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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 Cooperative a $25,000 planning grant as part of its Salem Smart Start for Parents and Children initiative, ...

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 ... through a two-year $100,000 grant to the Bread & Roses Community Fund to develop and implement the Early Childhood ... Board Chair of Philadelphia Health Partnership.“The Foundation has been focused on improving equity in health in ...

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 ... for efforts that address the impacts on Philadelphians of COVID-19 and the economic shutdown. In its fifth special ... 5 years will receive twice weekly Zoom “visits” from a community-based early learning expert, as well as ...

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

Thursday, September 6, 2018
... access to high quality childcare using detailed analysis of existing local supply and demand. As access to pre-K ... the work includes collaborations with the William Penn Foundation in Philadelphia, the Richard W. Goldman Family ... 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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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 ... our grantmaking should evolve to meet the changing needs of communities across the region. After a comprehensive ... we will learn directly from you – the nonprofit leaders, community members, and organizations, large and small – who ...

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 ... the  Family Recovery Fund , a one-year, $10 million initiative supporting both direct grantmaking and matching ... the William Penn Foundation awarded grants to dozens of organizations providing access to healthy food, support ...

National Movement for Children’s Literacy Converges on Philadelphia

Thursday, July 19, 2018
...   Grade-Level Reading Week in Philadelphia to focus on community solutions to help children succeed in school and ... PHILADELPHIA (July 19, 2018) – More than 700 educators, foundation executives and national leaders in early childhood ... in the effort to share successful practices in a series of presentations, discussions and panels. Representatives ...
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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 ... which will extend the hospital’s evidence-based  Community Asthma Prevention Program Plus (CAPP+)  to make ... hospital alliances throughout Pennsylvania and New Jersey, as well as a  new inpatient hospital  with a ...

Vanguard awards $1.63M to childhood learning effort

Friday, April 27, 2018
... @MercBiz  on Twitter Pictured: Carra Cote-Ackah, director of Vanguard’s Community Stewardship efforts, speaks with children and ... In addition to Vanguard’s grant, the William Penn Foundation also presented a three-year $987,000 grant to the ...
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Ten Philly Elementary Schools Awarded $500K in “Good To Great” Grants to Strengthen Early Literacy Programs

Wednesday, April 24, 2019
... 24, 2019)— The Fund for the School District of Philadelphia has awarded grants to 10 district elementary ... $20,000 to nearly $75,000, are funded by the William Penn Foundation. The grants totaled $535,826. The Good to Great ... - private foundations, corporations and businesses, community organizations and individual donors – with school ...
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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
... – Local grant makers BLBB Charitable , Bucks County Foundation (BCF) , and Foundations Community Partnership (FCP) recently announced the award of a $75,000 grant to Souderton-based Along the Way in ...

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

Elliot Weinbaum
Monday, June 3, 2019
Press Release [June 3, 2019] The School District of Philadelphia and Book Trust, a national organization ... and early reading in schools, along with the William Penn Foundation , today announced a four-year partnership that ... & CEO. About The School District of Philadelphia A community of great learners, caring families, committed ...
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New grocery store experiment hopes to inspire learning

"Talk it Up"
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
... Though his wide smile and trendy haircut impart a sense of whimsy, A.J. has a serious task. He wants to transform your daily supermarket trip into a learning ... initiative doesn't require much money. The William Penn Foundation is spending $190,000 over two years to seed the ...
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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 ... of mothers and their young children. The project, "Community-Clinical Systems Integration: Leveraging Primary ... of mothers and their young children. The project, “Community-Clinical Systems Integration: Leveraging Primary ...

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 Empowerment and Opportunity (CEO) and Thomas Scattergood Behavioral Health Foundation (Scattergood) announced today that 17 local ...

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

Child Care
Friday, October 16, 2020
... as full-time employees, providing for the daily needs of their children, and helping with virtual school at home. ... goes to child care. Elected officials, non-profits, and community partners need to ensure that this fact remains at ... are part of a total $28 million Chester County Government initiative that is also supporting our public schools and ...
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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 ... and inequity that disproportionately affect students of color. Black and Latino students are concentrated in the least wealthy districts, with 50 percent of Black students and 40 percent of Latino students attending ...

Successful ‘Read To Succeed’ Summer Program Goes Virtual

Read to Succeed
Monday, June 22, 2020
... Summer Program (R2S), a free program with a track record of boosting reading skills among Philadelphia schoolchildren, ... Philadelphia nonprofit funded in part by the William Penn Foundation, Waterman II Fund of The Philadelphia Foundation, Tobias Harris and individual donations.   ABOUT ...
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