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William Penn Foundation announces new grants

Monday, December 16, 2019
In November 2019, the William Penn Foundation Board of Directors approved grants of nearly $20 ... recently awarded 22 grants, totaling almost $15 million, to support education in Philadelphia. Engaged Families grants ... service agencies. ($716,500 over 36 months)   Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Foundation to develop, pilot, and ...

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 Penn Foundation has partnered with The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation ...

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

Thursday, June 6, 2019
The William Penn Foundation announced their recently approved grants including ... four Great Leanring grants totaling more than $2.8 million to support education in Philadelphia. As part of the Creative ... also seeks to model the recommendations of the Mayor’s Historic Preservation Task Force to expand preservation ...

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 ... trains, advances, and supports its workforce. The Connelly Foundation has granted WPSI $450,000 over three years to ... The expansion also includes work with Temple University's Lenfest North Philadelphia Workforce Initiative (NPWI) and ...

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
... Repositioning Fund , in partnership with its members from HealthSpark Foundation , The Scattergood Foundation and the United Way of ... today at Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia’s SPARX Conference that details the financial health and ...
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Keystone Policy Webinar Series - Session 4: Financially Distressed Municipalities

Tuesday, April 18, 2017
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Webinar
... and the public sector that are permissible and can serve to build relationships and advance important issues.   A ...

COVID-19 Nonprofit Continuity Grants available for Berks County nonprofits

Wednesday, April 1, 2020
  READING, PA (April 1, 2020) – Berks County Community Foundation has launched an emergency grant program to help Berks County nonprofits fill critical gaps in funding that have occurred as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The funding is meant to help with ...
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Innovative COVID-19 Response Dashboard yields lessons for future disaster philanthropy

Covid-19 Signs
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
... coronavirus hit Philadelphia, the impact on our region’s economy and welfare was immediate. Businesses and schools ... by establishing more than a dozen charitable funds to support the community. Within weeks, tens of millions of ... were left out? With these questions in mind, the Lenfest Foundation and William Penn Foundation funded Philanthropy ...

City of Philadelphia and PIDC Open Applications to Philadelphia COVID-19 Small Business Relief Fund

Philadelphia COVID-19 Small Business Relief Fund
Monday, March 23, 2020
... a more-than-$9 million grant and loan program designed to support Philadelphia small businesses, help maintain ... has been donated by the Daniel B. and Florence E. Green Foundation. The Philadelphia COVID-19 Small Business Relief ... Kenney. “These businesses are the backbone of our city’s economy, and this fund will help some of our small ...
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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 ... Heather Templeton Dill, president of the John Templeton Foundation. “Her discoveries have profoundly altered the ...

Hospital Closures: Community Leaders Partner to Minimize Disruption of Healthcare Services

Monday, January 31, 2022
... PA – January 31, 2021 – With Tower Health’s closure of Jennersville Hospital on December 31, and the ... Equity (The Alliance), formerly the Brandywine Health Foundation, has announced the formation of the Health ... 20 local and county organizations, will develop strategies to minimize disruption of healthcare services and rebuild a ...