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The Nelson Foundation Announces June 2024 Grant Awards

The Nelson Foundation
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
... as well as several Change Champions, and Grace Nelson Awards. All core grants are three-year general operating awards in the amount of $60,000. The process was highly competitive, ... communities in which they live. This year’s eleven core grant recipients are: 12+ , Big Picture Alliance , Chester ...

Pew Awards $4M to Support Housing, Legal Services for Older Philadelphians

Pew
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
... Pew Charitable Trusts announced today $4 million in awards to three Philadelphia-area nonprofit organizations ... they face.” According to 2022 U.S. Census Bureau data, 1 in 5 Philadelphians are 60 and older—an almost 25% ... disorder. It was awarded $2.5 million in flexible support over five years to increase the number of available ...

PA is Ready! grants expand support for Immigrant communities across Pennsylvania

PA is Ready!
Tuesday, September 14, 2021
PA-is-Ready-Logo-1-300x100.png   Now in its sixth year, PA is Ready! is thrilled to announce its 2021 grant awards, totaling $339,313, to 22 groups serving communities ... cycle, 37 organizations submitted proposals totaling over $594,000. This year’s grant recipients will educate ...

New $65M legal center hopes to be game changer for Philly’s poor

Jessica Hilburn-Holmes
Tuesday, May 28, 2019
By Aaron Moselle for WHYY Low-income residents in need of free legal services will soon be better connected ... city’s civil legal aid groups under one roof — a first in Philadelphia. It’s hoped the one-stop-shop model will ... Bar Foundatio n, the organization spearheading the $65 million project.   READ MORE New $65M legal center hopes to ...
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Philadelphia Bar Foundation Announces Release of Emergency Funding

Monday, April 20, 2020
PHILADELPHIA, PA (April 20, 2020) – In response to the coronavirus pandemic, the Philadelphia Bar ... is releasing $254,745 to be distributed immediately in emergency grants. These funds are intended to alleviate ... Bar Foundation will deliver these unrestricted grants in April to 36 nonprofit organizations that represent the ...
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Funders and Grantees celebrate PA is Ready!

Tuesday, October 10, 2017
... to celebrate the accomplishments of  PA is Ready!  over the last year and a half. Click  here  to see photos ... and support they need to apply for immigration assistance. In 2016, The Philadelphia Foundation and a cohort of local ...   The group leveraged $464,000 to continue the work in 2017 and 2018.  Thanks to Philanthropy Network members ...

Philadelphia Bar Foundation Expands Board of Trustees

Tuesday, June 19, 2018
... Trustees. Gittelman and Lefton will share their expertise in banking and commercial litigation, respectively, as the ... to justice and develops the Equal Justice Center project in Philadelphia. Lefton is a member of Eckert Seamans Cherin ... one of the Bar Foundation’s nonprofit partners in Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Bar Foundation is dedicated ...
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Fund Established to Support Law Student Exchange Program Between Lyon and Philadelphia

Tuesday, April 24, 2018
Internship program advances diversity in the legal profession PHILADELPHIA, PA – April 24, 2018 ... a fund to provide stipends to students participating in the Lyon-Philadelphia Bar Association Internship Exchange Program. In 1997, the Philadelphia Bar Association launched a law ...
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