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Independence Public Media Foundation Announces $2.6 Million in Media-Making and Digital Equity Grants to 33 Projects and Organizations

Wednesday, December 15, 2021
... communities. In this latest round, the foundation awarded $1.3 million in continued operating support to seven ... access and increase adoption. Media, Inequality and Change Center (MIC Center) was awarded a two-year $211,000 grant to ... support local filmmakers to start, continue, or finish a project they’ve been working so hard on to bring to ...

Comcast RISE Investment Fund to Provide Additional $1 Million In Grants To Support Philadelphia Small Businesses

Monday, May 16, 2022
... and women, bringing the total to $16 million in grants awarded as part of the Comcast RISE Investment Fund ... RISE, will help these businesses as they recover and rebuild to emerge from this crisis stronger than ever.” ...

The Fund for Women and Girls Awards $15,600 to Create Change

Girls with Cheyney University's Period Poverty Project
Wednesday, July 26, 2023
... (July 26, 2023) – The Fund for Women and Girls recently awarded $15,600 in grants to two local organizations – ... in Chester County. Cheyney University - Period Poverty Project ($7,500):  Cheyney University is partnering with the ... benefits in May. To date, The Fund has directed over $4.2 million to 95 non-profit organizations in Chester County ...
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Independence Public Media Foundation Announces 71 Grants Totaling $8.9 Million

IPMF grantee
Monday, August 15, 2022
... in the Philadelphia region. In total, the foundation awarded 71 grants to organizations and projects working in ... of color. In 2019 IPMF awarded Movement Alliance Project (MAP), Free Press, and the Media, Inequality & Change Center (MIC) each a three-year grant to organize journalists, ...

Comcast RISE Awards 100 Small Businesses in Philadelphia With $10,000 grants

Comcast RISE
Wednesday, July 27, 2022
... . This is in addition to $1 million in grants that were awarded to 100 small businesses located in Philadelphia or ... to help reach more clients.” “As we continue to rebuild from the effects of the pandemic, small businesses ...

Independence Public Media Foundation Announces 75 Grants Totaling $4 Million

Independence Public Media Foundation
Wednesday, August 11, 2021
... Public Media Foundation (IPMF), announces grants totaling $4 million to community media-makers, journalism, film and ... its Community Voices Fund open call. The foundation also awarded $1 million to 18 organizations through its Digital ...

The Alliance for Health Equity Launches the Equity Health Center to address Health Access in Greater Coatesville

Equity Health Network Providers
Thursday, April 6, 2023
... Plan Act (ARPA) funding. At the end of 2022, the county awarded $2.2 million to the Equity Health Center in Greater Coatesville. The Equity Health Center ... Tomoschuk, Coatesville Volunteers in Medicine; Michele Francis, and Kathy Gorman, Chester County Hospital. Not ...

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 ... 2024) — Eleven fellowships totaling $1,185,000 have been awarded to Black, Latino, Asian, and Indigenous Philadelphia ... Mendez, Michelle Angela Ortiz, Alex Shaw, Richard J. Watson, and the artist collective FORTUNE, comprised ...

New Community Grants by Philadelphia City Fund Announced

Philadelphia City Fund
Wednesday, July 26, 2023
... Fund (PCF) to support its Community Fund grants, which are awarded to Philadelphia organizations that further some of ... focus on new and innovative solutions that enhance life in Philadelphia—from new ideas that improve the way City ... clinics and education resources Breastfeeding Resource Center, $15,000 to provide free, ongoing clinical lactation ...

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

Independence Public Media Foundation
Thursday, June 3, 2021
... media making community. Thirteen grants totaling $2 million were awarded to a range of film, journalism, storytelling, and ... engagement with, their Digital Broadcast Studio, a project that aims to increase opportunities for media-making ...
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Advancing Equitable and Adequate School Funding in PA

Wednesday, June 23, 2021
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Video Conference
... reliant on local property values, which has resulted in deep inequality and inequity that disproportionately ... adequate funding in 2018-19, with a shortfall of at least $4.6 billion. The state’s inadequate and inequitable funding ... and districts across the Commonwealth. The Education Law Center-PA and Public Interest Law Center filed a lawsuit in ...

