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Philadelphia Takes First Steps Toward City-wide Historic and Cultural Resources Survey

Wednesday, March 4, 2020
PRESS RELEASE via the City of Philadelphia Department of Planning and Development ... a project to explore that question. When the project ends in December 2022 the City will have a plan for an ongoing, ... The William Penn Foundation will provide a $250,000 grant to support the project. To ensure that preservation ...

Wells Fargo's $425,000 grant to FINANTA will help expand its Affinity Group Lending program

Wells Fargo check presentation to FINANTA
Friday, October 4, 2019
... Wells Fargo has announced a $425,000 grant award to FINANTA to help expand the nonprofit’s ... to increase access to capital and technical assistance for Diverse Small Businesses.  FINANTA’s Affinity Group ... Affinity Group Lending model to up to 450 entrepreneurs in Philadelphia while also replicating the model in Alabama, ...
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Comcast RISE to Award $5 Million in Grants to BIPOC-Owned, Small Businesses

Comcast RISE
Tuesday, February 9, 2021
Eligible businesses in Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Houston and Philadelphia can apply for $10,000 grants.   Additionally, over $2 million has been awarded ... grant at  www.ComcastRISE.com . A total of 100 grants per city, or 500 grants overall, will be awarded in May 2021. The ...

GreenLight Raises New $3.5 Million Fund to Combat Systemic Poverty in Philadelphia

Omar Woodard
Monday, September 14, 2020
... communities. This latest Fund enables GreenLight to invest in Philadelphia’s post-COVID recovery with greater clarity ... additional investments to improve the lives of over 400,000 women, children, and men that experience poverty every ... a growing coalition of investors and champions for our city and its families,” said Josh Kopelman, Managing ...

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 ... from Rebuilding Community Infrastructure (Rebuild), the City’s initiative to invest hundreds of millions of dollars ... Supreme Court. Read more about Vare Rec Center . Rebuild Announces First Project to Launch, More to Come ...

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

Monday, October 2, 2017
... Association  (NRPA) concluded its  annual conference  in New Orleans, bringing together more than 7,000 park and recreation professionals, citizen advocates and ... Penn Foundation’s Executive Director , presented the City of Philadelphia’s Rebuild Community Infrastructure ( ...

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

Wednesday, July 20, 2022
... local residents. The awards include a grant to University City District’s West Philadelphia Skills Initiative to help ... Drexel University, and Temple University Hospital in coordinating and expanding their hospital-based support ... have each been awarded Pew Fund venture grants of $250,000 over two years to support these violence intervention ...

The Alliance for Health Equity Announces Union Community Care Selected as Core Provider of Healthcare Services at Coatesville's Brandywine Center

The Brandywine Center
Thursday, January 16, 2025
... Coatesville, PA – January 16, 2025 - The Alliance for Health Equity (AHE) announced today that Union Community ... integrated health strategy. As the core provider in this model, Union Community Care (Union) will deliver ... .   The Alliance for Health Equity Announces Union Community Care Selected as Core Provider of ...
18Apr2018

Building Community: Creating Community Schools, Helping Communities Thrive

Wednesday, April 18, 2018
8:00am - 10:30am
Philadelphia, PA
Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia, in partnership with the Mayor’s Office of Education, the Mayor’s Fund for Philadelphia, and Philanthropy Network’s Education ... South Philadelphia High School and Otis Hackney, City of Philadelphia, Mayor’s Office of Education 8:45 AM  ...

The Foundation for Delaware County awards over $1M to local nonprofits, launches COVID-19 Response Fund

Wednesday, April 1, 2020
In its second major round of grantmaking, The Foundation for ... awarded $1,055,488 in grant awards to 52 area nonprofits. Grants were awarded in the areas of economic stability, ... in our county.  The foundation has committed $100,000 to the fund and thanks to very generous residents and ...

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
... and job creation? This is the question posed and answered in the latest Vision Philadelphia paper covering economic development opportunities in the city. As the city moves toward the general election, mayoral ... diverse small business community and set a new trajectory for economic growth and wealth-building. Philadelphia ...

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s Center for Health Equity Receives $1M Grant from Bank of America

Thursday, July 21, 2022
... Hospital of Philadelphia’s  (CHOP)  Center for Health Equity  received a $1 million grant from Bank of ... Builds Program and improve children’s overall health in West Philadelphia. In Philadelphia residential segregation ... example, in West and Southwest Philadelphia more than one-third of children live below the poverty line. Bank of ...

Five Local Organizations Receive $125k Grants from TD Bank to Develop Local Affordable Housing

Monday, March 9, 2020
The Housing for Everyone grants will fund projects supporting the refurbishing of ... to create affordable rental units. The 30 grants of $125,000 each will fund programs from winning organizations ... Housing for Everyone program support local non-profits in creating affordable rental housing for individuals and ...

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 highest rate of concentrated ... Prevention to identify policy solutions to help lift 100,000 people out of poverty. The Special Committee’s first ...

Beech launches resources directory to support families, individuals and communities

BEECH 2020 COMMUNITY RESOURCES DIRECTORY
Tuesday, August 18, 2020
PHILADELPHIA, August 3, 2020 -- In celebration of its 30th Anniversary in service to the community, the ... that can help uplift and improve the quality of life for families, individuals and communities in the Philadelphia ...

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
... development and job training opportunities for nearly 2,000 Philadelphians, as well as continued support for ... needs. These grants follow more than $8 million awarded in the  first half of 2021  as part of the Foundation’s ... build a stronger future for their families and for the city of Philadelphia.”  The following organizations ...
23Sep2022

Delaware County Funders’ Community of Practice: Funders’ Tour of Upper Darby, Our Region’s 2nd Largest Municipality

Friday, September 23, 2022
9:30am - 1:30pm
Tour
... County Funders on Friday, September 23 from 9:30 - 1:30 pm for a tour of Upper Darby, the second largest municipality in our region, second only to Philadelphia. Upper Darby’s ... Bywood Community Association Joe Miller, Volunteer, City Parks and Playgrounds Project Desiree Murphy, Murphy’s ...

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 and libraries, two neighborhoods offer ... past half century, Lawncrest the city rec center has — for better and for worse — remained largely the same. A ...

Brandywine Health and Housing Center Celebrates 10th Anniversary

Friday, May 4, 2018
... of the Brandywine Health and Housing Center opening in Coatesville. Ten years ago, the opening of the Brandywine ... the greater Coatesville area. A decade later, more than 20,000 people have walked though its doors. On Wednesday night, ... 2008, was the first major construction project in the City of Coatesville in more than four decades and the first ...

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