The Interfaith Hospitality Network of Philadelphia is based in the Northwest, but Executive Director Rachel Falkove hopes it can soon better meet the needs of the growing number of Northeast Philadelphians seeking its services.

Falkove was at Tuesday’s Lawncrest Community Association to explain the network. She was invited by Rev. Ben Krey of Lawncrest’s Prince of Peace Lutheran Church.

“We are not a shelter,” Falkove said. “We are a program.” But shelter is one of the services the network provides to its members. In short, congregations join together to provide a mobile network of shelter, meals and other social services to families in need. The families spend short periods of time in each congregation as they work toward getting back on their feet. continue reading »

This is a first. We’ve called the big media outlets out on a lot of things, but we never expected to see such an obvious error.

In a report yesterday on Action News, a fire on the 6700-block of North 17th Street got a Northeast Philly dateline. We didn’t even need to read the full story to figure out it was wrong; the street name (or number) clued us in. continue reading »