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Fels Fund Awards Arts & Culture Grants

Samuel S. Fels Fund
Friday, June 29, 2018
... Girls Rock Philly Intercultural Journeys, Inc. Jazz Bridge Project Just Act Kulu Mele African Dance & Drum Ensemble ... Inc. Philadelphia Youth Poetry Movement Scribe Video Center, Inc. Taller Puertorriqueño, Inc. Twelve Gates Arts In addition, three advocacy/organizing groups were awarded grants for a one-year cycle: Education Law Center ...

Douty Foundation releases $1.5 million in emergency funding amid COVID-19 crisis

Wednesday, April 8, 2020
... (April 6, 2020) – Since 1968, The Douty Foundation has awarded grants to small grassroots organizations and ... releasing more than 25% of its investment corpus, $1.5 million, to respond to the immediate and emergent needs of ... Foundation joins the Council on Foundations, National Center for Responsive Philanthropy and Grantmakers for ...

The Foundation for Delaware County awards over $30K to local nonprofits promoting a complete count in the 2020 Census

Delco Counts
Tuesday, February 4, 2020
... in awards through six grants to area nonprofits. Grants awarded will provide resources to ensure a complete and ... forward to receiving more strong proposals by the March 4 th deadline.” According to Sheehan, Delaware County is ... Drug Free Communities, El Centro (a Hispanic resource center), and a health resource center for students in the ...
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Census 2020
09Mar2017

Small Foundations and the New Administration: State & Federal Laws to Watch

Thursday, March 9, 2017
2:00pm - 4:30pm
Philadelphia, PA
In collaboration with Philanthropy Network Greater ... to be the focus of the new administration, as he reviews state and federal laws that affect small foundations, ...

IPMF Announces 2024 Community Voices Fund Grant Recipients

IPMF 2024 Community Voices
Thursday, November 21, 2024
... 2024 Community Voices Fund grant recipients, with $800,000 awarded to 33 organizations and projects. These grants will ... this year’s panelists: Spiral Q, Drag Arts Oral History Project, SIFT Media 215, Lil’ Filmmakers, Centro de ... Jersey Information Equity Project. The fund also aims to center voices and leadership from communities counteracting ...

First Round of Neighborhood Equitable Recovery Fund Grant Recipients Announced

Thursday, September 23, 2021
... Recovery Fund is a community-driven grantmaking process in which residents in the affected communities reviewed and ... the applications and recommended the grantees that were awarded. The goal was to empower community residents to ... have annual operating expenses under $3 million, and be providing services in high-need areas of the ...
23Jun2021

Advancing Equitable and Adequate School Funding in PA

Wednesday, June 23, 2021
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Video Conference
... reliant on local property values, which has resulted in deep inequality and inequity that disproportionately ... adequate funding in 2018-19, with a shortfall of at least $4.6 billion. The state’s inadequate and inequitable funding ... and districts across the Commonwealth. The Education Law Center-PA and Public Interest Law Center filed a lawsuit in ...

Philadelphia Foundation Announces $2.9 Million in Grants to Nearly 100 Nonprofit Organizations

Philadelphia Foundation
Thursday, December 12, 2024
... Philadelphia Foundation has announced a significant funding initiative, awarding $2.9 million in grants for 97 nonprofit organizations serving vulnerable ...

Area funders call on Governor Wolf and Secretary Miller to close the Berks County Residential Center (BCRC)

Friday, November 9, 2018
In two letters posted on election day (Nov. 6, 2018), seven ... Teresa D. Miller to shut down the Berks County Residential Center (BCRC). The BCRC is one of only three centers in the ... for more than a year. This practice violates Pennsylvania state and federal law, which clearly states that jailing ...

CCFWG’s Girls Advisory Board Awards $19k to Local Nonprofits Serving Women & Girls

CCFWG Girls Advisory Board
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
... and Girls (CCFWG)’s Girls Advisory Board (GAB) program awarded $19,000 in grant funding to five local nonprofit ... chosen priority areas is as follows: The Domestic Violence Center of Chester County  | $5,000 to support the ... for diverse populations. Alianzas de Phoenixville | $4,000 to support their Clinical Trauma Counseling Program, ...

