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

STEM Equity
Wednesday, August 12, 2020
... 10 years to help Black, Latinx and female Philadelphia students overcome obstacles to their pursuit of careers in ... Philadelphia STEM Equity Collective will work hand-in-hand with schools, out-of-school time providers, universities and ... most notably our 34-year-old GSK Science in the SummerTM program, which brings hands-on, free science camps into ...

How a Small Craft Navigates Shifting Tides

Tuesday, September 19, 2017
... Health Partnership) Uncertainty, confusion, anxiety, fear. With services and supports to our community’s most vulnerable residents ... dedicated work of MANNA, also decreased the frequency of medical crisis, emergency room use, and hospitalization. With ...

Connecting Regional Funders to Respond to COVID-19

COVID-19
Friday, March 20, 2020
... Network members and other regional funders are mobilizing with intention and urgency to address the devastating impact ... , United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey and Philadelphia Foundation (Details for the PHL ... is using existing funds to prepare academic packets for students and encouraging donors to contribute to ...
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Update from the Greater Philadelphia Nonprofit Repositioning Fund

Nonprofit Repositioning Fund
Tuesday, December 26, 2017
... We have deeply appreciated the interaction we have had with the nonprofit community, including our 25 grants to ... that nonprofits will be facing in the coming years.  A new tax code, severe regulatory changes, and a pervasive ... York region’s nonprofit community, including managing a Program Related Investment (PRI) fund, and even undertaking ...

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

Wednesday, August 9, 2017
... the past year and a half, the foundation has employed two new investing strategies. Here's what it's learned so far. ...  former managing trustee,  Laura Kind McKenna , shared with us around the same time,  private foundations are ... through mission-related investments, or MRIs, and program-related investments, or PRIs. There’s a subtle ...
29Jun2021

Funder Briefing: The COVID-19 Prevention & Response Fund

Tuesday, June 29, 2021
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Video Conference

Join us to hear an update on the COVID-19 Prevention & Response Fund, a special pooled fund supporting a community-led effort to invest in neighborhood-based solutions to urgent needs related to COVID-19.

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

Covid-19 Signs
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
... disparities: are there communities that were left out? With these questions in mind, the Lenfest Foundation and ... integrates both grant-level data from foundations with government statistics about community needs; this is the ... with some exceptions. For example, Cumberland County in New Jersey had the lowest grant awards per capita ($0.62) but ...