Experience a unique blend of warm hospitality and urban culture at the Hampton Inn Philadelphia Center City-Convention Center. Offering contemporary ambiance and modern services, our downtown hotel welcomes you with well-appointed accommodations and free hot breakfast. Settle in to inviting rooms and suites with plush beds and free Wi-Fi and complimentary hot breakfast. Relax by our indoor pool or erase worries with a soak in the hot tub. Come recharge, connect and explore the City of Brotherly Love with us.
The Philadelphia Opportunities Industrialization Center--or OIC--is dedicated to opening opportunities for all members of the community, helping people everywhere get the skills they need to get good jobs and advance in their careers. Our mission is to assist the unemployed, the underemployed, the homeless, and disadvantaged youth and adults to achieve self-sufficiency and empowerment, primarily through education, training, job placement, and through supportive human services, housing and economic development.Philadelphia OIC is a nonprofit organization founded in 1964 by the late Reverend Dr. Leon H. Sullivan, who was an internationally-recognized advocate for civil and economic rights for all. The Reverend Sullivan--who marched with the likes of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Reverend Jesse Jackson--believed that jobs were the key to the economic development and true empowerment. The creation of OIC was his response to the lack of employment opportunities and job-training programs in the community. And 50 years later, our mission is as vitally important as ever. The Philadelphia Workforce Investment Board, in it’s recently issued “Help Wanted: Knowledge Workers Needed” publication, reported that a staggering 52% of working age adults are at or below basic literacy levels. The 2011 American Community Survey estimate that 37% of Philadelphians did not graduate from high school and 26.7% live at or below the Federal Poverty line. Since its inception, Philadelphia OIC has been at the forefront of addressing these kinds of issues. Most recently, Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter and Philadelphia’s Chief Innovation Officer Adel Ebeid acknowledged OIC as a managing partner of the Freedom Rings Partnership and KEYSPOT designee. KEYSPOT is a citywide initiative of the Freedom Rings Partnership that brings free Internet access and computer training to all Philadelphians in a continuing effort to bridge the digital divide that exists in so many neighborhoods. OIC is one of only two designees that offer mobile KEYSPOT services through our unique Neighborhood Opportunities through Mobile Accessible Destinations (NOMAD) (link to Computer skills page) program, which provides mobile computer training to Philadelphians who are technologically disadvantaged, underemployed or unemployed. It’s one more example of how we continue to evolve, always looking for new opportunities to serve and advance the interests of all members of the community.
Gray Consulting International (Gray) is a B2B provider of: - Meetings & Incentives - Promotional Products by GForce Promotions - Clinical Trial servers through Clincierge Multiple year recipient as one of the top 25 full-service event management companies in North America, Gray’s meeting and incentive project managers enhance the event stakeholder’s ability to fulfill their business objectives by assembling a collaborate team of experts who can execute the many aspects of a well designed, successful and effective meeting or incentive program. The scope of services ranges from venue sourcing, through meeting management to the on-site execution and post-event reconciliation. Additional support services include theme design, audio-visual, entertainment, décor, staging & production services, group air travel, ground transportation, branded give-away items, organization development and leadership skills training programs. Clients select Gray as a business partner for Strategic Meeting Management Programs (SMMP) and implement controls, procedures and technology to streamline process, capture and report our critical spend data, and enable greater buying power in the meeting and incentive market. Through the strength of global partnerships we deliver meeting and incentive excellence in all corners of the world. Our clients’ comments always reinforce the philosophy by which we work and how that differentiates us from our competitors. Above all: our application of meeting technology, our consolidated procurement and purchasing structure, the hands-on role of our leadership, and most importantly, the in-depth training and experience of our people. Having founded Gray Consulting in 1994 with just two clients, it is of paramount importance to Kathy Murphy and Scott Gray that we not lose that sense of proprietorship with each project. Our managers own what they do and will provide you with meeting and event management services that exceed your expectations of value and service.
Explore PHL is a staffed, full service, tourism desk located inside of the Philadelphia Marriott - Downtown. It is a one stop shop for any guest of Philadelphia. We offer an array of tourism product & service options. Guests can book sightseeing tours, airport transfers and dinner shuttles. We also offer area museum and attraction tickets as well as currency exchange. Our trained, tested and hospitality certified customer service sales agents will make your guests feel at home with a warm welcome and first class service.
Friends Select School is a college-preparatory, Quaker school for pre-kindergarten through 12th grade located at 1651 Benjamin Franklin Parkway at the intersection of Cherry and N. 17th Streets in Center City, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. With Friends education dating to 1689, Friends Select, which was founded in 1833, has been located on this site since 1885. The current building, which includes an office building owned by the school, was built in 1967-69. An adjacent campus building is located across the street at 1700 Race Street . The Race Street Meetinghouse, built in 1856, is used by students and faculty for Meeting for Worship each Wednesday. The school is under the care of both the Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting and the Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia at 4th & Arch . The school is currently governed by a board of trustees divided equally between the two monthly meetings that oversee the school.HistoryFriends Select School, FSS, traces its history to the founding of the first Friends school managed directly by the Monthly Meeting of Friends of Philadelphia in 1689. Friends Select has existed in its current form since 1833 and has been at its present location since 1885. In 1832, a committee was appointed to set up two select schools. In January 1833, a Select School for Boys opened in the meetinghouse on Orange Street and a Select School for Girls opened in the meeting house on Twelfth Street. In 1885, a new school building on Sixteenth Street above Arch was nearing completion with a capacity for 60 scholars of each sex in the upper schools, and of twenty in each of the Primaries. In 1886, the boys' select school and the girls' select school moved to Sixteenth and Cherry (same location as Seventeenth and Parkway - in 1886 the Parkway had not been constructed).