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

Covid-19 Signs
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
... sectors sprang into action. The need was great, and philanthropy responded by establishing more than a dozen charitable funds to support the community. Within weeks, tens of millions of ... the Lenfest Foundation and William Penn Foundation funded Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia and the Center for ...

New Report on Nonprofit Financial Health Pre-Pandemic Serves as a Wake-Up Call

The Financial Heath of Greater Philadelphia Nonprofits 2020
Tuesday, December 8, 2020
... and Southern New Jersey , released a new report today at Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia’s SPARX ... IRS 990 data conducted by BCT Consulting and contributions to the synthesis of the data provided by the Nonprofit ... the sector as a whole, the report shows some encouraging trends from 2014 to 2018, including: a 21 percent increase in ...

Celebrating a Life of Purpose: Dr. Jane Goodall, Winner of the 2021 Templeton Prize

Dr. Jane Goodall
Thursday, May 20, 2021
... received for that work, the Templeton Prize is now proud to honor Dr. Goodall’s lifelong scientific and spiritual curiosity, and unrelenting effort to help humanity understand the interconnectedness of the ... Templeton Prize,” Dr. Goodall told us. ►Read more and watch a video of Dr. Goodall sitting down (virtually) with ...

Connelly and William Penn Foundations announce major support of workforce initiative

UCD Green City Works
Friday, December 20, 2019
Via University City District We are pleased to announce that we are the recipients of $895,000 in funds ... and William Penn Foundations . The funding will help to expand the reach of our West Philadelphia Sklils ... Citizens Bank and JP Morgan Chase, both announced in Fall 2019. Together, the four grants total more than $2.5 million. ...

William Penn Foundation announces new grants

Monday, December 16, 2019
In November 2019, the William Penn Foundation Board of Directors approved ... recently awarded 22 grants, totaling almost $15 million, to support education in Philadelphia. Engaged Families grants were awarded to: Carnegie Hall Corporation to pilot and evaluate a ...

William Penn Foundation announces grants for Creative Communities, Great Learning and Watershed

Thursday, June 6, 2019
... four Great Leanring grants totaling more than $2.8 million to support education in Philadelphia. As part of the Creative Communities program, the Foundation works to support equitable access to great public spaces . A ... one-time civic opportunities, and strengthen regional philanthropy, went to Willistown Conservation Trust, Inc. ...

William Penn Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Announce more than $8 million in Covid-19 Relief and Recovery Grants

Philadelphia Orchestra by Jeff Fusco
Wednesday, December 2, 2020
To continue to address the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the William ... has partnered with The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to collectively award more than $8 million in Relief and ... one-time civic opportunities, or strengthen regional philanthropy. The grants below relate to the Creative ...