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

COVID-19 Prevention & Response Fund
Thursday, April 8, 2021
Read this release in: Chinese   | Russian | Spanish | Vietnamese COVID-19 ... community outreach and marketing. Grants will be up to $25,000. Joe Pyle, president of the Scattergood Foundation , ... dollars, Philanthropy Network has also partnered with the City of Philadelphia’s Philly Counts office, which will use ...

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

The Douty Foundation
Tuesday, November 9, 2021
... supporting grassroots organizations and movements in making social change, announced that its sunset plan has ... $1.2 million across 9 organizations in ‘Legacy’ grants along with approximately $1 million to The Bread & ... counties in Pennsylvania. The Douty Foundation announces final, ‘Legacy’ grants totaling $2.2 million as ...

HealthSpark Foundation announces the Dr. Frank E. Boston Black Justice Fund

HealthSpark Foundation
Tuesday, October 5, 2021
... and opportunities facing Montgomery County residents. In honor of its namesake Dr. Frank E. Boston, a Black medical ... Foundation has committed an initial investment of $250,000 over two years to the Dr. Frank E. Boston Black Justice ... . HealthSpark Foundation announces the Dr. Frank E. Boston Black Justice Fund ...

More than 300 U.S. philanthropic leaders call for removal of citizenship question from 2020 census

Tuesday, August 7, 2018
... across 38 states and District of Columbia join in unanimous opposition; more than 30 philanthropy-serving ... and chief executives, trustees and others speaking for their organizations said the question would ... Philanthropy-Serving Organizations’ Letter . More than 300 U.S. philanthropic leaders call for removal of ...

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

Published: 
12/2019
ABFE: A Philanthropic Partnership for Black Communities (ABFE) , recently conducted a study to learn how leaders of Black-led social change organizations in the United States and U.S. Territories describe their ...

Leeway Foundation announces 2019 Transformation Awardees

Leeway Transformation Awards
Friday, December 27, 2019
The Leeway Foundation announced $150,000 in funding for 10 individual women, trans* and gender ... from their gender assigned at birth. Leeway Foundation announces 2019 Transformation Awardees ...

GreenLight Raises New $3.5 Million Fund to Combat Systemic Poverty in Philadelphia

Omar Woodard
Monday, September 14, 2020
... communities. This latest Fund enables GreenLight to invest in Philadelphia’s post-COVID recovery with greater clarity ... additional investments to improve the lives of over 400,000 women, children, and men that experience poverty every ... a growing coalition of investors and champions for our city and its families,” said Josh Kopelman, Managing ...

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

Leeway Foundation (mark)
Friday, October 16, 2020
... of our programming and the work of our community relies on in person connections. The realities of COVID have forced us ... Arts, $1,500 REGO THERESHEGO (West Center City), Media Arts/Music, $2,500 Sarah Kim (West ... their gender assigned at birth.   The Leeway Foundation Announces $48,950 in Support to 22 Individual Artists and ...
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Leeway Foundation announces the inaugural recipients of the IPMF Artist + Activist Residency

Leeway Foundation
Monday, December 13, 2021
... throughout the Greater Philadelphia region with $125,000 in funding to five inaugural Leeway x IPMF Media Artist + ... from their gender assigned at birth. ### Leeway Foundation announces the inaugural recipients of the IPMF Artist + ...

Philadelphia Foundation’s YOUTHadelphia grants help Philly youth initiatives

Monday, May 28, 2018
... non-profit organizations received grants totaling $50,000 from The Philadelphia Foundation’s Fund for ... provides grants to low-income non-profit organizations in Philadelphia to help build philanthropic resources to improve the quality of life for the city as a whole. YOUTHadelphia launched in 2004 and serves as ...
29Jun2021

Funder Briefing: The COVID-19 Prevention & Response Fund

Tuesday, June 29, 2021
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Video Conference
... Network Greater Philadelphia invites you to join us for an update on the COVID-19 Prevention & Response Fund,  a community-led effort to invest in neighborhood-based solutions to urgent needs related to ... trust-based philanthropy model through two rounds of grants to support COVID-19 education, vaccine access, health ...

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

Native Voices Rising Grants
Thursday, November 10, 2022
... Today, Native Voices Rising (NVR) announced $3.5 million in grants to 114 Indigenous and Native-led advocacy and ... and remarkable organizations.  Native Voices Rising Announces $3.5 Million to Native-Led Advocacy ...

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

Published: 
03/2017
The Case for Funding Black-Led Social Change intends to spark new ... Network (BSCFN) , an initiative forged by the leadership of ABFE: A Philanthropic Partnership for Black Communities ... targeted to the Black community. Calling investment in Black-led social change a “moral imperative,” they ...

The Fund for Women and Girls Awards $15,600 to Create Change

Girls with Cheyney University's Period Poverty Project
Wednesday, July 26, 2023
... – The Fund for Women and Girls recently awarded $15,600 in grants to two local organizations – Cheyney University and ... cycle were the Black Women of Chester County in Action ($3,000 for a Bakers Dozen Listening Tour) and the Alliance for ...
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Douty Foundation celebrates 50th anniversary, releases new funding guidelines

Thursday, August 1, 2019
... 1, 2019) – Since 1968, The Douty Foundation has awarded grants to small grassroots organizations in Philadelphia and Montgomery Counties that are creating ... Douty’s grant awards will increase to a minimum of $20,000 per year and will be three-year commitments. While the ...

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

The Cuture and Community Power Fund
Tuesday, May 30, 2023
Press release via William Penn Foundation In 2021, the Barr, Kresge, and William Penn Foundations ... joined together to more deeply understand the needs of organizations utilizing art and culture to address ... wealth to working-class communities of color.    Center for Transforming Communities  provides cultural programming ...

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

Breaking Chains
Thursday, June 4, 2020
... four centuries of traumatic white supremacist culture in the lives Black men, women, and families are once again ... pepper spray to intimidate and disperse those advocating for change. This is America and Philanthropy Operates in It ... Alliance for Nonviolence and adapted by Ellen Tuzzolo) Third, philanthropy must definitively establish liberation as ...
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 ... Fund, Inc. , this session will welcome Philadelphia City Councilmember Rue Landau , Naiymah Sanchez from the ACLU ... Attic Youth Center, and Tatyana Woodard from Ark of Safety for an informative conversation about the current legislative ...

Douty Foundation releases $1.5 million in emergency funding amid COVID-19 crisis

Wednesday, April 8, 2020
... 6, 2020) – Since 1968, The Douty Foundation has awarded grants to small grassroots organizations and movements in Philadelphia and Montgomery Counties that activate social ... funds that The Douty Foundation is supporting with $500,000.00 each are the Philadelphia Worker Relief Fund and the ...

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