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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 succeed in school and life   PHILADELPHIA (July 19, 2018) – More than 700 educators, ... Smith. “We continue to stay the course we started eight years ago,” he added, “and while we salute and recognize ...
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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 ... on improving equity in health in Philadelphia for 25 years now, and we’re proud of our many contributions to the ...

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 ... Penn Foundation will help expand the Book Trust program in Philadelphia schools over the next four years.  In the coming year, Book Trust will be in 50 ...
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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 ... access to high-quality early learning opportunities for Philadelphia children. The need to support early childhood ... families with children ranging in age from 16 months to 5 years will receive twice weekly Zoom “visits” from a ...

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 ... Program and improve children’s overall health in West Philadelphia. In Philadelphia residential segregation and economic inequality ...

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 ... and playful learning opportunities are essential to Philadelphia’s recovery,” said Janet Haas, M.D., Board ... dedicated to improving the quality of life in the Greater Philadelphia region through efforts that increase educational ...

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 ... list of recipients can be found below. “For more than 40 years, Maternity Care Coalition has been advocating for and ...
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 ... to join us on Wednesday, June 23rd from 2:00 – 3:15 PM to discuss the lawsuit challenging Pennsylvania’s ... not meet the standard set by the state constitution. After years of procedural arguments, this historic lawsuit is on ...

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 William Penn Foundation is spending $190,000 over two years to seed the project -- much of that going toward design ...
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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. ... Statistics show that 65 percent of School District of Philadelphia third grade students are not reading at grade ... to success,” said Tobias Harris, star forward for the Philadelphia 76ers and one of the program’s more prominent ...
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The Starting Line: Behind a Push by Foundations to Expand Access to Childcare in Their Cities

Thursday, September 6, 2018
... moms, the contrast is especially stark. ... About five years ago, the Reinvestment Fund started collaborating with ... collaborations with the William Penn Foundation in Philadelphia, the Richard W. Goldman Family Foundation in ... was figure out how many childcare providers there are in Philadelphia, which sounds like people should know that ...
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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 District of Philadelphia has awarded grants to 10 district elementary ... to strengthen early literacy instruction for several years, and we could not be more grateful for 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
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 4, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) launched a new pilot program today aimed ... at CHOP's Cobbs Creek primary care site for three years. The model will employ home visiting nurses in primary ...

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 ... the quality of early childhood education in the West Philadelphia Promise Zone, according to a press release. In ... in early childhood education through Drexel’s West Philadelphia Action for Early Learning Initiative,” ...
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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 ... President & CEO, The Fund for the School District of Philadelphia will facilitate the conversation. Please come ... proposal, mayor touts funding for education as key to Philadelphia’s pandemic recovery by Johann Calhoun for ...

William Penn Foundation previews revised programs and grantmaking approach

William Penn Foundation new funding areas
Thursday, May 16, 2024
... for our grant programs and the way we’ll operate in the years ahead. As of this summer, our approach will be focused ... in the coming weeks and months. Together, we can build Philadelphia’s future. CONTINUE READING >> William Penn ...
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.

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