who is David Garbe?
This colleague can correctly label a map of Africa in under two minutes.
Who is Madeline Birkner?
A PEF alumna had a "full-circle moment" when she welcomed two groups of CAP students to campus in her role as admissions counselor at this local university.
What is Penn State Abington?
PhillyGoes2College tracked this many visitors on its website so far this year. (Guesses should be to the nearest thousand.)
What is 57,000 visitors?
Leonardo Helicopters
What is Spark?
This published author's work has been translated into French, Spanish, and Italian.
Who is Mike Noel?
This is the number you'd call if you had general questions about PEF's operations.
What is 215-665-1400?
The Connelly Foundation and Senator Vincent Hughes