Reverend Dr. W. Wilson Goode, Sr, former Mayor of Philadelphia was the Keynote Speaker for the Cheltenham Area Branch NAACP 17th Annual Freedom Fund Awards Dinner, June 25, 2017.Reverend Dr. Goode is director and organizer of the nationally acclaimed Amachi Program, a national faith-based mentoring model for children of incarcerated parents.
Because of his innovative and ground-breaking work, in 2006 he received two prestigious awards: The Civic Ventures $100,000 Purpose Prize and the Philadelphia Inquirer’s Citizen of the Year. He is an ordained Baptist Minister with over 50 years’ service at the First Baptist Church of Paschall located in southwest Philadelphia.
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