The three-year initiative has infused nearly $10 million of new funding into Greater Philadelphia’s cultural community, supporting Black, Latino, Asian, and Indigenous arts organizations and community-based artists.
In response to profound changes in recent years, area funders sought a conversation with nonprofit leaders about how best to support them in evolving their practices and strengthening their organizations.
The grant to the Philadelphia Cultural Fund will support a four-year initiative providing small arts and culture organizations with general operating support grants and capacity strengthening services.
Leadership of the foundation is undergoing a generational shift.
The Foundation shares a high-level preview of their five funding programs and a new approach that’s designed to make the grant application process simpler and more transparent.
The Philadelphia Funder Collaborative for the Semiquincentennial aims to support local programs to commemorate the country's 250th birthday.
Vision Philadelphia releases its latest paper on capital access and economic development in Philadelphia.
Contributions from William Penn Foundation and Spring Point Partners will support the activities of the Philly Joy Bank, a pilot program of the Philadelphia Community Action Network (CAN) a collective impact stakeholder group focused on reducing racial disparities in infant mortality.
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.
The William Penn Foundation today announced 44 grants totaling more than $6 million to support workforce development and job training opportunities for nearly 2,000 Philadelphians, as well as continued support for families’ basic needs.
An additional $1.5 million in support for the fund also was announced, including contributions from William Penn Foundation ($1million), Wells Fargo ( $250,000), TD Bank ($100,000) and Philadelphia Health Partnership, Santander Bank and the Samuel S. Fels Fund ( $50,000 each).
Stuart A. Clarke will oversee a $30 million annual grant portfolio as William Penn Foundation's new Program Director of Watershed Protection.
he William Penn Foundation today announced 90 grants totaling more than $8 million to support nonprofit organizations focused on families’ basic needs and children’s education as Philadelphians continue to be impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic.
As tens of millions of philanthropic dollars were being distributed for emergency COVID-19 response in this region, the William Penn and Lenfest Foundations funded Philanthropy Network and the Center for High Impact Philanthropy to gather and examine data about the relief grantmaking.
To continue to address the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the William Penn Foundation has partnered with The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to collectively award more than $8 million in Relief and Recovery Support grants to local arts organizations.
Developed by the Center for High Impact Philanthropy at the University of Pennsylvania and Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia with support from William Penn and Lenfest Foundations, the dashboard is one of the first efforts to collect grants data from numerous pooled giving funds and share it publicly, mapped against demographic and economic data.
The City of Philadelphia today announced PHLConnectED, a collaboration to connect up to 35,000 low-income K-12 student households with internet service and laptops and provide digital skills training and tech support for families,
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 COVID-19 Arts Aid PHL fund will serve individual artists as well as small and mid-sized cultural organizations whose operations have been devastated by the ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic
