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Rebuild: Strengthening Neighborhoods Across Philadelphia

Thursday, March 21, 2019
... a philanthropic investment and engagement framework for Rebuild, the city’s joint public-private partnership to revitalize parks, recreation centers, playgrounds, and libraries across ... for major improvements to the Cecil B. Moore Recreation Center in North Philadelphia and the Heitzman Recreation ...

PAHWF Awards Over $1 Million in Fall Grant Round

Thursday, December 19, 2019
... Spray Park Spare Pumps East Coventry Township Parks and Recreation—Tow Path Park Master Plan/Feasibility Study ... 2 Developmental Enterprises Corporation/Pottstown Training Center—Healthy Eating, Healthy Living Family Services of Montgomery County—Strengthening Pottstown's Families Project Family Services of Montgomery County—Project HEARTH ...

Knight Foundation invests $2.2 million in projects to advance Philadelphia’s public spaces and digital engagement

Photo courtesy Smith Memorial Playground
Friday, April 9, 2021
... S. and James L. Knight Foundation today announced a $2.2 million investment in nine Philadelphia projects. Knight Foundation’s new ... Philadelphia’s Bartrams Garden. Philadelphia Parks & Recreation – $250,000 To reimagine the City of ...

Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation awards over $1.4 million to community organizations

Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation
Friday, August 20, 2021
... to physical activity. East Coventry Township Parks and Recreation—Towpath Park Phase I Engineering North Coventry ... Program Boyertown Area Multi-Service—Ricketts Center Camp Rainbow—Life Skills Development Chester County ... Children's Discovery Center Comes to Life Project Purpose—General Operating Save Alliance ...

City Appoints New Executive Director of Rebuild

Kira Strong
Friday, January 3, 2020
... Kira Strong as the new Executive Director of the City’s Rebuild initiative. Strong has served in that role in an ... leading over $126 million of new investment in 61 parks, recreation centers, and libraries in the last year. ... and Economic Development for the People’s Emergency Center before joining Rebuild in 2016. Prior to that, she ...

William Penn Foundation awards $2.6M to support River Alive! Project

Tuesday, December 5, 2017
... 5, 2017)  –  Independence Seaport Museum  has been awarded a $2.6 million grant from the William Penn Foundation ... Penn Foundation for their support and belief in this project.” The River Alive! exhibition will position the ... facilities, the River provides drinking water, food, and recreation to millions of people living across 13,500 square ...
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Unprecedented program aims to ‘Rebuild’ Philadelphia, serve as national community investment model

Monday, October 2, 2017
... by  Louis Bolling , Contributor Yesterday the  National Recreation and Park Association  (NRPA) concluded its  ... Director , presented the City of Philadelphia’s Rebuild Community Infrastructure ( Rebuild ) initiative — ... attention in recent years because of the renaissance of Center City, which was partly driven by a major investment in ...

$10.6 Million Boost Will Close Key Gaps In Regional Circuit Trails Network

Friday, June 1, 2018
... gaps in the system. The trails provide opportunity for recreation, exercise, and travel, as well as valuable access ... of rivers and streams. “With more than half of the total project left to complete, we have established an interim goal ... total $10.6 million, $6.6 million in capital funding was awarded to the  Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission ...
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Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation awards over $1M in fall 2017 grant round

Wednesday, December 6, 2017
... Pine Forge Academy - Four-H (Health, Hands, Head & Heart) Project PRIORITY #1B: Improving parks, programming and the ... Colebrookdale Railroad Preservation Trust- Community Recreation Center in Memorial Park PRIORITY #1C: Creating and promoting ...

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  received a $1 million grant from Bank of America to launch the Block Builds ... and safe housing and neighborhoods. Building upon CHOP’s 5-year, $25 million  Healthier Together  initiative, the ...

William Penn Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Announce more than $8 million in Covid-19 Relief and Recovery Grants

Philadelphia Orchestra by Jeff Fusco
Wednesday, December 2, 2020
... The Philadelphia Orchestra performs on stage at the Mann Center for the Performing Arts. Photo credit: Jeff Fusco ... William Penn Foundation grantee organizations have been awarded unrestricted operating support grants to continue to ...

Impact100 Philadelphia awards five grants totaling $284,750

Wednesday, June 5, 2024
... collective giving of 302 women members, funds are being awarded to five nonprofit organizations. In addition, $4,000 has been provided as honorariums to eight nonprofit ... through events and programming. Norris Square Neighborhood Project Grant Amount: $28,250 Focus Area: Environment Norris ...

The Foundation for Delaware County awards over $1M to local nonprofits, launches COVID-19 Response Fund

Wednesday, April 1, 2020
In its second major round of grantmaking, The Foundation for Delaware County awarded $1,055,488 in grant awards to 52 area nonprofits. Grants were awarded in the areas of economic stability, health and ...

City Launches Fund to Support Philadelphia Organizations Pursuing Thriving Communities Grantmaking Program

Wednesday, March 12, 2025
... – Today, the City’s Office of Sustainability (OOS), in partnership with the Philadelphia City Fund, is launching ... application process, EPA selected and contracted $600 million to 11 regional Grantmakers nationwide to serve as ... technical assistance and program supports to aid in their project implementation.   The Baltimore-based Green & ...
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Fix to solar credit will boost state’s economy

Thursday, January 11, 2018
... Director Jeffery Perkins wrote an op-ed published in the Philadelphia Business Journal supporting the ... utilities to satisfy clean energy requirements out of state. Closing this loophole would mean boosting the ... adding solar jobs and positioning Pennsylvania well in this growing sector. Read the op-ed  here. Fix to solar ...
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Mayor Kenney Cuts Ribbon at Hancock Playground

Tuesday, November 17, 2020
Press Release   Rebuild Hancock Playground.png PHILADELPHIA - Mayor Kenney ... celebrated the completion of a $1.1 million renovation project at Hancock Playground. The Hancock Playground project ... hundreds of millions of dollars in neighborhood parks, recreation centers, and libraries. “Rebuild is an ...

William Penn Foundation, Philly’s biggest foundation focused solely on the city, is changing what it funds

Thursday, June 27, 2024
... largest foundation devoted solely to giving in the region. The William Penn Foundation is instituting a ... the kinds of projects and organizations it is interested in funding, to how groups may apply for money. Some of these ...

William Penn Foundation announces new grants

Monday, December 16, 2019
... families. ($683,208 over 36 months) People’s Emergency Center to pilot an evidence-based home visiting program ... park maintenance, in partnership with Philadelphia Parks & Recreation (PPR). The grant will support UCD's social ... Delaware River in Lambertville, Trenton and Bordentown, N.J., through programs designed to build stewardship for the ...

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