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

Leeway Foundation (mark)
Monday, October 7, 2019
... from early-20s to mid-70s. Leeway’s Art and Change Grant provides project-based funds of up to $2,500 to women ... Durant (Port Fishington), Visual and Crafts & Textile Arts, $2,500 Andrienne Palchick, Heidi Ratanavanich, Connie ... from their gender assigned at birth. Leeway Foundation announces $55,000 in Art and Change Grants ...

The Fund for Women and Girls’ Community-Based Grants Allocation Committee Awards $239,680 in Grants

The Fund for Women and Girls' Girls Advisory Board
Thursday, June 23, 2022
Press release via The Fund for Women and Girls WEST CHESTER, PA (June 23, 2022) – The ... of women and girls throughout Chester County. Nearly 70 community members, grantee partners, and Fund Board and ... who felt whole again after receiving furniture for their new homes; Alma Vidal, Manager of Maternal and Child Health ...
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New Century Trust Adopts Trust-Based Philanthropy Approach

Thursday, May 24, 2018
Since 1882, New Century Trust has worked to build the economic and ... Beyond funding, the Trust wants to create an avenue for open communication and mutual learning and work togetther ... unnecessary administrative burden usually associated with grant writing and reporting. New Century Trust is currently ...

Leeway Foundation announces spring 2020 Art and Change grants

Leeway Foundation 2020 Art & Change Grants
Friday, May 22, 2020
... needs as a result of COVID-19.  Leeway’s Art and Change Grant provides grants of up to $2,500 to fund art for social ... order): Andrea Walls (West Philadelphia), Visual and Media Arts, $2,500 Arielle Julia Brown (Mt. Airy), Performance and ... from their gender assigned at birth.   Leeway Foundation announces spring 2020 Art and Change grants ...

NBC10, Telemundo62 and Comcast NBCUniversal Foundation Award $227,000 in Unrestricted Grants to Eight Local Nonprofits

NBCUniversal Local Impact Grants
Tuesday, August 27, 2024
... more than $1.5 million to 51 local nonprofits through the grant program. The competitive grant challenge, now in its ... and Telemundo-owned stations’ 11 U.S. markets, which are New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Philadelphia, Dallas, Boston, ... their own narrative through free filmmaking and media arts programs across Philadelphia. Their pathway of after ...
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Chester County Fund for Women and Girls’ Grants Allocation Committee Awards $219,000 in Grants

Monday, June 18, 2018
... CHESTER, PA (June 18, 2018) – The Chester County Fund for Women and Girls (CCFWG) has awarded $219,000 in grants to ... the lives of women and girls in Chester County. Nearly 100 community members, grantee partners, and CCFWG Board and ... violence and sexual assault. This year, CCFWG introduced a new two-year funding program , pledging to award three ...

New Era for New Century Trust

Friday, March 2, 2018
Message from Carey Morgan, Executive Director, New Century Trust This Women’s History Month marks the start of a new era for New Century Trust. After more than 111 years in our home ... of how New Century Trust can be most useful to our community. We asked hundreds of people, including historic ...
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The Fund for Women and Girls Bids Farewell to Current Executive Director, Announces Interim Appointee, and Looks Ahead to Diverse Executive Search

Mary Beth Morrissey
Thursday, September 16, 2021
WEST CHESTER, PA (September 16, 2021) - The Fund for Women and Girls says goodbye to its current Executive Director, Michelle Legaspi Sánchez , and announces an Interim Executive Director to assume the role on ... lead in the executive search, with the goal of naming a new Executive Director by the end of 2021. In the parting ...
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The Leeway Foundation Announces $48,950 in Support to 22 Individual Artists and Cultural Producers

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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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Chester County Fund for Women and Girls’ Grants Allocation Committee Awards $217,000 in Grants

CCFWG 2019 Grants Celebration
Monday, July 8, 2019
WEST CHESTER, PA (July 8, 2019) – The Chester County Fund for Women and Girls (CCFWG) has awarded $217,000 in grants to ... Square community has embraced their efforts to establish new programming aimed at helping girls in need write with clarity and grow in confidence. Top left: Grant recipients Michele Roberson of the Bianca Nikol Merge ...
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Leeway Foundation Announces $49,950 in Support To 23 Individual Artists Highlighting Practices of Reclamation Of LGBQA Social Movements and Cultural Preservation

Leeway Foundation
Wednesday, October 13, 2021
... over 50 years of disability advocacy, or using culinary arts to connect to ancestral Filipinx recipes and traditions, ... with their communities. Leeway’s Art and Change Grant provides grants of up to $2,500 to fund art for social ... from their gender assigned at birth.

