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Independence Public Media Foundation Announces $2 Million in Grants to Media Making Organizations

Independence Public Media Foundation
Thursday, June 3, 2021
... Media Foundation (IPMF) announces another major investment in Philadelphia’s media making community. Thirteen grants totaling $2 million were awarded ... creative expression as pathways for communities building power. The grants in this cycle provide critical ongoing ...
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Equity and Social Justice

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 ... along with approximately $1 million to The Bread & Roses Community Fund . The grants are the manifestation of the ... at the end of 2021 was courageous. Bread & Roses shifts power and resources to people most affected by oppression, so ...

Philadelphia Food Justice Initiative Announces New Grant Awards

Food Equity
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
... food options. This is part of an effort to find and fund community-driven solutions to historic food injustice. The ... part of the Philadelphia Food Justice Initiative (PFJI). In total, the initiative has provided over $620,000 in grants over two rounds since its launch in 2019. “PFJI ...

Independence Public Media Foundation Announces 71 Grants Totaling $8.9 Million

IPMF grantee
Monday, August 15, 2022
... (IPMF) announces grants totaling $8.9 million for community-centered, BIPOC-led media organizations and projects in the Philadelphia region. In total, the foundation awarded ... media-making is a critical way for communities to build power as they fight for justice and change. As a key ...

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 ... and interconnected. It’s the weekly convening of our community grantmaking committee for our Solidarity Fund for ... Fund grantees : I promise you’ll join me in feeling the power and ingenuity of our community.   Casey Cook.jpg Casey ...

"A Goal of Justice." Behind a Push for Racial Equity in Arts Funding

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12/2017
... for arts & culture, served on the board of Grantmakers in the Arts, and was the chair of its Thought Leader Forum on ... for the benefit of black people." Hillombo partners with community development organizations that are "building power by engaging community in planning and strategy," and ...
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19May2021

Setting the Table with Dana Kawaoka-Chen & Erik Stegman

Wednesday, May 19, 2021
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Webinar on Zoom
... a system that centers and promotes racial equity. In each conversation, Sidney, Marcus and their guests explore ... conversation to be inspired and challenged along with a community of peers.

Douty Foundation celebrates 50th anniversary, releases new funding guidelines

Thursday, August 1, 2019
... has awarded grants to small grassroots organizations in Philadelphia and Montgomery Counties that are creating social change in their communities. In honor of its 50th anniversary, ... organizations right now.    “We believe that the power to create change is propelled by lived experience and ...

Love & Equity in News

Love Now Media
Thursday, May 13, 2021
... and equity. I define equity as sharing and distributing power, information, resources, and access. As the founder of ... and cultural producer existed on the fringes of news. In fact, for many years, my work as a storyteller was a ... to filming it - and NOT as a journalist but as part of the community. One of my very first community stories, in 2004, ...

Independence Public Media Foundation Welcomes Seven New Board Members

IPMF new board members 2025
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
... They will join IPMF’s seven other board members in support of the foundation’s mission to move resources ... IPMF, through its  first-ever board open call , invited community members to apply and join its board. This aligns with the foundation’s ongoing commitment to share power with communities typically excluded from philanthropy. ...
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Leading Philadelphia Civil Legal Aid and Social-Service Agencies Sign On to Become Founding Member Tenants in the First Collaborative Center of its Kind

Friday, March 8, 2019
... and social-service non-profits to become Member Tenants in a first-of-its-kind collaboration known as the ... Equal Justice Center (EJC ). Construction will begin in 2019 and the EJC will open its doors in 2022. The Equal ... and purpose-built location for the city’s legal aid community to call home. The EJC will increase access to ...
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Philadelphia Food Justice Initiative Announces New Grant Awards to Increase Health Food Access in Philadelphia

Reinvestment Fund Food Justice Initiative
Thursday, January 27, 2022
Since its launch in 2019, the initiative has awarded $1.25 million in grants to advance community-driven solutions to historic food injustice   ...

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 ... communities. The authors say that grantmakers can use the power of their voice and their dollars to make a difference, ... ways that you can take a stand and stop Asian hate in your community today (via the City of Philadelphia's Office of ...

Leeway Foundation announces the inaugural recipients of the IPMF Artist + Activist Residency

Leeway Foundation
Monday, December 13, 2021
... PA-Leeway Foundation recognizes the longstanding power of media artists and social-justice activists ... throughout the Greater Philadelphia region with $125,000 in funding to five inaugural Leeway x IPMF Media Artist + ... women, trans*, and gender nonconforming media artists in documenting, reframing, and/or amplifying the issues and ...

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

Leeway Foundation (mark)
Monday, October 7, 2019
... 7, 2019) - Today, the Leeway Foundation announced $55,000 in funding for 31 individual women, trans* and gender nonconforming artists and cultural producers in Greater Philadelphia, supporting their work to address a ... propose a project that impacts a larger group, audience or community; have financial need; and live in the Greater ...

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

Wednesday, October 11, 2023
... Fund joins the Philadelphia Department of Public Health in announcing $556,280 in  Philadelphia Food Justice Initiative (PFJI) grant awards ... launch in 2019.   PFJI provides funding to innovative, community-led projects that strengthen Philadelphia’s food ...

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
... Institute will assist nine local nonprofit institutions in their commitment to further transform their organizational ... sessions over six months which includes participation in six hours of capacity-building coaching to advance their ... rooted inequities experienced by its most marginalized community members, including those experienced by the Black ...

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Thursday, December 16, 2021
... centered around HIV care and testing for the Latinx community, and we recently transitioned into what we call a ... — serving the needs of the most marginalized in our community.   We know that if we are going to be true ... impacting Black and Brown LGTBQ folks, killing people off in the same way it did during the HIV/AIDS epidemic. ...

The Alliance for Health Equity Kicks off the Nonprofit Justice and Equity Institute

Nonprofit Justice and Equity Institute Wordle
Wednesday, February 9, 2022
... learning sessions designed to support the nonprofit sector in its commitment to recognize and mitigate the deeply rooted inequities experienced by its most marginalized community members, including those experienced by the Black ... Group), will assist eight local nonprofit institutions in their commitment to further transform their organizational ...

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

Wednesday, April 8, 2020
... grants to small grassroots organizations and movements in Philadelphia and Montgomery Counties that activate social change within their communities. In response to the COVID-19 crisis, the Foundation is ... students - because they are the trusted entity in their community.” said Jennifer Leith, Executive Director of The ...

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