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

Wednesday, December 8, 2021
... that will collectively receive more than $7 million in funding, bringing the total amount distributed through this program to the total $13.5 million allocated for the Community Expansion Grant program. The final awardees ... needs to do everything it can and use every resource available to reduce the number of homicides in Philadelphia. ...
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Public Policy and Civic Engagement
02Nov2023

Guaranteed Income: Innovative Philadelphia Programs Designed to Combat Poverty

Thursday, November 2, 2023
10:00am - 11:30am
Zoom Virtual Conferencing
... income was part of Martin Luther King Jr.’s vision for fighting poverty.  Today, that concept is experiencing a ... , and Philadelphia piloting forms of guaranteed income programs.  Philadelphia has been a leader in these ... programs are designed to support housing stability, reduce health disparities in pregnancy, bolster economic mobility, ...

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 ... community.  The KCR Fund anticipates $300,000 in new funding will be distributed during the 2023 grant cycle, ... p.m. All materials and the funding application will be available in Spanish. A printable copy of the March 2023 ...

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
... with local businesses, nonprofits, and community organizations.   Healing Verse Germantown will engage ... a weekly phone line featuring healing poems and mental health resources, a public art exhibition of poems from the ... the project.   “Poetry will be a powerful outlet for the Germantown community to collectively process and mend ...
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Anti-ViolenceArts & Culture

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

Wednesday, July 20, 2022
... Initiative to help create paths to economic mobility for nearly 2,500 residents throughout the city. Three ... Skills Initiative (WPSI) has been awarded a Pew Fund for Health and Human Services (Pew Fund) growth grant totaling ... to determine their long-term success. With Pew’s funding, these three programs will not only provide and ...
12Jul2023

Courageous Conversations about Gun Violence in Pennsylvania

Wednesday, July 12, 2023
12:00pm - 2:15pm
Free Library of Philadelphia, Skyline Room
... Person Arts, Philly’s premiere storytelling nonprofit, for a boxed lunch and EXPERIENCE their powerful gun violence ... will echo the film: Barriers to treating the behavioral health issues that stem from, and contribute to many forms of ... Disability Services (DBHIDS) and other community organizations  These sessions help blanket the city with ...
07Jun2022

Responding to Extremism -- New Thinking about Norms and Trust

Tuesday, June 7, 2022
1:00pm - 2:00pm
... Philanthropy Massachusetts and other philanthropy-serving organizations. A Conversation with Dr. David Frey, Founding Director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at USMA, West Point ... to apply lessons learned to place-based and issue-based funding? Join this conversation with Dr. David Frey, Founding ...
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Anti-ViolenceRacial EquitySocial Justice
17Apr2025

Under Threat: The State of Support for the Trans Community

Thursday, April 17, 2025
10:00am - 11:30am
Webinar
In partnership with Philanthropy Network members Gender ... Attic Youth Center, and Tatyana Woodard from Ark of Safety for an informative conversation about the current legislative ... threats to trans communities across Pennsylvania, how organizations and communities are responding, and what can be ...

New coalition to tackle Philadelphia's gun violence

Sharman Matlock-Turner, president and CEO of the Urban Affairs Coalition
Sunday, November 20, 2022
... city of Philadelphia, businesses, nonprofits, faith-based organizations and other leading institutions have been stuck wondering what they can do to help curb the issue. In response, the Philadelphia Foundation and the William Penn ... Danielle Outlaw have expressed their appreciation for the coalition, welcoming the support in efforts to end ...