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City Launches Fund to Support Philadelphia Organizations Pursuing Thriving Communities Grantmaking Program

Wednesday, March 12, 2025
... the Philadelphia Thriving Communities Bridge Fund to support local, community-based organizations in accessing ... ready to scale and receiving these funds also requires resources. We launched the Philadelphia Thriving Communities ... Learn more at www.williampennfoundation.org .      City Launches Fund to Support Philadelphia Organizations Pursuing ...
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Regional Interest
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EnvironmentSocial Justice

The Leeway Foundation Announces $48,950 in Support to 22 Individual Artists and Cultural Producers

Leeway Foundation (mark)
Friday, October 16, 2020
... person connections. The realities of COVID have forced us to shift our mindset as an institution on how we continue to support our artists and grantees. Leeway continues to adapt ... nonconforming artists and cultural producers working in communities at the intersection of art, culture, and social ...
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Member News
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Arts & CultureSocial JusticeWomen and Girls

New community-led pooled fund will support COVID-19 education and vaccine access

COVID-19 Prevention & Response Fund
Thursday, April 8, 2021
... Prevention & Response Fund, a community-led effort to invest in neighborhood-based solutions related to COVID-19 ... Kensington said, "As community investment advisors, we can support economically disadvantaged neighborhoods as COVID-19 ... and this fund gives them the power to direct resources where they can do the most good.” The Fund ...

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

Friday, May 7, 2021
The community-driven grantmaking process will support community-based nonprofit organizations serving ... and Opportunity (CEO) and Bread & Roses Community Fund to support grassroots neighborhood nonprofit organizations ... for change around a shared goal of radically transforming individuals and society. Every year, Bread & Roses raises ...

HealthSpark Foundation Announces $631,000 in Grants to Support Montgomery County’s Social Safety Net

Monday, January 11, 2021
... is announcing the award of $631,000 in grant funds to support 14 projects under the Safety Net Resiliency ... is re-imagining how to allocate local assets and leverage resources to co-create a local food system that can better ...
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 ...

City Announces Third Round of Kensington Community Resilience Fund Grantees

Monday, August 28, 2023
Kensington residents work with City to select 36 grassroots organizations and community groups to ... the third round of grant recipients that will receive support from the Kensington Community Resilience Fund (KCR ... Beautification & Blight Removal Connecting Residents to Resources Building Resilience & Addressing Community Trauma ...

Philadelphia Foundation’s Black Community Leaders Fund Makes $800,000 in Grants to 24 Organizations

Philadelphia Foundation
Monday, November 8, 2021
... A total of $800,000 in grants will be awarded to 24 nonprofits.   An additional $1.5 million in support for the fund also was announced. William Penn ... Leaders Fund is a strategic way to build capacity and resources for vital services and programs while also ...

New Community Grants by Philadelphia City Fund Announced

Philadelphia City Fund
Wednesday, July 26, 2023
... directly benefit community-based organizations seeking to address Philadelphia’s greatest needs. Roughly $250,000 ... race is allocated  to the Philadelphia City Fund (PCF) to support its Community Fund grants, which are awarded to ... to support monthly vaccination clinics and education resources Breastfeeding Resource Center, $15,000 to provide ...

Independence Public Media Foundation Announces $800,000 in 2023 Community Voices Grants

IPMF Community Voices 2023 - Save Chinatown
Tuesday, August 15, 2023
... Community Voices Fund grants, totaling $800,000 awarded to 24 organizations and projects. These grants will support underrepresented communities across the Greater ... partners as they determine the storytelling and the resources needed most in this moment,” said IPMF Program ...
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Media/JournalismRacial EquitySocial Justice

Philadelphia Foundation Announces Fund Focused on Black-Led Nonprofits Serving Black Communities in Greater Philadelphia

Philadelphia Foundation
Thursday, May 13, 2021
... the creation of the Black Community Leaders Fund (BCL) to fortify Black-led nonprofit organizations serving Black ... selected nonprofits with operational and capacity-building support to enable strong leadership, resilient operations and ... communities fortifies its enduring mission to bring resources to bear that serve the most vulnerable in the ...

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 ... with vigorous focus, intentionality, accountability, and resources. In recent years, foundations across the country ... created the Equity in Philanthropy Initiative, designed to support, challenge, and advise funders as they seek to center ...

IPMF Announces 2024 Community Voices Fund Grant Recipients

IPMF 2024 Community Voices
Thursday, November 21, 2024
... Voices Fund grant recipients, with $800,000 awarded to 33 organizations and projects. These grants will support the documentation, sharing, and preservation of ... of amplifying the voices and experiences of marginalized communities,” said IPMF Program Associate Samíl ...

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

CCFWG Suffrage Mural
Tuesday, November 3, 2020
... Chester Public Arts Commission (PAC), and Zukin Properties to unveil the Women’s Suffrage Mural at 119 E. Market ... of the 19th Amendment, which granted many women the right to vote, and celebrates the suffrage movement of the past, ... and advocacy to ensure that women and girls have resources and opportunities to thrive. Over the past 20 ...

The Case for Funding Black-Led Social Change: Redlining by Another Name: What the Data Says to Move from Rhetoric to Action

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12/2019
ABFE: A Philanthropic Partnership for Black Communities (ABFE) , recently conducted a study to learn how leaders of Black-led social change organizations ... philanthropy. The research had two purposes. The first was to build a body of information on the health and well-being ...

The Case for Funding Black-Led Social Change: Case Statement

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03/2017
The Case for Funding Black-Led Social Change intends to spark new energy to vitalize and strengthen the infrastructure for Black-led ... leadership of ABFE: A Philanthropic Partnership for Black Communities and the Hill-Snowdon Foundation . The Case for ...

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 ... established at Bread & Roses Community Fund on April 8 to support vital community organizing during this crisis. Thanks ... organizers, accustomed to being nimble in the face of lean resources, are creating new ways to share space, break ...

Reinvestment Fund and Health Department Announce $500,000 in Funding for Food Justice

Wednesday, October 11, 2023
... Philadelphia Food Justice Initiative (PFJI) grant awards to nine local Philadelphia organizations to create a more ... of Chronic Disease and Injury Prevention. Additional support comes from the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia ... health and improving the lives of individuals and families in the city,” said Jenny Flores, Head of Small ...

The Barr, Kresge, and William Penn Foundations Introduce $13M Funding Collaborative

The Cuture and Community Power Fund
Tuesday, May 30, 2023
... Barr, Kresge, and William Penn Foundations joined together to more deeply understand the needs of organizations ...     Ashé Cultural Arts Center  uses art and culture to support human, community, and economic development of people ...

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