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

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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 ... are in terms of adaptation of work. In September, Leeway awarded $48,950 in 20 Art and Change Grants (ACG) to 22 ... & Textiles/Literary Arts, $1,500 REGO THERESHEGO (West Center City), Media Arts/Music, $2,500 Sarah Kim (West ...
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28Sep2022

What if philanthropy celebrated Black Abundance?

Wednesday, September 28, 2022
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Video Conference
... Sparking the Movement Mon, October 3, 2022, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM CDT (4:00-5:00 PM EDT) Sign up for a 1:1 with Abundance staff to learn ... member and the lead organizer at the Black Organizing Project based in Oakland, California. During her time with ...
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Racial EquitySocial Justice
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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
... Funders Medium page Sogorea Te’ Land Trust Boston Ujima Project | @ujimaboston Native Voices Rising - an Indigenous ...

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 ... to mid-70s. Leeway’s Art and Change Grant provides project-based funds of up to $2,500 to women and trans* and ... Crafts, Textiles & Performing Arts, $2,500 Marcy Francis (Southwest Cedar Park), Music and Folk Arts, $2,500 ...

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 ... continues to be an example of how funders can move beyond project-based funding and meet artists and activists where ... per year. These project-based grants of up to $2,500 are awarded to women and trans* artists in Greater Philadelphia. ...

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
... across the United States have shut down their operations in response to COVID-19. Many of these businesses that have ... their jobs and access to health benefits — more than 30 million Americans  have applied for unemployment benefits ... one of the greatest injustices — that women get only 5 percent of the income (UN figures). Doing low-wage work on ...
07Jun2022

Responding to Extremism -- New Thinking about Norms and Trust

Tuesday, June 7, 2022
1:00pm - 2:00pm
... Grantmakers Council of Rhode Island, Maine Philanthropy Center, Philanthropy Massachusetts and other ... Studies at USMA, West Point Racially-motivated killings in Buffalo, Dallas, and Southern California in one weekend. ... “agents of change” in 2018. He is the 2021-22 William J. Lowenberg Memorial Fellow on America, the Holocaust, 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 + ... artists and social justice and cultural organizations. The awarded proposals are all impactful projects I feel will ... Ami Joelle Glazer and Youth Art and Self-Empowerment Project (YASP) Kristal Sotomayor, Daniel DeJesus, + Gabe ...

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

Immigrant Community courtesy Fels Fund
Wednesday, April 8, 2020
... sector’s response, both nationally and here in Greater Philadelphia. This spirit of “we are all in this ... While undocumented workers in Pennsylvania pay millions in state and local taxes, they will nonetheless be excluded from ... health care. As we step-up with compassion and increased funding, let’s ensure that we are supporting relief funds ...

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
... that exploded during the pandemic, Black-led nonprofits in Philadelphia are still struggling to connect with the ... researcher of the report. “The research design for this project intentionally centers the views, expertise, and lived ... on Monday, June 13th at an event to be held from 3:00 – 4:30 PM at the Public, Private, Philanthropic Partnership Hub ...

Independence Public Media Foundation Welcomes Seven New Board Members

IPMF new board members 2025
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
News release PHILADELPHIA, February 4, 2025 – The Independence Public Media Foundation (IPMF) ... They will join IPMF’s seven other board members in support of the foundation’s mission to move resources ... journalist and product manager at the Marshall Project Ahmed Moor , Palestinian-American writer Hannah ...
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Philanthropy Needs A New Endgame: The Liberation of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Communities In America

Breaking Chains
Thursday, June 4, 2020
... to support, challenge, and advise funders as they seek to center equity in their work. The signature component of the ... With predominantly White executive and board leadership ,( 4 ) many foundations operate with an unconscious bias which ... objectives, and work of the foundation over the next 3-5-10 years. Therefore, decisions that are made have a direct ...

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 at ... rate from 19% to 2% and prompt  double-digit increases in attendance and the school’s state graduation rate. Now, as CEO of the impact investment ...

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

Tuesday, August 7, 2018
... 202/328-2040 | gbass@baumanfoundation.org National, state and local philanthropies across 38 states and District of Columbia join in unanimous opposition; more than 30 philanthropy-serving ... census in 2020.” The letter continues: We have different funding priorities, are ideologically diverse, and do not ...

Philadelphia Foundation’s YOUTHadelphia grants help Philly youth initiatives

Monday, May 28, 2018
... provides grants to low-income non-profit organizations in Philadelphia to help build philanthropic resources to ... youth incarceration were addressed.  “I think receiving funding from a big organization like YOUTHadelphia that ... Glenn Co-founder of the Youth Art & Self Empowerment Project. This program started in 2006 with four members, ...

The Alliance for Health Equity Kicks off Cohort Two of The Nonprofit Justice and Equity Institute

Nonprofit Justice and Equity Institute Cohort Two Funders
Wednesday, February 1, 2023
... culture.  These organizations are: 2 Fish & 5 Loaves Chester County History Center Chester County Futures Crime Victims Center of Chester ... of social, health, and economic factors; and (4) accountability to the community. The final component of ...
07Oct2020

Setting the Table: Reimagining Wealth & Capitalism

Wednesday, October 7, 2020
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Video Conference
... justice. Inspired by Sidney and Marcus’s conversation in July on white supremacy , this space is intentionally ... ensuring we don’t settle for innovation as the future state but as an opportunity to create radical change.  ...

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 nonconforming artists and cultural producers in Greater Philadelphia, supporting their work to address a ...

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

Stop Asian Hate
Tuesday, March 23, 2021
By Patricia Eng of Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP) and Eric Stegman of Native Americans ... Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy, and the Pew Research Center) Art As Medicine: Building Solidarity in and with ... #ArtistResource Conversation Seeking to Soar: Foundation Funding for Asian American and Pacific Islander Communities ...

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