In its fifth special meeting since March, the Foundation's Board of Directors approved a series of grants to immediately support multiple elements of recovery, including efforts to support early learning, youth programs and employment, and food access.
The foundation awarded 34 grants totaling $71,950 through the COVID-19 Relief and Recovery Fund. Applications for the next round of micro business grants will be accepted July 6-13.
To date, Chester County-based funders have awarded over $1.5 million in immediate grants to Chester County based nonprofit organizations.
The Richard R. Ruch inaugural scholarship recipient is Bethany Stern, an incoming junior at Penn State Berks, majoring in business management and marketing with an emphasis on finance.
In its seventh round of funding, the Fund awarded $2.1 million to 80 nonprofit organizations with specific needs pertaining to their transitions to recovery.
YOUTHadelphia grant recipients included seven nonprofits serving young adults in the areas of mental health, sexual health, education reform and youth leadership
Administered by The Fund for School District of Philadelphia, the program's goals of promoting literacy and preventing the phenomenon known as “summer slide” have been expanded to include countering the "COVID slide," this year's loss of school instruction time to the pandemic.
The grant is in support of BHF’s 2020-2022 strategic plan priority, "To Lead Positive Community-Driven Change."
The PHL COVID-19 Fund announced that it will be accepting new grant applications beginning at 8:00 AM on Wednesday, June 10 through 5:00 PM on Friday, June 12.
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.
