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Philadelphia Health Partnership Designates Funds to Support the Launch of Two New Early Childhood Programs

Thursday, September 8, 2022
... Health Partnership (PHP) announces its support of two new programs focused on the health and well-being of young ... children and their parents and caregivers. PHP awarded a three-year $248,281 grant to PolicyLab at Children’s ... advocacy, and community action focused on the issues that parents and caregivers themselves identify and ...

Collaborative IMPACT Fund of Bucks County Awards $75,000 Grant

Members of the Along the Way team accept the $75,000 IMPACT Bucks Grant from a coalition of local funders
Monday, July 15, 2024
... Partnership (FCP) recently announced the award of a $75,000 grant to Souderton-based Along the Way in support ... for single mother households. The grant is the result of a new initiative, the Collaborative IMPACT Fund of Bucks County ... growing needs. About BLBB Charitable BLBB Charitable, the giving arm of financial advisory firm BLBB Advisors, invests ...
23Jun2021

Advancing Equitable and Adequate School Funding in PA

Wednesday, June 23, 2021
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Video Conference
... school funding system. Pennsylvania’s school funding is heavily reliant on local property values, which has resulted in deep inequality and inequity that disproportionately affect students of color. Black and ... schools in the lowest 20 percent of local wealth. A  study  released in October 2020 found that 428 of PA’s ...

CEO, Scattergood Announce Local Organizations Funded to Conduct Grassroots Outreach for Child Tax Credit

Wednesday, January 19, 2022
... Behavioral Health Foundation (Scattergood) announced today that 17 local organizations will receive a total of $192,000 in City funding to conduct grassroots ... racial equity in implementing the Child Tax Credit, which is one of the most impactful anti-poverty programs in a ...

Nonprofit Organizations Awarded More than $8 Million from William Penn Foundation for Continued Relief Efforts Supporting Philadelphia Families

William Penn Foundation
Thursday, June 17, 2021
... Covid-19 pandemic. Through the  Family Recovery Fund , a one-year, $10 million initiative supporting both direct ... we sought to place greater emphasis on organizations that reflect and engage the communities they serve,” Haas ... Penn Foundation, founded in 1945 by Otto and Phoebe Haas, is dedicated to improving the quality of life in the Greater ...

New grocery store experiment hopes to inspire learning

"Talk it Up"
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
... in Philadelphia over the next year you might run into a cherubic cartoon character named A.J. Though his wide smile ... constructed to include so-called  sight words,  the kind that kids often have to memorize as they grope through the ... they have a replicable, effective formula, expanding to new locations won't require much more than the blessing of ...
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William Penn Foundation Awards Additional $2.6M to Support COVID-19 Relief, Recovery Efforts in Philadelphia

Tuesday, June 30, 2020
... announced $2.6 million in additional support for efforts that address the impacts on Philadelphians of COVID-19 and ... meeting since March, the Board of Directors approved a series of grants to immediately support multiple elements ... offer services and interact with families, from designing new online delivery models to significantly changing the ...

Vanguard Supports First-of-Its-Kind Project Integrating Home Visiting Nurses into Pediatric Primary Care Setting

Thursday, September 5, 2019
... -- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) launched a new pilot program today aimed at improving the health and ... generous employees support this work through our workplace giving campaign, and we couldn't think of a better partner ...

Salem Health & Wellness Foundation awards $25K to Southern NJ Perinatal Cooperative

Salem Halth & Wellness Foundation
Thursday, August 17, 2023
... Salem Health and Wellness Foundation has awarded Southern New Jersey Perinatal Cooperative a $25,000 planning grant as part of its Salem Smart Start for ... of the Southern New Jersey Perinatal Cooperative. “So that we can identify and implement successful, sustainable ...

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 ... for the entire neighborhood. “CHOP has long understood that a child’s health is greatly influenced by factors that ... commitment to providing exceptional patient care, training new generations of pediatric healthcare professionals, and ...