The Douty Foundation announces final, ‘Legacy’ grants totaling $2.2 million as its sunset plan is complete

The Douty Foundation
Tuesday, November 9, 2021
... supporting grassroots organizations and movements in making social change, announced that its sunset plan has ... spend out its remaining assets. In addition to its $2.1 million in multi-year grant obligations as a part of its 2019 ... & Roses Community Fund have been sibling organizations funding grassroots groups working for change in the ...

The Lenfest Institute announces $1.3 million in grants to support The Philadelphia Inquirer’s community-focused journalism

The Lenfest Institute for Journalism
Thursday, May 20, 2021
... The Lenfest Institute for Journalism today announced $1.3 million in new grants to The Philadelphia Inquirer to support ... underserved communities.  “A More Perfect Union,” a project that will report on the racist origins, practices, ...

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

Friday, December 22, 2023
... learning outcomes and build a diverse teacher workforce in Philadelphia. The investment in Philadelphia education will provide support for a number ... achieving success.”   Comcast’s grant is a part of  Project UP , the company’s $1 billion commitment to reach ...
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CCFWG’s Girls Advisory Board Awards $19k to Local Nonprofits Serving Women & Girls

CCFWG Girls Advisory Board
Wednesday, February 17, 2021
... and Girls (CCFWG)’s Girls Advisory Board (GAB) program awarded $19,000 in grant funding to five local nonprofit ... chosen priority areas is as follows: The Domestic Violence Center of Chester County  | $5,000 to support the ... for diverse populations. Alianzas de Phoenixville | $4,000 to support their Clinical Trauma Counseling Program, ...

Philadelphia Foundation’s Black Community Leaders Fund Makes $800,000 in Grants to 24 Organizations

Philadelphia Foundation
Monday, November 8, 2021
... Philadelphia. A total of $800,000 in grants will be awarded to 24 nonprofits.   An additional $1.5 million in ... Coalition for Black Trans Economic Liberation (CBTEL) The Center for Black Educator Development The Colored Girls ... College Prep Roundtable Philadelphia Parent Organizing Project Sisters Returning Home Theatre in the X UrbEd ...

Philadelphia Food Justice Initiative Announces New Grant Awards

Food Equity
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
... Department of Public Health and the Reinvestment Fund have awarded more than $443,500 to fund several innovative ... which is using PFJI support to plan to develop a project location in West Philadelphia to house a small ... inception in 1985, Reinvestment Fund has provided over $2.4 billion in financing to strengthen neighborhoods, scale ...

Independence Public Media Foundation Announces $500,000 in Grants Awarded to Local Independent Filmmakers

Independence Public Media Foundation
Thursday, April 17, 2025
... Public Media Foundation (IPMF) announces $500,000 in grants to support Greater Philadelphia's emerging and ... of their skills. A total of 30 film projects received funding through IPMF’s community-led grantmaking process. ... Public Media Foundation Announces $500,000 in Grants Awarded to Local Independent Filmmakers ...

Philadelphia Foundation Announces Fund Focused on Black-Led Nonprofits Serving Black Communities in Greater Philadelphia

Philadelphia Foundation
Thursday, May 13, 2021
... release from Philadelphia Foundation PHILADELPHIA, PA (5/12/2021) – Philadelphia Foundation today announced the ... nonprofit organizations serving Black communities in Greater Philadelphia. The Fund includes an initial $1 million contribution from Facebook, which selected ...

New community-led pooled fund will support COVID-19 education and vaccine access

COVID-19 Prevention & Response Fund
Thursday, April 8, 2021
Read this release in: Chinese   | Russian | Spanish | Vietnamese COVID-19 ... The pooled fund seeks to raise a total of $3.45 million to be distributed on a rolling basis over the next 18 ... Minnie McNeil , WC Atkinson Memorial Community Services Center (Coatesville) Sonya Carroll , Bebashi Transition to ...

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