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

Tuesday, March 14, 2023
... today announced the launch of the 2023 grant cycle for the  Kensington Community Resilience Fund (KCR Fund) , a ... grants by this summer is a source of great pride and shows what we can accomplish when community, philanthropy, and the ... Youth Hockey and Education  said, “The KCR Fund’s participatory grantmaking model was unique and unlike ...
17Apr2025

Under Threat: The State of Support for the Trans Community

Thursday, April 17, 2025
10:00am - 11:30am
Webinar
... Attic Youth Center, and Tatyana Woodard from Ark of Safety for an informative conversation about the current legislative and policy threats to trans communities across Pennsylvania, how organizations and communities are responding, and what can be done to support them. RELATED CONTENT: On ...

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

Wednesday, December 8, 2021
... through this program to the total $13.5 million allocated for the Community Expansion Grant program. The final awardees ... Church; 100 Black Men Philly (in partnership with Father’s Day Rally Committee); Black Muslim Men United for a Better ... organizations doing anti-violence work on the ground in our neighborhoods quickly and efficiently,” said Mayor Jim ...
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Pew Awards $4.25 Million to 4 Philadelphia Nonprofits to Expand Economic Opportunities and Address Growing Impacts of Community Violence

Wednesday, July 20, 2022
... The awards include a grant to University City District’s West Philadelphia Skills Initiative to help create paths to economic mobility for nearly 2,500 residents throughout the city. Three ... and security of Philadelphians at this critical moment as our region starts to emerge from the pandemic.” “Our ...
12Jul2023

Courageous Conversations about Gun Violence in Pennsylvania

Wednesday, July 12, 2023
12:00pm - 2:15pm
Free Library of Philadelphia, Skyline Room
... hope, help, and healing. Join First Person Arts, Philly’s premiere storytelling nonprofit, for a boxed lunch and EXPERIENCE their powerful gun violence ... and bring hope, help, and healing to our neighbors. Event schedule 12:00 PM:  Doors open for lunch 12:30 PM:  ...

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
... The Streets Are Talking—led by the City of Philadelphia's Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy (OACCE), ... the project.   “Poetry will be a powerful outlet for the Germantown community to collectively process and mend ... of Philadelphia.   The project will be developed over the next two years.
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New coalition to tackle Philadelphia's gun violence

Sharman Matlock-Turner, president and CEO of the Urban Affairs Coalition
Sunday, November 20, 2022
... and other leading institutions have been stuck wondering what they can do to help curb the issue. In response, the ... Danielle Outlaw have expressed their appreciation for the coalition, welcoming the support in efforts to end Philadelphia’s gun violence epidemic. >>CONTINUE READING New coalition to ...
02Nov2023

Guaranteed Income: Innovative Philadelphia Programs Designed to Combat Poverty

Thursday, November 2, 2023
10:00am - 11:30am
Zoom Virtual Conferencing
... .  Guaranteed income was part of Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision for fighting poverty.  Today, that concept is experiencing a ... Income Research at the University of Pennsylvania.  Event Details On November 2, 2023, please join other ...
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 ... cultural, and structural roots of radicalization?  What can we learn from those who have studied ways to prevent ... atrocity. He serves on the US Holocaust Memorial Museum's Education Committee, the Advisory Board of the Holocaust ...
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Anti-ViolenceRacial EquitySocial Justice