Advancing Equitable and Adequate School Funding in PA, Part 2: Framing the Impact
Published:
11/2021
This session provided a follow up to the June 2021 program, Advancing Equitable and Adequate School Funding in PA.
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The Douty Foundation announces final, ‘Legacy’ grants totaling $2.2 million as its sunset plan is complete
Tuesday, November 9, 2021
The grantees are a collection of grassroots organizations working across the region, with a focus on race, economic and gender justice
Philadelphia Foundation’s Black Community Leaders Fund Makes $800,000 in Grants to 24 Organizations
Monday, November 8, 2021
An additional $1.5 million in support for the fund also was announced, including contributions from William Penn Foundation ($1million), Wells Fargo ( $250,000), TD Bank ($100,000) and Philadelphia Health Partnership, Santander Bank and the Samuel S. Fels Fund ( $50,000 each).
Leeway Foundation announces the inaugural recipients of the IPMF Artist + Activist Residency
Monday, December 13, 2021
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 + Activist Residency recipients.
Independence Public Media Foundation Announces $2.6 Million in Media-Making and Digital Equity Grants to 33 Projects and Organizations
Wednesday, December 15, 2021
The Independence Public Media Foundation (IPMF) announces $2.6 million in its final round of grants for 2021, focused support for community-centered journalism, digital equity research and policy, community-led and operated radio stations, and filmmaking, with an emphasis on supporting artists from, and films about, underrepresented communities.
Philadelphia Food Justice Initiative Announces New Grant Awards to Increase Health Food Access in Philadelphia
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.
The Alliance for Health Equity Kicks off the Nonprofit Justice and Equity Institute
Wednesday, February 9, 2022
The new Nonprofit Justice and Equity Institute is a series of 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 and Brown communities.
How African-American-Led Organizations Differ from White-Led Organizations: Research Report on African American Nonprofit Organizations in Philadelphia
Published:
04/2016
Based on a survey of 145 Executive Directors or CEOs (“EDs”) of human service-oriented nonprofits in Philadelphia, this study uncovered both similarities and differences between organizations led by African Americans and those led by white Executive Directors.
GALAEI
Thursday, December 16, 2021
"We hold the key... And we, as the folks who are in charge at this point, have the ability to say, “This hasn’t been working, let’s try something new." "
07Jun2022
Responding to Extremism -- New Thinking about Norms and Trust
Tuesday, June 7, 2022
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Join us for a conversation with Dr. David Frey, Founding Director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at USMA, West Point about understanding, preventing, and responding to extremism, and empowering individuals, communities and organizations as they chart new paths forward.
Reflecting Forward: Philadelphia-Based Black Leaders’ Recommendations For Regional Funders
Monday, June 13, 2022
A new report from the Urban Affairs Coalition reveals that Black-led nonprofits continue to struggle connecting with regional funders despite “racial reckoning.”
02Jun2022
The End of Roe: How Should Philanthropy Respond?
Thursday, June 2, 2022
10:00am - 11:30am
Video Conference
As we await the official decision from the Supreme Court on in Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization that could end the right to legal abortion, join us to hear about how abortion restrictions impact individual and societal well-being, how funders can respond, and what this decision might mean for Pennsylvania.
Independence Public Media Foundation Announces 71 Grants Totaling $8.9 Million
Monday, August 15, 2022
IPMF announced $8.9 million in grants for community-centered, BIPOC-led media organizations and projects in the Philadelphia region community that support media-making, narrative shift around violence and community safety, filmmaking, digital equity and journalism.
Philanthropy Needs A New Endgame: The Liberation of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Communities In America
Thursday, June 4, 2020
What philanthropy needs is not a new framework, but a new endgame, racial liberation, which requires an intentional and laser-like focus on breaking systems of oppression that are based in white supremacist culture.
28Sep2022
What if philanthropy celebrated Black Abundance?
Wednesday, September 28, 2022
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Video Conference
Join this session to learn about Abundance, a movement in philanthropy to change practice, policy, mindsets, and ways of being to support Black people and communities.
Native Voices Rising Announces $3.5 Million to Native-Led Advocacy
Thursday, November 10, 2022
Native Voices Rising (NVR) announced $3.5 million in grants to 114 Indigenous and Native-led advocacy and organizing groups working on an array of critical issues, including the promotion of Indigenous worldview, addressing trauma created by the U.S. Indian Boarding School policy, climate and water justice, and preventing incarceration in Native communities.
New coalition to tackle Philadelphia's gun violence
Sunday, November 20, 2022
Led by Philadelphia Foundation and the William Penn Foundation, along with other civic partners, the new Civic Coalition to Save Lives will help catalyze a broad effort to reduce gun deaths annually using strategies that have proven successful in other cities.
The Alliance for Health Equity Kicks off Cohort Two of The Nonprofit Justice and Equity Institute
Wednesday, February 1, 2023
On January 24th, The Alliance for Health Equity launched its second cohort of the Nonprofit Justice and Equity Institute to assist local nonprofit institutions in their commitment to further transform their organizational culture.
The Barr, Kresge, and William Penn Foundations Introduce $13M Funding Collaborative
29Jun2023
Libraries Under Attack- How Funders Can Help Defy Bans and Discrimination
Thursday, June 29, 2023
10:00am - 11:15am
Virtual via Zoom
Hear from public librarians about the role their libraries play in their changing communities and the implications of being caught in the crosshairs of the culture wars, and what private funders can do to support these critical institutions as they cope with unprecedented threats.