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Vanguard awards $1.63M to childhood learning effort

Friday, April 27, 2018
... Strong Start for Kids Program recently presented a $1.63 million grant to Drexel University’s West Philadelphia Action for Early ... help to improve the quality of early childhood education in the West Philadelphia Promise Zone, according to a press ...
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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
... Foundation today announced 90 grants totaling more than $8 million to support nonprofit organizations focused on families’ ... communities they serve,” Haas said. “We are pleased to award Family Recovery Fund grants to nearly 90 organizations, ...

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

Salem Halth & Wellness Foundation
Thursday, August 17, 2023
... grant within six months. The goal of the initiative is to improve the health, safety and well-being outcomes for ... health and wellbeing outcomes for children and families in New Jersey. Recent Kids Count data highlights the ...

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 Builds Program and improve children’s ... and safe housing and neighborhoods. Building upon CHOP’s 5-year, $25 million  Healthier Together  initiative, the ...

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 ... March, the Board of Directors approved a series of grants to immediately support multiple elements of recovery, ... 50 families with children ranging in age from 16 months to 5 years will receive twice weekly Zoom “visits” from a ...

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

Child Care
Friday, October 16, 2020
... are working harder than ever. COVID-19 has not only proven to be a public health crisis, but it has exposed the existing ... care, Chester County Government has made available $10 million in child care assistance for families who are forced ... work and taking care of their children. An additional $5 million in grants will fund the child care organizations ...

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 using detailed ... answers. Since then, the  foundation has put about $20 million into the Fund for Quality, which is housed and ...
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All K-3 students in School District of Philadelphia to receive free books every month

Elliot Weinbaum
Monday, June 3, 2019
... organization supporting book ownership and early reading in schools, along with the William Penn Foundation , today ... partnership that will expand Book Trust’s program to reach all of the District’s 150 elementary schools and ... students.  The partnership is made possible by a $1.3 million lead grant from the William Penn Foundation , along ...
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CEO, Scattergood Announce Local Organizations Funded to Conduct Grassroots Outreach for Child Tax Credit

Wednesday, January 19, 2022
... will receive a total of $192,000 in City funding to conduct grassroots outreach to maximize the number of ... Philadelphians move out of poverty, so we invested $1.5 million in American Rescue Plan funding towards outreach and ...

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

Thursday, September 8, 2022
... and caregivers. PHP awarded a three-year $248,281 grant to PolicyLab at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) ... TO THREE . PHP’s grant will support a HealthySteps pilot in West Philadelphia at the CHOP Primary Care location in ... mobilize change is central to PHP’s approach.”  The grants are part of PHP’s strategic initiative on early ...

William Penn Foundation previews revised programs and grantmaking approach

William Penn Foundation new funding areas
Thursday, May 16, 2024
... OUR REVISED GRANTMAKING APPROACH: CONNECTING MORE PEOPLE TO MORE OPPORTUNITIES Last fall, we shared our plans to ... grantmaking areas and practices, which had been in place for a decade. Our work since then helped us to ... leaders, community members, and organizations, large and small – who are the experts on what your neighborhoods, ...
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Advancing Equitable and Adequate School Funding in PA

Wednesday, June 23, 2021
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Video Conference
... Pennsylvania Grantmakers invite funders and practitioners to join us on Wednesday, June 23rd from 2:00 – 3:15 PM to ... reliant on local property values, which has resulted in deep inequality and inequity that disproportionately ... effort. Thank you to Philanthropy Network's Education and Small Funders communities of practice for helping us organize ...

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 children succeed in ... a relentless physician who spoke truth to power. Academy Award-nominated producer/director Roger Weisberg will host a ...
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Vanguard Supports First-of-Its-Kind Project Integrating Home Visiting Nurses into Pediatric Primary Care Setting

Thursday, September 5, 2019
... Systems Integration: Leveraging Primary Care to Enhance Home Visiting and Other Early Childhood Supports," ... is just one of several investments totaling more than $5 million made by Vanguard and its employees to support ...

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 ... a sense of whimsy, A.J. has a serious task. He wants to transform your daily supermarket trip into a learning ... across 10 grocery stores in Philadelphia, A.J. appears on small, laminated signs and prompts shoppers to play a quick ...
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