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Virtual Nonprofit Nerds: Last-Minute #GivingTuesday Strategies
Mon, October 25, 2021
6:00 P.M.
Business Resource and Innovation Center
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Parkway Central Library
Join Nonprofit Nerds Philly as we dive into #GivingTuesday Strategies! About this Event Now in its 9th year, #GivingTuesday has become a global phenomenon. According to the GivingTuesday Data Commons , about 34.8 million people participated in #GivingTuesday 2020, and total giving in 2020…
VIRTUAL - Joshua Ferris | A Calling for Charlie Barnes with Dana Spiotta | Wayward
Tue, October 26, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: Free or $31.00/$32.00-Book with ticket and signed book plate
REGISTER Joshua Ferris’s “brash, extravagant, and chillingly beautiful” ( The New Yorker ) novels include Then We Came to the End , winner of the 2008 PEN/Hemingway Award for best first novel and a finalist for the National Book Award; To Rise Again at a…
The Opioid Crisis in Philadelphia
Wed, October 27, 2021
7:00 P.M.
Education Philosophy and Religion Department
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Parkway Central Library
The Science for Change Series is presented in partnership with Skype a Scientist You can get tickets here! We will hear from both a scientist and an activist in the sphere of the opioid epidemic. We'll cover what we know about opioids and how they affect the brain, what people are…
VIRTUAL - Wil Haygood | Colorization: One Hundred Years of Black Films in a White World
Wed, October 27, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: Free or $34.00-Book with ticket and signed book plate
REGISTER In conversation with Cheryl Boone Isaacs, former head of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences Writing “with perspective, understanding and compassion to burn” ( Chicago Sun-Times ), Pulitzer Prize–-nominated journalist Wil Haygood has, over…
VIRTUAL - Woody Holton | Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution
Thu, October 28, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: Free or $42.00-Book with ticket and signed book plate
REGISTER In conversation with Adam McNeil, host of the New Books in African American Studies podcast The McCausland Professor of History at the University of South Carolina, Woody Holton teaches early U.S. history, specializing in economics, African American history, Indigenous history, and…
Scary and Not So Scary Literary Treats In the Rare Book Department, Free Library of Philadelphia
Fri, October 29, 2021
3:00 P.M.
Rare Book Department
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Parkway Central Library
Treat yourself to rarely seen artifacts in the Rare Book Department of the Free Library of Philadelphia. Items to be shown include: a signed confession by Abigail Hobbes during the Salem Witch Trials, A rare copy of Malleus Maleficarum, (or Hammer of Witches, a treatise on witchcraft) The…
IN-PERSON | George F. Will | American Happiness and Discontents: The Unruly Torrent, 2008–-2020
Mon, November 1, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: $7 In-house simulcast, $15 Auditorium
TICKETS Meelya Gordon Memorial Lecture Renowned for his “ability to combine high thinking with a shrewd capacity to understand day-to-day American politics,” ( The Economist ) Pulitzer Prize winner George Will has written a nationally syndicated column at The Washington Post for the…
VIRTUAL Introduction to Fundraising Planning
Tue, November 2, 2021
10:00 A.M.
Business Resource and Innovation Center
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Parkway Central Library
This program is part of the Regional Foundation Center's Diversify Your Funding Series. Does your organization need help directing its fundraising efforts? Planning focuses your organization by setting fundraising priorities and helps give staff and board members a road map to…
The Pledge to the People: Artifacts from the New Deal
Tue, November 2, 2021
2:00 P.M.
Rare Book Department
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Parkway Central Library
View rarely seen primary source documents published by the federal government as part of the New Deal! As a presidential candidate for the Democratic Party, Franklin Delano Roosevelt pledged a new deal for the American people as a way of addressing the problems associated with the depression. As…
Healthcare & Community: A 'Hear Me Out' Dialogue
Wed, November 3, 2021
5:30 P.M.
Zoom
Join your fellow Pennsylvanians in dialogue across distance and difference! The impact of COVID-19 has led to many questions about the U.S. healthcare and how we take care of each other as a community. The goal of this session is to hold space to discuss the health impacts of COVID,…
VIRTUAL - Vaccination, Past and Present
Wed, November 3, 2021
6:30 P.M.