Leeway Foundation Awards Nine Philadelphia Artists with $15,000 Transformation Award

Friday, December 21, 2018
... – Today, Leeway Foundation announced $135,000 in grants to nine women and trans* artists and cultural ... offers the Art and Change Grant two times per year. These project-based grants of up to $2,500 are awarded to women and trans* artists in Greater Philadelphia. ...

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Provides $50 Million to Support Those Facing Greatest Strain Under the COVID-19 Pandemic

Tuesday, April 7, 2020
RWJFLogo_s_rgb_1c_261U_100_pos.jpg Princeton, N.J. —The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) will provide $50 million in immediate short-term relief to several national ... strain under the COVID-19 health emergency. This includes $5 million for relief efforts in RWJF’s home state of New ...

The Judge Alfred L. Luongo Fund Provides Immediate Support for Reentry Program Participants

Tuesday, July 7, 2020
PHILADELPHIA, PA (July 7, 2020) –  In response to the coronavirus pandemic, financial support ... Judge Alfred L. Luongo Fund was released to participants in court programs dedicated to supporting individuals in reentry. At the request of the STAR Reentry Court Team, ...

Guidance for Place-Based Funders to Address Political Violence Before and After the 2020 Election

Democracy Fund
Published: 
10/2020
... of political violence around the United States election in 2020. Research on international violence and peacebuilding ... designed to help local place-based funders invest quickly in leaders and organizations who’ve been preparing for this ... opportunities to support work like this nationally or in your region contact Nadia Firozvi ( ...
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An Open Letter on Family Detention in Pennsylvania

Published: 
10/2018
... of Human Services to close the Berks County Residential Center (BCRC), one of three immigrant family detention centers in United States. An Open Letter on Family Detention in Pennsylvania ...
02Jun2022

The End of Roe: How Should Philanthropy Respond?

Thursday, June 2, 2022
10:00am - 11:30am
Video Conference
In June of 2022, the Supreme Court is expected to hand down a ... Fund of PA Carol Tracy , executive director, Women’s Law Project Recording Resources Slide Deck:  The End of Roe:  ... of Abortion Laws - Guttmacher Institute Oshun Family Center - provides racially concordant care to members of the ...

Community Voices: from a Moment and for a Movement

Spiral Q 2
Monday, August 24, 2020
... Cabral As anti-racist protests sweep across the country in the middle of a pandemic that has exposed structural ... collaborations, and organizations with budgets under $1 million. Addressing COVID and Systemic Racism Many of the  ... particularly systemic racism. The  Heaux History Project  does both, by exploring stories of sex workers of ...

CCFWG Unveils Women’s Suffrage Mural Before Election Day to Inspire Community to Get Out and Vote

CCFWG Suffrage Mural
Tuesday, November 3, 2020
... of CCFWG, reminded the crowd. “Though a public art project is new for CCFWG, what is not new is being a beacon ... opportunities to thrive. Over the past 20 years, CCFWG has awarded over $3.5 million to 80 local non-profit organizations. CCFWG Unveils ...

HealthSpark Foundation Announces $631,000 in Grants to Support Montgomery County’s Social Safety Net

Monday, January 11, 2021
... work among social services providers. First, HealthSpark awarded $30,000 to Your Way Home Montgomery County to support ... anti-racist housing services triage tool. The goal of the project is to re-design Your Way Home's Coordinated Entry ... in infant mortality. Mission Kids Child Advocacy Center , $30,000 to shift practice among policy makers to ...

Philadelphia to benefit from $100M Starbucks initiative to advance racial equity

Starbucks
Thursday, January 14, 2021
... will be one of the first cities to benefit from a $100 million Starbucks initiative meant to "advance racial equity ... small businesses and community development projects in Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) ... Community Resilience Fund is committed to investing $100 million by 2025 to support small business growth and ...

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