Kenny Gamble, songwriter and producer as a part of Gamble and Huff has 15 gold singles along with 22 gold albums, eight of which have gone platinum. That is just the beginning of the long list of accomplishments for this Philadelphia icon. Gamble's most impressive triumph might be
his latest adventure. Gamble runs a community development corporation, Universal Companies, which has been working to rebuild his home neighborhood in South Philadelphia.
Universal Companies has already improved education and housing in the area. The worn out sections of Point Breeze and Grays Ferry are the focus for Gamble's next project. With a one-year planning grant supplied by the U.S. Department of Education and more money supplied by the William Penn Foundation, Gamble hopes to lay out the "Pointgrays" plan to overhaul the neighborhood. They will then submit the plan to the Department of Education, as a part of its Promise Neighborhoods program, will award four of the 21 grantees another grant to take their plan into action. Gamble hopes to develop the community with education, affordable housing, jobs, businesses, and family services. This is just the start of Kenny Gamble's outline to make Philadelphia a better place to live.
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