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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
... Trusts announced today that it has awarded $4.25 million to four Philadelphia nonprofits working to close opportunity ... the growing impact of violence on local residents. The awards include a grant to University City District’s West ... Skills Initiative (WPSI) has been awarded a Pew Fund for Health and Human Services (Pew Fund) growth grant totaling ...

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
... of Philadelphia announced today that it has been selected to receive $1,000,000 as part of the Bloomberg Philanthropies ... a weekly phone line featuring healing poems and mental health resources, a public art exhibition of poems from the ...
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Anti-ViolenceArts & Culture
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 ... Our City, Joel Seay of the Jarell Seay Love and Laughter Foundation and Anton Moore founder of Unity in the ... will echo the film: Barriers to treating the behavioral health issues that stem from, and contribute to many forms of ...

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

Wednesday, December 8, 2021
... bringing the total amount distributed through this program to the total $13.5 million allocated for the Community ... Grants, including $13.5 for Community Expansion Grant awards. This is a major piece of the historic $155.7 million ... prevention programming and services that contribute to the City’s violence prevention and reduction goals. To ...
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Anti-Violence
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Public Policy and Civic Engagement
07Jun2022

Responding to Extremism -- New Thinking about Norms and Trust

Tuesday, June 7, 2022
1:00pm - 2:00pm
... Point Racially-motivated killings in Buffalo, Dallas, and Southern California in one weekend. Mass atrocities and ... extremism, hate fueled attacks, and global attention to the atrocities in Ukraine, Tigray and China, how should ... What can we learn from those who have studied ways to prevent atrocities and combat extremism around the world? ...
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Webinar
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Anti-ViolenceRacial EquitySocial Justice

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

Tuesday, March 14, 2023
Thirty $10,000 general operating grants will be distributed to grassroots, community-based organizations, addressing ... City government, regional funders, and the  Scattergood Foundation , focused on building resilience and improving ... Fund works to advance the following core goals: To promote wellness, build resilience, and improve the quality of life ...
17Apr2025

Under Threat: The State of Support for the Trans Community

Thursday, April 17, 2025
10:00am - 11:30am
Webinar
... 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 Transgender Day of ...
02Nov2023

Guaranteed Income: Innovative Philadelphia Programs Designed to Combat Poverty

Thursday, November 2, 2023
10:00am - 11:30am
Zoom Virtual Conferencing
... City of Philadelphia has been implementing this concept to provide individuals and families with a flexible and ... programs are designed to support housing stability, reduce health disparities in pregnancy, bolster economic mobility, ... Stacey Kallem , Director of Maternal, Child and Family Health, Philadelphia Department of Public Health;  Nia ...

New coalition to tackle Philadelphia's gun violence

Sharman Matlock-Turner, president and CEO of the Urban Affairs Coalition
Sunday, November 20, 2022
... Naiser Warren-Robinson As gun violence and crime continues to plague the city of Philadelphia, businesses, nonprofits, ... do to help curb the issue. In response, the Philadelphia Foundation and the William Penn Foundation, in partnership with Urban Affairs Coalition, ...