The Pennsylvania Humanities Council (PHC) announced it is now accepting applications statewide for $1.2 million in pandemic recovery grants for organizations with a humanities-based mission and organizations conducting humanities programming.
The program will address nurse burnout with evidence-based, self-directed tools and a measurement-based care approach.
Grants were divided among five program areas: Healthy Behaviors-Schools, Healthy Behaviors-Parks, Healthy Behaviors-Networks, Physical and Emotional Health, and Strengthening Nonprofits.
The foundation announced grants totaling $4 million to community media-makers, journalism, film and digital equity projects with an emphasis on supporting projects led by underrepresented communities and with a commitment to justice.
The Fund for Women and Girls announces that Michelle Legaspi Sánchez will be leaving her role as Executive Director at The Fund, effective September 17, 2021.
Stuart A. Clarke will oversee a $30 million annual grant portfolio as William Penn Foundation's new Program Director of Watershed Protection.
The Board of Trustees of the Green Tree Community Health Foundation announced a new name -- Foundation for Health Equity (f4HE) -- as well as a new website (f4he.org), and strategic direction that renews the 16-year-old foundation’s commitment to the health and well-being of all people in Northwest Philadelphia.
The Patricia Kind Family Foundation (PKFF) initiated a new grant cycle specifically for Black-led organizations in Philadelphia.
Impact100 Philadelphia, a grant-making organization that engages women to collectively fund large grants and community awards, has named Kimberly Kirn as its first Executive Director.
The Fund for The School District of Philadelphia has announced 16 winning public-school projects that will receive grant funding for programming aimed at introducing Black, Latinx and female students to potential careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).
