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

Wednesday, September 19, 2018
Via The Philadelphia Inquirer The  U.S. Census Bureau report  released last week on ... Jim Kenney is mayor of Philadelphia.  @PhillyMayor Opinion | Solving Philly’s poverty issues takes consistent, ...

Nonprofit Organizations Awarded More than $6 Million from William Penn Foundation for Workforce Development and Pandemic Recovery Efforts

William Penn Foundation
Tuesday, January 4, 2022
Press release via the William Penn Foundation   PHILADELPHIA (January 4, 2022)  – The William Penn ... in the  first half of 2021  as part of the Foundation’s Family Recovery Fund, an initiative supporting both direct ...

Rebuild Announces First Project to Launch, More to Come

Thursday, May 17, 2018
At an event in South Philadelphia, Mayor Jim Kenney was joined by Councilman ... Center as the first project to receive investment from Rebuilding Community Infrastructure (Rebuild), the City’s initiative to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in ...

City announces first round of the Kensington Community Resilience Fund grant recipients

Kensington Community Resilience Fund
Wednesday, July 14, 2021
KCR Fund.png PHILADELPHIA — The City of Philadelphia today announced the recipients of the first round of grants from the Kensington Community Resilience Fund (KCR Fund), a ... the opioid crisis in Kensington.  Core to the KCR Fund’s approach is a participatory grantmaking process that ...
03Feb2021

Special Funder Briefing: City of Philadelphia FY 2022 Budget

Wednesday, February 3, 2021
9:00am - 10:00am
Video Conference
... Five-Year budget plan . The updated strategy outlines Philadelphia’s COVID recovery efforts while addressing urgent and emerging issues ...

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

Monday, October 2, 2017
... professionals, citizen advocates and industry suppliers from around the country. The premier annual meeting of the ... hundreds of education sessions and the industry’s largest trade show showcasing the products and services of ... Foundation’s Executive Director , presented the City of Philadelphia’s Rebuild Community Infrastructure ( Rebuild ) ...

Philadelphia’s Placing a $500 Million Bet on Play

Monday, September 11, 2017
... map to getting this overhaul right. Even as Lawncrest, the Philadelphia neighborhood, has transformed over the past half ... Philadelphia and the near-suburban neatness of the city’s far northeast. Best known for hosting one of the city’s ... they once did, but the impromptu football field carved out from their intersecting outfields bustles with leagues for ...

Pew Announces $6.8M in Grants Supporting Philadelphia Region's Vulnerable Adults

Monday, May 4, 2020
PHILADELPHIA—The Pew Charitable Trusts announced today that ... Philadelphia-area nonprofits serving some of the region’s most vulnerable adults, including those struggling with ... their awards. They may, for example, shift their funding from project to operating support, modify their grant ...

Philadelphia Receives $5 Million in JPMorgan Chase’s AdvancingCities Challenge

Thursday, October 8, 2020
Press release PHILADELPHIA  — JPMorgan Chase today announced ... in its AdvancingCities Challenge, part of the firm’s $500 million, five-year initiative to advance inclusive recovery and promote greater economic opportunity in cities. ...

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

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

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 ... hearing, which took place at City Hall, featured testimony from a number of experts who research poverty and who provide ...

Pew Awards $4.25 Million to 4 Philadelphia Nonprofits to Expand Economic Opportunities and Address Growing Impacts of Community Violence

Wednesday, July 20, 2022
Press release PHILADELPHIA—The Pew Charitable Trusts announced today that ... The awards include a grant to University City District’s West Philadelphia Skills Initiative to help create paths to ... address survivors’ social, emotional, and psychological recovery after trauma. Adults, children, and their families, ...

Rebuild: Strengthening Neighborhoods Across Philadelphia

Thursday, March 21, 2019
... with the support of William Penn Foundation and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has been at the forefront ... recreation centers, playgrounds, and libraries across Philadelphia.  We are committed to galvanizing the ... but they deserve more. This week Rebuild announced the first grant awards to nonprofit partners, granting a total of ...

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

GSK
Thursday, November 15, 2018
... opportunities and other social determinants of health. [Philadelphia, PA, Nov 15] GSK today announced the GSK IMPACT Award Winners in a ceremony at GSK’s Navy Yard site. Ten local nonprofits were awarded $40,000 ... health factors: Nutrition & Physical Activity Education Housing & Built Environment Employment & Income Community ...
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Accelerating Job Growth and Business Formation Among BIPOC Community Should be a Priority for Philadelphia’s Next Mayor

Vision Philadelphia - Economic Development: Access to Capital for Philadelphia’s Diverse Business Owners
Wednesday, May 31, 2023
Press release Philadelphia, PA— What would Philadelphia look like if it had the fastest growth rate of ... and partners to drive much needed capital to the city’s diverse small business community and set a new trajectory ...

City Announces $1 Million Investment in Organizations Developing Innovative Workforce Solutions

Wednesday, February 10, 2021
... and align resources to lift Philadelphians out of poverty. PHILADELPHIA — The City of Philadelphia’s Department of Commerce—in partnership with Philadelphia's ... Grant is a key initiative of the City’s overall economic recovery strategy that seeks to address the impact of the ...

Beech celebrates neighborhood transformation over 30 years

Beech Companies Christine Brown and Kenneth Scott
Wednesday, June 22, 2022
Via The Philadelphia Tribune | Stephen Williams, Staff Writer Three ... the $17 million redeveloped Progress Plaza, the nation’s oldest Black-owned shopping center; across the street from Progress Plaza sits Temple’s Morgan Hall, a 24-story ...
14Jul2020

Workforce Development Panel Discussion

Tuesday, July 14, 2020
2:00pm - 3:30pm
Video Conference
Philanthropy Network’s Workforce Development Working Group invites you to join us on Tuesday, July 14th from 2:00 - 3:30 pm. This session will provide the ... Development Research Manager, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia Meg Shope Koppel, Chief Research Officer, ...

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

Comcast RISE
Tuesday, February 9, 2021
... businesses in Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Houston and Philadelphia can apply for $10,000 grants.   Additionally, ... Enterprise Opportunity (AEO), Operation Hope, Ureeka, U.S. Black Chambers, U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, ... RISE marketing and technology services component are from these five cities. “The data is clear. Business owners ...

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