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28 Community Programs Receive Grants Through Penn Medicine CAREs Program
PHILADELPHIA The Penn Medicine CAREs Grant program supports faculty, students, and staff who volunteer in community-based programs outside of their jobs. This quarter, Penn Medicine CAREs awarded grants to 28 projects, many of which aim to fill vast needs in the community created by the COVID-19 pandemic, while others seek to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Since 2011, CAREs has provided grants to over 730 service initiatives across the region Penn Medicine serves, including programs in community centers, farmers markets, and places of worship from Philadelphia and Lancaster and Chester counties to the suburbs and shore communities of New Jersey. So far this year, 62 projects have received grants.