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Philadelphia Foundation’s YOUTHadelphia grants help Philly youth initiatives

Monday, May 28, 2018
... program. The Philadelphia Foundation provides grants to low-income non-profit organizations in Philadelphia to ... the youth and their initiatives by helping to focus and create change in the city of Philadelphia for the next ... once faced being locked up on adult charges. “We are an organization that goes into the Philadelphia adult jails ...

Philanthropy Needs A New Endgame: The Liberation of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Communities In America

Breaking Chains
Thursday, June 4, 2020
... disproportionate impact and deaths of Black Americans due to COVID-19 pandemic (1) to the recent senseless murders of ... Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, the latest of an untold number of deaths at the hands of white police ( 2 ) ... Initiative, designed to support, challenge, and advise funders as they seek to center equity in their work. The ...

Independence Public Media Foundation Announces $2 Million in Grants to Media Making Organizations

Independence Public Media Foundation
Thursday, June 3, 2021
... Thirteen grants totaling $2 million were awarded to a range of film, journalism, storytelling, and youth media ... People of Color, immigrant and LGBTQIA+ communities. Asian Arts  Initiative was awarded $75,000 to increase ... 11 for the Community   Media Fund and Digital Equity Fund open call. The foundation’s next round of grants will be ...
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Equity and Social Justice
19May2021

Setting the Table with Dana Kawaoka-Chen & Erik Stegman

Wednesday, May 19, 2021
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Webinar on Zoom
... CEO Marcus Walton grapple with racial constructs, work to unpack them and reimagine a system that centers and ...

Finding evidence of our collective courage and strength

215 People's Alliance
Wednesday, May 27, 2020
...   By Casey Cook In the last two months, we’ve all tried to adjust to seeing our friends, family, and coworkers mostly ... when I come across a feel-good clickbait story about an act of kindness during COVID. But on Fridays, when I hear ... Thanks to donations from hundreds of individual donors and funders, we continue to make grants to new groups each week. ...

New Community-Driven Grant Program Available for Community-Based Organizations

Friday, May 7, 2021
... 7, 2021 | The City today announced the launch of the N, a partnership between the Office of Community Empowerment and Opportunity (CEO) and Bread & Roses Community Fund to support grassroots neighborhood nonprofit organizations ... both rare for government and philanthropy, but critical to an equitable recovery.” Nonprofit organizations that are ...

Statement: Including Immigrants and Refugees In Our Response to COVID-19

Immigrant Community courtesy Fels Fund
Wednesday, April 8, 2020
... as communities, organizations, and governments mobilize to meet critical needs. We have been humbled by the ... Pennsylvania is home to more than 800,000 immigrants, an estimated 180,000 of whom are undocumented. More than ... to consider the following actions: Sign onto to this letter as a commitment to intentionally strengthen the ...

Talent Justice Toolkit

Published: 
06/2019
This toolkit presents easy-to-use resources to help nonprofits and funders take action to advance talent justice. The tools can ... to this toolkit, Fund The People has also released a report that offers important findings on the challenges and ...

Independence Public Media Foundation Announces 71 Grants Totaling $8.9 Million

IPMF grantee
Monday, August 15, 2022
... region. In total, the foundation awarded 71 grants to organizations and projects working in the areas of ... on what we’ve learned in our first three years as an organization, and hone our vision for media making that ... such as Al Bustan Seeds of Culture ($75,000), an Arab arts and language organization that is creating a multimedia ...

Native Voices Rising Announces $3.5 Million to Native-Led Advocacy

Native Voices Rising Grants
Thursday, November 10, 2022
... Voices Rising (NVR) announced $3.5 million in grants to 114 Indigenous and Native-led advocacy and organizing groups. This year’s grant awardees work on an array of critical issues, including the promotion of ... to our mission, and inspire our growing community of funders to advocate alongside us for more equitable ...
02Jun2022

The End of Roe: How Should Philanthropy Respond?

