Foundations Community Partnership Board Awards Nearly $170,000 to Local Nonprofits
Wednesday, June 26, 2024
... Program which engages adults with moderate stage dementia, as well as the Montgomery Theater to support its strategic planning ...
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City announces first round of the Kensington Community Resilience Fund grant recipients
Wednesday, July 14, 2021
... target the following six issue areas that were identified as top priorities by community residents in partnership with ... Gonzalez, President of HACE, noted the importance of this new fund to the greater Kensington community. “It was a ... of generous support from the following funders: The Douty Foundation, Scattergood Foundation, K10 Kids Foundation, ...
Seeking to Build Community, Philadelphia Invests $500M in Recreational Spaces
Friday, September 22, 2017
... hundred-million-dollar grant from the William Penn Foundation, the City of Philadelphia launched a high-profile, ... in outlying neighborhoods, voluntary associations known as advisory councils “raise funds for programming, and increasingly for basics like air conditioning and new floors.” While “wealthier neighborhoods can more ...
Unprecedented program aims to ‘Rebuild’ Philadelphia, serve as national community investment model
Monday, October 2, 2017
... (NRPA) concluded its annual conference in New Orleans, bringing together more than 7,000 park and ... recreation programming, and customer service. Featured as part of last year’s Innovative Education sessions , Shawn McCaney — now William Penn Foundation’s Executive Director , presented the City of ...
Beech stands in the gap during funding crisis
Friday, February 7, 2025
... $25,000 in small program grants through its Alston-Beech Foundation . The grants are especially helpful during the ... in operation during the national emergency. “I'm proud as the President of the Alston-Beech Foundation to be involved in ...
Brandywine Health and Housing Center Celebrates 10th Anniversary
Friday, May 4, 2018
... by: Ken Knickerbocker Pictured: Former Brandywine Health Foundation CEO Frances Sheehan (l) joins the Foundation's current CEO Vanessa Briggs at the podium to ... and our community partners,” said Vanessa Briggs, President and CEO of the Brandywine Health Foundation. “Our ...
Wells Fargo Helps LISC Expand Financial Opportunity
Thursday, March 15, 2018
NEW YORK (March 15, 2018)—Wells Fargo is teaming up with ... the skills needed to advance in key local industries such as information technology and healthcare. “We are very ... in the talent of American workers,” said Maurice Jones, president and CEO of LISC. LISC and Wells have worked ...
Rebuild Update - December 2018
Wednesday, December 19, 2018
... announce an 18-month grant extension from the William Penn Foundation to continue engaging philanthropy in Rebuild , the ... the member-led Rebuild Leadership Group , who serve as advisors, ambassadors and thought partners to connect ...
Beech launches resources directory to support families, individuals and communities
Tuesday, August 18, 2020
... unique time in our nation’s history,” said Beech CEO/President Dr. Keneth Scott. “The resources in this ... Established in 2006, Beech Community Services serves as a liaison between the residents and business owners of the ... Bank, Beech Community Services and the Alston Beech Foundation. To access the Beech Community Resources Directory ...
07Oct2020
Setting the Table: Reimagining Wealth & Capitalism
Wednesday, October 7, 2020
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Video Conference
We are pleased to introduce our new webinar series, Setting the Table , co-hosted by Sidney Hargro , President, Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia and ... a better future, ensuring we don’t settle for innovation as the future state but as an opportunity to create radical ...
Philly dominates Knight Cities Challenge … again
Monday, June 12, 2017
... grants that the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation offers annually to 26 cities. The foundation ... took the largest chunk of funding – again. “We ask for new ideas and I think that spirit of innovation is very ... to urban planner Ben Bryant’s pop-up pool project as one of the Knight Cities Challenge’s early success ...
Mayor Kenney Cuts Ribbon at Hancock Playground
Tuesday, November 17, 2020
... PHILADELPHIA - Mayor Kenney alongside Council President Darrell Clarke, Rebuild Executive Director Kira ... neighborhood spaces,” said Mayor Kenney. “With these new improvements, Hancock Playground is now a space where ... libraries. Proposed in Mayor Jim Kenney’s first budget as a part of his vision for a more equitable Philadelphia, ...
Beech celebrates neighborhood transformation over 30 years
Wednesday, June 22, 2022
... and commercial buildings and apartment buildings, such as the Beech International House and a headquarters for ... service in the community,” said Kenneth Scott, Beech President & CEO. “We are very proud that we’ve leveraged ... to the COVID pandemic. “We’ve come full circle as a foundation,” Scott said. “I am proud to be a part of it, ...
09Jun2017
The Story of a Block – A Tour of Chester’s Avenue of the States with Artists, Entrepreneurs & Urban Farmers
Friday, June 9, 2017
9:00am - 2:00pm
Chester, PA
... work done by funders like the Barred Rock Fund , Barra Foundation , Pennsylvania Humanities Council , and ...
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s Center for Health Equity Receives $1M Grant from Bank of America
Thursday, July 21, 2022
... Rebuilding Together Philadelphia and Habitat for Humanity, as well as minority- and women-owned contractors identified ... go beyond medical care,” said Ron Keren, Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer at Children’s Hospital ... commitment to providing exceptional patient care, training new generations of pediatric healthcare professionals, and ...
How you can help Philly reimagine our civic spaces
Friday, June 15, 2018
... city’s revival. This week, Philadelphians welcome two new park projects as they complete the first phase of their development: ... Park Conservancy and Patrick J. Morgan is the Knight Foundation’s project director in Philadelphia. How you ...
City Launches “Kensington Community Resilience Fund”
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
... step to improve the quality of life in Kensington as we fight the scourge of opioids,” said Mayor Jim Kenney ... noted by Jennifer Leith, Executive Director of the Douty Foundation ,“This is an approach to funding support that ... of $500,000 by the end of year one (2021). Joe Pyle, President of the Scattergood Foundation , implored other ...
City Announces $360,000 in Grants to Improve Quality of Life in Kensington through Fourth Round of the Kensington Community Resilience Fund
Thursday, July 11, 2024
... Fund (KCR Fund). The KCR Fund was launched in 2021 as a collaborative grant-making partnership between community members, City government, and the Scattergood Foundation to address the harms caused by the opioid and ... Committee member. The KCR Fund recently launched a new website at www.kcrfund.org that highlights KCR Fund ...
Seventeen-member oversight board named for Rebuild
Monday, October 30, 2017
... of Philadelphia Parks and Recreation Siobhan Reardon , president of the Free Library of Philadelphia Greg Allen , ... the Commission on Parks and Recreation Valerie Cofield , president and CEO of the Eastern Minority Supplier ... Council Janet Haas , board chair of the William Penn Foundation Stacy Holland , educational consultant Floyd ...
The Alliance for Health Equity Announces Union Community Care Selected as Core Provider of Healthcare Services at Coatesville's Brandywine Center
Thursday, January 16, 2025
... today that Union Community Care has been selected as the Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) to operate at ... access for folks as they need it,” said Kevin Ressler, President & CEO of AHE. “Union’s innovative approach and ... and supported. We’re committed to building on AHE’s foundation of health equity by understanding what folks and ...