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What Barra Foundation has learned from dipping a toe into mission investing

Wednesday, August 9, 2017
Via Generocity  | by  Julie Zeglen In the past year and a half, the foundation has employed two ... are traditionally conservative with their corpus , or that  five percent  of their endowments they’re legally ... — it’s a challenge for the organization to prove its self-sufficiency. If it can indeed prove itself, it becomes ...

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

Covid-19 Signs
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
... Businesses and schools closed, basic essentials were in short supply, and thousands began losing income and ... served? And perhaps most importantly, given the well-known social and economic disparities: are there communities that were left out? With these questions in mind, the Lenfest ...

Connecting Regional Funders to Respond to COVID-19

COVID-19
Friday, March 20, 2020
... is having on individuals, organizations and communities in Greater Philadelphia and beyond. We are convening our ... of their current grants. Other broad themes and advice that funders shared for how they are adapting their thinking ... about strategies to support nonprofit stabilization and sector building activities post-crisis. Consider increasing ...
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Update from the Greater Philadelphia Nonprofit Repositioning Fund

Nonprofit Repositioning Fund
Tuesday, December 26, 2017
By Nadya Shmavonian After a little over two years in business, the Fund appears to be well ensconced within the ... five-county region.  We are pleased and excited to share that our funders have re-committed for Round II of the Fund, ... that puts us in close touch with the external forces that social purpose agencies are facing.  Through their own ...

GSK Announces $10M Program to Advance Black People, Latinx People, Women in STEM

STEM Equity
Wednesday, August 12, 2020
... pledge to get more Philly Black, Latinx people, women in STEM careers by Kristen A. Graham for the Philadelphia ... Collective was made during a virtual news conference that included Maya Martinez-Davis, GSK President of US Pharmaceuticals; Farah Jimenez, President and CEO of the Philadelphia Education Fund (PEF); Philadelphia ...

How a Small Craft Navigates Shifting Tides

Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Source: Grantmakers in Health By Ann Marie Healy, Executive Director, First ... The First Hospital Foundation is a private foundation that has invested over $21 million in 156 community ... reforming health care delivery, and addressing the social and economic disparities that shape people’s ...