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Chester County Community Foundation “Food for Thought” Board Trustee Edition Goes Digital This September

Chester County Community Foundation
Thursday, August 20, 2020
... PA – August 20, 2020) : This fall, the Chester County Community Foundation is proud to invite nonprofit board and staff members “Back ...

Douty Foundation celebrates 50th anniversary, releases new funding guidelines

Thursday, August 1, 2019
Philadelphia, PA (August 1, 2019) – Since 1968, The Douty Foundation has awarded grants to small grassroots ... communities. In honor of its 50th anniversary, Douty is releasing updated funding guidelines with a focus on ... the critical work facing social change organizations right now.    “We believe that the power to create change is ...

Wells Fargo Appoints New Wells Fargo Regional Foundation Executive Director

Aisha Miller
Monday, January 14, 2019
... the new Executive Director of The Wells Fargo Regional Foundation, a role she officially assumed at the end of last year. As part of her responsibilities, she is also charged with leading the Wells Fargo Regional Community Development Corporation (CDC).  Miller replaces ...
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What Barra Foundation has learned from dipping a toe into mission investing

Wednesday, August 9, 2017
...  | by  Julie Zeglen In the past year and a half, the foundation has employed two new investing strategies. Here's ... outspoken advocate for innovative funding models that she is, was frustrated by that and wanted to see much more ... rehabbing them and renting them out as artist and community spaces. ( Generocity  profiled New Day cofounder ...

Patricia Kind Family Foundation announces Black-led Organization grant award winners

Patricia Kind Family Foundation
Wednesday, June 30, 2021
The Patricia Kind Family Foundation (PKFF) initiated a new grant cycle specifically ... PKFF funding to leverage their ongoing great work in the community and hopefully increase their foot prints both to ... PKFF grants, along with a brief description of their work, is available on the PKFF website .  Patricia Kind Family ...

National Study Reports Foundations Maintained or Increased Spending in 2020; Long-Term Investment Returns Held Steady

2020 Council on Foundations–Commonfund Study of Investment of Endowments for Private and Community Foundations® (CCSF)
Monday, August 23, 2021
... Study of Investment of Endowments for Private and Community Foundations® (CCSF) (the “Study”) show that ... representing combined assets of $115.4 billion, the Study is believed to be the most comprehensive annual survey of its ... net of fees.) L onger-term returns were mixed for the two foundation types: Private foundations reported an average ...

Donor Collaboration: How NPT Philanthropists are Working Together to Increase Impact

Donor Collaboration
Monday, October 21, 2019
... Picher Whether tackling student debt or rebuilding urban community spaces, private and public funders are working with ... Fund” established at NPT by the  William Penn Foundation  (WPF), which has made a commitment of up to $100 ... 100% of contributions to go directly to the project. Keystone Scholars: Investing in the future of every ...

Hurricane Dorian: How to Help

Thursday, September 5, 2019
... island on Sunday, September 1 as a Category 5 hurricane, is tied with the 1935 Labor Day storm as the strongest storm ... inform your giving. News (9.9.19) The AmerisourceBergen Foundation Commits $75,000 to Support Communities Impacted by ... page with a number of relief and recovery resources The  Community Foundation of Palm Beach and Martin Counties  has ...

How a Small Craft Navigates Shifting Tides

Tuesday, September 19, 2017
... By Ann Marie Healy, Executive Director, First Hospital Foundation (now Philadelphia Health Partnership) Uncertainty, ... anxiety, fear. With services and supports to our community’s most vulnerable residents repeatedly at risk ... last several months, we have found ourselves wondering: is this the new reality? And as a relatively small local ...

Glenmede’s Nina L. Cohen Appointed to Exponent Philanthropy Board of Directors

Nina L. Cohen
Thursday, October 11, 2018
... with over $40 billion in assets under management (AUM), is pleased to announce Nina L. Cohen, Director of Endowment & Foundation Advisory , has been appointed to the Exponent ... Jewish Family & Children’s Services and the Jewish Community Foundation of Southern New Jersey, where she ...

Your board isn’t diverse enough

Wednesday, September 13, 2017
... make leadership reflect the people you're serving. Seybert Foundation Board of Directors When BoardSource’s most ... at some of the research, a part of this [disparity] is certainly historic,” she said — meaning, the nonprofit ... not over and it’s going to have to keep evolving.” ### Community College of Philadelphia Foundation (CCPF) ...

Where Does Your Cash Sleep at Night?

Wednesday, July 10, 2019
... blog . By Kristina L. Wahl and Paige Chapel Local giving is a priority for the vast majority of Exponent Philanthropy ... supporting our local nonprofits, places of worship, or community members who are in need. On average, like most ... schools, to health clinics, to arts venues. The Barra Foundation discovered a great onramp to local investing in a ...

Mission-Aligned Investing: A model for maximizing philanthropic impact and equity

Evolving ideas
Wednesday, September 29, 2021
... Jr. During this period of racial reawakening, philanthropy is grappling with a number of unavoidable realities around ... to address racial inequities and better support their community. Mission-aligned investing pools resources from ... in 2017 from Laura Kind Mckenna, Patricia Kind Family Foundation , and Elizabeth Killough, and the Untours ...

Building on Arthur Evans' Legacy: Next Steps For Behavioral Health In Philadelphia

Thursday, February 9, 2017
... Joe Pyle President, Thomas Scattergood Behavioral Health Foundation Dr. Arthur C. Evans   steps down  Friday after ... Health and Intellectual disAbility Services – the name is one of myriad changes, large and small, that came under ... build collaborations with a broad array of partners and community leaders to address   social determinants of ...

Chesco Women’s Commission & Fund for Women and Girls releases findings of survey on sexual harassment in the workplace

Wednesday, July 10, 2019
... County Women’s Commission (CCWC) and Chester County Fund for Women and Girls (CCFWG), reveal that one in four people ... insights from current Chester County workplaces. “This is the first survey of its kind in Chester County and is among few to be done in any community,” said Wendy Leeper, President of the Chester ...

New report assesses the financial health of Philadelphia nonprofits

Friday, October 27, 2017
... nonprofits. The report, funded by  The  Philadelphia Foundation  and produced by management consulting firm  ... organizational level — and the fact that there is such a wide range of nonprofits doing all kinds of good ... which means their liabilities exceed their assets, and for health and human services orgs, that rate is 13 percent. ...

Future-focused takeaways from the 2017 Philanthropy Network conference

Friday, November 3, 2017
... that advances a more just, equitable and prosperous region for all” “Reaffirming and activating the core values that ... DeAmon Harges , faculty member at the Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) Institute at DePaul ... the gifts and talents for everybody in the life of the community, find a place for that gift, celebrate that gift in ...