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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 ... by providing them with high-quality baby items, such as blankets and onesies, printed with messaging that ... Philadelphia, Inc. ($495,000 over 24 months) to support a new, world-class design for park and transportation ...

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
... Fund , in partnership with its members from HealthSpark Foundation , The Scattergood Foundation and the United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey , released a new report today at Philanthropy ... for-profit industry practice. It also provides trend data, as it was designed to update a 2017 report supported by the ...

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 ... than $2.8 million to support education in Philadelphia. As part of the Creative Communities program, the Foundation ... significant neighborhoods in Philadelphia. Through the New Audiences/New Places strategy, a $246,000 ...

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
... the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, the William Penn Foundation has partnered with The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation ... awarded a 1-to-1 match to 37 of those organizations, as indicated by the (*) on the list below. African American ...

Connelly and William Penn Foundations announce major support of workforce initiative

UCD Green City Works
Friday, December 20, 2019
... trains, advances, and supports its workforce. The Connelly Foundation has granted WPSI $450,000 over three years to ... Southwest Philadelphia. UCD_Workforce.jpg The William Penn Foundation has also committed $445,000 to support University ... at five West Philadelphia parks while also establishing a new model for parks maintenance that creates and sustains ...

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

Dr. Jane Goodall
Thursday, May 20, 2021
... delighted and honored to award Dr. Jane Goodall this year, as her achievements go beyond the traditional parameters of ... our perception of what it means to be human,” said Heather Templeton Dill, president of the John Templeton Foundation. “Her discoveries have profoundly altered the ...
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Keystone Policy Webinar Series - Session 4: Financially Distressed Municipalities

Tuesday, April 18, 2017
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Webinar
... municipalities are the most obvious examples, but this new analysis from PEL makes it clear that municipalities’ ...

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

Covid-19 Signs
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
... were left out? With these questions in mind, the Lenfest Foundation and William Penn Foundation funded Philanthropy ... (33%) and individual sole proprietors (18%), such as artists. Here’s what the dashboard indicated about how ... with some exceptions. For example, Cumberland County in New Jersey had the lowest grant awards per capita ($0.62) but ...

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
... has been donated by the Daniel B. and Florence E. Green Foundation. The Philadelphia COVID-19 Small Business Relief ... to the ongoing global pandemic. The fund offers a mix of new grants and zero-interest loans for businesses that make ... survive the COVID-19 crisis while also retaining as many jobs for workers as possible.” The COVID-19 Small ...
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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 ... fill critical gaps in funding that have occurred as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The funding is meant to ... is available at www.bccf.org . Contact: Jason Brudereck, Director of Communication, 610.685.2223, jasonb@bccf.org ...
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Hospital Closures: Community Leaders Partner to Minimize Disruption of Healthcare Services

Monday, January 31, 2022
... Equity (The Alliance), formerly the Brandywine Health Foundation, has announced the formation of the Health ... a strategic partnership with county and local government as well as many other community partners, the time is now, given the ...