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Philanthropy represented on new Philadelphia City Council Special Committee on Poverty Reduction and Prevention

Philadelphia City Council
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
Despite a recent deduction in Philadelphia’s official poverty rate, the city continues to see the highest rate of concentrated ... Prevention to identify policy solutions to help lift 100,000 people out of poverty. The Special Committee’s first ...
15Feb2023

Chester County Funders Community of Practice: Blueprint Report on the Status of Women and Girls in Chester County

Wednesday, February 15, 2023
8:30am - 10:30am
Video Conference
Join the next Chester County Funders Community of Practice for a conversation with Kimberly Andrews, ... and only comprehensive needs assessment of women and girls in Chester County. Published every five years, the Blueprint ...

Brandywine Health Foundation Responds to Public Health Crisis

Thursday, March 19, 2020
(Coatesville, Pennsylvania) - In response to the varied, immediate and long-term challenges ... the Brandywine Health Foundation has created a $350,000 Healthcare and Economic Relief Fund .  The impact of the ... potential for a devastating impact. Coatesville, the only city in Chester County, is home to more than 13,000 residents ...

Brandywine Health and Housing Center Celebrates 10th Anniversary

Friday, May 4, 2018
... of the Brandywine Health and Housing Center opening in Coatesville. Ten years ago, the opening of the Brandywine ... the greater Coatesville area. A decade later, more than 20,000 people have walked though its doors. On Wednesday night, ... 2008, was the first major construction project in the City of Coatesville in more than four decades and the first ...

Philadelphia opens a ‘Hub of Hope’ For Those in Need

Wednesday, January 31, 2018
... PA (January 30, 2018) —  Project HOME , the City of Philadelphia and SEPTA held a ribbon cutting ceremony ... today to celebrate the opening of the new Hub of Hope in the Center City sub-concourse.  The 11,000-square-foot facility is operated by Project HOME and ...

Beech commemorates memory of former CEO during COVID-19 pandemic

Tuesday, May 26, 2020
... nonprofit founded to revitalize disadvantaged communities in Philadelphia would have been celebrating its ... compassionate response.” Each week Beech provided $1,000 micro-grants to five selected non-profits. Bazelon, Leff ...

Derrick Morgan partners with Brandywine Health Foundation to support COVID-19 Healthcare and Economic Relief Fun

Derrick Morgan
Friday, April 10, 2020
Via the Daily Local News DerrickMorgan_BHF.jpg In this file photo, former NFL player Derrick Morgan ... Opportunity Zone investor, has committed an initial $10,000 to Brandywine Health Foundation’s Health and Economic ... Derrick Morgan is passionate about giving back to the city where he grew up and that supported his gridiron dreams. ...

FCP Board Aids Bucks County Non-Profits Stricken by Pandemic

Tuesday, May 19, 2020
... COVID-19 pandemic as community need is greater than ever. In an effort to quickly respond to the crises, Foundations ... children, youth and families in need. Following a $10,000 emergency donation to the Bucks County United Way in ... families, and Bucks County residents in crisis. The grants will support both the Bucks County non-profits that ...
09Sep2021

The Promise: A New Anti-Poverty Model for an Equitable Recovery

Thursday, September 9, 2021
3:00pm - 4:00pm
Virtual
In 2020, United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey teamed up with the City of Philadelphia to launch a first of its kind ... Philadelphia’s high rates of poverty.  Please join us for a briefing to learn more about this initiative’s key ...
02Nov2023

Guaranteed Income: Innovative Philadelphia Programs Designed to Combat Poverty

Thursday, November 2, 2023
10:00am - 11:30am
Zoom Virtual Conferencing
... alleviate poverty is nearly a century old, with its roots in the post-Depression era and the Civil Rights and Black ... income was part of Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision for fighting poverty.  Today, that concept is experiencing a ... a leader in these initiatives through work by both the City and the Center for Guaranteed Income Research at the ...

More than 500 U.S. Philanthropy Leaders Sign Unprecedented Letter: Don’t Cut the Census Short

2020 Census
Wednesday, August 5, 2020
... alarmed by the announcement that the U.S. Department of Commerce intends to “drastically cut short” 2020 ... communities, leaving them underrepresented locally and in Congress and cutting their fair share of federal funding for Medicaid, economic development, child care, schools, road ...

First Hospital Foundation is Now Philadelphia Health Partnership

Thursday, February 1, 2018
... Communities . The Foundation has invested over $22 million in more than 160 nonprofit organizations that work to address ... who has had a long career working in government at the city, state, and federal levels and in the nonprofit sector. ... participants to the table.” PHP will proactively award grants that align with its strategic initiatives on a rolling ...

The Alliance for Health Equity Launches the Equity Health Center to address Health Access in Greater Coatesville

Equity Health Network Providers
Thursday, April 6, 2023
In response to the 2022 Brandywine Hospital closure, leaders ... care model would be an accessible, effective resource for Greater Coatesville. The combined studies led The ... American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) funding. At the end of 2022, the county awarded $2.2 million to the Equity Health ...
01Mar2018

Keystone Policy Series: CENSUS 2020: What Pennsylvania Funders Need to Know

Thursday, March 1, 2018
2:00pm - 3:00pm
It is hard to overstate the importance of ensuring a full and accurate count for the upcoming 2020 Census. The results of this ... well as the number of elected seats individual states hold in the U.S. House of Representatives. The Census also ...

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