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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
Doylestown, PA (July 15, 2024) – Local grant makers BLBB Charitable , Bucks County Foundation (BCF) ... (FCP) recently announced the award of a $75,000 grant to Souderton-based Along the Way in support of its ... to accept more client referrals and increase its employer network. "As an organization committed to accelerating equity ...

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

Wednesday, April 24, 2019
... School District of Philadelphia developed this smart new grant program as a way to help schools build on the progress ... Superintendent of The School District of Philadelphia. The grant term runs from April 2019 to August 2020. About The ...
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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
... Center for Health Equity  received a $1 million grant from Bank of America to launch the Block Builds Program ... pediatric care close to home through its  CHOP Care Network , which includes more than 50 primary care practices, ... of Philadelphia’s Center for Health Equity Receives $1M Grant from Bank of America ...

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

Thursday, September 8, 2022
... parents and caregivers. PHP awarded a three-year $248,281 grant to PolicyLab at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia ... of HealthySteps , a program of ZERO TO THREE . PHP’s grant will support a HealthySteps pilot in West Philadelphia ... Care location in Cobbs Creek , which will join a national network of HealthySteps sites working to transform pediatric ...

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

Tuesday, June 30, 2020
... to be a barrier for some families. HFP will work with the network of Philadelphia home visiting programs to supply 750 ... awarded to: Philly Summer Jobs Fund (Philadelphia Youth Network)  to expand and adapt the annual WorkReady ... in the Philadelphia region. In 2020, the Foundation will grant more than $117 million to support vital efforts in the ...

National Movement for Children’s Literacy Converges on Philadelphia

Thursday, July 19, 2018
... Campaign for Grade-Level Reading is convening the weeklong event for funders, national and state leaders, partners in ... grade-level reading movement. A major local sponsor of the event includes the William Penn Foundation, and the citywide ... teacher. She also served as Superintendent of Schools in Delaware County, Pa. “We recognized that by collectively ...
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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 ... with a possibility of a much larger implementation grant within six months. The goal of the initiative is to ...

William Penn Foundation previews revised programs and grantmaking approach

William Penn Foundation new funding areas
Thursday, May 16, 2024
... Board of Directors has set the new direction for our grant programs and the way we’ll operate in the years ... areas and a new approach that’s designed to make the grant application process simpler and more transparent. ...

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

Wednesday, January 19, 2022
... Organization Why Not Prosper Supportive Older Women’s Network (SOWN) IHM Center for Literacy Families Forward ... As a CAA, CEO awards Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) funds to more than 20 programs that serve an ...

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
... are grateful for their guidance, which helped us allocate grant funds more quickly.” Later this year, the Family ... in the Philadelphia region. In 2021, the Foundation will grant more than $117 million to support vital efforts in the ...

Successful ‘Read To Succeed’ Summer Program Goes Virtual

Read to Succeed
Monday, June 22, 2020

Administered by The Fund for School District of Philadelphia, the program's goals of promoting literacy and preventing the phenomenon known as “summer slide” have been expanded to include countering the "COVID slide," this year's loss of school instruction time to the pandemic.

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Vanguard awards $1.63M to childhood learning effort

Friday, April 27, 2018
... Start for Kids Program recently presented a $1.63 million grant to Drexel University’s West Philadelphia Action for Early Learning initiative. The grant will help to improve the quality of early childhood ... according to a press release. In addition to Vanguard’s grant, the William Penn Foundation also presented 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
... primary care setting and is made possible by a generous grant from the Vanguard Strong Start for Kids Program ™. ... primary care setting and is made possible by a generous grant from the Vanguard Strong Start for Kids Program™. The ...
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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 ... who are supporting this effort. Thank you to Philanthropy Network's Education and Small Funders communities of practice ...