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

Monday, January 11, 2021
... Colmar, PA- HealthSpark Foundation is announcing the award of $631,000 in grant funds to support 14 projects under the Safety Net Resiliency ... organizations. The Deaf-Hearing Communication Centre , $5,000 for the development of a research plan to assess ...

Eagles Announce Additional $275,000 in Grants to Local Nonprofits Through Eagles Social Justice Fund

Thursday, December 20, 2018
Via the Philadelphia Eagles Following  an initial $190,000 in grants  and a  $20,000 donation to MenzFit earlier in the week , the Philadelphia Eagles ... Equity: $10,000 Summer Search: $10,000 Pa Legal Aid Fund: $5,000 Established in 2018, the Eagles Social Justice Fund was ...
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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
... 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 ... philanthropy. The research had two purposes. The first was to build a body of information on the health and well-being ...

Leeway Foundation announces spring 2020 Art and Change grants

Leeway Foundation 2020 Art & Change Grants
Friday, May 22, 2020
... – Today, the Leeway Foundation announced $42,500 in funding for 17 individual women, trans* and gender ... producers in Greater Philadelphia, supporting their work to address a range of social change issues.  The spring ... of COVID-19.  Leeway’s Art and Change Grant provides grants of up to $2,500 to fund art for social change projects ...

Leeway Foundation announces $55,000 in Art and Change Grants

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Monday, October 7, 2019
... 7, 2019) - Today, the Leeway Foundation announced $55,000 in funding for 31 individual women, trans* and gender ... producers in Greater Philadelphia, supporting their work to address a range of social change issues. The fall 2019 ... Multidisciplinary Arts, $2,500 Art and Change Grants are distributed twice a year and evaluated by an ...

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 energy to vitalize and strengthen the infrastructure for Black-led ... targeted to the Black community. Calling investment in Black-led social change a “moral imperative,” they ...

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

Covid-19 Signs
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
... Businesses and schools closed, basic essentials were in short supply, and thousands began losing income and ... by establishing more than a dozen charitable funds to support the community. Within weeks, tens of millions of ... Education ($11.9M), and Health ($11.4M, including $5.1M for agriculture, food and nutrition aid). Fewer dollars ...

Douty Foundation celebrates 50th anniversary, releases new funding guidelines

Thursday, August 1, 2019
... – Since 1968, The Douty Foundation has awarded grants to small grassroots organizations in Philadelphia and ... each year (rather than the minimum IRS requirement of 5 percent), the increase in grant size will necessitate the ... typically those with annual operating budgets of under $1 million. Organizations that received grant funding from Douty ...

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 ... any delays or challenges arise in accessing the federal award, the Philadelphia Thriving Communities Bridge funding ... application process, EPA selected and contracted $600 million to 11 regional Grantmakers nationwide to serve as ...
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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 ...   To date, the collaborative has invested over $5.8 million in grantmaking and research. Six organizations in ...

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

Philadelphia Foundation
Thursday, May 13, 2021
... release from Philadelphia Foundation PHILADELPHIA, PA (5/12/2021) – Philadelphia Foundation today announced the creation of the Black Community Leaders Fund (BCL) to fortify Black-led nonprofit organizations serving Black ... in Greater Philadelphia. The Fund includes an initial $1 million contribution from Facebook, which selected ...

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 ... at home, another invisible labor force. With a steady rise in healthcare costs and the lack of universal health ... one of the greatest injustices — that women get only 5 percent of the income (UN figures). Doing low-wage work on ...

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 ... hate is not new via the Philadelphia Inquirer (05.13.21) Comcast NBCUniversal Introduces 'We Belong,' A Multimillion ... via 3BL Media (05.12.21) The philanthropic response to the rise in Asian hate via Candid Wake-Up Call: Anti-Asian Hate ...

Finding evidence of our collective courage and strength

215 People's Alliance
Wednesday, May 27, 2020
Photo courtesy 215 People's Alliance   By Casey Cook In the last two months, we’ve all tried to adjust to seeing our friends, family, and coworkers mostly ... the community grantmaking committee has made $405,500 in grants to 42 grassroots community organizing groups. ...

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 ... and Southern New Jersey; Brandywine Health Foundation; Comcast NBCUniversal; The Hummingbird Foundation; William ... The pooled fund seeks to raise a total of $3.45 million to be distributed on a rolling basis over the next 18 ...

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 ... thrive. Over the past 20 years, CCFWG has awarded over $3.5 million to 80 local non-profit organizations. CCFWG Unveils ...
29Jun2021

Funder Briefing: The COVID-19 Prevention & Response Fund

Tuesday, June 29, 2021
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Video Conference
Philanthropy 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 ... who will have just been notified of their grant award on June 29th.  Presenters will include: Linshuang Lu ...

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 ... regional funders, and the Scattergood Foundation. The grants were awarded to grassroots organizations that are focused on improving the quality of life for residents in the communities that have been impacted by the overdose ...

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 ... $15,000 per awardee is in affirmation of their commitment to their communities and art for social change. This year’s ... communities and social justice, the Leeway Transformation Award continues to be an example of how funders can move ...

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