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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 Residency recipients. This residency will support women, trans*, and gender nonconforming media artists ... of their local, collaborating social justice focused organizations. "In this first year, we were thrilled to see ...

Leeway Foundation announces 2019 Transformation Awardees

Leeway Transformation Awards
Friday, December 27, 2019
... $15,000 per awardee is in affirmation of their commitment to their communities and art for social change. This year’s ... Orafidiya of West Mt. Airy, Crafts & Textiles How can organizations work towards a method that supports artists’ ... was facilitated by Philadelphia based cooperative and community organizer Mo Manklang. Panelists included ...

Independence Public Media Foundation Announces $5.5 Million in Grant Renewals

Large puppet with sign "Our Community Is Not For Sale"
Wednesday, July 12, 2023
... grants unless otherwise stated—for ongoing support to organizations and projects aligned with the Foundation’s program areas, as listed below: Community Storytelling  ¡Presente! Media Collective — ...

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 ... and interconnected. It’s the weekly convening of our community grantmaking committee for our Solidarity Fund for ... of this work happening every day, proliferating across the city and beyond, because people are stepping up where they ...

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 ... we live our values as Native people, working with our own community leaders across the country to lead our own ... NVR is awarding its inaugural batch of multi-year awards to 10 Native-led organizations that are deeply aligned ...
19May2021

Setting the Table with Dana Kawaoka-Chen & Erik Stegman

Wednesday, May 19, 2021
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Webinar on Zoom
... Network Greater Philadelphia and Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, the Setting the Table webinar series explores ...

Leeway Foundation announces $62,500 in project-based funding

Leeway Foundation (mark)
Monday, November 25, 2024
... Foundation announces $62,500 in project-based funding to 30 women, trans*, and/or gender nonconforming artists and ... a collective zine uplifting the transracial adoptee community; a musical-visual project intertwining folk songs ... of Mount Airy, Media Arts, $2,500 CJ Jasen of University City, Performance, $2,500 Ella-Gabriel Mason of West ...

Innovative COVID-19 Response Dashboard yields lessons for future disaster philanthropy

Covid-19 Signs
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
... by establishing more than a dozen charitable funds to support the community. Within weeks, tens of millions of philanthropic ... Cumberland County in New Jersey had the lowest grant awards per capita ($0.62) but the highest average CDC Social ...

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

The Douty Foundation
Tuesday, November 9, 2021
... Foundation, a private foundation supporting grassroots organizations and movements in making social change, ... it can now spend out its remaining assets. In addition to its $2.1 million in multi-year grant obligations as a part ... along with approximately $1 million to The Bread & Roses Community Fund . The grants are the manifestation of the ...

As Violence Against Asian Americans Intensifies, the Moment for Philanthropy to Act Is Now

Stop Asian Hate
Tuesday, March 23, 2021
... Months of escalating violence against Asian Americans came to a head on March 16th in Atlanta when a white gunman shot ... ways that you can take a stand and stop Asian hate in your community today (via the City of Philadelphia's Office of Immigrant Affairs and Office ...
28Sep2022

What if philanthropy celebrated Black Abundance?

Wednesday, September 28, 2022
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Video Conference
... element of institutional philanthropic culture brought us to wonder: What would it look like if philanthropy celebrated ... Abundance staff to learn more Join the Abundance Action Community in the new year – watch for more information on ... to the Human Rights and Human Relations Commission in the city of Richmond, CA in 2013, and served as the Chair of the ...
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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
... Naiser Warren-Robinson As gun violence and crime continues to plague the city of Philadelphia, businesses, nonprofits, faith-based ... consisting of 70 groups representing a cross-section of community and faith-based organizations, nonprofits and the ...
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 ... provides racially concordant care to members of the Black community Me and White Supremacy Workbook - by Layla F. Saad ... of Pennsylvania. She is the recipient of numerous awards and honors and is frequently featured in local and ...

Leeway Foundation announces spring 2020 Art and Change grants

Leeway Foundation 2020 Art & Change Grants
Friday, May 22, 2020
... producers in Greater Philadelphia, supporting their work to address a range of social change issues.  The spring ... In the wake of COVID-19, it is imperative to continue to support artists and activists in the Greater Philadelphia ... informed educator Candy Alexandra González (ACG ‘18), community educator and burgeoning medicine woman Shivon Pearl ...

Philadelphia Foundation’s YOUTHadelphia grants help Philly youth initiatives

Monday, May 28, 2018
... Tribune | By Eric Moody   Six local non-profit organizations received grants totaling $50,000 from The ... program. The Philadelphia Foundation provides grants to low-income non-profit organizations in Philadelphia to ... resources to improve the quality of life for the city as a whole. YOUTHadelphia launched in 2004 and serves as ...

Love & Equity in News

Love Now Media
Thursday, May 13, 2021
... initiatives increase along with demands for newsrooms to dismantle and repair long standing racist practices that ... And when philanthropists are deciding what stories and organizations they strategically support, I think it is ... to filming it - and NOT as a journalist but as part of the community. One of my very first community stories, in 2004, ...

Reflecting Forward: Philadelphia-Based Black Leaders’ Recommendations For Regional Funders

Report: Reflecting Forward: Philadephia-based Black Nonprofit Leaders’ Recommendations for Regional Funders
Monday, June 13, 2022
... Black-led nonprofits in Philadelphia are still struggling to connect with the region’s philanthropic community.   This was one of the key findings in a report ... the pandemic, regional philanthropy collaborated with the city to create substantive funding pools to support the ...

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

Omar Woodard
Monday, September 14, 2020
... GreenLight Philadelphia Fund III , a $3.5 million fund to scale solutions to systemic challenges identified by ... a vote of confidence in GreenLight’s long-term focus on community need, evidence, and local fit,” said Kat ... a growing coalition of investors and champions for our city and its families,” said Josh Kopelman, Managing ...
23Jun2021

Advancing Equitable and Adequate School Funding in PA

Wednesday, June 23, 2021
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Video Conference
... Pennsylvania Grantmakers invite funders and practitioners to join us on Wednesday, June 23rd from 2:00 – 3:15 PM to discuss the lawsuit challenging Pennsylvania’s school ... funding lawsuit, PA Schools Work is a  coalition  of organizations from across Pennsylvania representing urban, ...

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 ... gender transformative grantmaking to build the capacity of organizations to challenge and dismantle rigid social gender ... gap. Recommendations for Advocates and Policymakers: Support policies that work toward and eventually result in ...

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