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Philadelphia Food Justice Initiative Announces New Grant Awards

Food Equity
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
... and the Reinvestment Fund have awarded more than $443,500 to fund several innovative initiatives to create more healthy food options. This is part of an effort to find and fund community-driven solutions to ...

The Alliance for Health Equity Kicks off Cohort Two of The Nonprofit Justice and Equity Institute

Nonprofit Justice and Equity Institute Cohort Two Funders
Wednesday, February 1, 2023
... nine local nonprofit institutions in their commitment to further transform their organizational culture.  These ... Victims Center of Chester County Kennett Library Oxford Arts Alliance Trellis for Tomorrow Valley Forge Park Alliance ... The final component of the learning sessions provides an opportunity for each nonprofit to draft a customized ...

The Alliance for Health Equity Kicks off the Nonprofit Justice and Equity Institute

Nonprofit Justice and Equity Institute Wordle
Wednesday, February 9, 2022
... Equity Institute , a series of learning sessions designed to support the nonprofit sector in its commitment to ... their understanding about systemic inequities and creating an accountable plan focused on helping them work to solve ... Youth Initiative, Maternal and Child Health Consortium, Open Hearth, Inc., Phoenixville Area Community Services, The ...

United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey and Comcast Launch Nonprofit Finance Accelerator to Strengthen Nonprofit Community

Nonprofit Finance Accelerator
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
... nonprofits. This inaugural program will provide up to 200 poverty-fighting nonprofits with access to financial ... due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Accelerator will have an intentional focus on supporting organizations led by, and ... needs, work to keep their teams together and programs open, and reimagine ways of operating to achieve their ...

Independence Public Media Foundation Announces $2 Million in Grants to Media Making Organizations

Independence Public Media Foundation
Thursday, June 3, 2021
... Thirteen grants totaling $2 million were awarded to a range of film, journalism, storytelling, and youth media ... People of Color, immigrant and LGBTQIA+ communities. Asian Arts  Initiative was awarded $75,000 to increase ... 11 for the Community   Media Fund and Digital Equity Fund open call. The foundation’s next round of grants will be ...
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Equity and Social Justice
19May2021

Setting the Table with Dana Kawaoka-Chen & Erik Stegman

Wednesday, May 19, 2021
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Webinar on Zoom
... CEO Marcus Walton grapple with racial constructs, work to unpack them and reimagine a system that centers and ...

New Community-Driven Grant Program Available for Community-Based Organizations

Friday, May 7, 2021
... 7, 2021 | The City today announced the launch of the N, a partnership between the Office of Community Empowerment and Opportunity (CEO) and Bread & Roses Community Fund to support grassroots neighborhood nonprofit organizations ... both rare for government and philanthropy, but critical to an equitable recovery.” Nonprofit organizations that are ...

Leeway Foundation announces $180,000 in Transformation Awards

Leeway Foundation 2023 Transformation Awardees
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
... Award provides unrestricted annual awards of $15,000 to women, trans*, and gender nonconforming artists and ... change in Greater Philadelphia. The 2023 cohort includes an array of artistic practices and social change intents. The ... Chelsey Luster of West Philadelphia, Visual Arts  Debra Powell-Wright of Clifton Heights, ...

Independence Public Media Foundation Announces 71 Grants Totaling $8.9 Million

IPMF grantee
Monday, August 15, 2022
... region. In total, the foundation awarded 71 grants to organizations and projects working in the areas of ... on what we’ve learned in our first three years as an organization, and hone our vision for media making that ... such as Al Bustan Seeds of Culture ($75,000), an Arab arts and language organization that is creating a multimedia ...

