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Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation awards over $1M in fall 2017 grant round

Wednesday, December 6, 2017
... December 6, 2017 – The Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation has awarded $1,048,204 in grant requests during ... to reduce obesity and encourage healthy living ( $20,000 ). Pine Forge Academy - Four-H (Health, Hands, Head & ... and YouTube. Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation awards over $1M in fall 2017 grant round ...

PAHWF Awards Over $1 Million in Fall Grant Round

Thursday, December 19, 2019
... Dec. 19, 2019—The Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation has awarded $1,126,826 to 37 nonprofits, schools, ... In the Physical and Emotional Health program area, $157,000 was awarded for six projects offering learning ... Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and YouTube. PAHWF Awards Over $1 Million in Fall Grant Round ...

Pew Awards $7.7M to Philadelphia Human Services, Arts, and Civic Nonprofits to Expand Programs, Adapt Business Models

The Pew Charitable Trusts
Wednesday, February 16, 2022
... the residents and communities they serve. In doing so, the awards will help to house and support people with substance ... the next five years, the organization will add more than 150 supportive housing units throughout the city, while also ... Over the next five years, the organization will help 4,000 low-income households—up from 1,000 in 2021—build ...

How you can help Philly reimagine our civic spaces

Friday, June 15, 2018
... important lesson learned: community engagement is crucial to creating a common vision for Philadelphia’s civic spaces ... Park Conservancy and Patrick J. Morgan is the Knight Foundation’s project director in Philadelphia.   How you can help Philly reimagine our civic spaces ...

Knight Foundation invests $2.2 million in projects to advance Philadelphia’s public spaces and digital engagement

Photo courtesy Smith Memorial Playground
Friday, April 9, 2021
... — April 8, 2021 — The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation today announced a $2.2 million investment in nine ... In Philadelphia, Knight support will advance work to address these issues while also including residents in the ... public right-of-way. Mural Arts Philadelphia – $250,000  To establish resident-led programming and engagement ...

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
... McClinton this week announced the approval of $4.5 million to invest in much needed improvements at the Francis J. Myers ... pitch as part of the first phase of the project.     The grant awarded by the state’s Redevelopment Assistance ... make at the site during phase two where Rebuild plans to address the historic recreation center and gymnasium as well ...

Seeking to Build Community, Philadelphia Invests $500M in Recreational Spaces

FDR Park
Friday, September 22, 2017
... on soda beverages—and a record  hundred-million-dollar grant  from the William Penn Foundation, the City of Philadelphia launched a high-profile, ... initiative  called “Rebuild.” Rebuild’s purpose is to employ a public $500 million capital investment to ...
11May2017

Out-of-School Time Funders Meeting: Community Collaborations for Collective Impact – A Continuing Conversation

Thursday, May 11, 2017
8:30am - 10:00am
Philadelphia, PA
... of the out-of-school time programming for children and youth, this meeting will focus on the City of Philadelphia’s efforts to build a strong sense of government and community ...

$10.6 Million Boost Will Close Key Gaps In Regional Circuit Trails Network

Friday, June 1, 2018
... received a combined $10.6 million from the William Penn Foundation toward their continued work to build multi-use trails throughout southeastern ... technical assistance and administer a competitive re-grant fund for planning, design, and construction of new ...
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Rebuild announces 21 nonprofits qualified as Project Users

Rebuild
Friday, November 17, 2017
... Services; Fairmount Park Conservancy; Free Library Foundation; Habitat for Humanity Philadelphia; HACE; Impact ... the first cohort of Project Users. We believe that this group of nonprofits will be excellent partners to the City ... demonstrated capability to manage government or foundation grant funds of at least $1 million successfully and ...

Rebuild Update - December 2018

Parkside Groundbreaking
Wednesday, December 19, 2018
Philanthropy Network is pleased to announce an 18-month grant extension from the William Penn Foundation to continue engaging philanthropy in Rebuild , the ... and continue convening the member-led Rebuild Leadership Group , who serve as advisors, ambassadors and thought ...

Philadelphia’s Placing a $500 Million Bet on Play

Monday, September 11, 2017
... parks and libraries, two neighborhoods offer a road map to getting this overhaul right. Even as Lawncrest, the ... investment, and one that might. (The William Penn Foundation provided grant funding for the reporting and research and is also a ...

What's New at Rebuild (November 2017)

Monday, December 4, 2017
... (about 100 Philadelphians attended the first meeting!) to the public and will be held quarterly. Stay tuned for ... as Project Users.  Only Project Users will be eligible to apply for grants to work on Rebuild projects.  See the ... and the innovative ideas cities' are implementing to address them. What's New at Rebuild (November 2017) ...

Seventeen-member oversight board named for Rebuild

Monday, October 30, 2017
... in recent months about how the whole process is going to roll out. Like how  local nonprofits can get involved ... Council Janet Haas , board chair of the  William Penn Foundation Stacy Holland , educational consultant Floyd ... Development Antonio Valdes , CEO of the  Children’s Crisis Treatment Center The oversight board is set to meet ...
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 neighborhood ... after the Rebuild’s first groundbreaking, we invite to join a conversation about how collaborative funding can ... while also driving change on a much larger scale. Join us to hear from a panel of partner organizations that are ...

City Council and Mayor Kenney play nice as rec center ‘rebuild’ advances

Thursday, May 24, 2018
... Burnley via Plan Philly   Mayor Jim Kenney’s plan to revamp public facilities throughout the city took another ... the agreements that the mayor has struck with labor unions to diversify their ranks. As he did last week , Kenney ...  “I hope that you can rest a little easier knowing help is on the way and that soon you will start to see ...

Mayor Kenney Cuts Ribbon at Hancock Playground

Tuesday, November 17, 2020
... the Kenney Administration’s signature initiative to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in neighborhood ... centers, and libraries. “Rebuild is an opportunity to show our communities that their city is invested in them ... and well designed park, playground or library can be to help neighborhoods thrive.” Rebuild improvements at Hancock ...