The idea of a platform… That was it. It answered our needs and would open the door for others faced with the same challenge – using their resources to do good in ways only they could imagine or design. We adopted the word Polonia as part of our name. The word is derived from the […]
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In the past few days I’ve had a few people asking me about the origin of PGF. Not the where and when, but the why. Over the next few posts I’ll attempt to explain a little. About 8 years ago some friends and I were invited to a meeting. A city school district was going
Welcome to the PGF blog. I’ll be using this blog to talk about the work of PGF, world events that may be of interest to you, and some of the day-to-day stuff my colleagues and I encounter in running a non-profit agency. For those of you unfamiliar with PGF, it is an organization that’s a
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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. — Jack Chapman is not your everyday pimp. For one thing, he lives with his wife, Sara, and their daughter, Rivkele, in an apartment above his Lower East Side brothel. Jack also wants respect, and not just on the street. Jack wants a seat in the synagogue, the blessings of the rabbi and
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SAN ANTONIO, Texas — In a digitally animated film entitled The Cathedral, a man stumbles across a dreary landscape into a dark, ominous building. A brilliant flash of light fills the cavernous space, and branches shoot up, extending the structure high in the sky and seemingly strangling the man in the process. The entry from
Low Budget Films Just as Good Read More »