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William Penn Foundation Awards $8 Million to Support Small Arts and Culture Organizations

Tuesday, November 19, 2024
... 2024 – The William Penn Foundation (WPF) recently awarded $8 million to the Philadelphia Cultural Fund (PCF) to manage a ... organizations with small operating budgets under $1.5 million. “Many small arts and culture organizations have ...
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Philadelphia Foundation’s Black Community Leaders Fund Makes $800,000 in Grants to 24 Organizations

Philadelphia Foundation
Monday, November 8, 2021
... Philadelphia. A total of $800,000 in grants will be awarded to 24 nonprofits.   An additional $1.5 million in ... Coalition for Black Trans Economic Liberation (CBTEL) The Center for Black Educator Development The Colored Girls ... College Prep Roundtable Philadelphia Parent Organizing Project Sisters Returning Home Theatre in the X UrbEd ...

Foundations Community Partnership Joins Nonprofit Repositioning Fund

The Nonprofit Repositioning Fund’s Director Lindsay T. Kijewski (right) with Dr. Tobi Bruhn, CEO of Foundations Community Partnership.
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
... Nonprofit Repositioning Fund (“the Fund”), a pooled-funding effort by local philanthropic organizations to ... effectiveness, and financial sustainability of nonprofits in the Greater Philadelphia area. “While FCP already offers ... Since 2015, the Fund has invested more than $2.6 million to help strengthen Greater Philadelphia’s ...
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Centering Community Voice with Data: Perspectives from a Nonprofit and a Funder

Trellis for Tomorrow students building a compost station
Friday, October 27, 2023
... and funder, respectively, to share their journey engaging in feedback programming and building their own muscles for ... than ever once we shifted our vision and mission to center racial equity and social justice. The community served must be at the center of the work. This is seen in our grant application ...
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Arts + Business Council programming, including Business on Board, finds new home within The Nonprofit Center at La Salle University

Tuesday, October 15, 2024
Press release (10.15.24) The Nonprofit Center at La Salle University  has assumed the programming ... as the equity-focused “Inclusive Onboarding” workshop in 2025. The Nonprofit Center will collaborate with funders ... through The Nonprofit Center,” La Salle President Daniel J. Allen, Ph.D., said. “This is a wonderful expansion of ...
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Compass and the Greater Philadelphia Nonprofit Repositioning Fund Create Partnership to Support Nonprofits Considering Sustained Collaboration

Compass | Repositioning Fund
Thursday, March 4, 2021
Compass.jpg NRF-4C_RGB.jpg Philadelphia, March 4, 2021 – Compass, a leader in providing strategic ... Compass will connect interested nonprofits to a pro bono project team through its  On Demand  program. Compass will ... and improve program and service delivery across the 5-County Greater Philadelphia region. The Repositioning Fund ...

Bridgespan Group Announces Launch of Leadership Program to Serve Philadelphia-Area Nonprofits with Support of $4 Million from Harris Philanthropies and The Pew Charitable Trusts

Thursday, August 13, 2020
... city, following the program’s successful implementation in cities such as Boston, Chicago and Detroit. Through these ... Philanthropies and Pew, each of which has contributed $2 million, will help facilitate opportunities for 50 LFI ... to Serve Philadelphia-Area Nonprofits with Support of $4 Million from Harris Philanthropies and The Pew Charitable ...

Black Community Leaders Fund: Q&A with Philadelphia Foundation's Phil Fitzgerald

Philadelphia Foundation
Friday, May 21, 2021
... and how did Philadelphia Foundation come to be involved in this initiative? The Black Community Leaders Fund ... and leadership. Philadelphia Foundation received a $1-million donation from Facebook, which helped seed the fund.  ... the year. We anticipate the amounts will range from $5,000 to $100,000, depending on the nonprofit’s needs and ...