Ten Philly Elementary Schools Awarded $500K in “Good To Great” Grants to Strengthen Early Literacy Programs

Wednesday, April 24, 2019
... specific student populations. The funded initiatives have a particular focus on grade-level proficiency by third grade. ... the School District of Philadelphia developed this smart new grant program as a way to help schools build on the ... said Elliot Weinbaum of The William Penn Foundation. “By giving individual schools the resources to implement the ...
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The Starting Line: Behind a Push by Foundations to Expand Access to Childcare in Their Cities

Thursday, September 6, 2018
... of policy solutions, describes the Reinvestment Fund as “a financial institution with a public purpose.” “We lend ... and economic opportunity for people in places for whom that’s a challenge.” Childcare has been a mainstay of ... D.C., the Foundation for Newark’s Future in Newark, New Jersey, and the Nicholson and the Henry and Marilyn Taub ...
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National Movement for Children’s Literacy Converges on Philadelphia

Thursday, July 19, 2018
... involved in the effort to share successful practices in a series of presentations, discussions and panels. ... of GLR Week are major national and local foundations that support grade-level reading efforts, current authors and ... and CEO of United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey, will speak at The Institutes. The Moonshot Moment ...
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William Penn Foundation previews revised programs and grantmaking approach

William Penn Foundation new funding areas
Thursday, May 16, 2024
Via William Penn Foundation WPF new funding areas_horiz.png   OUR REVISED GRANTMAKING ... areas and practices, which had been in place for a decade. Our work since then helped us to understand how our ... across the region. After a comprehensive process that strongly centered stakeholder engagement, we are pleased ...

William Penn Foundation Launches Informal Learning Initiative

Thursday, September 14, 2017
... William Penn Foundation  has announced the launch of a two-year, $2 million community-based initiative to connect ... will join forces to design literacy-rich opportunities that enable parents, caregivers, and children to experience ... families."   " William Penn Foundation Launches New Initiative to Connect Cultural Institutions, Literacy, ...
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Successful ‘Read To Succeed’ Summer Program Goes Virtual

Read to Succeed
Monday, June 22, 2020
... 22, 2020) — The Read to Succeed Summer Program (R2S), a free program with a track record of boosting reading skills among Philadelphia schoolchildren, is going virtual this year. Online sessions will begin on ... and had a delayed start to virtual instruction. "We know that students who don't read during the summer risk falling ...
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Op-Ed: Families Need Child Care Resources Now More than Ever

Child Care
Friday, October 16, 2020
... harder than ever. COVID-19 has not only proven to be a public health crisis, but it has exposed the existing ... and Undercounted Report from PathWays PA, Chester County is the most expensive county to live and work throughout the ... $93,000 annually just to meet their basic needs. "We find that Pennsylvania families struggling to make ends meet are ...

All K-3 students in School District of Philadelphia to receive free books every month

Elliot Weinbaum
Monday, June 3, 2019
... 2019] The School District of Philadelphia and Book Trust, a national organization supporting book ownership and early ... Penn Foundation , today announced a four-year partnership that will expand Book Trust’s program to reach all of the ... students with 49,554 books in 10 schools.  The new investment from the William Penn Foundation will help ...
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Vanguard awards $1.63M to childhood learning effort

Friday, April 27, 2018
... Dornsife Center for Neighborhood Partnerships. The program is funded by contributions from Vanguard employees and ... Vanguard Strong Start for Kids Program recently presented a $1.63 million grant to Drexel University’s West ... said in the release. “Research has demonstrated that investments made early in children’s lives can set ...
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27Jul2022

Listening and Learning Session with SDP Superintendent Dr. Tony Watlington, Sr.

Wednesday, July 27, 2022
11:30am - 1:00pm
Philadelphia School District
... members invested in our student’s achievement. And that means he needs to hear from you. Before our children ... of Philadelphia.   Please join Dr.

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