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City Announces $360,000 in Grants to Improve Quality of Life in Kensington through Fourth Round of the Kensington Community Resilience Fund

KCR Fund
Thursday, July 11, 2024
KCRFund logo.png PHILADELPHIA (July 11, 2024) — Today, the City of ... in or have a track record of serving the KCR Fund’s geographic footprint . The KCR Fund is funded by the City ... of Philadelphia’s opioid settlement dollars and grants from the Scattergood Foundation , the Patricia Kind Family ...

Regional Foundation Announces $2 Million in Grant Awards

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Wednesday, December 20, 2023
Philadelphia, PA (Dec 20, 2023) – Today the Regional ... multi-year funding is designed to assist the foundation’s grantee partners to start or sustain momentum in their ... continue to exist and weigh down those who need it most from changing their lives from one of despair to one of hope. ...

Francis J. Myers Recreation Center Rebuild Project Awarded $4.5 Million in State Funding

Francis J. Myers Recreation Center Rebuild Project
Thursday, April 28, 2022
Rebuild_FrancisMyers.jpg PHILADELPHIA (April 28, 2022) - Pennsylvania House ... Center is already slated to receive an investment from Rebuild Philadelphia – the City’s historic investment in parks, recreation centers, and ...

Beech stands in the gap during funding crisis

Derrick Thomas and Ken Scott
Friday, February 7, 2025
Press release PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 7, 2025 – Eighteen non-profits in ... organizations in the country with Black leadership. It’s also one of few Black foundations in the nation that ... is preparing youth for success whether it’s through housing, mentorship or education. The grants support ...
22Jan2020

One Year of Rebuild: Collaborating to Advance Opportunity, Engagement and Equity in Neighborhoods

Wednesday, January 22, 2020
9:00am - 11:00am
Free Library of Philadelphia
Rebuild is the City of Philadelphia’s initiative to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in ... driving change on a much larger scale. Join us to hear from a panel of partner organizations that are working with ...

Seventeen-member oversight board named for Rebuild

Monday, October 30, 2017
...   Rebuild is a $500 million citywide initiative that’s seven years in the making, so you can bet that there have ... Michael DiBerardinis , managing director of the  City of Philadelphia Councilwoman Cindy Bass , chair of the  ...  is coming up quick too, set for this Wednesday, Nov. 1, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the  Kingsessing Recreation Center . ...

Rebuild announces 21 nonprofits qualified as Project Users

Rebuild
Friday, November 17, 2017
PHILADELPHIA -  Today, Rebuilding Community Infrastructure ... Nicetown CDC; Pennsylvania Horticultural Society; People's Emergency Center; Public Health Management Corp; Spring ... partners or contractors to Project Users.   Project Users must submit updated information, including financial ...

Regional Foundation Announces $4.75 Million in Grant Awards

Regional Foundation Neighborhood Implementation Grants
Tuesday, April 18, 2023
[ Philadelphia, PA ] – Today, the Regional Foundation ... multi-year funding is designed to assist the foundation’s grantee partners to start or sustain momentum in their ... model, overseeing lead partners in its six focus areas of housing, education, economic development, environmental ...

Wells Fargo Helps LISC Expand Financial Opportunity

Thursday, March 15, 2018
... their standards of living LISC is one of the nation’s largest nonprofit organizations supporting projects that ... address critical needs at the local level.” The grant from Wells Fargo will support new FOC sites in Jacksonville ... Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Newark, Philadelphia , Phoenix, San Diego, San Francisco Bay Area and ...
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The Brandywine Health Foundation Announces Over $800,000 In Grants to Non-Profits Serving Greater Coatesville

Monday, February 11, 2019
... 30 grants totaling $834,000, bringing the Foundation’s total giving since it began awarding grants and ... and community organizations receiving FY 2019 grants from the Brandywine Health Foundation for the critical work ... in Medicine ($10,000) Family Service of Chester County ($19,000) Human Services, Inc. ($20,000) Maternal and Child ...
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07Nov2018

Pennsylvania Foundation Convening: Promoting Community Health

Wednesday, November 7, 2018 to Thursday, November 8, 2018
The Penn Stater Hotel & Conference Center
... Health Funders Collaborative, Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia, and Northeastern Pennsylvania Grantmakers.  ... Director of the Muhlenberg College Institute of Public Opinion, will provide a keynote address about the prior day’s election outcomes and the ramifications for communities.   ...

Community Nonprofits Awarded $13.8 million To Renovate Cecil B. Moore and Heitzman Recreation Centers

Cecil B. Moore's karate students perform at the Rebuild launch celebration.
Friday, March 15, 2019
City of Philadelphia Press Release (3.14.19) This week Rebuild ... project at the Heitzman Recreation Center. Cecil B. Moore's karate students perform at the Rebuild launch ... the Cecil B. Moore Recreation Center on Saturday, March 23 from 1 p.m. – 2 p.m. The Heitzman Recreation Center ...
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City Appoints New Executive Director of Rebuild

Kira Strong
Friday, January 3, 2020
... 267-251-3064, maita.soukup@phila.gov   Rebuild2.jpg PHILADELPHIA - Managing Director Brian Abernathy today ... Kira Strong as the new Executive Director of the City’s Rebuild initiative. Strong has served in that role in an ... tax funding and a historic $100 million commitment from the William Penn Foundation.  “Rebuild came to Moss ...

Philly dominates Knight Cities Challenge … again

Monday, June 12, 2017
... You want ideas for how to make cities more successful? Philadelphia has a million dollars’ worth. For the third ... of $5 million in urban-revitalization grants that the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation  offers annually  to 26 ... The foundation evaluated more than 4,500 proposals – 637 from Philly alone – for grants aimed at creating economic ...
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Community Foundation of South Jersey Announces Five Transform South Jersey Grant Recipients

Transform South Jersey Heart & Soul
Friday, February 21, 2020
... Corporation. Using the Orton Family Foundation’s national model, Transform South Jersey will help strengthen ... extremely difficult decision to make, as all of the towns put in an incredible amount of work to mobilize their ... applications. Along with the skills and knowledge gained from the Community Heart & Soul work, the Community ...

City Launches “Kensington Community Resilience Fund”

Tuesday, April 27, 2021
... participatory grantmaking process   The City of Philadelphia announced the “Kensington Community Resilience ... grants and stipends for community participants during the first round of funding. Lead funders include The Douty ... in fall 2021. The KCR Fund welcomes contributions from foundations, corporations, and individual donors. You ...

Rebuild Update - December 2018

Parkside Groundbreaking
Wednesday, December 19, 2018
... Network is pleased to announce an 18-month grant extension from the William Penn Foundation to continue engaging ... , the ambitious public-private partnership to revitalize Philadelphia’s parks, recreation centers, playgrounds, and libraries.  In ...
26Feb2019

Creating a Data-Informed Community for Our Work

Tuesday, February 26, 2019
8:15am - 10:00am
Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia
Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia’s Out of School Time Funders and Small Funders Roundtable are ... as change agents.

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