Chester County Community Foundation announces capacity building grant opportunity

Chester County Community Foundation
Wednesday, July 5, 2023
(CHESTER COUNTY, PA – July 5, 2023): For almost 30 years, the Chester County Community ... is given to small and mid-size nonprofits located in and serving Chester County, which strengthen the social, ... and forever. The Community Foundation holds nearly $100 million in trust and annually awards $6+ million in grants ...
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Chester County Community Foundation “Food for Thought” Board Trustee Edition Goes Digital This September

Chester County Community Foundation
Thursday, August 20, 2020
... Institute, will take place weekly on Zoom, Tuesdays at 4:00 pm from September 15 th – October 22 nd . Developing ... and forever.  The Community Foundation holds nearly $60 million in trust and annually awards $2.5 million in grants and scholarships. www.chescocf.org .   ...

The Philadelphia Foundation and Catchafire Announce Partnership to Provide Volunteer Skills to Greater Philadelphia Nonprofits

Tuesday, March 13, 2018
... which Greater Philadelphia nonprofits benefited from over 5,100 hours from Catchafire's pool of skills-based ... refining an employment policy manual, a data and analytics project, graphic design and animation assistance for a ... Eagan, Director of Development and Communications at the Center for Grieving Children. The Center used Catchafire to ...
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United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey and Comcast Launch Nonprofit Finance Accelerator to Strengthen Nonprofit Community

Nonprofit Finance Accelerator
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
... and Southern New Jersey (UWGPSNJ) and Comcast NBCUniversal in partnership with Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) announced ... to financial and human resources, specifically for funding, cash flow, staff and volunteer absences, and ... on broadband, aggregation, and streaming with over 56 million customer relationships across the United States and ...

New report assesses the financial health of Philadelphia nonprofits

Friday, October 27, 2017
...  / STAFF   Here’s the thing: When looked at broadly or in aggregate, the nonprofit sector in Philadelphia actually ... is pretty low, with the median such nonprofit earning only 4.7 percent of its revenue from philanthropy. Compare that to ... of nonprofits have operating budgets of less than $1 million while only eight percent have budgets of $10 million ...

Opinion | As Philly’s historical organizations struggle, partnerships are key by Nadya K. Shmavonian

Historical Society photo by Heather Khalifa
Wednesday, April 17, 2019
Via the Philadelphia Inquirer In February,  the Philadelphia History Museum announced its ... have less than one month of cash on hand. To get in front of this potential tidal wave, the Greater ... seeking to enhance sustainable community impact. Each project we’ve supported represents a courageous willingness ...

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
... — (Dec. 8, 2020) — The Nonprofit Repositioning Fund , in partnership with its members from HealthSpark Foundation , ... significantly to the economic engine that national, state and regional governments and businesses are relying ... an eight percent decrease in net income and a $62 million increase in combined deficit just within those four ...

Funders Must Walk the Talk of Collaboration

Working together
Friday, February 26, 2021
... By Nadya K. Shmavonian & Russell Johnson In 2015, Philanthropy Network and the Philadelphia Foundation ... have made over 71 grants or small awards totaling over $1.5 million to support nonprofits pursuing sustained ...

The Alliance for Health Equity Kicks off Cohort Two of The Nonprofit Justice and Equity Institute

Nonprofit Justice and Equity Institute Cohort Two Funders
Wednesday, February 1, 2023
... culture.  These organizations are: 2 Fish & 5 Loaves Chester County History Center Chester County Futures Crime Victims Center of Chester ... of social, health, and economic factors; and (4) accountability to the community. The final component of ...

The New FAQ: What Do Our Nonprofit Partners REALLY want from the Funder/Grantee Relationship?

VNA Foundation Grant Partners
Wednesday, August 30, 2023
... for their thoughts about “What Works/What Doesn’t in the Grantor-Grantee Relationship,” enlisting their ... grants that allow for maintaining and growing capacity. Project-based grants tend to lead to creating projects for ... complex grantmaking process.” “Please understand that 5-10% administrative costs are not enough” “Invite ...

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