Diversity
Funder Briefing: Reflecting Forward Report
Join us for a briefing on the recent report, Reflecting Forward: Philadelphia-based Black Leaders’ Recommendation
Independence Public Media Foundation Announces 71 Grants Totaling $8.9 Million
IPMF announced $8.9 million in grants for community-centered, BIPOC-led media organizations and projects in the Philadelphia region community that support media-making, narrative shift around violence and community safety, filmmaking, digital equity and journalism.
Philanthropy Needs A New Endgame: The Liberation of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Communities In America
What philanthropy needs is not a new framework, but a new endgame, racial liberation, which requires an intentional and laser-like focus on breaking systems of oppression that are based in white supremacist culture.
Independence Blue Cross Foundation Institute for Health Equity grant expands Penn Medicine and CHOP’s Alliance of Minority Physicians
AMP’s model aims to improve diversity in medicine through active recruitment, retention, mentorship, and engagement, and this grant helps to further those efforts citywide.
Pew Announces $1.85M to Strengthen the Free Library of Philadelphia and Improve Access to Drexel University’s Atwater Kent Collection
$1 million will go to the Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation to undertake a comprehensive strategic planning and community engagement process and $850,000 will go to Drexel University to expand access to the Atwater Kent Collection.