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When Brenda Mosley first moved to Philadelphia’s Kensington neighborhood in 2017, she saw a community whose pain mirrored her grief of losing her daughter to cerebral palsy. She began volunteering and talking with people about what needed fixing. In 2020 she was asked to join an advisory group for the Kensington Community Resilience Fund (KCR Fund), a joint partnership between Kensington residents, the Scattergood Foundation and other regional funders, and the City of Philadelphia, that uses participatory grant-making to fund local initiatives. The KCR Fund gave Mosley two grants to open her nonprofit, By Faith, Health, and Healing. “Every program we offer now — the youth summer camp, grief counseling, mothers helping mothers — it’s all because the neighborhood decided how and where to spend the money,” she says.