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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 ... Students who don’t meet this crucial milestone are at greater risk of dropping out of high school, becoming ... leveraging all of our philanthropic, political, cultural and community based resources, we could bring these ...
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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 ... Chinatown Development Corporation Norris Square Community Alliance Esperanza Maternity Care Coalition Ceiba Coalition ... might share in the city’s prosperous future. It serves as the Community Action Agency (CAA) for the City of ...

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 ... Rebuilding Together Philadelphia and Habitat for Humanity, as well as minority- and women-owned contractors identified ... everyone to live a healthy life.”   This partnership in Greater Philadelphia with Children’s Hospital of ...

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 ... year of the partnership. The program will be maintained as part of the District’s early literacy efforts in all ... Haas, is dedicated to improving the quality of life in the Greater Philadelphia region through efforts that increase ...
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William Penn Foundation Awards Additional $2.6M to Support COVID-19 Relief, Recovery Efforts in Philadelphia

Tuesday, June 30, 2020
Press Release PHILADELPHIA (June 30, 2020)  – William Penn Foundation ... home visiting supports noted above. Philadelphia Parks Alliance  to provide Philadelphia Parks & Recreation summer ... Haas, is dedicated to improving the quality of life in the Greater Philadelphia region through efforts that increase ...

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 ... $248,281 grant to PolicyLab at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) to help fund local implementation of ...

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 ... on families’ basic needs and children’s education as Philadelphians continue to be impacted by the Covid-19 ... development. “Through this process, we sought to place greater emphasis on organizations that reflect and engage the ...

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

Wednesday, April 24, 2019
PHILADELPHIA—(April 24, 2019)— The Fund for the School ... of Philadelphia developed this smart new grant program as a way to help schools build on the progress they have ... Haas, is dedicated to improving the quality of life in the Greater Philadelphia region through efforts that increase ...
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19Apr2021

Education Funders Meeting

Monday, April 19, 2021
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Video Conference
... be joined by Uri Monson , CFO for the School District of Philadelphia, to provide a high-level overview of how the ... Act funding will be allocated. Donna Frisby-Greenwood, President & CEO, The Fund for the School District of ... and how we can design the Education Funders group to be as helpful as possible for all of you. This session is open ...

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
... Executive Director, Foundations Community Partnership CEO Tobi Bruhn, Along the Way’s Chief Operating Officer Shania Kelly, President & CEO Kristina Valdez, and Grant Writer Michael Vanelli, as well as Mandy Mundy, Bucks County Foundation’s Executive ...

Successful ‘Read To Succeed’ Summer Program Goes Virtual

Read to Succeed
Monday, June 22, 2020
... with a track record of boosting reading skills among Philadelphia schoolchildren, is going virtual this year. ... of promoting literacy and preventing the phenomenon known as “summer slide” have been expanded to include ... had stayed in classrooms,” said Donna Frisby-Greenwood, President and CEO of The Fund for the School District of ...
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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
Over the course of his first 100 days, School District of Philadelphia Superintendent Dr. Tony Watlington, Sr. will ... your hopes, and your desires for the School District of Philadelphia.   Please join Dr.

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

Salem Halth & Wellness Foundation
Thursday, August 17, 2023
... New Jersey Perinatal Cooperative a $25,000 planning grant as part of its Salem Smart Start for Parents and Children ... on this critical initiative,” said Helen Hannigan, President & CEO of the Southern New Jersey Perinatal Cooperative. “So ...

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 ... The demand for such programs has increased in recent years as home visiting services have become a critical component of ...

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

Thursday, September 6, 2018
... detailed analysis of existing local supply and demand. As access to pre-K becomes more common, childcare could be ... to bolster working families.  Ira Goldstein, the fund’s president of policy solutions, describes the Reinvestment ... collaborations with the William Penn Foundation in Philadelphia, the Richard W. Goldman Family Foundation in ...
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Vanguard awards $1.63M to childhood learning effort

Friday, April 27, 2018
... a $1.63 million grant to Drexel University’s West Philadelphia Action for Early Learning initiative. The grant ... Community Stewardship efforts, along with Drexel President John Fry and Janet Hess, board chairwoman for the ... it is supported by Vanguard’s employees — or crew as they are referred to by the company. READ MORE . Vanguard ...
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New grocery store experiment hopes to inspire learning

"Talk it Up"
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
... some bananas at the Island Avenue Shoprite in Southwest Philadelphia while shopping with her grandchildren, Kalanni ... Via WITF | Written by Avi Wolfman-Arent/WHYY (Philadelphia) -- If you're grocery shopping in Philadelphia ... The task involves numbers and mathematical concepts such as estimation. And the sign itself is carefully constructed ...
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Op-Ed: Families Need Child Care Resources Now More than Ever

Child Care
Friday, October 16, 2020
... the existing crisis for quality and affordable child care as well. Parents have adjusted to functioning as full-time employees, providing for the daily needs of ... the most expensive county to live and work throughout the Philadelphia region. Families need to earn about $93,000 ...

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