Thursday, June 2, 2022
10:00am - 11:30am
Video Conference
In June of 2022, the Supreme Court is expected to hand down a highly-anticipated decision in Dobbs v Jackson ... Fund and Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia and open to non-members. Speakers Link to speaker bios Farrah ... of Gender Justice Fund. In her time there she has overseen an organizational rebranding, expanded grantmaking, and ...
07Jun2022

Responding to Extremism -- New Thinking about Norms and Trust

Tuesday, June 7, 2022
1:00pm - 2:00pm
... and other philanthropy-serving organizations. A Conversation with Dr. David Frey, Founding Director of the ... extremism, hate fueled attacks, and global attention to the atrocities in Ukraine, Tigray and China, how should funders respond? Can philanthropy play a role in addressing ...
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17Apr2025

Under Threat: The State of Support for the Trans Community

Thursday, April 17, 2025
10:00am - 11:30am
Webinar
... 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 ... RELATED CONTENT: On Transgender Day of Visibility, Three Funders Discuss Their Work Amid the Backlash By Dawn Wolfe ...

How African-American-Led Organizations Differ from White-Led Organizations: Research Report on African American Nonprofit Organizations in Philadelphia

PAALF Report (2016)
Published: 
04/2016
... Pennsylvania and Southern New Jersey, commissioned a study of African American-led nonprofits in Philadelphia. ... nonprofits. In 2014-2015, Branch Associates, Inc., a Philadelphia-based research and evaluation firm, conducted ... with African American Executive Directors and local funders. The findings from this research are presented in ...

CCFWG Unveils Women’s Suffrage Mural Before Election Day to Inspire Community to Get Out and Vote

CCFWG Suffrage Mural
Tuesday, November 3, 2020
... Fund for Women and Girls (CCFWG), West Chester Public Arts Commission (PAC), and Zukin Properties to unveil the Women’s Suffrage Mural at 119 E. Market ... fight for the right to vote is not over…This mural is an awesome reminder of the tenacity of the women who fought ...

Women’s work is, and always has been, “essential” work. It’s time to value it.

Gender Justice_Photo by Josh Howard on Unsplash
Friday, May 8, 2020
... United States have shut down their operations in response to COVID-19. Many of these businesses that have been deemed ... of the Gender and Racial Wealth Gap. According to Asset Funders Network , women make up 47% of the U.S. Workforce, ... focused on building economic well-being for all. Use an asset-building framework to collaboratively design and ...
28Sep2022

What if philanthropy celebrated Black Abundance?

Wednesday, September 28, 2022
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Video Conference
... groups have pointed out over decades, philanthropy, as an institution, is complicit in anti-Blackness. Seeing ... element of institutional philanthropic culture brought us to wonder: What would it look like if philanthropy celebrated ... efforts in a way that leads to freedom and joy for all? As funders, we can begin to remedy philanthropy’s unjust ...
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Equity and Social Justice

Justice, not charity: Liz Dozier thinks philanthropy should be rooted in equity and solidarity

Liz Dozier
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
... SPARX Conference, taking place from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Thursday, October 31 at the Hilton Philadelphia ... to show up in different ways.” “We have to show up in an equitable way,” she added, “[understanding] the bias ... gets made.” The book unpacks the power dynamics between funders, researchers and community organizations, and ...

The Douty Foundation announces final, ‘Legacy’ grants totaling $2.2 million as its sunset plan is complete

The Douty Foundation
Tuesday, November 9, 2021
Related coverage: By sunsetting, the Douty Foundation makes a strong case for limited-life philanthropy via Generocity ... it can now spend out its remaining assets. In addition to its $2.1 million in multi-year grant obligations as a part ... approximately $1 million to The Bread & Roses Community Fund . The grants are the manifestation of the Douty ...

Leeway Foundation announces the inaugural recipients of the IPMF Artist + Activist Residency

Leeway Foundation
Monday, December 13, 2021
... the Greater Philadelphia region with $125,000 in funding to five inaugural Leeway x IPMF Media Artist + Activist ... our belief that art and culture, in this case media, are an integral part of building movements for justice. And I ... justice advocate and podcast creator, Farrah Parkes; media arts programmer, curator, and public media supporter, Gretjen ...

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