Zoom
Join moderator Maiken Scott, host and creative director of WHYY's The Pulse, for a conversation about public health and vaccines, past and present. Scott will be joined by a panel of experts including: Argie Allen-Wilson , Founder and CEO, F.A.I.T.H. Connects, LLC; Cofounder,…
IN-PERSON | Glory Edim | On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library
Wed, November 3, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Parkway Central Library
Cost: Free
REGISTER REQUIRED IN ADVANCE In conversation with Christine Kendall, author of Riding Chance , nominated for a NAACP Image Award, and The True Definition of Neva Beane Glory Edim is the creator of Well-Read Black Girl, a book club, book, and online community that showcases the universality of…
VIRTUAL Introduction to Corporate Giving
Thu, November 4, 2021
10:00 A.M.
Business Resource and Innovation Center
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Parkway Central Library
This program is part of the Regional Foundation Center's Diversify Your Funding Series. Is your organization ready to seek corporate support? Corporate grantmakers are different from traditional foundations in many ways. This class provides a basic overview of: The different types of…
Auction Finds: A New Twist on Art Collecting, an author talk with Sherry L. Howard
Thu, November 4, 2021
5:30 P.M.
Art Department
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Parkway Central Library
Cost: FREE
Sherry L. Howard will present an Arts Talk and Book Signing for her new book ART WITH HEART: How I Built a Sweet Collection by Buying Cheap at Auction . Sherry has been collecting art at auctions for years and writing about the artists and their works in her blog Auction Finds . She built…
VIRTUAL - Antonio Damasio | Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious
Thu, November 4, 2021
7:30 P.M.
VIRTUAL
Cost: Free or $30.00-Book with ticket and signed book plate
REGISTER Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Endowed Lecture One of the world’s leading neuroscientists, Dr. Antonio Damasio has made watershed contributions to the understanding of how our brains process emotions, decisions, and conscious. He is the David Dornsife Professor of…
VIRTUAL - Huma Abedin | Both/And: A Life in Many Worlds
Fri, November 5, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: Free or $34.00-Book with ticket and signed book plate
REGISTER Currently Hillary Clinton’s chief of staff, Huma Abedin began as an intern for the former first lady in 1996. In the interim she has served in the U.S. Senate as senior advisor to Senator Clinton, worked as traveling chief of staff for Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign,…
What Should a *New* New Deal Be?
Mon, November 8, 2021
7:00 P.M.
Rare Book Department
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Parkway Central Library
The "New Deal" is now shorthand for the wide-ranging federal investment in the 1930s in work relief programs, infrastructure spending, regulatory reforms, and economic and community recovery efforts. It was this country's political and popular response to the national despair of…
VIRTUAL - Robby Krieger: | Set the Night on Fire: Living, Dying, and Playing Guitar With the Doors
Mon, November 8, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: $33.00-Book with Ticket and signed book plate
TICKETS In conversation with David Fricke, senior editor for Rolling Stone and SiriusXM host One of Rolling Stone ’s “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time”, Robby Krieger is best known as a member of the legendary rock band The Doors. He wrote or co-wrote some of the…
VIRTUAL Introduction to Individual Giving
Tue, November 9, 2021
10:00 A.M.
Business Resource and Innovation Center
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Parkway Central Library
This program is part of the Regional Foundation Center's Diversify Your Funding Series. Join our introductory course to explore the ins and outs of individual giving. You’ll learn the key elements of an individual giving program and walk away with next steps for starting or improving…
VIRTUAL | Linda Greenhouse | Justice on the Brink: The Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Rise of Amy Coney Barrett, and Twelve Months That Transformed the Supreme Court
Tue, November 9, 2021
7:30 P.M.
Virtual
Cost: Free or $32.00-Book with ticket and signed book plate
REGISTER In conversation with Tamala Edwards, anchor, 6ABC Action News morning edition Pine Tree Foundation Endowed Lecture The New York Times ’s Supreme Court correspondent for nearly three decades, Linda Greenhouse won the Pulitzer Prize for her coverage of the United States’s…