Friday, February 14, all municipal City offices will be closed in honor of the 2025 Philadelphia Eagles Championship Parade. As a result, there will be no trash and recycling collection on this day.

If Friday is your regular collection day, your materials will be picked up Saturday, February 15.

Set your materials out between 5 p.m. the night before and 7 a.m. the day of collections.

Philadelphia Parks & Recreation will close certain parks from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. daily from December 1, 2024 through March 31, 2025. The expanded curfew hours will take place at these parks:

Bartram’s Garden
East Fairmount Park
Cobbs Creek Park
FDR Park
Pennypack Park
Tacony Creek Park
West Fairmount Park 
Wissahickon Valley Park 

All trails, parking lots, and other areas in these parks will be closed to all pedestrian, bicycle, equestrian, and vehicular traffic. The expanded closing hours are being implemented to ensure public safety while deer control activities are being conducted in these parks.

The Philadelphia City Fund and the City of Philadelphia’s Office of Innovation and Technology seek qualified professionals and/or organizations to create an Impact Analysis report to highlight the scope of work and accomplishments of PHLConnectED, a digital inclusion program which supported connectivity for pre-k–12 households in Philadelphia over a three-year period. Read the full RFP.

Questions about this RFP should be submitted to [email protected] and [email protected] by February 21, 2025. Responses will be posted by or on March 3, 2025. 

Philadelphia County has been awarded $603,418 in federal funding by the Department of Homeland Security/Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Emergency Food and Shelter National Board Program (EFSP). The funds will be used to supplement emergency food and shelter programs in the county.

The EFSP Local Board is responsible for recommending which agencies should receive these funds. Eligible local agencies must:

1) be private voluntary nonprofits or units of government

2) be eligible to receive Federal funds

3) have an accounting system

4) practice nondiscrimination

5) have demonstrated the capability to deliver emergency food and/or shelter programs

The Local Board must consider its reduced grant funding as it makes its recommendations and asks applicants to adjust their requests accordingly.

The EFSP Local Board invites qualified local nonprofit agencies to review the EFSP Phase 42 Request for Proposals and apply for funding online.

Deadline

Noon, February 13, 2025.

More information

Visit the EFSP website or contact Administrator Patricia Smith, [email protected], for additional information.

While the Philadelphia Office of Homeless Services (OHS) administers EFSP in Philadelphia, EFSP is not an OHS program.