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National WEPIC Replication Since 1985, Penn has been engaged in developing university-assisted community schools that serve the educational and developmental needs of children, youth, their families and the community during the school day, after school, and in the evenings and weekends. This program, locally known as the West Philadelphia Improvement Corps (WEPIC), has drawn significant interest from institutions of higher education and their school and community partners from across the country. Following a two-year planning period supported by the DeWitt Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund that created the WEPIC Replication Project, the Fund awarded a three-year, $1 million grant to adapt the WEPIC program at the University of Kentucky-Lexington, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and Miami University (the work focused on Cincinnati). The grant was also dedicated to strengthening the national network of institutions interested in this work. Second level funding of $932,000 was approved in November 1997. In August 1997, the Corporation for National Service (CNS) also awarded a grant of $500,000 to further develop this work nationally. With a $1.5 million CNS grant in September 2000, the number of currently funded sites has been expanded to twenty (see below). Original WEPIC replication sites (3):
Currently funded WEPIC replication sites (20):
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