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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 Philadelphia projects. Knight Foundation’s new support will bolster local programs that advance ... communities. These new investments will help ensure that as neighborhoods develop, there are opportunities for ...

What's New at Rebuild (November 2017)

Monday, December 4, 2017
... Rebuild announced that 21 local nonprofits were qualified as Project Users.  Only Project Users will be eligible to ... at Olney Rec Center, a "gateway to keeping kids active", as part of its on-going series that highlights rec centers ... ideas cities' are implementing to address them. What's New at Rebuild (November 2017) ...

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 ... wellness in the community, fulfilling the mission of the Foundation,” Foundation President Dave Kraybill said. Grant requests are submitted ...

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

FDR Park
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 ...

$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 Pennsylvania and New Jersey. With the goal of an 800-mile system of ... provide opportunity for recreation, exercise, and travel, as well as valuable access to miles of rivers and streams. ...
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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, ...

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, ... Master Plan/Feasibility Study Pottstown Parks & Recreation Foundation Inc.—Sensing the Park User....Even More ... HEARTH (Helping Elderly Adults Remain in Their Homes) New Hanover Evangelical Lutheran Church—Peer Recovery ...

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
... These grants will help the recipients create and implement new strategies to adapt their programs, operations, and ... tourists back to Greater Philadelphia. The new grants are as follows: Project HOME  has been awarded a $3.5 million  ... activities at home. Frazierita Klasen , senior vice president leading Pew’s work in Philadelphia, said of the ...

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 ...

Rebuild announces 21 nonprofits qualified as Project Users

Rebuild
Friday, November 17, 2017
... announced that 21 local nonprofits have been qualified as Project Users, the entities responsible for managing ... Services; Fairmount Park Conservancy; Free Library Foundation; Habitat for Humanity Philadelphia; HACE; Impact Services Corporation; Mt. Airy USA; New Kensington CDC; Nicetown CDC; Pennsylvania Horticultural ...

Philadelphia’s Placing a $500 Million Bet on Play

Monday, September 11, 2017
By Jen Kinney via NEXT CITY As the city plans a major investment in rec centers, parks ... even as neighbors use the same old rec infrastructure in new ways. Baseball has waned in popularity, so the center’s ... investment, and one that might. (The William Penn Foundation provided grant funding for the reporting and ...
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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
... will use Rebuild projects in Kensington and Harrowgate as examples of how Rebuild is advancing the following ... projects in Kensington and Harrowgate Quaiser Abdullah , President and CEO of Statera Coaching and Leadership ...

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
... and libraries – and this past summer Rebuild unveiled new athletics courts and a soccer mini pitch as part of the first phase of the project.     The grant ... to address the historic recreation center and gymnasium as well as other potential site improvements.   “I want to ...