Philadelphia to benefit from $100M Starbucks initiative to advance racial equity
Philadelphia will be among 12 cities targeted by Starbuck’s new $100 million Community Resilience Fund created to advance racial equity and environmental resilience.
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Philadelphia will be among 12 cities targeted by Starbuck’s new $100 million Community Resilience Fund created to advance racial equity and environmental resilience.
In light of Independence Public Media's recent Community Voices Fund grants, program officer Nuala Cabral reflects on the role of media and philanthropy in supporting movements that challenge oppressive systems without co-opting or containing them.
In celebration of its 30th Anniversary in service to the community, the Beech Companies, Inc., through Beech Community Services, has published an online, digital community resources directory in an effort to identify local, regional and national resources that can help uplift and improve the quality of life for families, individuals and communities in the Philadelphia region.
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.
The fund will award a total of $8.5 million in grants to organizations managing funds explicitly devoted to providing COVID-19 relief to communities of color, low-income populations, and others being disproportionately impacted by the crisis.
Kira Strong, who has served in an interim leadership role with Rebuild since November 2019, has been named as the new Executive Director.
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey announced a $500,000 matching grant, with the goal ofraising $1 million in new funding to target greater engagement of historically undercounted groups in the city and region in the 2020 Census.
On Thursday, November 1, 2018, the Philadelphia Black Giving Circle (PBGC) will launch its inaugural grantmaking cycle to support Philadelphia’s Black-led/Black serving non-profits.
Six local non-profit organizations received grants totaling $50,000 from The Philadelphia Foundation’s Fund for Children’s YOUTHadelphia program.
Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney announced Vare Recreation Center as the first Rebuild project.