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City Announces $300,000 in Grants for Third Round of the Kensington Community Resilience Fund

Tuesday, March 14, 2023
... community-based organizations, addressing quality of life needs in Kensington, Harrowgate, and Fairhill ... Fund will continue to galvanize the community and support bold and impactful organizations.” Through its ... faith-based leaders: Public Safety  Youth Development  Workforce Development and Training Beautification and Blight ...

City Announces Final Round of Anti-Violence Community Expansion Grant Program Awardees

Wednesday, December 8, 2021
Via the City of Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA – The City of Philadelphia ... $13.5 for Community Expansion Grant awards. This is a major piece of the historic $155.7 million investment in a ... gun violence crisis. These investments represent a major step in our ongoing fight to help make our communities ...
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17Apr2025

Under Threat: The State of Support for the Trans Community

Thursday, April 17, 2025
10:00am - 11:30am
Webinar
... Councilmember Rue Landau , Naiymah Sanchez from the ACLU of Pennsylvania, Corinne Goodwin from the Eastern PA Trans ... and communities are responding, and what can be done to support them. RELATED CONTENT: On Transgender Day of ... (Inside Philanthropy, 03.31.25) Under Threat: The State of Support for the Trans Community ...

New coalition to tackle Philadelphia's gun violence

Sharman Matlock-Turner, president and CEO of the Urban Affairs Coalition
Sunday, November 20, 2022
... issue. In response, the Philadelphia Foundation and the William Penn Foundation, in partnership with Urban Affairs Coalition, ... their appreciation for the coalition, welcoming the support in efforts to end Philadelphia’s gun violence ...
23Jan2023

Gun Violence Prevention Matters for ALL of Us! Working Together to Achieve Better Outcomes

Monday, January 23, 2023
3:00pm - 4:30pm
Video Conference
... 3:00 - 4:30 PM to hear from the initiators and leaders of the  Civic Coalition to Save Lives , a broad civic effort ...

Pew Awards $4.25 Million to 4 Philadelphia Nonprofits to Expand Economic Opportunities and Address Growing Impacts of Community Violence

Wednesday, July 20, 2022
... to close opportunity gaps and address the growing impact of violence on local residents. The awards include a grant to ... in coordinating and expanding their hospital-based support programs for the growing number of adults and ... $3.5 million over five years to expand its successful workforce training program to new neighborhoods and ...
12Jul2023

Courageous Conversations about Gun Violence in Pennsylvania

Wednesday, July 12, 2023
12:00pm - 2:15pm
Free Library of Philadelphia, Skyline Room
... just in the inner cities. Gun violence–in the form of domestic violence, school shootings, or other ... Our deep appreciation to the Barra Foundation for their support of this event. Watch the TRIGGER Film Trailer More ... Innovation, and the DBHIDS Engaging Males of Color Initiative. Visit the First Person Arts website to schedule a ...

City of Philadelphia Selected for $1 Million Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge Grant to Fund Temporary Public Art Project that Addresses Gun Violence in Germantown

Bloomberg Art Challenge
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
PHILADELPHIA – The City of Philadelphia announced today that it has been selected to receive $1,000,000 as part of the Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge , a ... Germantown: The Streets Are Talking—led by the City of Philadelphia's Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative ...
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02Nov2023

Guaranteed Income: Innovative Philadelphia Programs Designed to Combat Poverty

Thursday, November 2, 2023
10:00am - 11:30am
Zoom Virtual Conferencing
... and Black Power movements .  Guaranteed income was part of Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision for fighting poverty.  ... , New York, Los Angeles , and Philadelphia piloting forms of guaranteed income programs.  Philadelphia has been a ... of Firearm Violence .  These programs are designed to support housing stability, reduce health disparities in ...
07Jun2022

Responding to Extremism -- New Thinking about Norms and Trust

Tuesday, June 7, 2022
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Co-sponsored with Grantmakers Council of Rhode Island, Maine Philanthropy Center, Philanthropy ... A Conversation with Dr. David Frey, Founding Director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at USMA, ... “agents of change” in 2018. He is the 2021-22 William J. Lowenberg Memorial Fellow on America, the ...
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Anti-ViolenceRacial EquitySocial Justice