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Unprecedented program aims to ‘Rebuild’ Philadelphia, serve as national community investment model

Monday, October 2, 2017
...  (NRPA) concluded its  annual conference  in New Orleans, bringing together more than 7,000 park and ... education sessions covering a variety of topics including leadership and management, public relations, marketing, ... sessions ,  Shawn McCaney  — now William Penn Foundation’s Executive Director , presented the City of ...

Philadelphia’s Placing a $500 Million Bet on Play

Monday, September 11, 2017
... even as neighbors use the same old rec infrastructure in new ways. Baseball has waned in popularity, so the center’s ... thriving town square for the neighborhood of modest single-family homes that surround it, especially popular with ... investment, and one that might. (The William Penn Foundation provided grant funding for the reporting and ...

Comcast RISE to Award $5 Million in Grants to BIPOC-Owned, Small Businesses

Comcast RISE
Tuesday, February 9, 2021
... to provide support to BIPOC-owned, small businesses.   NEW YORK--( BUSINESS WIRE )--Comcast today announced the ... Comcast Corporation and president, Comcast NBCUniversal Foundation. “Through the Comcast RISE Investment Fund, we ... more effective and easier to execute. Headquartered in New York with offices throughout the country, Effectv has a ...

GSK awards Greater Philadelphia nonprofits making a dynamic IMPACT on health outcomes

GSK
Thursday, November 15, 2018
... the Greater Philadelphia area.” The winners are: ACLAMO Family Centers @ACLAMOFamCenter CASA Youth Advocates, Inc. ... & Built Environment Employment & Income Community Safety Family & Social Support In the Philadelphia region, the GSK ... Awards are presented in partnership with The Philadelphia Foundation.
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Pew Awards $4.25 Million to 4 Philadelphia Nonprofits to Expand Economic Opportunities and Address Growing Impacts of Community Violence

Wednesday, July 20, 2022
... to expand its successful workforce training program to new neighborhoods and employment sectors. By partnering with ... and underemployed city residents with jobs that provide family-sustaining wages, benefits, and opportunities for ... to help organizations implement promising approaches to new or emerging issues. Kristin Romens, the Pew Fund’s ...

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, ... and increasingly for basics like air conditioning and new floors.” While “wealthier neighborhoods can more ... has a center that was rebuilt in 2013 and “gleams like new.” Lawncrest, two miles way, “is sandwiched between ...
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
... Preparing more people of color and women to achieve family sustaining careers in construction The panel will be ... Abdullah , President and CEO of Statera Coaching and Leadership Consulting, a partner on Rebuild’s workforce ...

Opinion | Solving Philly’s poverty issues takes consistent, relentless effort by Mayor Jim Kenney

Wednesday, September 19, 2018
... to empower residents with the resources they need to get family-sustaining jobs. That's why we enacted the ... created more than 250 jobs and the average hourly wage of new hires is $14.72. PBT also allows us to create 20 ... We've dedicated over half a billion dollars in new City revenue to the School District over the next five ...

The Alliance for Health Equity Invests $225,000 over two years in Opportunities Industrialization Center Inc. at Chester County (OIC) for the Coatesville Homelessness and Unemployment Collective

The Alliance for Health Equity
Friday, December 17, 2021
... in Coatesville by 2026.  “Collective Impact lays the foundation for iterative and aligned responses to the needs ...

October 2018 Rebuild Update

Friday, October 19, 2018
... Greater Philadelphia , Shawn McCaney of William Penn Foundation , and Kristi Poling of The Barra Foundation . In September,  eligible nonprofits  applied to ... what changes are made at each site. Rebuild welcomes two new staff members to the team! Tim Roundtree is Rebuild’s ...

Beech celebrates neighborhood transformation over 30 years

Beech Companies Christine Brown and Kenneth Scott
Wednesday, June 22, 2022
... neighborhoods, including about 1,200 recently built single-family homes. On Cecil B. Moore Avenue, from Broad to 20th ... to the COVID pandemic. “We’ve come full circle as a foundation,” Scott said. “I am proud to be a part of it, ... which makes loans to small businesses; the Alston-Beech Foundation, which provides grants to small businesses; the ...

The Alliance for Health Equity Releases $657,500 in Grants to Greater Coatesville Nonprofit and Grassroots Organizations

Better Tomorrows
Wednesday, August 3, 2022
... partnerships. The Collaborative Innovation Fund highlights new or existing partnerships between grassroots and nonprofit ... Alliance for Health Equity is excited to share an entirely new round of General Operating Support to local organizations ...

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

Thursday, May 24, 2018

Mayor Jim Kenney’s plan to revamp public facilities throughout the city took another step forward this week, with key legislation passing favorably out of a City Council committee on Monday.

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
... eight key areas:  Employment and Earnings; Work and Family; Educational Disparities; Poverty and ... for Women’s Health   PA Coalition for Sex Education   Family Care Act   Subscribe to the Women and Girls Fund’s ...

How a corporate partner is helping YouthBuild Philly students become ‘green leaders’ in construction

YouthBuild Philly students
Wednesday, May 24, 2017
... local YouthBuild school, they got to use and learn some new skills to improve their own classroom. Through a ... contractor  Eureka Metal & Glass Services  to install a new glass technology called  SageGlass  into their ...
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03Feb2021

Special Funder Briefing: City of Philadelphia FY 2022 Budget

Wednesday, February 3, 2021
9:00am - 10:00am
Video Conference

Join city representatives for a funder briefing and discussion about plans and priorities for the City of Philadelphia's FY2022 Budget.

Seventeen-member oversight board named for Rebuild

Monday, October 30, 2017
... Council Janet Haas , board chair of the  William Penn Foundation Stacy Holland , educational consultant Floyd ...

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