PCF Adds Student Recordings in the Form of Playlists to Our Website
We recently added a section to our website where you can listen to recordings of students singing and other productions. We will be adding student productions as they are recorded [...]
PCF Creates a Recording Studio at Emlen
Emlen Elementary is lucky to have a great music teacher in Ms. Parker. And to support her in her work, PCF has converted an old storage closet into a [...]
Our 2025 Summer: Roosevelt PA System Installation
People assume our summers are pretty chill considering the schools we work with are not in session. Well, this year, it was anything but chill! We worked 5 grueling [...]
Upgrading Sound Systems
Almost all the schools we work with have a grand auditorium space, talented and engaged music teachers on staff, but they lack any sort of PA or sound system to [...]
PCF Donates High-End Computers to Lankenau High School
Virtually all of the thousands of computers PCF has donated to families, schools and other programs over the years, were donated to us. And the process is fairly straightforward: individuals [...]
XL Donation by Carpenter Tech. Funds 3D Printer Lab at Logan (and others)
PCF was very lucky to have been awarded a $10,000 donation by Carpenter Technologies. They donate every year as part of their annual Impact Awards and PCF was lucky to [...]
PCF Support of Emlen’s Play Days and Parent’s Days
For years now, PCF has helped out Emlen Elementary during their Parent Orientation day at the beginning of the year and their Students Play Day held just before summer break. [...]
PCF Revamps Houston’s Auditorium AV System
PCF has been a community partner of Houston Elementary School since we started working with schools directly many years ago. Over the years, we have spent a LOT of time [...]
On-Going Support for the Camden Dream Center
For many years now, PCF has supported the Camden Dream Center. Located just across the river in Camden, NJ, the Dream Center has long been a force in providing a [...]
Donated Piano Given to Emlen Elementary
A generous donor contacted PCF if we could use a baby grand piano. In cases like this, we did what we always do which is to contact our network of [...]
PCF Installs a Full Court
More than 11 years ago, PCF changed its focus to work mostly through schools and other organizations (rather than with families directly) in order to support our youth. And one [...]
About Display/Monitor Adapters
Your monitor cable typically looks like this If you are connecting a (secondary) monitor to a laptop, you MAY need an adapter. Here is a guide: Most monitors [...]
Take Home Computers for Remote Learning
After the first school district shut down back in April, many of our partner schools approached PCF for help. While the district had provided a large/huge infusion of Chromebooks, there [...]
600+ Laptops Donated to Philadelphia Public Schools
Through the generous equipment and monetary donations from Radnor Middle School, Einstein Healthcare Network, Jefferson Health, the Drumcliff Foundation, and private donors, PCF has been able to significantly increase our [...]
~250 Family Take-Home Computers Donated
PCF has been working with selected schools to provide parents and caregivers with free take-home computers. As part of the application process, parents commit to spend at least one hour [...]
PCF Support of Programs and Community Centers
Besides working with schools and families directly, PCF is committed to help Community Centers, Churches, After School programs, and anyone else willing to make computers available to their communities free [...]
Classroom Computers/Printers for Our Partner Schools
During the 2018-19 school year, PCF donated and installed hundreds of desktop computers to various local schools including Houston, Emlen, Logan, Mifflin, and others. The bulk of them were installed [...]
Assisting a 7th Grade Science Teacher plus 3D Classes at Mifflin
This year PCF was very excited to team up with Ms McConnell, 7th grade science teacher at Mifflin Elementary. We used 3D printing to help illustrate basic science concepts. Ms [...]
One Way to Spend Your Spring Break…
Western Suburbs Chapter volunteers Ashwin and Srikar chose to spend time volunteering for PCF during their short Spring Break holiday this year. With the help of their families, they met [...]
150 Laptops Donation By Ellucian, Malvern
On 13th March 2019, PCF Director Jan Deruiter and the PCF Western suburbs co-founders Srikar and Ashwin, along with their volunteers Divyesh and Vineeth picked up a donation of 150 [...]