The You Are Worth It Foundation is a grassroots homeless and in-need outreach group from Phoenixville, PA. Around Phoenixville recently asked Chris Brickhouse for some more information about the Foundation and how you can help: Tell us a little about You Are Worth It and how it got started: We are a homeless outreach organizations serving Phoenixville, Pottstown, Norristown, Center City and Kensington in Philly and constantly expanding. We were formed in early 2018 by Dina Rowan and I came on board last June. We have roughly 15 volunteers so far and would like to expand that to expand our reach. We take donated items directly to the people. We provide them with a hot meal and new or lightly used clothing and self-care products. We have long term goals of a mobile shower center, vocational training and assisting with housing in any way possible. What kind of items do you need? We take a wide array of items - individually packaged food, canned goods, ramen, protein bars, water, s
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It's been out belief for several years that a weekly tabloid on the order of the City Paper, Metro or Philadelphia Weekly is exactly the kind of publication that the bedroom communities surrounding Phoenixville will consume best. With this move they're targeting an underserved market and the potential is great.
A weekly tabloid can be hipper and more user friendly while the Phoenix's website can evolve to include daily updates and discussion threads and, if executed correctly, more economically satisfy the daily news requirements of Borough.
It's become obvious that there has not consistently been enough quality news or features to support a daily in this market, and now the paper can be rid of the canned national filler and focus content areas on sports, entertainment, culture, the townships and the Borough.
We are hopeful that the effort will include that enhanced focus as well as improved editorial content and design- for the new paper and the online presence- or the potential that this change signifies will be an economic reaction rather than a positive modification.
We're excited about this approach as an advertising opportunity and a way for the region to be represented with more style and aplomb!