Philly Thrive

07/24/2025

Learn about Philly Thrive’s effort to clean up the old South Philly oil refinery and how you can get involved to demand safe & healthy redevelopment!

Thrive Teach-In
Friday, August 1st, 6-8pm
Philly Thrive HQ (1101 South 27th Street)

We’ll have food, drinks, and community!

06/16/2025

The Philly Thrive Media Cohort has been collecting photos of Grays Ferry ancestors who have passed. We’re making a mural of remembrance this summer in the neighborhood. Is there someone who passed who you’d like to honor? Want to see them on a mural? Dig those photos out of your closets, basements, and picture frames. Send us photos by JUNE 30. If you need physical photos scanned, let us know.
Don’t have photos? We are also taking names. Please email or text names to the information below.

For questions, please email or call Kristen at mediaprojects@phillythrive.org or 484-674-5563

06/13/2025

Celebrating our WIN from yesterday!!! 🎉

Yesterday we won the first bill in the Safe Healthy Homes Act, the Right to Relocation. 🏡

Thank you to all our members and allies who shared their stories, made calls, came to City Hall, and built this movement of true people power. ✊🏾

This is just the beginning … see you in the fall to win the rest of the Safe Healthy Homes Act including the Right to Safety and the Right to Repairs! ✨

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06/04/2025

Listen up to our high school intern, Christina, share her story yesterday about why we need safe healthy homes! 🗣️🏡

If you support our youth in their fight to be heard, please join us TOMORROW for our youth-led action at City Hall where we will be doing a community letter and art drop urging Council President Johnson to require HRP group to have all electric trucks on their sites! 🌳

Can’t make it but want to participate? Today is the last day to write a letter to support! We all deserve to live healthy long lives with clean air! Swipe through for full details! 📝

06/04/2025

06/04/2025

The Grays Ferry Community Archive website is NOW LIVE! The Philly Thrive Media Cohort has been interviewing residents, collecting photos, and making a map to remember the people and places in Grays Ferry. You can add to it! Visit www.graysferryarchive.com or click the link in our bio.

Come celebrate the launch of this website! Dinner provided. Wednesday, June 11 from 6-8pm at the Philly Thrive HQ, 1101 S 27th St

We’re making a mural to go in Grays Ferry of remembrance. Is there someone who passed who you’d like to honor? Want to see them on a mural? Dig those photos out of your closets, basements, and picture frames. Send us photos by JUNE 30. If you need physical photos scanned, let us know.

05/27/2025

🚨 Call for Support for Youth-Led Direct Action🚨
Philly Thrive’s Youth-Led  Community Letter and Art Drop to urge Council President Kenyatta Johnson to mandate that the HRP Group must require all-electric trucks on their site has been postponed from the previous date to NEXT THURSDAY, June 5th, at 4pm at City Hall ‼️

As a reminder, we are asking community members to create an art piece and/or *write a letter in support of this campaign to be dropped off at City Hall to show Council President Johnson how much the residents of this city greatly appreciate him supporting our youth in their fight for clean air in his district! (*A template for the letter-writing portion of the action, along with important facts on how this air pollution affects our community, can be found by swiping through this post)

Please join us at the City Hall Visitor Entrance on 6/5 at 4pm with your letter/art or, if you can’t make it but would like to support, please email your letter to leadershipdevelopment@phillythrive.org by 6/4 so we can include it!

Hope to see you all there!🌻☁️

05/07/2025

We have two important events in support of our Campaign led by our wonderful high school interns that you can tap in to!

We know how much pollution diesel trucks will cause for our residents once Amazon and other warehouses move in to Grays Ferry, so we’re urging our supportive Council President, Kenyatta Johnson, to ensure these warehouses use Green trucks—this way we all win!

•Tomorrow, Thurs, May 8 from 6-7:30: We have an Art Build & Letter Writing Event so we can show council how much community support we have! Can’t make the letter writing but want to write a letter of support? Send your letter to leadershipdevelopment@phillythrive.org and stay tuned for a letter prompt to help stay on message!

•Then Thurs, May 22, at 4pm, we’re meeting at City Hall to drop off our letters and art to CP Kenyatta Johnson’s office and thank him for his support of his constituents!

04/30/2025

Congratulations to our amazing Policy Fellow, Ella Israeli, who is being honored by for this year’s “Turning the Tide: Climate Justice and the Fight for Liberation” for the Award! We are so proud to work beside her every day and look forward to celebrating her in June! 🎉🌻❤️ Learn more about Tribute to Change and grab your ticket here: https://breadrosesfund.org/tributetochange/

Join Ella in the current organizing for safe healthy homes for all in the city budget by showing up to City Hall on 5/13. RSVP here: bit.ly/packcouncil_may13 🏡

04/21/2025

Our Safe Healthy Homes budget platform with makes clear that everyone - both renters and low-income homeowners - need home repairs. 🏡

That’s why we’re advocating for $10 million in the city budget for PEA’s Built to Last home repair program and clean energy initiatives. 🌱

Here’s how you can take action today!
Thanks to our friends at the HERE4CJ coalition for this toolkit. ✊📞🗣️

04/18/2025

Calling all Grays Ferry homeowners!! 🗣️🏡

While we’re fighting for Safe Healthy Homes across the city, we know our neighbors need home repairs now! That’s why we’re partnering with to get it done! 💓

Are you a Grays Ferry homeowner in need of repairs? Come join us to learn more about and apply for this program. We’re hosting two events, but you only need to come to one. 📝

RSVP at bit.ly/HomeRepairsMay25

(Please note that this program is dependent on federal funding.)

03/21/2025

Myth: gentrification (when homes get so $$$ that longterm residents have to leave) is a natural process. Fact: gentrification is a collaboration between corporations and government. What can we do? Take direct action! Join PEJEA. Look out for dates to join Philly Thrive and at City Hall. We are demanding $10 million for home repairs in this years city budget.