An additional $1.5 million in support for the fund also was announced, including contributions from William Penn Foundation ($1million), Wells Fargo ( $250,000), TD Bank ($100,000) and Philadelphia Health Partnership, Santander Bank and the Samuel S. Fels Fund ( $50,000 each).
The Independence Public Media Foundation (IPMF) announces $2.6 million in its final round of grants for 2021, focused support for community-centered journalism, digital equity research and policy, community-led and operated radio stations, and filmmaking, with an emphasis on supporting artists from, and films about, underrepresented communities.
Coatesville's Collective Impact Initiative will help people live healthy and well by increasing employment, living wages, and housing stability for adults 18–24-year-old males and females of color living in Coatesville by 2026.
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.
Since its launch in 2019, the initiative has awarded $1.25 million in grants to advance community-driven solutions to historic food injustice.
With Tower Health’s closure of Jennersville Hospital on December 31, and the closure of Brandywine Hospital’s doors today, The Alliance for Health Equity (The Alliance), formerly the Brandywine Health Foundation, has announced the formation of the Health Services Leadership Group Task Force.
The new Nonprofit Justice and Equity Institute is a series of learning sessions designed to support the nonprofit sector in its commitment to recognize and mitigate the deeply rooted inequities experienced by its most marginalized community members, including those experienced by the Black and Brown communities.
The Independence Blue Cross Foundation announced a five-year, $15 million commitment to advance health equity through the creation of a new Foundation program: the Institute for Health Equity.
The City of Philadelphia announced a second round of microgrants for organizations involved in criminal justice reform work across the City.
A new report from the Urban Affairs Coalition reveals that Black-led nonprofits continue to struggle connecting with regional funders despite “racial reckoning.”
