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17Oct2017

Rebuild Site Visit

Tuesday, October 17, 2017
1:00pm - 2:30pm
Philadelphia, PA
... visit to the Francis J Meyers Recreation Center . Located in Southwest Philadelphia, Francis J Meyers is among the 400 ... sites that could receive investments through Rebuilding Community Infrastructure (Rebuild), Mayor Jim Kenny’s seven ... local communities across Philadelphia. We will hear from community leaders about the critical role of community ...
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Community Improvement

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 ... more than a dozen charitable funds to support the community. Within weeks, tens of millions of philanthropic ... dollars were distributed for emergency COVID-19 relief in this region. The rapid infusion of funding was critical, ...

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 ... students overcome obstacles to their pursuit of careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. The ... employers, local government, and the philanthropic community using a collective impact approach to identify and ...

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 ... appreciated the interaction we have had with the nonprofit community, including our 25 grants to support exploration and ... of collaborative transactions among nonprofits in the five-county region.  We are pleased and excited to ...

How a Small Craft Navigates Shifting Tides

Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Source: Grantmakers in Health By Ann Marie Healy, Executive Director, First ... anxiety, fear. With services and supports to our community’s most vulnerable residents repeatedly at risk ... as a relatively small local foundation (with $45 million in assets), how can we most effectively target our resources ...
29Jun2021

Funder Briefing: The COVID-19 Prevention & Response Fund

Tuesday, June 29, 2021
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Video Conference
... an update on the COVID-19 Prevention & Response Fund,  a community-led effort to invest in neighborhood-based solutions to urgent needs related to ... vaccine access, health resources, and outreach activities in priority communities in Philadelphia, Chester, Delaware ...

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 ... them:  the Delaware County COVID-19 Response Fund ; the Community Foundation’s COVID-19 Rapid Response Fund for ... they are out of school. PECO, who has allocated $200,000 in emergency funding to support regional organizations, ...
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COVID-19
19Jul2023

Turning Intent into Action: Aligning philanthropic capital with equitable intentions

Wednesday, July 19, 2023
10:00am - 12:00pm
Reparations Finance Lab, in partnership with Philanthropy Network Greater ... foundation sunsetting to mission-aligned investing, and community controlled decision-making models, to giving ... practices that lead to rematriation and reparations. Many in the philanthropic sector are poised to go deeper, moving ...

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 ... President Tina Wahl knew the tide of change was coming in the funding world — but was hesitant to jump in herself. ... rehabbing them and renting them out as artist and community spaces. ( Generocity  profiled New Day cofounder ...