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Community Foundation of South Jersey Announces Five Transform South Jersey Grant Recipients

Transform South Jersey Heart & Soul
Friday, February 21, 2020
Grantees will receive $100,000 in funding to help build stronger, healthier, and more ... “We’re excited that these five communities will join over 80 other Community Heart & Soul projects taking place ... communities for all. Currently, CFSJ manages assets of $22 million in donor-advised funds. Along with its fund-holders, ...

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
... Affinity Group Lending model to up to 450 entrepreneurs in Philadelphia while also replicating the model in Alabama, ... Missouri and Nebraska. While the average loan size is just over $4,000, participants in the program have the potential ... to be one of the top SBA microlenders in the nation and #1 locally. As a result, the SBA awarded the “Jody C. ...
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Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s Center for Health Equity Receives $1M Grant from Bank of America

Thursday, July 21, 2022
...  (CHOP)  Center for Health Equity  received a $1 million grant from Bank of America to launch the Block Builds ... Community Asthma Prevention Program Plus (CAPP+)  to make over 100 homes in West Philadelphia healthier, directly ...

Brandywine Health Foundation Receives Grant in Support of Coatesville Food Truck Project

Coatesville Food Truck
Wednesday, January 6, 2021
... a targeted regional commitment to address food insecurity, in part due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic and ... has awarded the Brandywine Health Foundation a $25,000 grant. The funds will be used to expand the Coatesville Food Truck Project in providing culturally nutritious meals to Coatesville ...

Beech stands in the gap during funding crisis

Derrick Thomas and Ken Scott
Friday, February 7, 2025
... PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 7, 2025 – Eighteen non-profits in Philadelphia received a boost when The Beech Companies, ... Network Greater Philadelphia, the foundation has awarded over 500 grants to non-profit, community-based organizations ... fund . During the pandemic, the foundation provided $1,000 grants to 30 Philadelphia non-profits that provided ...

Rebuild announces 21 nonprofits qualified as Project Users

Rebuild
Friday, November 17, 2017
... of design and construction on up to three projects over the last five years with a total value of $1 million or more; Community outreach/engagement: experience ...

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

FDR Park
Friday, September 22, 2017
... by a city tax on soda beverages—and a record  hundred-million-dollar grant  from the William Penn Foundation, the ... told, the project aims to upgrade more than half of the over 400 facilities citywide. In some ways, Philadelphia is playing catch-up. According ...

Regional Foundation LLC Takes Next Step In Evolution With New Leadership

Kevin Dow
Tuesday, November 16, 2021
... as Regional Foundation executive director on December 1, 2021. During the administration of Mayor Michael Nutter, ... 1,000 charitable funds established by its donors and makes over 1,000 grants and scholarship awards each year. To learn more, visit:  philafound.org . ...

Philadelphia Foundation Fund Supports Community-based Programs in Northwest Philadelphia

East Mt Airy Neighbors
Tuesday, November 5, 2019
... 900 charitable funds established by its donors and makes over 1,000 grants and scholarship awards each year. To learn more, visit philafound.org.   ...

May 2019 Update: Rebuild is on the move!

Tuesday, May 14, 2019
Rebuild projects are fully in motion, with work already begun on 24 of the 64 sites ... repairs. Experienced nonprofits have been awarded multi-million-dollar grants to carry out renovations at these ... Pennsylvania Horticultural Society (PHS) will deliver a $1.4 million improvement project to modernize and upgrade the ...

Rebuild: Strengthening Neighborhoods Across Philadelphia

Thursday, March 21, 2019
... deserve more. This week Rebuild announced the first grant awards to nonprofit partners, granting a total of $13.8 million for major improvements to the Cecil B. Moore ... Philanthropic Trust  by the William Penn Foundation, $1 for every $2 raised in philanthropic support. We invite ...

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 ... annual meeting of the park and recreation community, over a three-day period conference attendees were presented ... is intended to reimagine civic assets and triggered a $500 million citywide effort to reinvest in parks and recreation ...

Foundation Building

Tuesday, June 26, 2018
... which is marking 20 years of revitalizing neighborhoods in Eastern Pennsylvania, Delaware and New Jersey. “We’ve ... executive director. The organization has invested $15.8 million in 20 communities in Philadelphia through its ... leadership, the foundation has transformed its grant-making strategy and developed a nationally recognized ...
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City Council and Mayor Kenney play nice as rec center ‘rebuild’ advances

Thursday, May 24, 2018
... conference held at one of the city’s public facilities in dire need —   Olney Rec Center . The hulking North ... community hub will begin to receive renovations with $8 million the city has on hand to spend on the $500 million ... cohort of more than 60 facilities receiving Rebuild funds over the course of the anticipated seven-year program. ...

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 ... initiative to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in parks, recreation centers, and libraries across ... in positive activity. When we had to shut down Vare last fall, the community was devastated. The reality is without ...

What's New at Rebuild (November 2017)

Monday, December 4, 2017
    Here is a round-up of recent news and developments with the City of ... Rebuild initiative for November 2017: November 1  - The Rebuild Oversight Board held its inaugural meeting ... interactive map (check it out here - you can explore sites in your neighborhood!), and a detailed Project Statement ...

City Appoints New Executive Director of Rebuild

Kira Strong
Friday, January 3, 2020
... of the City’s Rebuild initiative. Strong has served in that role in an interim capacity since November, and ... Deputy Director for Design and Construction, leading over $126 million of new investment in 61 parks, recreation centers, ...
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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
... initiative to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in neighborhood parks, recreation centers, and libraries. Just over a year after the Rebuild’s first groundbreaking, ... programs PROGRAM MATERIALS Rebuild Presentation Slidedeck (1.22.20) Rebuild by the Numbers 2019 14 Rebuild Projects to ...

Philadelphia Selected For New Anti-Displacement Policy Network

Friday, March 23, 2018
... has been selected for the first cohort of the All-In Cities Anti-Displacement Policy Network . With support ... Foundation, the network of ten cities will work together over the next year on strategies to fight displacement and ... April 11-13, with one additional network gathering in Fall 2018. Previous research conducted by PolicyLink and the ...

Seventeen-member oversight board named for Rebuild

Monday, October 30, 2017
... | By  Albert Hong  / STAFF   Rebuild is a $500 million citywide initiative that’s seven years in the ... team has been regularly hosting informational meetings over the past few months throughout the city’s ...  is coming up quick too, set for this Wednesday, Nov. 1, from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the  Kingsessing Recreation Center ...

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