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

Thursday, December 20, 2018
... Camden Alternative Education Programs: $20,000 Center for Returning Citizens: $20,000 Frontline Dads: $20,000 ... players and club executives, works to identify potential grant recipients and secure contributions to the Eagles ... ($50,000), United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey ($40,000) to support reading programs in Camden, ...
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Social Justice
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Equity and Social Justice

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

Philadelphia Foundation
Thursday, May 13, 2021
... important community organizations, and with this timely grant from Facebook and several additional inaugural ... which disproportionately affect Black populations. For additional information about the Black Community Leaders ... more, visit:  philafound.org . Philadelphia Foundation Announces Fund Focused on Black-Led Nonprofits Serving Black ...

Philanthropy Needs A New Endgame: The Liberation of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Communities In America

Breaking Chains
Thursday, June 4, 2020
... pepper spray to intimidate and disperse those advocating for change. This is America and Philanthropy Operates in It ... seeks justice in his book From Generosity to Justice: A New Gospel of Wealth . ( 3 ) In Philadelphia, Philanthropy ... are able to creatively show their impact in reports and grant proposals.  However, the meritocracy frame means the ...

City Launches Fund to Support Philadelphia Organizations Pursuing Thriving Communities Grantmaking Program

Wednesday, March 12, 2025
... Protection Agency (EPA), aims to make it easier for small, community-based organizations (CBOs) to access ... The TCGM funding is fully obligated through a signed grant agreement with GHHI, but should any delays or ... through funding programs in the Philadelphia region in arts and culture, children and families, democracy and civic ...
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EnvironmentSocial Justice

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
... struggling to connect with the region’s philanthropic community.   This was one of the key findings in a report ... Philadelphia-based Black Leaders’ Recommendations for Regional Funders.” The report is based on ... as “incompetent” and “risky.” The release of this new report coincides at a time when Black nonprofit leaders ...

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

Leeway Foundation
Monday, December 13, 2021
... justice advocate and podcast creator, Farrah Parkes; media arts programmer, curator, and public media supporter, Gretjen ... and social justice. For more information about Leeway, its grant programs, grantees, and events, visit leeway.org . ... from their gender assigned at birth. ### Leeway Foundation announces the inaugural recipients of the IPMF Artist + ...

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

Published: 
12/2017
By Mike Scutari for Inside Philanthropy |  This article from Inside Philanthropy predicts the top arts philanthropy trend for 2018 will be institutional ... for the benefit of black people." Hillombo partners with community development organizations that are "building power ...
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How African-American-Led Organizations Differ from White-Led Organizations: Research Report on African American Nonprofit Organizations in Philadelphia

PAALF Report (2016)
Published: 
04/2016
... the United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania and Southern New Jersey, commissioned a study of African American-led ... In 2014-2015, Branch Associates, Inc., a Philadelphia-based research and evaluation firm, conducted a survey of leaders of human service-oriented nonprofit organizations in Philadelphia. The survey research was ...

Douty Foundation celebrates 50th anniversary, releases new funding guidelines

Thursday, August 1, 2019
... with its 2019 annual application deadline, Douty’s grant awards will increase to a minimum of $20,000 per year ... the creation of a funding focus to its annual Request for Proposals. Douty is seeking to support organizations ... September 16 th deadline.  Additional information on the new guidelines can be found here  or contact Jennifer Leith ...

Native Voices Rising Announces $3.5 Million to Native-Led Advocacy

Native Voices Rising Grants
Thursday, November 10, 2022
... Native-led advocacy and organizing groups. This year’s grant awardees work on an array of critical issues, ... of Native-led efforts by facilitating a process for non-Native donors and institutions to learn from and ... and remarkable organizations.  Native Voices Rising Announces $3.5 Million to Native-Led Advocacy ...

