Organizations and Businesses

While serving as the capital of the young nation in the 1790s, Philadelphia was swept four times by yellow fever.

For more than 200 years, the Fairmount Water Works has told the story of our connection with water. It operated as a pumping station from 1815 to 1909, an aquarium from 1911 to 1962, as the Kelly Natatorium until 1972, and today serves as Philadelphia Water's public education destination, housing an award-winning urban environmental education center.

Our mission

• To cultivate prosperity for our customers, our employees, and the communities we serve.
• To continue to provide high-quality financial services in a competitive and profitable manner.
• To foster thriving commercial enterprise and home ownership.

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Our story

In 1934, at the height of the Great Depression, Samuel A. Green founded First Federal Savings and Loan Association of Philadelphia in South Philly, around his Mother’s kitchen table. It became Firstrust Bank in 1987.

In 1885 University of Pennsylvania’s new provost, the physician William Pepper, declared that the university would build a new library building specifically designed to manage the torrent of books and periodicals produced by the use of steam-powered presses and cheap wood pulp paper. Pepper appointed Shakespearean scholar Horace Howard Furness to chair the building committee, and Furness appointed his brother Frank to make the design. 

Many Flemish people have migrated to the U.S.A. Newcomers may find this area lively, but, sometimes, overwhelming, and VIW is responsive to their needs. VIW provides newcomers with information, answers to practical questions, and referral to appropriate organizations. The organization provides contacts with other Flemings who may become friends, with whom they can share experiences, maintain the language, and share business experiences and contacts.

Founded in 1955, FPRI is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization devoted to bringing the insights of scholarship to bear on the development of policies that advance U.S. national interests. We add perspective to events by fitting them into the larger historical and cultural context of international politics.

Format is a collective of creative individuals who have a passion for making captivating visual content that expresses our clients’ brand. We have uniquely positioned ourselves for scalability so that we can comfortably approach any project while staying competitive in budget but unprecedented in value. We aren’t looking for a one night stand, we are in it for the long haul because relationships are important to us. We want our clients to have a great experience from creative development through post.

The Quaker founders of Philadelphia famously built no fortifications around their new city, and the local government continued to oppose constructing a fort or raising a militia when the Spanish and French threatened the region in the 1740s. But in the 1770s the British ordered the fortification of the largest and most important city in their North American colonies, and the result is this remarkable piece of eighteenth-century military engineering, built on what was then called Mud Island, where the Schuylkill flows into the Delaware.

Foundation for Medical Relief of Children (FIMRC) is a 501(c)(3), non-profit organization dedicated to improving pediatric and maternal health in the developing world through the implementation of innovative and self-sustainable health improvement programs.

Founder’s Hall, the centerpiece of Girard College, is one of the nation’s most conspicuous examples of the Greek Revival. A complete peripteral temple, its 55-foot Corinthian columns are of white marble from Chester County.