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

Thursday, September 8, 2022
Philadelphia, PA (September 8, 2022) – Philadelphia Health Partnership (PHP) announces its support of two new ... a three-year $248,281 grant to PolicyLab at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) to help fund local ... Board Chair of Philadelphia Health Partnership.“The Foundation has been focused on improving equity in health in ...

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

Salem Halth & Wellness Foundation
Thursday, August 17, 2023
The Salem Health and Wellness Foundation has awarded Southern New Jersey Perinatal ... Mission:  The Salem Health and Wellness Foundation's mission is to invest in sustainable initiatives that ...

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 ... Last fall, we shared our plans to review and update the Foundation’s grantmaking areas and practices, which had been in place ...

William Penn Foundation Awards Additional $2.6M to Support COVID-19 Relief, Recovery Efforts in Philadelphia

Tuesday, June 30, 2020
... Release PHILADELPHIA (June 30, 2020)  – William Penn Foundation (WPF) today announced $2.6 million in additional ... and food access. The grants detailed below advance WPF’s commitment to supporting regional COVID-19 recovery in ways ... test more than 1,500 early learning program staff. Public Health Management Corporation (PHMC)  to provide free ...

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

Wednesday, April 24, 2019
... $20,000 to nearly $75,000, are funded by the William Penn Foundation. The grants totaled $535,826. The Good to Great program enhances the District’s robust early literacy strategy and supports individual ... foster creativity that enhances civic life, and advance philanthropy in the Philadelphia region. In partnership with ...
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Successful ‘Read To Succeed’ Summer Program Goes Virtual

Read to Succeed
Monday, June 22, 2020
... PA — (June 22, 2020) — The Read to Succeed Summer Program (R2S), a free program with a track record of boosting ... grade in literacy over the summer months. The program's goals of promoting literacy and preventing the phenomenon ... Philadelphia nonprofit funded in part by the William Penn Foundation, Waterman II Fund of The Philadelphia Foundation, ...
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The Starting Line: Behind a Push by Foundations to Expand Access to Childcare in Their Cities

Thursday, September 6, 2018
Via Inside Philanthropy | By Caitlin Reilly The Reinvestment Fund is ... to bolster working families.  Ira Goldstein, the fund’s president of policy solutions, describes the Reinvestment ... the work includes collaborations with the William Penn Foundation in Philadelphia, the Richard W. Goldman Family ...
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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
The  Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s  (CHOP)  Center for Health Equity  received a $1 million grant from Bank of America to launch the Block Builds Program and improve children’s overall health in West ...

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
PHILADELPHIA (June 17, 2021) – The William Penn Foundation today announced 90 grants totaling more than $8 ... focused on families’ basic needs and children’s education as Philadelphians continue to be impacted by the ... foster creativity that enhances civic life, and advance philanthropy in the Philadelphia region. In 2021, the ...

National Movement for Children’s Literacy Converges on Philadelphia

Thursday, July 19, 2018
... PHILADELPHIA (July 19, 2018) – More than 700 educators, foundation executives and national leaders in early childhood ... Reading Week (GLR Week in Philadelphia), the nation’s most significant convening focused on early learning, children’s health and well-being, afterschool and summer programs, and ...
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CEO, Scattergood Announce Local Organizations Funded to Conduct Grassroots Outreach for Child Tax Credit

Wednesday, January 19, 2022
... and Opportunity (CEO) and Thomas Scattergood Behavioral Health Foundation (Scattergood) announced today that 17 local ... newly expanded federal Child Tax Credit. President Biden's American Rescue Plan, passed last March, increased the ...

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

Thursday, September 5, 2019
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 4, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) launched a new pilot program today aimed at improving the health and well-being of mothers and their young children. ...

Op-Ed: Families Need Child Care Resources Now More than Ever

Child Care
Friday, October 16, 2020
... than ever. COVID-19 has not only proven to be a public health crisis, but it has exposed the existing crisis for ... Report, on average in Pennsylvania, 40% of a single mom’s annual income goes to child care. Elected officials, ... also severely impacted by COVID-19.  Non-profits, philanthropy, government and local businesses can and must ...

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
... – Local grant makers BLBB Charitable , Bucks County Foundation (BCF) , and Foundations Community Partnership ... From left to right: Nicole Tell, BLBB Charitable’s Executive Director, Foundations Community Partnership CEO ... Community Partnership (FCP) supports the behavioral health and human service needs of children, young adults, and ...

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

Elliot Weinbaum
Monday, June 3, 2019
... and early reading in schools, along with the William Penn Foundation , today announced a four-year partnership that will expand Book Trust’s program to reach all of the District’s 150 elementary ... foster creativity that enhances civic life, and advance philanthropy in the Philadelphia region. The Foundation’s ...
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Vanguard awards $1.63M to childhood learning effort

Friday, April 27, 2018
... Twitter Pictured: Carra Cote-Ackah, director of Vanguard’s Community Stewardship efforts, speaks with children and ... Drexel Dornsife Center for Neighborhood Partnerships. The program is funded by contributions from Vanguard employees ... In addition to Vanguard’s grant, the William Penn Foundation also presented a three-year $987,000 grant to the ...
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19Apr2021

Education Funders Meeting

Monday, April 19, 2021
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Video Conference
... as possible for all of you. This session is open to Philanthropy Network members. RELATED READING In $5.2B budget ... mayor touts funding for education as key to Philadelphia’s pandemic recovery by Johann Calhoun for Chalkbeat ... $1 billion from rescue plan by Dale Mezzacappa (03.10.21) PROGRAM MATERIALS Moving Forward:  Returning & Learning  ...
23Jun2021

Advancing Equitable and Adequate School Funding in PA

Wednesday, June 23, 2021
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Video Conference
Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia, Grantmakers of ... 3:15 PM to discuss the lawsuit challenging Pennsylvania’s school funding system. Pennsylvania’s school funding is heavily reliant on local property values, ...