Freda Savana

4 days ago | thedailyreview.com | Freda Savana

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4 days ago | phillyvoice.com | Freda Savana

Three Pennsylvania nonprofits share a uniquely focused mission on public health. Looming federal cuts to scientific research, they warn, could unravel decades of their work.  While the Trump administration's proposed funding cuts in biomedical research are reverberating nationally, they are also causing grave concern in Bucks County, home to the Hepatitis B Foundation, the Baruch S. Blumberg Institute and the Pennsylvania Biotechnology Center (PABC), one of the country's primary biotech incubators.

1 week ago | buckscountyherald.com | Freda Savana

Central Bucks School Board Wednesday initiated the firings of five district employees implicated in reports of child abuse in an autism support classroom at Jamison Elementary School, or in the mishandling of those reports. They weren't identified by name but district superintendent Steven Yanni acknowledged being among them.

1 week ago | buckscountyherald.com | Freda Savana

They share the same goals, the same purpose and the same passion. So it just made sense, their leaders said, to blend the organizations. Immigrant Rights Action and The Welcome Project PA, two area nonprofits committed to supporting marginalized people across the region, recently merged to provide a wider range of programs and services, said Heidi Roux, IRA’s former executive director and now The Welcome Project’s director of immigrant justice.

1 week ago | buckscountyherald.com | Freda Savana

With the help of a more than $6 million state grant, A Woman’s Place plans to build a new, expanded domestic violence shelter, officials of the organization said. Its location is not expected to be disclosed. Jen Locker, A Woman Place’s executive director, said the funding will allow Bucks County’s only domestic violence community benefit agency, to build a safehouse that can accommodate up to 10 households at a time.