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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 ... $2.8 million to support education in Philadelphia. As part of the Creative Communities program, the Foundation works to ... National Wildlife Federation ($6,098,000 over 36 months), Independence Seaport Museum ($161,200 over 18 months), and to ...

Connelly and William Penn Foundations announce major support of workforce initiative

UCD Green City Works
Friday, December 20, 2019
... We are pleased to announce that we are the recipients of $895,000 in funds from the Connelly and William Penn ... Foundations . The funding will help to expand the reach of our West Philadelphia Sklils Initiative (WPSI) and support ... trains, advances, and supports its workforce. The Connelly Foundation has granted WPSI $450,000 over three years to ...

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 ... for Philadelphia arts organizations, William Penn's board of directors also approved Relief and Recovery Support grants ...
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Keystone Policy Webinar Series - Session 4: Financially Distressed Municipalities

Tuesday, April 18, 2017
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Webinar
... affects the nonprofit sector, and many have a history of engaging and educating state policymakers.   Even given ...

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
... Foundation , The Scattergood Foundation and the United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey , released a ... most organizations before 2020,” said Russell Johnson, President and CEO of the HealthSpark Foundation and Chair of the Nonprofit ...

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 closure of ... communities that relied upon them,” said Vanessa Briggs, President & CEO of The Alliance for Health Equity. “Our goals in ...

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
... and residents also announced PHILADELPHIA – The City of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Industrial Development ... this unprecedented crisis,” said Anne Bovaird Nevins, President of PIDC. “Our team stands ready to put these ... to this pandemic”, said Richard J. Green, Chairman and CEO of Firstrust Bank and Trustee of the Green Family ...
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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 ... critical gaps in funding that have occurred as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The funding is meant to help with ... County nonprofits,” said Heidi Williamson, Senior Vice President for Programs and Initiatives at the Community ...
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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
... scientist, conservationist, and activist, is the winner of the 2021 Templeton Prize.  Dr. Goodall is known worldwide ... what it means to be human,” said Heather Templeton Dill, president of the John Templeton Foundation. “Her discoveries have profoundly altered the ...

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

Covid-19 Signs
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
... funds to support the community. Within weeks, tens of millions of philanthropic dollars were distributed for ... were left out? With these questions in mind, the Lenfest Foundation and William Penn Foundation funded Philanthropy ... Director of the Lenfest Foundation; and Sidney Hargro is President of Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia. ...