The Kensington Community Resilience (KCR) Fund is moving into the year ahead with renewed commitment to sustaining community-led work during a critical period of rebuilding and transition.
The KCR Fund has expanded its 2025 grant cycle to award 14 new Community Resilience Grants and to provide existing grantees with additional Community Momentum Grants. This expansion allows the KCR Fund to deepen its investment in neighborhood-based organizations that are advancing healing, stability, and resilience in Kensington, Harrowgate, and Fairhill.
This expanded approach includes three key components:
Supporting more community leaders
Fourteen additional Community Resilience Grants have been awarded to organizations that applied in 2025 and received strong support through the KCR Fund’s participatory process. These $10,000 general operating grants will enable more grassroots organizations to continue meeting urgent needs while strengthening their long-term capacity.
Sustaining momentum for current grantees
The KCR Fund has also launched Community Momentum Grants — $3,000 awards for 25 returning KCR grantees. Designed to support continuity and growth during a rebuilding year, these grants honor organizations that have shown consistent commitment to improving quality of life in Kensington and reflect a shared commitment to sustaining progress over time.
Creating space for stability and planning
To reduce pressure and support thoughtful planning, the grant period for all current and new grantees will be extended through the fall of 2026. The next grant cycle will open in the summer of 2026, with grants being awarded in late fall 2026, allowing organizations the time and flexibility needed to adapt, rebuild, and strengthen their work.
Together, these investments represent $215,000 in additional funding this year. Combined with the $170,000 awarded earlier in 2025, total KCR Fund giving this year reaches $385,000 — bringing cumulative investment to more than $1.5 million since the Fund’s launch in 2021.
As the KCR Fund looks ahead, this expanded grant cycle reflects a belief that resilience is built not only through rapid response, but through sustained partnership, trust, and long-term commitment to community leadership.
NEW Community Resilience Grantees Include:
- Baker Industries
- Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia
- Centro Nuevo Creación
- Friends of Harrowgate Park
- Hart Lane Neighborhood Farm
- Historic Fair Hill
- Kensington Neighbors United Civic Association
- The Lighthouse, Inc.
- Philly Bomba Plena
- Photography Without Borders
- Raw Tools
- Rock to the Future
- Simple Homes Fuller Center
- Trash Academy
Community Momentum Grantees Include:
- Bicycle Coalition of Greater Philadelphia
- By Faith, Health, and Healing
- Centro Nuevo
- Fab Youth Philly
- Friends of Harrowgate Park
- Hart Lane Neighborhood Farm
- Historic Fair Hill
- Klean Kensington
- Kensington Neighbors United Civic Association
- Kensington Soccer Club
- Legal Clinic for the Disabled
- Leveling the Playing Field
- Other Side of the Tracks
- PB&J
- Philly Bomba Plena
- Photography Without Borders
- Providence Center
- Raw Tools
- Rebel Arts
- Rock to the Future
- Simple Homes Fuller Center
- The Salvation Army – New Day Drop in Center
- The Simple Way
- Trash Academy
- Yoga 4 Philly