Independence Public Media Foundation Announces 75 Grants Totaling $4 Million

Independence Public Media Foundation
Wednesday, August 11, 2021
... Foundation (IPMF), announces grants totaling $4 million to community media-makers, journalism, film and digital equity projects with an emphasis on supporting projects led by underrepresented ... to 47 organizations through its Community Voices Fund open call. The foundation also awarded $1 million to 18 ...
22Sep2021

Setting the Table: Internal Equity Work

Wednesday, September 22, 2021
2:00pm - 3:30pm
Video Conference
NOTE: Philanthropy Network members who would like to sign-up for this event on/after September 21st, please ... marginalized communities. Marcus received a Bachelor of Arts in History and Political Science from Bowling Green ... mayoral campaign. He started his career on Capitol Hill as an urban policy aide to a U.S. Congressman and appropriator. ...

BIPOC Artists Receive More than $1 Million in Fellowships Through Philadelphia’s Cultural Treasures Program

Philadelphia’s Cultural Treasures 2024 Fellows
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Press release via the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage 2024 Fellows Cultural Treasures.png ... Eleven fellowships totaling $1,185,000 have been awarded to Black, Latino, Asian, and Indigenous Philadelphia artists. ... amounts awarded to artists whose contributions have made an impact on the region for 20 years or more. Additionally, ...
07Jun2022

Responding to Extremism -- New Thinking about Norms and Trust

Tuesday, June 7, 2022
1:00pm - 2:00pm
... and other philanthropy-serving organizations. A Conversation with Dr. David Frey, Founding Director of the ... extremism, hate fueled attacks, and global attention to the atrocities in Ukraine, Tigray and China, how should funders respond? Can philanthropy play a role in addressing ...
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28Sep2022

What if philanthropy celebrated Black Abundance?

Wednesday, September 28, 2022
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Video Conference
... groups have pointed out over decades, philanthropy, as an institution, is complicit in anti-Blackness. Seeing ... element of institutional philanthropic culture brought us to wonder: What would it look like if philanthropy celebrated ... efforts in a way that leads to freedom and joy for all? As funders, we can begin to remedy philanthropy’s unjust ...
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The Douty Foundation announces final, ‘Legacy’ grants totaling $2.2 million as its sunset plan is complete

The Douty Foundation
Tuesday, November 9, 2021
Related coverage: By sunsetting, the Douty Foundation makes a strong case for limited-life philanthropy via Generocity ... it can now spend out its remaining assets. In addition to its $2.1 million in multi-year grant obligations as a part ... approximately $1 million to The Bread & Roses Community Fund . The grants are the manifestation of the Douty ...
16Aug2021

Regional Roundtable: Community Violence

Monday, August 16, 2021
10:00am - 11:00am
Video Conference
... new Regional Roundtable series will provide funders with an opportunity to hear updates on pressing issues, and share what they’re ... Health Services Following the presentations, we’ll open the floor for participant questions and invite you to ...
09Sep2021

The Promise: A New Anti-Poverty Model for an Equitable Recovery

Thursday, September 9, 2021
3:00pm - 4:00pm
Virtual
... New Jersey teamed up with the City of Philadelphia to launch a first of its kind collaboration between ... business, private philanthropy, and anchor institutions in an ambitious effort to reduce the poverty rate in ... in strategies to reduce Philadelphia’s poverty rate and create opportunities for an equitable recovery from the dual ...

Patricia Kind Family Foundation announces Black-led Organization grant award winners

Patricia Kind Family Foundation
Wednesday, June 30, 2021
... in Philadelphia. The Foundation made a concerted effort to reach out and to encourage many smaller Black-led ... the past, to apply for one-year grants and participate in an expedited application cycle. After a robust review ...

Asian Americans United

Asian Americans United students
Wednesday, December 15, 2021
... & vaccine clinics Website: aaunited.org Click here to download a PDF of this profile. Based on an interview with Alix Webb, Executive Director Awareness ... struggle. It’s not something you can win a campaign or create a policy; it requires ongoing monitoring and ...

Comcast NBCUniversal Awards $500,000 Grant to Elevate 215 in Support of Philadelphia Education

Friday, December 22, 2023
News release Comcast today announced a $500,000 grant to Elevate215 to accelerate student learning ... people to the Internet, advance economic mobility, and open doors for the next generation of innovators, ...
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