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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
... $1.2 million across 9 organizations in ‘Legacy’ grants along with approximately $1 million to The Bread & Roses Community Fund . The grants are the manifestation of the Douty Foundation’s July ... The Douty Foundation has provided general operating and program support grants to such organizations in Montgomery ...

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

ABFE: A Philanthropic Partnership 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 interactions with institutional philanthropy.

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

Wednesday, October 11, 2023
... total, the Initiative has provided over $1.99 million in grants to 27 grantees since its launch in 2019.   PFJI ... strategies to right those wrongs,” said Mica Root, Program Manager for Nutrition and Physical Activity at the ... lived experience with health injustice. To date, PFJI has awarded grants to 27 organizations, of which 25 are Black, ...

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 organizations. The 18-page document was issued by the Black Social Change Funders Network (BSCFN), an initiative forged by the leadership of ABFE: A Philanthropic Partnership for Black Communities and the Hill-Snowdon Foundation.

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

Native Voices Rising Grants
Thursday, November 10, 2022
... Native Voices Rising (NVR) announced $3.5 million in grants to 114 Indigenous and Native-led advocacy and ... network of Native-led organizations funded through this program also keep our organization accountable to our ... dollars, Native Voices Rising leads a capacity-building program, Supportive Assistance, focused on strengthening ...

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

Wednesday, April 8, 2020
... (April 6, 2020) – Since 1968, The Douty Foundation has awarded grants to small grassroots organizations and movements in ... and youth. The Douty Foundation provides general operating grants to organizations in Montgomery & Philadelphia counties ...

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

Leeway Foundation (mark)
Friday, October 16, 2020
... are in terms of adaptation of work. In September, Leeway awarded $48,950 in 20 Art and Change Grants (ACG) to 22 artists leading the exploration of how we ... this round.    Leeway’s Art and Change Grant provides grants of up to $2,500 to fund art for social change projects ...
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Leeway Foundation announces the inaugural recipients of the IPMF Artist + Activist Residency

Leeway Foundation
Monday, December 13, 2021
... artists and social justice and cultural organizations. The awarded proposals are all impactful projects I feel will ... organization, for one year. The residency has been awarded to five artists this year, with each residency ...

Douty Foundation celebrates 50th anniversary, releases new funding guidelines

Thursday, August 1, 2019
... (August 1, 2019) – Since 1968, The Douty Foundation has awarded grants to small grassroots organizations in Philadelphia and ... to expend 10- to 15-percent of its assets per year on grants each year (rather than the minimum IRS requirement of ...

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

Philadelphia Foundation
Thursday, May 13, 2021
... fewer cash reserves and are more dependent on government grants than white-led organizations. These factors can make ... the Black Community Leaders Fund application  here . Grants, which will fund general operating support and ... funds established by its donors and makes over 1,000 grants and scholarship awards each year. To learn more, ...

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

CCFWG Suffrage Mural
Tuesday, November 3, 2020
... Althea Mae Hutchinson of CCFWG’s GirlGov Chester County program, Jimmer Breen of PAC, mural artist Kendra Beitzel, ... School and a member of CCFWG’s GirlGov Chester County program, shared her impressions as a young woman. “Art is a ... opportunities to thrive. Over the past 20 years, CCFWG has awarded over $3.5 million to 80 local non-profit ...
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Funder Briefing: The COVID-19 Prevention & Response Fund

Tuesday, June 29, 2021
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Video Conference
... trust-based philanthropy model through two rounds of grants to support COVID-19 education, vaccine access, health ... Parrish Slide Deck | COVID-19 Prevention & Response Fund Grants Data Presentation - Elise Reynolds Slide Deck | Philly ...

City Announces Third Round of Kensington Community Resilience Fund Grantees

Monday, August 28, 2023
... regional funders, and the Scattergood Foundation. The grants were awarded to grassroots organizations that are focused on ... uses, including overhead costs (e.g., salaries and rent), program costs, training, events, supplies, stipends, and ...

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

Covid-19 Signs
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
... community needs; this is the first effort we know of where grants data from multiple pooled funds is mapped against ... months between March and June 2020, these funds made 4,892 grants across 10 counties for a total of $40,133,289. Most ... important questions such as: Who applied for and received grants? Who didn’t apply or receive grants?  Who do the ...

Justice, not charity: Liz Dozier thinks philanthropy should be rooted in equity and solidarity

Liz Dozier
Tuesday, October 29, 2019

Liz Dozier of Chicago Beyond has a few ideas about how we can do philanthropy more equitably, including showing up in solidarity rather than rooted in bias, compliance metrics or inauthentic things.

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