Insight Pt. 2: Preventing Black Maternal Death/Infant Mortality, NRG Gives, Arnetta's Band Camp, Mother's Movement for Peace

Philadelphia has a shameful rate of black maternal death and infant mortality. Family Practice and Counseling Network is working to turn this around with a Women’s Birth Center. LaQuesha C. Garland, Director of Development & Social Innovations for FPCN tells us about plans to build the Birth Center to insure the health of women and babies and their 30th Anniversary Celebration taking place Friday, July 22ndfrom 2-6pm at FPNC’s 11th Street Clinic (11th &Parrish Sts).
https://www.fpcn.com/
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My athletic abilities were not pretty but I was happy to join the 7th Annual NRG Media Charity Flag Football Game that also marked the Five-Year Anniversary of NRG’s Choose to Give program. Each team represented four Philly area founding Choose to Give partner nonprofits: Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Nemours, Philabundance, and Big Brothers Big Sisters Independence. I speak to Keri Murschell, NRG Home East Director of Innovation and Jonathan Chen, MD, Chief of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Co-Director of the Cardiac Center about how folks can consume power and benefit CHOP and other nonprofits at the same time.
https://www.picknrg.com/en/about_nrg_legacy/choose-to-give
https://www.chop.edu/centers-programs/cardiac-center

I had the most delightful interview with Arnetta Johnson, a virtuoso trumpet player who's performed with Beyonce and the Roots and is offering a free band camp. She has created Arnetta’s Band Camp (ABC) - a weeklong music immersion and professional development opportunity that introduces Camden youth to various career paths in music, finance and business skills, performance technique, mentorship from professional musicians, and much more! (July 18-22)
http://www.ctlcamden.com/arnettas-band-camp.html.

Philadelphia is approaching another record murder rate. I speak to Dr. Dorothy Johnson-Speight -Co Founder of Mothers in Charge and the one of the founders of a movement to organize mother’s who’ve lost family members to gun violence and their allies. For more information: 215-228-1718.