New coalition to tackle Philadelphia's gun violence

Sharman Matlock-Turner, president and CEO of the Urban Affairs Coalition
Sunday, November 20, 2022
... consisting of 70 groups representing a cross-section of community and faith-based organizations, nonprofits and the ... Danielle Outlaw have expressed their appreciation for the coalition, welcoming the support in efforts to end ... Philadelphia’s gun violence epidemic. >>CONTINUE READING New coalition to tackle Philadelphia's gun violence ...

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

Omar Woodard
Monday, September 14, 2020
... models: Year Up Greater Philadelphia, Single Stop, Center for Employment Opportunities, ParentChild+, and Compass ... a vote of confidence in GreenLight’s long-term focus on community need, evidence, and local fit,” said Kat ... With seven years of impact, GreenLight welcomes six new investors to Fund III: Firstrust Bank, Hamilton Family ...
23Jun2021

Advancing Equitable and Adequate School Funding in PA

Wednesday, June 23, 2021
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Video Conference
... reliant on local property values, which has resulted in deep inequality and inequity that disproportionately ... deep inequality in PA public schools. The suit is asking for a court order that will force the legislature to comply ... funding lawsuit, PA Schools Work is a  coalition  of organizations from across Pennsylvania representing urban, ...

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

Leeway Foundation (mark)
Friday, October 16, 2020
... of focus for this round.    Leeway’s Art and Change Grant provides grants of up to $2,500 to fund art for social ... Alexandra Espinoza (Strawberry Mansion), Performance/Media Arts, $2,500 Alina Pleskova & Laura Blagrave (West ... their gender assigned at birth.   The Leeway Foundation Announces $48,950 in Support to 22 Individual Artists and ...
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Independence Public Media Foundation Welcomes Seven New Board Members

IPMF new board members 2025
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
... Independence Public Media Foundation (IPMF) welcomes seven new members to its board of directors. The new board members ... in support of the foundation’s mission to move resources for media and media-making owned and led by communities ... IPMF, through its  first-ever board open call , invited community members to apply and join its board. This aligns ...
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Reinvestment Fund and Health Department Announce $500,000 in Funding for Food Justice

Wednesday, October 11, 2023
... $556,280 in  Philadelphia Food Justice Initiative (PFJI) grant awards to nine local Philadelphia organizations to ... launch in 2019.   PFJI provides funding to innovative, community-led projects that strengthen Philadelphia’s food assets and opportunities for individual and collective action to further food justice. ...

CCFWG Unveils Women’s Suffrage Mural Before Election Day to Inspire Community to Get Out and Vote

CCFWG Suffrage Mural
Tuesday, November 3, 2020
... leaders, and residents joined the Chester County Fund for Women and Girls (CCFWG), West Chester Public Arts Commission (PAC), and Zukin Properties to unveil the ... reminded the crowd. “Though a public art project is new for CCFWG, what is not new is being a beacon for gender ...

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 Philadelphia Foundation’s Fund for Children’s YOUTHadelphia program. The Philadelphia ... provides grants to low-income non-profit organizations in Philadelphia to help build philanthropic resources to ...

HealthSpark Foundation announces the Dr. Frank E. Boston Black Justice Fund

HealthSpark Foundation
Tuesday, October 5, 2021
... the historical exclusion of Black leaders and Black community-serving organizations from tackling the challenges ... in Black communities to advance justice and liberation for all County residents. HealthSpark Foundation has ... . HealthSpark Foundation announces the Dr. Frank E. Boston Black Justice Fund ...
07Jun2022

Responding to Extremism -- New Thinking about Norms and Trust

Tuesday, June 7, 2022
1:00pm - 2:00pm
... with Dr. David Frey, Founding Director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at USMA, West Point ... world? Are there ways to apply lessons learned to place-based and issue-based funding? Join this conversation with ... individuals, communities and organizations as they chart new paths forward. About the Speaker: Dr. David Frey is ...
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Anti-ViolenceRacial EquitySocial Justice

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