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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 ... Grants were awarded in the areas of economic stability, health and healthcare, education and neighborhood and the ...

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

Wednesday, March 12, 2025
... Protection Agency (EPA), aims to make it easier for small, community-based organizations (CBOs) to access ... Program is an important step towards making federal funding and technical assistance more readily available for community-based organizations poised to expand ...
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Bucks County Foundation Grants Boost Area Nonprofits

Tuesday, November 26, 2024
... forty-one grant applications. The Foundation awarded funding to twelve selected nonprofits all providing a variety ... HELP Truck Exhibit: Connecting Kids to Community, planned for late 2025. This collaborative project will encourage ... including arts and culture, education, animal causes, health and human services, and the environment. Established ...
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Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation awards over $1.4 million to community organizations

Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation
Friday, August 20, 2021
POTTSTOWN, Aug. 20, 2021—The Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation awarded $1,451,405 to 33 ... projects intended to improve educational opportunities for students in public and private learning institutions. ... Wellness Foundation awards over $1.4 million to community organizations ...

Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation awards over $1M in fall 2017 grant round

Wednesday, December 6, 2017
Pottstown, PA – December 6, 2017 – The Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation has awarded $1,048,204 in grant ... following list identifies the 30 organizations receiving funding during the Foundation’s most recent grant round: ... of Chester County Inc.- Assistance in purchasing meals for needy, homebound individuals in Spring City Pottstown ...

William Penn Foundation previews revised programs and grantmaking approach

William Penn Foundation new funding areas
Thursday, May 16, 2024
Via William Penn Foundation WPF new funding areas_horiz.png   OUR REVISED GRANTMAKING APPROACH: ... grantmaking areas and practices, which had been in place for a decade. Our work since then helped us to understand how ... areas of focus, along with funding opportunities that are available. We’re incredibly energized by the work ahead and ...

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

Thursday, July 21, 2022
... Hospital of Philadelphia’s  (CHOP)  Center for Health Equity  received a $1 million grant from Bank of ... of America’s investment will provide critical start-up funding for CHOP’s Center for Health Equity and enable a ...

Unprecedented program aims to ‘Rebuild’ Philadelphia, serve as national community investment model

Monday, October 2, 2017
... Association  (NRPA) concluded its  annual conference  in New Orleans, bringing together more than 7,000 park and ... trails and public spaces,” McCaney said. “But for the city as a whole to thrive, these kinds of high ... improving a park helps improve the local economy and the health and wellbeing of local residents. We’ve seen this ...

William Penn Foundation Welcomes Stuart Clarke as New Program Director of Watershed Protection

Stuart A. Clarke
Wednesday, July 28, 2021
... million annual grant portfolio, which includes investments in research, data gathering, and advocacy focusing on ... leader, and shares the Foundation’s passion for creating the conditions for a thriving, healthy ... “We are faced with unprecedented challenges to the health and sustainability of our natural environment and the ...
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William Penn Foundation, Philly’s biggest foundation focused solely on the city, is changing what it funds

Thursday, June 27, 2024
By Peter Dobrin for the Philadelphia Inquirer Change is coming to ... a broad set of changes — from the kinds of projects and organizations it is interested in funding, to how groups may apply for money. Some of these ...

PAHWF Awards Over $1 Million in Fall Grant Round

Thursday, December 19, 2019
POTTSTOWN, Dec. 19, 2019—The Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation has awarded $1,126,826 to 37 ... FARM Royersford Outreach Inc.—General Operating Funds for Building and Program Save Our Land Save Our Towns ... and wellness of area residents, providing education, funding, and programs that motivate people to adopt healthy ...

Impact100 Philadelphia awards five grants totaling $284,750

Wednesday, June 5, 2024
... in-school, after school, and during the summer at no cost for over 1,100 Philadelphia County children and teens from ... need. There is a growing need with shrinking government funding and program support for these services.

Impact100 Philadelphia announces 2021 grant finalists

Impact100 Philadelphia
Tuesday, May 11, 2021
... selected as Finalists to receive a total of $420,000 in funding in 2021. Core Mission Grants Each of the following ... to foster empathy and to create an inclusive home for artists, audiences, and students. They provide theater ... Giveaways where free groceries, pet food and gun locks are available to neighbors. Impact100's 2021 grantees will be ...

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

Friday, June 1, 2018
... but are disconnected by key gaps where trails are planned for but not yet developed. The Foundation’s funding will accelerate the completion of the trails and ... more than half of current trail-goers use the trails for health and fitness, followed by recreational activities such ...
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William Penn Foundation announces new grants

Monday, December 16, 2019
... pilot and evaluate a music-based family engagement program for families of young toddlers in Philadelphia. The Lullaby ... broader Philadelphia community. ($198,941 over 12 months) Health Federation of Philadelphia to enhance the work of home ... of critical early childhood services and the need for funding to ensure access to high-quality pre-K (Pre-K for ...

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
... obstacles posed by the pandemic. In addition to the funding collaboration with the Mellon Foundation for Philadelphia arts organizations, William Penn's board of ...
25Jun2019

Southwest Philly 2019: Tour of the Neighborhood and What We Can Do Next

Tuesday, June 25, 2019
9:00am - 4:30pm
Bartram's Garden
Please join us for our third session in our series on Southwest ... the community. Topics will include economic development, health, environment, use of green space, diversity and ...
22Jan2020

One Year of Rebuild: Collaborating to Advance Opportunity, Engagement and Equity in Neighborhoods

Wednesday, January 22, 2020
9:00am - 11:00am
Free Library of Philadelphia
... we invite to join a conversation about how collaborative funding can advance individual funders’ priorities while ... much larger scale. Join us to hear from a panel of partner organizations that are working with Rebuild to realize the ... will include: Pati Codina , Community Development Director for Impact Services, a nonprofit managing Rebuild projects in ...

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

Tuesday, December 5, 2017
... and its watershed as a living, ever-changing system whose health and sustainability is vital to our lives.  “The ... has been years in the making and is a real game changer for the Seaport Museum,” said John Brady, President and CEO ... “What’s alive in the river?,” and “Why should we care about the river?,” and “How do we use the river ...
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William Penn Foundation announces grants for Creative Communities, Great Learning and Watershed

Thursday, June 6, 2019
... grants totalling $11.8 million to  arts and culture organizations in the region. This funding provides flexible working capital so that arts ... Great Learning William Penn Foundation announces grants for Creative Communities, Great Learning and Watershed ...

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