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National Movement for Children’s Literacy Converges on Philadelphia

Thursday, July 19, 2018
... 941-893-1818   Grade-Level Reading Week in Philadelphia to focus on community solutions to help children succeed in ... Campaign for Grade-Level Reading is convening the weeklong event for funders, national and state leaders, partners in ... is more than a conference — it is a collaborative opportunity for people dedicated to this important issue to ...
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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
... (FCP) recently announced the award of a $75,000 grant to Souderton-based Along the Way in support of its Bucks ... (IMPACT Bucks), launched by this coalition of funders to support nonprofits that are committed to creating safe, ... communities by improving economic self-sufficiency and opportunity for socially and/or economically disadvantaged ...

William Penn Foundation previews revised programs and grantmaking approach

William Penn Foundation new funding areas
Thursday, May 16, 2024
... OUR REVISED GRANTMAKING APPROACH: CONNECTING MORE PEOPLE TO MORE OPPORTUNITIES Last fall, we shared our plans to review and update the Foundation’s grantmaking areas and ... for groups of people who have often been shut out of opportunity in the past because of disinvestment, ...

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

Wednesday, January 19, 2022
... PHILADELPHIA - The Office of Community Empowerment and Opportunity (CEO) and Thomas Scattergood Behavioral Health ... will receive a total of $192,000 in City funding to conduct grassroots outreach to maximize the number of Philadelphia households claiming ...

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

Elliot Weinbaum
Monday, June 3, 2019
... partnership that will expand Book Trust’s program to reach all of the District’s 150 elementary schools and an estimated 40,000 kindergarten to third-grade students.  The partnership is made possible ... and invested in their learning, they have the greatest opportunity to succeed. We look forward to this continued ...
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Successful ‘Read To Succeed’ Summer Program Goes Virtual

Read to Succeed
Monday, June 22, 2020
R2S.png PHILADEPHIA, PA — (June 22, 2020) — The Read to Succeed Summer Program (R2S), a free program with a track ... deadline for the four-week program has been extended to June 25. Pennsylvania State Senator Vincent Hughes created Read to Succeed in 2012 to engage students who are entering ...
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Philadelphia Health Partnership Designates Funds to Support the Launch of Two New Early Childhood Programs

Thursday, September 8, 2022
... and caregivers. PHP awarded a three-year $248,281 grant to PolicyLab at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) to help fund local implementation of HealthySteps , a program of ZERO TO THREE . PHP’s grant will support a HealthySteps pilot in ...
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Education Funders Meeting

Monday, April 19, 2021
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Video Conference
... Uri Monson , CFO for the School District of Philadelphia, to provide a high-level overview of how the American Rescue ... will facilitate the conversation. Please come ready to ask questions and engage. We will also take a few minutes ... plan by Dale Mezzacappa (03.10.21) PROGRAM MATERIALS Moving Forward:  Returning & Learning  with Care - ...

Vanguard Supports First-of-Its-Kind Project Integrating Home Visiting Nurses into Pediatric Primary Care Setting

Thursday, September 5, 2019
... Systems Integration: Leveraging Primary Care to Enhance Home Visiting and Other Early Childhood Supports," ... more than $5 million made by Vanguard and its employees to support innovative efforts at CHOP through its Vanguard ... room, increases parental awareness of quality child care options, and improves staff satisfaction and retention. ...

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
... today announced 90 grants totaling more than $8 million to support nonprofit organizations focused on families’ ... and children’s education as Philadelphians continue to be impacted by the Covid-19 pandemic. Through the  Family ... matching funds, the William Penn Foundation awarded grants to dozens of organizations providing access to healthy food, ...

William Penn Foundation Launches Informal Learning Initiative

Thursday, September 14, 2017
... of a two-year, $2 million community-based initiative to connect children and families in the city's low-income neighborhoods to informal literacy-rich learning opportunities. Through ... Initiative , eighteen nonprofit partners will join forces to design literacy-rich opportunities that enable parents, ...
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The Starting Line: Behind a Push by Foundations to Expand Access to Childcare in Their Cities

Thursday, September 6, 2018
... Fund is coordinating efforts in several cities to expand access to high quality childcare using detailed analysis of existing ... “All with an eye toward building up wealth and economic opportunity for people in places for whom that’s a ...
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Ten Philly Elementary Schools Awarded $500K in “Good To Great” Grants to Strengthen Early Literacy Programs

Wednesday, April 24, 2019
... for the School District of Philadelphia has awarded grants to 10 district elementary schools to enhance literacy instruction for students in Kindergarten ... partnership with others, the Foundation works to advance opportunity, ensure sustainability, and enable effective ...
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Salem Health & Wellness Foundation awards $25K to Southern NJ Perinatal Cooperative

Salem Halth & Wellness Foundation
Thursday, August 17, 2023
... grant within six months. The goal of the initiative is to improve the health, safety and well-being outcomes for ... several public and non-profit organizations who continue to bring a high level of commitment, passion, and competence ...

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

Tuesday, June 30, 2020
... March, the Board of Directors approved a series of grants to immediately support multiple elements of recovery, including efforts to support early learning, youth programs and employment, and ... The grants detailed below advance WPF’s commitment to supporting regional COVID-19 recovery in ways that are ...

Vanguard awards $1.63M to childhood learning effort

Friday, April 27, 2018
... 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 education in the West Philadelphia Promise Zone, according to a press release. In addition to Vanguard’s grant, the ...
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New grocery store experiment hopes to inspire learning

"Talk it Up"
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
... a sense of whimsy, A.J. has a serious task. He wants to transform your daily supermarket trip into a learning ... appears on small, laminated signs and prompts shoppers to play a quick game. One example: In the produce section of a Southwest Philadelphia ShopRite, A.J. asks kids to pick a nearby product, guess its weight, and then use 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
... Equity  received a $1 million grant from Bank of America to launch the Block Builds Program and improve children’s ... Community Asthma Prevention Program Plus (CAPP+)  to make over 100 homes in West Philadelphia healthier, ... tremendous funding for Block Builds will give us the opportunity to help more families achieve optimal health ...