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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
... grant is the result of a new initiative, the Collaborative IMPACT Fund of Bucks County (IMPACT Bucks), launched by this ... in Pennsylvania, almost 6% of its total residents live at an income level below the Federal Poverty Level. Recently, ... provide resources and support to help clients move forward on their path to economic self-sufficiency. This grant will ...

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

Child Care
Friday, October 16, 2020
... Fund for Women and Girls’ most recent Blueprint Report, on average in Pennsylvania, 40% of a single mom’s annual ... to decide between work and taking care of their children. An additional $5 million in grants will fund the child care ... equity in the workplace. Now is the time to double down on our efforts by addressing the urgent need for child care ...

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s Center for Health Equity Receives $1M Grant from Bank of America

Thursday, July 21, 2022
... it serves. This includes local philanthropic support, an expanded partnership with CVS Health to deliver free flu ... through the power of every connection. We’re delivering on this through responsible growth with a focus on our ... products and services we offer our clients, and the impact we make around the world in helping local economies ...

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 ... reach all of the District’s 150 elementary schools and an estimated 40,000 kindergarten to third-grade students.  ... and is an investment in the District’s continued focus on early literacy.   Book Trust engages students to choose, ...
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Advancing Equitable and Adequate School Funding in PA

Wednesday, June 23, 2021
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Video Conference
... Grantmakers invite funders and practitioners to join us on Wednesday, June 23rd from 2:00 – 3:15 PM to discuss the ... system. Pennsylvania’s school funding is heavily reliant on local property values, which has resulted in deep ... During this session, the Education Law Center will provide an overview of education funding in Pennsylvania, the status ...

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 ... Vanguard Strong Start for Kids Program™, which focuses on boosting school readiness for children near its operations ... (NNCC) and other partners to design and implement an integrated staffing model that will aim to improve ...

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

Wednesday, January 19, 2022
... the other half. Parents and guardians that missed out on the advanced payments will have an opportunity to claim the full credit they are owed by ... Child Tax Credit payments have already had a positive impact on families, and ensuring that families receive the ...

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 ... Smith. “Our weeklong theme of Lift, Learn, and Lead is an expression of how committed all of our participants are in ... Casey Foundation as a partner in its flagship initiative, Making Connections. Making Connections is a decade-long ...
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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 ... The funded initiatives have a particular focus on grade-level proficiency by third grade. “This remarkable ... District of Philadelphia. The grant term runs from April 2019 to August 2020. About The Fund for the School District ...
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New grocery store experiment hopes to inspire learning

"Talk it Up"
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
... across 10 grocery stores in Philadelphia, A.J. appears on small, laminated signs and prompts shoppers to play a ... for learning instead of chores to endure. Based on  research  that suggests parent-child interactions boost ... It Up" want to test this concept on a larger scale. By 2019, the signs will hang in 30 Philadelphia grocery stores. ...
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The Starting Line: Behind a Push by Foundations to Expand Access to Childcare in Their Cities

Thursday, September 6, 2018
... childcare could be the next frontier for funders focused on early childhood learning and development, as well as those ... we make grants, we do research,” he said. “All with an eye toward building up wealth and economic opportunity for ... not just where they live, since many parents drop kids off on the way to jobs. It’s also important to capture the ...
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William Penn Foundation previews revised programs and grantmaking approach

William Penn Foundation new funding areas
Thursday, May 16, 2024
... ahead. As of this summer, our approach will be focused on one central idea: Let’s help make more lives better by ... and organizations, large and small – who are the experts on what your neighborhoods, constituents, and stakeholders ...

Successful ‘Read To Succeed’ Summer Program Goes Virtual

Read to Succeed
Monday, June 22, 2020
... is going virtual this year. Online sessions will begin on July 6, and the registration deadline for the four-week ... at grade level. Summertime reading loss accumulates an achievement gap of 18 months by the end of sixth grade. Read to Succeed has made a difference. In the 2019 program, 479 students were registered. Of the 222 ...
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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
... than $8 million to support nonprofit organizations focused on families’ basic needs and children’s education as ... their homes. For the allocation of these grants we relied on the expertise of peers and colleagues with experience in ... this process, we sought to place greater emphasis on organizations that reflect and engage the communities they ...

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

Salem Halth & Wellness Foundation
Thursday, August 17, 2023
... outcomes for young parents and their children through an improved and reconfigured use of existing and new ... young parents and their children across Salem County on this critical initiative,” said Helen Hannigan, ... the harm of clinical and social factors that negatively impact health and wellbeing.  These activities of the ...

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

Tuesday, June 30, 2020
... in additional support for efforts that address the impacts on Philadelphians of COVID-19 and the economic shutdown. In ... where mortality rates have been the highest. Focusing on areas of the city that experienced particularly high ... non-profits, for-profits, and the public sector to address an urgent need. These grants follow earlier contributions ...