To meet the immediate and long-term challenges of COVID-19, Brandywine Health Foundation creates the Healthcare and Economic Relief Fund and issues $350,000 match challenge.
In fourth round of distributions, 101 regional nonprofits receive more than $3.25 million, including ten organizations providing medical care to vulnerable communities.
Through its COVID-19 Response Grant program, Foundations Community Partnership approves $230,000 in grant awards benefiting 51 Bucks County nonprofits.
PHILADELPHIA, May 25, 2020 – The Beech Companies, Inc., a small nonprofit founded to revitalize disadvantaged communities in Philadelphia would have been celebrating its 30th anniversary with a big dinner on May 28th. As fate would have it, the COVID-19 pandemic changed those plans.
The Pew Charitable Trusts announced new grants to 13 Philadelphia-area nonprofits to help address hunger, substance use disorder, and needs of frail and isolated older adults.
New funding supports operating expenses and promotes racial equity at 22 local organizations responding to increased demands and organizational stressors of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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 groups announced 17 local organizations will receive a total of $192,000 in City funding to conduct grassroots outreach to maximize the number of Philadelphia households claiming the newly expanded federal Child Tax Credit.
