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

Wednesday, October 11, 2023
PHILADELPHIA – Reinvestment Fund joins the Philadelphia Department of Public Health in announcing ... barriers, but the market will also train and employ 12 to 15 teens and young adults on a permanent and year-round ...

Independence Public Media Foundation Announces $2.6 Million in Media-Making and Digital Equity Grants to 33 Projects and Organizations

Wednesday, December 15, 2021
PHILADELPHIA, December 15, 2021 – The Independence Public Media Foundation (IPMF) ... Highlights of these grants include: A two-year grant to Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival (PAAFF) ($200,000), ... of subjects who have resided in one location for 15 years or longer, The project will culminate into an ...

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

Leeway Foundation
Monday, December 13, 2021
Press Release PHILADELPHIA, PA-Leeway Foundation recognizes the ... and social-justice activists throughout the Greater Philadelphia region with $125,000 in funding to five ... to five artists this year, with each residency providing $15,000 to the media artist and $10,000 to the organization. ...

Independence Public Media Foundation Announces $800,000 in 2023 Community Voices Grants

IPMF Community Voices 2023 - Save Chinatown
Tuesday, August 15, 2023
News release via Independence Public Media Foundation PHILADELPHIA, August 15, 2023—The Independence Public Media Foundation (IPMF) ... support underrepresented communities across the Greater Philadelphia region build their power by documenting, ...
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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
... hit by the pandemic   Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia in collaboration with funders across the region ... equity imbalances exacerbated by the pandemic. A group of 15 grassroots representatives living and working in ... that are trusted and have been doing this work for many years. Providing funding for this important work is a clear ...

New Community-Driven Grant Program Available for Community-Based Organizations

Friday, May 7, 2021
... serving neighborhoods most impacted by COVID-19 PHILADELPHIA, May 7, 2021 | The City today announced the ... and be physically located in and provide services in Philadelphia. Grants of $15,000 will be made to organizations that work with ...

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

Covid-19 Signs
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
... Wes Somerville & Sidney Hargro When the coronavirus hit Philadelphia, the impact on our region’s economy and ... Penn Foundation funded Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia and the Center for High Impact Philanthropy at ... CDC Social Vulnerability Index rating (a rating based on 15 U.S. factors that help identify communities that may need ...

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
Via IPMF's website PHILADELPHIA, July 12, 2023—The Independence Public Media ... Equity Project)— $75,000 Paul Robeson House / West Philadelphia Cultural Alliance — $70,000 Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival (PAAFF) — ...
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Advancing Equitable and Adequate School Funding in PA

Wednesday, June 23, 2021
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Video Conference
Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia, Grantmakers of Western PA, and Northeastern ... to join us on Wednesday, June 23rd from 2:00 – 3:15 PM to discuss the lawsuit challenging Pennsylvania’s ... not meet the standard set by the state constitution. After years of procedural arguments, this historic lawsuit is on ...

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

Monday, January 11, 2021
... through a two-year, $300,000 grant. Over the next two years, PHAN will continue to build out the infrastructure of ... Net .  The project awards include: Access Services , $15,000 for a proof-of-concept project to implement a visiting ...

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

The Cuture and Community Power Fund
Tuesday, May 30, 2023
... diaspora in New Orleans.    Asian Arts Initiative  in Philadelphia advances racial equity and understanding by ... residents in the Fairhill-Hartranft neighborhood of Philadelphia to imagine, design, and build a more just and ... claim decision making authority.”    Over the next two years, the Fund will partner with the aforementioned six ...

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

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03/2017
... by the nation’s largest foundations over the next five years, with emphasis on strengthening the infrastructure for ...

Independence Public Media Foundation Announces 71 Grants Totaling $8.9 Million

IPMF grantee
Monday, August 15, 2022
PHILADELPHIA, August 2, 2022—The Independence Public Media ... BIPOC-led media organizations and projects in the Philadelphia region. In total, the foundation awarded 71 ... time to reflect on what we’ve learned in our first three years as an organization, and hone our vision for media ...

Leeway Foundation announces spring 2020 Art and Change grants

Leeway Foundation 2020 Art & Change Grants
Friday, May 22, 2020
PHILADELPHIA – Today, the Leeway Foundation announced ... nonconforming artists and cultural producers in Greater Philadelphia, supporting their work to address a range of ... preservation and disability justice with grantees from Philadelphia, Bucks and Delaware County. In the wake of ...

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

Leeway Foundation (mark)
Friday, October 16, 2020
... that support the immediate needs of artists in Greater Philadelphia, while meeting them where they are in terms of ... trans* artists and cultural producers living in Greater Philadelphia. The Fall 2020 Art and Change grantees are (in ... Arts, $2,500 Alina Pleskova & Laura Blagrave (West Philadelphia & Melrose) Literary Arts/Performance, $2,450 ...
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Leeway Foundation announces $62,500 in project-based funding

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Monday, November 25, 2024
Press release via Leeway Foundation PHILADELPHIA, PA — Leeway Foundation announces $62,500 in ... nonconforming artists and cultural producers in Greater Philadelphia with the 2024 Art and Change Grant (ACG). For ... and Change Grant has supported artists who are, as beloved Philadelphia queer artist and activist Paul Robeson said, ...

Funders and Grantees celebrate PA is Ready!

Tuesday, October 10, 2017
On October 10,  The Philadelphia Foundation  hosted a  Funder/Grantee ... need to apply for immigration assistance. In 2016, The Philadelphia Foundation and a cohort of local and national ... S. Fels Fund, The Alfred and Mary Douty Foundation, The Philadelphia Foundation, Union Benevolent Association, and ...

IPMF Announces 2024 Community Voices Fund Grant Recipients

IPMF 2024 Community Voices
Thursday, November 21, 2024
PHILADELPHIA, November 21, 2024—The Independence Public ... women and transgender and gender nonconforming people in Philadelphia jails to share their stories and build power ... engagement, and networking needs of Afghan refugees in the Philadelphia region. “We’re excited to continue ...

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

Independence Public Media Foundation
Thursday, June 3, 2021
IMPFlogo.png PHILADELPHIA, June 2, 2021 – The Independence Public Media ... Foundation (IPMF) announces another major investment in Philadelphia’s media making community. Thirteen grants ... and storytelling among diverse communities across Philadelphia,” said Nuala Cabral, IPMF program officer. ...
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The Douty Foundation announces final, ‘Legacy’ grants totaling $2.2 million as its sunset plan is complete

The Douty Foundation
Tuesday, November 9, 2021
... for limited-life philanthropy via Generocity douty2020.png PHILADELPHIA - Today, The Douty Foundation, a private ... a recipient of Douty’s assets, states that “for 50 years, the Douty Foundation and Bread & Roses Community Fund ... funding grassroots groups working for change in the Philadelphia region, and we have always enjoyed a strong ...

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