“An early goal is to see at least 10 percent of the homeless participants find jobs in the first six months.”
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This will be the seventh affordable housing site for Hearth, an organization which provides affordable housing, medical and support services to elderly homeless and low-income individuals. This site is located at Olmstead Green in Dorchester.
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”[Mr.] Mercado’s circuitous path to Philadelphia and business ownership isn’t a tale of entrepreneurship’s power to overcome homelessness, as tempting as that might be. Rather, it’s a testament to Mercado’s fortitude and Philadelphia’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, which he took advantage of at every opportunity to lift himself up the ladder of redemption.”
The Free Library of Philadelphia’s Business Science and Industry Department is part of this crucial entrepreneurial ecosystem.
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“Our mission is about connecting people to all sorts of information resources, many times in non-traditional ways.”
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“Upward mobility through the mechanism of a good education, which is a widely held value in this country that cuts across the political spectrum, is in serious jeopardy.”
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