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

Thursday, September 5, 2019
... of mothers and their young children. The project, "Community-Clinical Systems Integration: Leveraging Primary Care to Enhance Home Visiting and Other Early Childhood Supports," ... than $5 million made by Vanguard and its employees to support innovative efforts at CHOP through its Vanguard ...

Philanthropy represented on new Philadelphia City Council Special Committee on Poverty Reduction and Prevention

Philadelphia City Council
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
... deduction in Philadelphia’s official poverty rate, the city continues to see the highest rate of concentrated poverty of any major U.S. city. Earlier this year, Council issued Narrowing the Gap, a ...

First Round of Neighborhood Equitable Recovery Fund Grant Recipients Announced

Thursday, September 23, 2021
PHL CEO.jpg   PHILADELPHIA - The City of Philadelphia’s Office of Community Empowerment and ... Fund, a partnership with Bread & Roses Community Fund to support grassroots nonprofit organizations that serve ... Action Agency (CAA) for the City of Philadelphia, CEO awards Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) funds to more ...
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Chester County Funders Community of Practice: Blueprint Report on the Status of Women and Girls in Chester County

Wednesday, February 15, 2023
8:30am - 10:30am
Video Conference
Join the next Chester County Funders Community of Practice for a conversation with Kimberly ... in Chester County. The report provides critical data to identify areas of progress for women and girls and ... for Sex Education   Family Care Act   Subscribe to the Women and Girls Fund’s eNewsletter   Recording   ...

Union Benevolent Association’s unrestricted response bolsters Philadelphia nonprofits amidst COVID-19

Thursday, March 4, 2021
... available resources, and the ability for its residents to cover basic needs such as food, housing, and utilities. As ... annual grant--typically one (1) $20,000 award, to four (4) community-based nonprofit organizations addressing the ... to Latinos, who have the highest rate of poverty in the city, and now their growing immigrant population, that have ...

How a Small Craft Navigates Shifting Tides

Tuesday, September 19, 2017
... confusion, anxiety, fear. With services and supports to our community’s most vulnerable residents repeatedly at risk ... critical expenditures—at both the individual/family and city/state/federal levels. Improving health and decreasing ...

Impact100 Philadelphia announces 2021 grant finalists

Impact100 Philadelphia
Tuesday, May 11, 2021
... announced the eight organizations selected as Finalists to receive a total of $420,000 in funding in 2021. Core ... programming, and food and housing assistance. Community Awards Each of the following organizations will receive an ... and reduce trauma-related reactive violence in the City of Chester, PA. Its vision is to provide compassionate ...

First Hospital Foundation is Now Philadelphia Health Partnership

Thursday, February 1, 2018
... million in more than 160 nonprofit organizations that work to address the health needs of the most vulnerable and ... professional boundaries and between practitioners and community members.” PHP’s emphasis on partnership ... who has had a long career working in government at the city, state, and federal levels and in the nonprofit sector. ...

Bloomberg-Funded Efforts to Stem Pennsylvania Opioid Crisis Announced

Friday, July 12, 2019
... public health systems, has announced the first projects to be funded by  Bloomberg Philanthropies  as part of a $10 ... to bring together law enforcement, state agencies, community leaders, hospitals, prisons, and harm-reduction organizations in such a coordinated way. The overdose crisis ...
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Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia and Philly Counts announce first-round of the COVID-19 Prevention & Response Fund grant recipients

Friday, May 21, 2021
Contact: For the City of Philadelphia: Imani Stewart-Jackson ... of grants from the COVID-19 Prevention & Response Fund , a community-led effort to invest in neighborhood-based solutions to urgent needs ...

Pew Appoints Donna Frisby-Greenwood as Vice President for Philadelphia Programs

Donna Frisby-Greenwood
Wednesday, August 31, 2022
... will lead the organization’s work across the region to advance critical public policy solutions, support local ... life. A recognized leader with extensive experience in the city, Frisby-Greenwood joins Pew after serving as president ... and for its contributions to the arts and culture community,” said Frisby-Greenwood. “I welcome this ...

Brandywine Health Foundation’s Youth Philanthropy Program Issues RFP

Monday, February 12, 2018
... they are requesting proposals from organizations dedicated to providing mental health and/or substance use programs that ... and determined a significant area of need in their community.  The CAYPP members have met regularly during the ... in the Coatesville Area School District: the City of Coatesville, the Townships of Caln, East Fallowfield, ...

Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia and Philly Counts announce second-round COVID-19 Prevention & Response Fund grant recipients

COVID-19 Prevention & Response Fund
Friday, July 16, 2021
... Fund's second round grant recipients PHILADELPHIA — The City of Philadelphia’s Philly Counts office and ... Fund awarded its second round of grants totaling $668,885 to 84 individuals and nonprofit organizations working to ... can be found here .  “We perform weekly in the community with signs that say ‘Get Vaxxed’ and a scratch ...

Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia and Philly Counts announce third-round COVID-19 Prevention & Response Fund grant recipients

COVID-19 PR Fund Round 3 Grant Recipents
Thursday, November 4, 2021
PHILADELPHIA — The City of Philadelphia’s Philly Counts office and ... of grants from the COVID-19 Prevention & Response Fund , a community-led effort to invest in neighborhood-based solutions to urgent needs ...

FCP Selects Tobias Bruhn as New Executive Director

Tobias Bruhn
Thursday, January 9, 2020
BCCC Executive Brings Strategic Leadership to Foundations Community Partnership Bruhn.jpg Doylestown, PA (November 12, ... and technical assistance to non-profit organizations, awards scholarships to Bucks County high school seniors, ...
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IBX’s Share Your Opioid Story is collecting the tales of Pennsylvanians impacted by addiction

Independence Blue Cross Foundation
Friday, November 30, 2018
By  Grace Shallow  / CONTRIBUTOR At community meetings about the opioid epidemic, Evan ... often hears grievances like “People are going to relapse again” or “They’re never going to amount to ... is funded by the Independence Blue Cross Foundation with support from the state’s Department of Drug and Alcohol ...
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Independence Foundation Announces CEO’s Retirement

Susan Sherman
Thursday, July 11, 2024
... and more than three decades of distinguished service to the Foundation. The Independence Foundation’s Board has ... who, while addressing issues related to the health of our city, never lost sight of the arts’ important role in ... noteworthy in health care, the arts and in the legal community promoting justice and equality. Under her ...
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Brandywine Health and Housing Center Celebrates 10th Anniversary

Friday, May 4, 2018
... the Foundation's current CEO Vanessa Briggs at the podium to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Brandywine Health ... to our donors, our volunteers, our grantees, and our community partners,” said Vanessa Briggs, President and CEO ... 2008, was the first major construction project in the City of Coatesville in more than four decades and the first ...

Dwayne Wharton selected for new national leadership program to build health equity

Dwayne Wharton
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
... Foundation  Philadelphia, PA — Leaders from Honolulu to Providence, R.I. — working across a range of fields, including social policy, community development, public health and government — have ... for Health Equity and CommonHealth ACTION with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Wharton will ...

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