Celebrating the fourth cohort of PhillyBOLT Grassroots Leaders in the City of Philadelphia and recognizing the students of PhillyBOLT Academic-Year Fellowship Program for their dedication to community-led change and leadership development.

Celebrating the fourth cohort of PhillyBOLT Grassroots Leaders in the City of Philadelphia and recognizing the students of PhillyBOLT Academic-Year Fellowship Program for their dedication to community-led change and leadership development. WHEREAS, PhillyBOLT (Build Our lives Together) is a nonprofit organization committed to cultivating, supporting, and empowering grassroots leaders to drive community-led change, with a focus on elevating residents of low-income neighborhoods to lead transformative initiatives; and WHEREAS, PhillyBOLT envisions a future where neighborhoods impacted by racial and economic injustice are thriving, led by the residents, and believes that the work of community transformation must be intergenerational, fostering a pipeline of leaders with lived experience; and WHEREAS, Through the Grassroots Leadership program, Philadelphians with a proven record of community impact receive support to scale their work and are integrated into the Youth Fellowship as part of the broader BOLT network advancing intergenerational changemaking; and WHEREAS, PhillyBOLT’s guiding principles - seeing problems as opportunities, being curious and asking why, practicing radical candor, delivering outstanding experiences, doing the right thing rather than the easy thing, and always acting in service to the people - have been fundamental in driving positive change and empowering communities across the City; and WHEREAS, The BOLT Academic-Year Fellowship partners with schools ac…