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Comcast RISE Awards 100 Small Businesses in Philadelphia With $10,000 grants

Comcast RISE
Wednesday, July 27, 2022
... initially launched in 2020 as a response to help small business owners of color who were hardest hit by the economic ... Comcast RISE Investment Fund. It’s been tough to grow my business in these times and this additional investment will help. As a small business owner, I’m a one-man band – handling all of the ...

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

Comcast RISE
Tuesday, February 9, 2021
... support to BIPOC-owned, small businesses.   NEW YORK--( BUSINESS WIRE )--Comcast today announced the Comcast RISE ... Fund is focused on small businesses who have been in business for 3 or more years with 1-25 employees. Businesses ... are from these five cities. “The data is clear. Business owners of color are historically disadvantaged when ...

Comcast RISE Investment Fund to Provide Additional $1 Million In Grants To Support Philadelphia Small Businesses

Monday, May 16, 2022
... “When the pandemic hit and we had to shut down our business, I was distraught. My only means of income was ... Philadelphia Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Independence Business Alliance The Enterprise Center Philadelphia ... for entrepreneurs, to provide grant recipients with business coaching to help build skills in company foundation, ...

City Announces Additional $30 Million in Funding for Rental Assistance and Small Business Relief

Thursday, November 12, 2020
... deployed as quickly as possible to prevent evictions and business closures, and to protect jobs.”  “This ... of funds brings the City’s direct support for small business assistance to $38.7 million and for rent relief to ... help they need to keep a roof over their heads.” Small Business Relief Of the $30 million, $10 million is committed ...

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
... rate of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color-owned business formation and job creation? This is the question ... to drive much needed capital to the city’s diverse small business community and set a new trajectory for economic ...   building among investors, small businesses, and business support organizations to make this a reality.” ...

Beech celebrates neighborhood transformation over 30 years

Beech Companies Christine Brown and Kenneth Scott
Wednesday, June 22, 2022
... Beech Interplex, a community development firm; Beech Business Bank, which makes loans to small businesses; the ... which serves as a liaison between the residents, the business community and institutions like the Philadelphia ...

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

The grant to FINANTA is part of the company’s national push to increase access to capital and technical assistance for Diverse Small Businesses.

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Beech launches resources directory to support families, individuals and communities

BEECH 2020 COMMUNITY RESOURCES DIRECTORY
Tuesday, August 18, 2020
... & training, reentry, families & youth, seniors, veterans, business & commerce, arts & culture and more. Some of the ... a link to the COVID-19 Relief Pennsylvania Statewide Small Business Assistance Program. “Beech Community Services is ... Services serves as a liaison between the residents and business owners of the Cecil B. Moore community and works to ...

Regional Foundation Announces $1.95 Million in Grant Awards

Thursday, July 13, 2023
... with Saint Joseph’s Health system and the creation of a business improvement district. NJCDC will also refresh its ... overall Great Falls Neighborhood Plan. (3)   Parkside Business & Community In Partnership (PBCIP) will receive its ... Association (LAEDA) which is facilitating a thriving business corridor, Camden County Historical Society to ...
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Regional Foundation Announces $4.75 Million in Grant Awards

Regional Foundation Neighborhood Implementation Grants
Tuesday, April 18, 2023
... through its partners to support workforce and small business assistance along the Manor Street commercial ... the CDC’s work to support minority and/or women owned business or enterprises. Each grant is a five-year investment ...

Regional Foundation Announces $2 Million in Grant Awards

Regional Foundation logo
Wednesday, December 20, 2023
... that brings together local partners, residents, and business owners to envision priorities for the years to come, ... and neighborhood connectedness, and to build a vibrant business community. ### The Regional Foundation’s mission ...
09Sep2021

The Promise: A New Anti-Poverty Model for an Equitable Recovery

Thursday, September 9, 2021
3:00pm - 4:00pm
Virtual
... a first of its kind collaboration between government, business, private philanthropy, and anchor institutions in an ...

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

Thursday, July 21, 2022
... leadership. ESG is embedded across our eight lines of business and reflects how we help fuel the global economy, ... a company that people want to work for, invest in and do business with. It’s demonstrated in the inclusive and ...

Seventeen-member oversight board named for Rebuild

Monday, October 30, 2017

Seventeen stakeholders have been named to a new oversight board for the Rebuild initiative to improve Philadelphia's public spaces. Their first public meeting is 11/1.

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