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

Independence Public Media Foundation
Thursday, April 17, 2025
... 17, 2025—The Independence Public Media Foundation (IPMF) announces $500,000 in grants to support Greater ... panel of local filmmakers and film advocates to select the grant recipients. This process aligns with the foundation’s ... public interest and following.
23Jun2021

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 ... deep inequality in PA public schools. The suit is asking for a court order that will force the legislature to comply ... funding lawsuit, PA Schools Work is a  coalition  of organizations from across Pennsylvania representing urban, ...

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

Comcast RISE
Wednesday, July 27, 2022
... and funding that are critical to success. Click here for a list of Philadelphia businesses have been selected to ... with the pandemic. The Comcast RISE Investment Fund grant will go directly to Stem Prep Academy’s payroll to ...

HealthSpark Foundation announces the Dr. Frank E. Boston Black Justice Fund

HealthSpark Foundation
Tuesday, October 5, 2021
... the historical exclusion of Black leaders and Black community-serving organizations from tackling the challenges ... in Black communities to advance justice and liberation for all County residents. HealthSpark Foundation has ... . HealthSpark Foundation announces the Dr. Frank E. Boston Black Justice Fund ...
07Jun2022

Responding to Extremism -- New Thinking about Norms and Trust

Tuesday, June 7, 2022
1:00pm - 2:00pm
... with Dr. David Frey, Founding Director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at USMA, West Point ... world? Are there ways to apply lessons learned to place-based and issue-based funding? Join this conversation with ... individuals, communities and organizations as they chart new paths forward. About the Speaker: Dr. David Frey is ...
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The Alliance for Health Equity announces the Judy Spangler Memorial Scholarship

Judy Spangler
Monday, May 8, 2023
Press release Alliance for Health Equity.png   Coatesville, Pennsylvania - The Alliance for Health Equity is honored to announce a new scholarship opportunity, the Judy Spangler Memorial ... . The Alliance for Health Equity announces the Judy Spangler Memorial Scholarship ...
16Aug2021

Regional Roundtable: Community Violence

Monday, August 16, 2021
10:00am - 11:00am
Video Conference
Philanthropy Network's new Regional Roundtable series will provide funders with an ... and share what they’re hearing about needs in the community and steps they are taking to respond. These ... efforts and explore new initiatives and opportunities for collaboration.  All funders in the Greater Philadelphia ...

Advancing Equitable and Adequate School Funding in PA, Part 2: Framing the Impact

Advancing Equitable and Adequate School Funding in PA, Part 2: Framing the Impact
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11/2021
... program, Advancing Equitable and Adequate School Funding in PA . Along with updates on the status of the Pennsylvania ... Advancing Equitable and Adequate School Funding in PA, Part 2: Framing the Impact ...

Black Community Leaders Fund: Q&A with Philadelphia Foundation's Phil Fitzgerald

Philadelphia Foundation
Friday, May 21, 2021
PhilaFound_header.jpg Following the launch of the Black Community Leaders Fund on May 13th, we asked Philadelphia ... Foundation's Phil Fitzgerald, Executive Director for Grantmaking , to give us some insights about how and why ... has long supported many of these important community-based organizations. Now -- thanks to the $1 million ...

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 outcomes ... investment in Philadelphia education will provide support for a number of Elevate 215’s core initiatives, which aim ...
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20Apr2022

Montgomery County Funders Community of Practice

Wednesday, April 20, 2022
1:00pm - 2:15pm
Video Conference
Join the next Montgomery County Funders Community of Practice on Wednesday, April 20th to learn about ... project to understand how racial inequity plays out in our community. As a follow-up to its 2019 initial findings ... to redesign the Coordinated Entry “front door” system for housing and homeless services to be more culturally ...
22Sep2021

Setting the Table: Internal Equity Work

Wednesday, September 22, 2021
2:00pm - 3:30pm
Video Conference
... Philanthropy Network members who would like to sign-up for this event on/after September 21st, please contact us ... marginalized communities. Marcus received a Bachelor of Arts in History and Political Science from Bowling Green ... During the COVID-19 pandemic, she has developed several new businesses including a sanitizing company to help make ...

Independence Blue Cross Foundation Launches Institute for Health Equity

Independence Blue Cross Foundation
Thursday, March 31, 2022
... to advance health equity through the creation of a new Foundation program, the Institute for Health Equity (Institute). The Institute is a regional ... commitment to improve the health and wellbeing of our community," said Reverend Dr. Lorina Marshall-Blake, ...
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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 ... The three-year initiative has infused $9.9 million of new funding into the greater Philadelphia region to support ...

Philadelphia to benefit from $100M Starbucks initiative to advance racial equity

Starbucks
Thursday, January 14, 2021
... racial equity and environmental resilience." Seattle-based coffee giant Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX) announced the launch of its Starbucks Community Resilience Fund, which is "focused on supporting ... Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, New Orleans, New York City, Philadelphia, San Francisco, ...

Love & Equity in News

Love Now Media
Thursday, May 13, 2021
... and inclusion initiatives increase along with demands for newsrooms to dismantle and repair long standing racist ... to filming it - and NOT as a journalist but as part of the community. One of my very first community stories, in 2004, ... elder woman. For me, documenting the story revealed a new kind of power. In a community where so many news stories ...

As Violence Against Asian Americans Intensifies, the Moment for Philanthropy to Act Is Now

Stop Asian Hate
Tuesday, March 23, 2021
... and Native Americans in Philanthropy  issued a call for philanthropy to take action to stop this violence and ... ways that you can take a stand and stop Asian hate in your community today (via the City of Philadelphia's Office of ... Month by Seema Agnani for Nonprofit Quarterly (05.25.21) New Asian American Foundation Aims to Shift Narratives, Curb ...
19May2021

Setting the Table with Dana Kawaoka-Chen & Erik Stegman

Wednesday, May 19, 2021
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Webinar on Zoom
... Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia and Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, the Setting the Table webinar ...

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

Girls with Cheyney University's Period Poverty Project
Wednesday, July 26, 2023
West Chester, PA (July 26, 2023) – The Fund for Women and Girls recently awarded $15,600 in grants to two ... girls in Chester County. Two earlier recipients in this grant cycle were the Black Women of Chester County in Action ... to focus on swift responses to pressing needs in the community, distributing over $130,000 in that time to 22 ...
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Asian Americans United

Asian Americans United students
Wednesday, December 15, 2021
... Philadelphia Org Focus: Pan-Asian immigrant services Grant Funding: COVID education & vaccine clinics Website: ... Executive Director Awareness about COVID began earlier for our community because of connections to family and ... with language skills to help communicate and started a new youth leadership development program. In 2021, we shifted ...

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