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 ...

The Fund for Women and Girls' Girls Philanthropy Program Awards Grants

Wednesday, March 29, 2023
... Family, friends, and staff and board members of the Fund for Women and Girls gathered together on Tuesday, March 7, ... Maternal and Child Health Consortium received a $5,000 grant .  With this grant, MCHC will be able to assist an ... Center   The young GAB philanthropists identified community needs using The Fund’s 2022 Blueprint Report: ...

Health Department Announces Significant Contributions to the Philly Joy Bank from the William Penn Foundation and Spring Point Partners

Monday, March 20, 2023
... funding will help provide a monthly guaranteed income for approximately 250 pregnant Philadelphians with the aim of ... know that being able to better support pregnant people and new parents helps keep babies alive. As the poorest big city ... https://philacityfund.org/programs/ . Health Department Announces Significant Contributions to the Philly Joy Bank ...
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The Alliance for Health Equity announces the Judy Spangler Memorial Scholarship

Judy Spangler
Monday, May 8, 2023
Press release Alliance for Health Equity.png   Coatesville, Pennsylvania - The Alliance for Health Equity is honored to announce a new scholarship opportunity, the Judy Spangler Memorial ... . The Alliance for Health Equity announces the Judy Spangler Memorial Scholarship ...

WOMEN’S WAY Receives Grant to Advance the Financial Health of Women in the Philadelphia Region

WOMEN'S WAY Gender Wealth Institute
Thursday, April 13, 2023
... girls, and gender-expansive individuals. Philadelphia, PA (April 13, 2023) – WOMEN’S WAY is excited to ... health of women, girls, and gender-expansive individuals in the Greater Philadelphia region. The initiative brings ... reality of many women. To address this challenge, a grant from JPMorgan Chase will enable WOMEN’S WAY to ...

Leeway Foundation Introduces Immediate Relief Funds for Individual Artists in the Launch of the 2021 Community Care Fund

Leeway Foundation Community Care Fund
Thursday, February 4, 2021
... – In response to the continuing financial impacts on the arts and culture community, Leeway Foundation is launching ... as part of their joint relief and recovery support effort for Philadelphia arts and culture organizations. Last March, ... as a second branch of the Window of Opportunity (WOO) grant. The WOO Relief Fund went live in April 2020. From ...

The Fund for Women and Girls Launches Highly Anticipated 2022 Blueprint Report at Community Event

The Fund for Women and Girls Blueprint speakers
Thursday, October 6, 2022
WEST CHESTER, PA (October 6, 2022) – The Fund for Women and Girls launched its highly anticipated 2022 ... with a deep dive on conditions in Chester County. Over 120 community members, grantee partners, and stakeholders ...    The event kicked off with a welcome from The Fund’s new Executive Director Kim Andrews , followed by remarks from ...
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CCFWG’S 4th Annual Champions of Change Event Leaves Chester County Business Community Inspired to Elevate Women in the Workplace

2020 COC Collage
Thursday, November 12, 2020
... CHESTER, PA (NOVEMBER 12, 2020) - The Chester County Fund for Women and Girls (CCFWG) hosted its fourth annual ... kicking off the event. Nearly 100 business leaders, community supporters and elected officials tuned in to honor ... “The collective goal of our programs is to create new avenues for women to learn our industry and to advance ...

The Fund for The School District of Philadelphia Awards Grants Designed to Increase Projects in STEM and Inspire Black, Latinx and Female Students

Tuesday, June 29, 2021
PHILADELPHIA, PA—(June 17, 2021)— The Fund for The School District of Philadelphia has announced 16 winning public-school projects that will receive grant funding for programming  aimed at introducing Black, Latinx and female students to potential careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). ...

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