These briefings provide regional funders with an opportunity to update each other on efforts surrounding COVID-19 in Greater Philadelphia, share what they’re hearing about the needs in the community and steps they are taking to respond, and explore new initiatives and opportunities for collaboration.
Join us to hear an update on the COVID-19 Prevention & Response Fund, a special pooled fund supporting a community-led effort to invest in neighborhood-based solutions to urgent needs related to COVID-19.
In its second round of grants, the COVID-19 Prevention & Response Fund made grants totaling $668,885 to 84 individuals and nonprofit organizations working to increase COVID-19 education, vaccine access, health resources, and outreach activities in Philadelphia, Montgomery, Delaware, and Chester counties.
The third round of grants from the COVID-19 Prevention & Response Fund will support ongoing efforts to increase vaccination rates in communities hardest hit by the pandemic.
As Philadelphia welcomes hundreds of evacuees from Afghanistan, join us for a conversation with local refugee resettlement agencies to learn about pressing needs and how regional funders can respond to the evolving humanitarian crisis.
"Our communities aren’t separate from us; they’re our families, the young people we work with in school every day. If it’s your community, you can’t step away from what’s impacting it."
"All you can do is continue to have conversations and be encouraging. Have open dialogue with them, share as much information as you have, try to break up myths."
"It is our obligation to lift as we climb. To try to move things in a positive direction in which everyone is encompassed in the American dream."
