Back to top

Public Policy and Civic Engagement

News

Knight Foundation gives $4M for citywide conversation about park over I-95

Tuesday, September 18, 2018

A newly funded citywide public engagement campaign will be designed to give all Philadelphians a chance to shape plans for a new waterfront park over I-95 at Penn's Landing.

News

Area funders call on Governor Wolf and Secretary Miller to close the Berks County Residential Center (BCRC)

Friday, November 9, 2018

In two letters posted on election day (Nov. 6, 2018), seven members of Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia issued a call to Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf and Human Services Secretary Teresa D. Miller to shut down the Berks County Residential Center (BCRC). The BCRC is one of only three centers in the United States that detains migrant families.

News

New coalition to tackle Philadelphia's gun violence

Sharman Matlock-Turner, president and CEO of the Urban Affairs Coalition
Sunday, November 20, 2022

Led by Philadelphia Foundation and the William Penn Foundation, along with other civic partners, the new Civic Coalition to Save Lives will help catalyze a broad effort to reduce gun deaths annually using strategies that have proven successful in other cities.

Subscribe to Public Policy and Civic Engagement