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

Thursday, May 24, 2018
... public facilities throughout the city took another step forward this week, with key legislation passing favorably out ... The positive movement hasn’t, however,  fully ended an ongoing war of words between Kenney and dissenting council ... “As you can see, this site is a perfect candidate for Rebuild. You all have dealt with a failing roof, flooding ...
07Oct2020

Setting the Table: Reimagining Wealth & Capitalism

Wednesday, October 7, 2020
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Video Conference
... Greater Philadelphia and Marcus Walton , CEO, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations . Taking place every other month, ... + create) a better future, ensuring we don’t settle for innovation as the future state but as an opportunity to create radical change.  Conversations will ...

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
... to increase access to capital and technical assistance for Diverse Small Businesses.  FINANTA’s Affinity Group ... C. Raskind Lender” Award of the Year in 2016 to FINANTA for the rapid expansion of microlending.   Wells Fargo's ...
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Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability

Knight Foundation gives $4M for citywide conversation about park over I-95

Tuesday, September 18, 2018
... to give all Philadelphians a chance to shape plans for a new waterfront park over I-95 at Penn's Landing, project officials said Monday. ... on the waterfront?” It’s a particularly salient vision for a project that aims to stich over a section of the ...

Rebuild Announces First Project to Launch, More to Come

Thursday, May 17, 2018
At an event in South Philadelphia, Mayor Jim Kenney was joined ... following a request from the Mayor to City Council to fund Rebuild through the City’s capital budget in an effort ... City confirmed that Rebuild will fund a new master plan for Vare, which is expected to launch later this year. The ...

Seventeen-member oversight board named for Rebuild

Monday, October 30, 2017
... how the whole process is going to roll out. Like how  local nonprofits can get involved with the improvement ... Councilman Bobby Henon Rob Dubow , director of finance for the City of Philadelphia Harold Epps , deputy managing director of commerce for the City of Philadelphia Anne Fadullon , director of ...

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
... workforce development and job training opportunities for nearly 2,000 Philadelphians, as well as continued support ... of 2021  as part of the Foundation’s Family Recovery Fund, an initiative supporting both direct grantmaking and matching ...

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

FDR Park
Friday, September 22, 2017
... associations known as advisory councils “raise funds for programming, and increasingly for basics like air ... engage those new supporters, particularly teens, remains an open question.” In Sturgis, youth who wanted the ... and practice of power. She has worked as a strategy and innovation consultant with a focus on networks and platforms. ...
18Apr2018

Building Community: Creating Community Schools, Helping Communities Thrive

Wednesday, April 18, 2018
8:00am - 10:30am
Philadelphia, PA
... with the Mayor’s Office of Education, the Mayor’s Fund for Philadelphia, and Philanthropy Network’s Education Funders Affinity Group, invites you to an update and exploration of Community Schools. Community ...
25Jun2019

Southwest Philly 2019: Tour of the Neighborhood and What We Can Do Next

Tuesday, June 25, 2019
9:00am - 4:30pm
Bartram's Garden
Please join us for our third session in our series on Southwest ... hear from affiliated partners. We will stop for lunch and an informal facilitated conversation by Valerie Gay and take ...

Philadelphia Foundation and Mural Arts Unveil “Strength in our Bonds” Centennial Legacy Mural

Philadelphia Foundation Centennial Mural Dedication
Friday, November 8, 2019
... their neighborhoods, what aspirations they held for their communities in the future, and to give residents a ... with conversations,” Martinez noted. “One of the goals for this project was to strengthen the bonds of different ... philanthropy to bring people together and move the region forward. Philadelphia Foundation and Mural Arts Unveil ...
01Feb2018

Chester County Funders: Coatesville Update- Collaborative Partnerships

Thursday, February 1, 2018
8:30am - 10:30am
Coatesville, PA
Please join the Chester County Funders for a panel discussion on collaborative partnerships in the ... Mental Health First Aid Program .  Panelists will provide an update on the work underway and will also share insight ... have been successful in garnering multiple funding streams for specific initiatives. As always, members will also have ...
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09Sep2021

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

Thursday, September 9, 2021
3:00pm - 4:00pm
Virtual
... business, private philanthropy, and anchor institutions in an ambitious effort to reduce the poverty rate in ... Philadelphia’s high rates of poverty.  Please join us for a briefing to learn more about this initiative’s key ... crises created by the pandemic. Through the Poverty Action Fund, a public/private fund has been developed to streamline ...
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 ... remarks from Upper Darby Mayor Barbarann Keffer and key local speakers on three different panels focused on workforce ... . The final panel will be held over lunch.  We’ll have an air conditioned bus with restroom facilities to transport ...

Brandywine Health and Housing Center Celebrates 10th Anniversary

Friday, May 4, 2018
... more than four decades and the first major accomplishment for the Brandywine Health Foundation. The Brandywine Health ... future by supporting first-rate facilities and services for all, particularly the underserved. Serving the uninsured ... in the greater Coatesville area, the Brandywine Center is an invaluable source of health and housing services for ...

Rebuild: Strengthening Neighborhoods Across Philadelphia

Thursday, March 21, 2019
... a philanthropic investment and engagement framework for Rebuild, the city’s joint public-private partnership to ... nonprofit  IMPACT Services  will deliver an improvement project at the Heitzman Recreation Center.  ... and priorities can have their support matched through a fund established at National Philanthropic Trust  by the ...

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

Wednesday, March 4, 2020
... project ends in December 2022 the City will have a plan for an ongoing, city-wide survey of historic and cultural assets. ... to all of us,” said Mayor Jim Kenney. “That’s why I’m especially pleased that the work to survey these assets ...

Philadelphia’s Placing a $500 Million Bet on Play

Monday, September 11, 2017
... past half century, Lawncrest the city rec center has — for better and for worse — remained largely the same. A ... the neighborhood lacks for a convenient grocery store. An aging library sits at one end of the strip, next to the ... rec center and a dusty double-wide trailer that serves as an outpost of the DA’s office. But besides the pool ...

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