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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
Press release PHILADELPHIA—The Pew Charitable Trusts announced today that ... The awards include a grant to University City District’s West Philadelphia Skills Initiative to help create paths to ... address survivors’ social, emotional, and psychological recovery after trauma. Adults, children, and their families, ...
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 ... cities, including Chicago , New York, Los Angeles , and Philadelphia piloting forms of guaranteed income programs.  ... City Fund;  Will Hall , Director of Financial Inclusion, from the Office of Community Empowerment and Opportunity;  ...

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 ... The Streets Are Talking—led by the City of Philadelphia's Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy (OACCE), ...
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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
Via The Philadelphia Tribune | By Naiser Warren-Robinson As gun violence and crime continues to plague the city of Philadelphia, businesses, nonprofits, faith-based ... welcoming the support in efforts to end Philadelphia’s gun violence epidemic. >>CONTINUE READING New coalition to ...
12Jul2023

Courageous Conversations about Gun Violence in Pennsylvania

Wednesday, July 12, 2023
12:00pm - 2:15pm
Free Library of Philadelphia, Skyline Room
According to CeaseFirePA , 1,600 Pennsylvanians die from gun violence every year. 3,000 more are injured–not ... hope, help, and healing. Join First Person Arts, Philly’s premiere storytelling nonprofit, for a boxed lunch and ... by Christine Robinson (Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia), Jamie J. Brunson (FirstPerson Arts), Dr. ...

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

Tuesday, March 14, 2023
... of life needs in Kensington, Harrowgate, and Fairhill PHILADELPHIA — The City of Philadelphia today announced the ... and community leaders have been integral to the process, from setting funding priorities and eligibility criteria to ... Youth Hockey and Education  said, “The KCR Fund’s participatory grantmaking model was unique and unlike ...

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 today ... Church; 100 Black Men Philly (in partnership with Father’s Day Rally Committee); Black Muslim Men United for a Better ... will start a long-needed process to save Philadelphia from gun violence deaths.   "I want to praise the team at ...
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17Apr2025

Under Threat: The State of Support for the Trans Community

Thursday, April 17, 2025
10:00am - 11:30am
Webinar
... Homeless Assistance Fund, Inc. , this session will welcome Philadelphia City Councilmember Rue Landau , Naiymah Sanchez from the ACLU of Pennsylvania, Corinne Goodwin from the Eastern PA Trans Equity Project, Jasper Liem from ...
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
Please join us on Monday, January 23rd, from 3:00 - 4:30 PM to hear from the initiators and leaders ... Guns are readily available to many, and gun violence's consequences are bone-chilling.
07Jun2022

Responding to Extremism -- New Thinking about Norms and Trust

Tuesday, June 7, 2022
1:00pm - 2:00pm
... structural roots of radicalization?  What can we learn from those who have studied ways to prevent atrocities and ... 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