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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 of its Bucks Pathway Project, a comprehensive ... development, childcare, and family support program for single mother households. The grant is the result of a ...

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

Wednesday, January 19, 2022
Press release via the CIty of Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA - The Office of Community ... that 17 local organizations will receive a total of $192,000 in City funding to conduct grassroots outreach to maximize ...

The Starting Line: Behind a Push by Foundations to Expand Access to Childcare in Their Cities

Thursday, September 6, 2018
... Reilly The Reinvestment Fund is coordinating efforts in several cities to expand access to high quality childcare ... and the Henry and Marilyn Taub foundations in Paterson City and Passaic County, New Jersey. The starting point for ... Fund for Quality has led to the creation of more than 2,000 new seats in high-quality childcare facilities. The goal ...
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Philadelphia Health Partnership Designates Funds to Support the Launch of Two New Early Childhood Programs

Thursday, September 8, 2022
... 8, 2022) – Philadelphia Health Partnership (PHP) announces its support of two new programs focused on the ... The pilot will serve a patient population of almost 3,000 children from birth to age three of which approximately ... proud of our many contributions to the residents of the city.”   In addition to support for PolicyLab at CHOP and ...

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

Wednesday, April 24, 2019
... Fund for the School District of Philadelphia has awarded grants to 10 district elementary schools to enhance literacy instruction for students in Kindergarten through third grades. These “Good to Great” grants, ranging in size from $20,000 to nearly $75,000, are funded by the William Penn ...
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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
... Hospital of Philadelphia’s  (CHOP)  Center for Health Equity  received a $1 million grant from Bank of ... Builds Program and improve children’s overall health in West Philadelphia. In Philadelphia residential segregation ... example, in West and Southwest Philadelphia more than one-third of children live below the poverty line. Bank of ...
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 Western PA, and Northeastern Pennsylvania Grantmakers ... reliant on local property values, which has resulted in deep inequality and inequity that disproportionately ... deep inequality in PA public schools. The suit is asking for a court order that will force the legislature to comply ...

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

Tuesday, June 30, 2020
... William Penn Foundation (WPF) today announced $2.6 million in additional support for efforts that address the impacts on ... rates have been the highest. Focusing on areas of the city that experienced particularly high numbers of COVID-19 ... summer employment experiences. This year, more than 18,000 youth have applied to the program, which is quickly ...

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

Elliot Weinbaum
Monday, June 3, 2019
... District’s 150 elementary schools and an estimated 40,000 kindergarten to third-grade students.  The partnership ... in the United States, there is just one book for every 300 children, compared to middle-income families who, on ... throughout Philadelphia schools and be part of this city’s concerted efforts to increase early ...
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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
... 2021) – The William Penn Foundation today announced 90 grants totaling more than $8 million to support nonprofit ... of organizations providing access to healthy food, support for families to stay in their homes, and enhanced K-12 learning opportunities. ...

Vanguard awards $1.63M to childhood learning effort

Friday, April 27, 2018
... with children and families at the Drexel Dornsife Center for Neighborhood Partnerships. The program is funded by ... help to improve the quality of early childhood education in the West Philadelphia Promise Zone, according to a press ... William Penn Foundation also presented a three-year $987,000 grant to the Action for Early Learning initiative. Carra ...
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Salem Health & Wellness Foundation awards $25K to Southern NJ Perinatal Cooperative

Salem Halth & Wellness Foundation
Thursday, August 17, 2023
... awarded Southern New Jersey Perinatal Cooperative a $25,000 planning grant as part of its Salem Smart Start for ... health and wellbeing outcomes for children and families in New Jersey. Recent Kids Count data highlights the ... Executive Director.

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

Child Care
Friday, October 16, 2020
Families in Chester County are working harder than ever. COVID-19 has ... the Philadelphia region. Families need to earn about $93,000 annually just to meet their basic needs. "We find that ... taking care of their children. An additional $5 million in grants will fund the child care organizations that need to ...

National Movement for Children’s Literacy Converges on Philadelphia

Thursday, July 19, 2018
... Branan Jacobs, 941-893-1818   Grade-Level Reading Week in Philadelphia to focus on community solutions to help ... will arrive in Philadelphia beginning Tuesday, July 24 for Grade-Level Reading Week (GLR Week in Philadelphia), the ... is not only a great host community, but throughout the city many people and organizations are active in advancing ...
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Vanguard Supports First-of-Its-Kind Project Integrating Home Visiting Nurses into Pediatric Primary Care Setting

Thursday, September 5, 2019
... 4, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) launched a new pilot program today ... by a generous grant from the Vanguard Strong Start for Kids Program ™. This project is just one of several ... boosting school readiness for children near its operations in Philadelphia, Phoenix and Charlotte. Children’s ...

William Penn Foundation previews revised programs and grantmaking approach

William Penn Foundation new funding areas
Thursday, May 16, 2024
... grantmaking areas and practices, which had been in place for a decade. Our work since then helped us to understand how ... our grantmaking should evolve to meet the changing needs of communities across the region. After a comprehensive ...

Successful ‘Read To Succeed’ Summer Program Goes Virtual

Read to Succeed
Monday, June 22, 2020
... will begin on July 6, and the registration deadline for the four-week program has been extended to June 25. ... State Senator Vincent Hughes created Read to Succeed in 2012 to engage students who are entering kindergarten through third grade in literacy over the summer months. The program's ...
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New grocery store experiment hopes to inspire learning

"Talk it Up"
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
... Ellis weighs some bananas at the Island Avenue Shoprite in Southwest Philadelphia while shopping with her ... is that parents will see household tasks as opportunities for learning instead of chores to endure. Based on  research ... much money. The William Penn Foundation is spending $190,000 over two years to seed the project -- much of that going ...
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19Apr2021

Education Funders Meeting

Monday, April 19, 2021
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Video Conference
Please join us on Monday, April 19th for an Education Funders meeting. We will be joined by Uri Monson , CFO for the School District of Philadelphia, to provide a high-level overview of how the ... is open to Philanthropy Network members. RELATED READING In $5.2B budget proposal, mayor touts funding for education ...

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