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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 Foundation ... Although general proposals can be submitted at any time, grants for capacity building will be accepted starting July ... .      Chester County Community Foundation announces capacity building grant opportunity ...
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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
... performance within a comparable pool – a common for-profit industry practice. It also provides trend data, as ... within those four years. “This report should be a wake-up call to all funders and nonprofits that business as usual ... Nonprofit Financial Health Pre-Pandemic Serves as a Wake-Up Call ...

Philadelphia Foundation’s Black Community Leaders Fund Makes $800,000 in Grants to 24 Organizations

Philadelphia Foundation
Monday, November 8, 2021
... in Greater Philadelphia. A total of $800,000 in grants will be awarded to 24 nonprofits.   An additional $1.5 million in support for the fund also was announced. William Penn Foundation has ... National Marian Anderson Museum & Historical Society Ones Up Overbrook West Neighbors Philadelphia Association of Black ...

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

Tuesday, November 19, 2024
... (WPF) recently awarded $8 million to the Philadelphia Cultural Fund (PCF) to manage a four-year initiative ... and culture organizations with general operating support grants and capacity strengthening services. Among the largest ... ecosystem since 1991 – was strategically selected for this initiative because of its longstanding relationships ...
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The Philadelphia Foundation and Catchafire Announce Partnership to Provide Volunteer Skills to Greater Philadelphia Nonprofits

Tuesday, March 13, 2018
... analytics project, graphic design and animation assistance for a podcast collection. "It was great to work with people ... who had the exact expertise that we had been looking for," noted Austin Eagan, Director of Development and Communications at the Center for Grieving Children. The Center used Catchafire to revamp ...
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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
... announced today that it is expanding its Leading for Impact (LFI) and Leadership Accelerator (BLA) programs to ... issues facing the city, encourage a thriving arts and cultural community, support the health and welfare of the ... more at pewtrusts.org/Philadelphia . Bridgespan Group Announces Launch of Leadership Program to Serve ...

New report assesses the financial health of Philadelphia nonprofits

Friday, October 27, 2017
... which means their liabilities exceed their assets, and for health and human services orgs, that rate is 13 percent. ... of those health and human services orgs: Philanthropy for that industry is pretty low, with the median such ... almost 85 percent of all services. Click here to  sign up to download  the full report, titled “ The Financial ...

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

Historical Society photo by Heather Khalifa
Wednesday, April 17, 2019
... has laid off 30 percent of its staff  as it searches for a viable strategic alliance. Philadelphia is the ... nation’s history, yet sadly we cannot sustain two vital cultural and academic centers to celebrate that rich legacy. ... cannot survive with strength, what does that bode for the rest of the region’s nonprofits? The answer is not ...

Eight Heads Are Better Than One

Wednesday, June 5, 2019
... our flexibility, sometimes to the point that we just throw up our well-intentioned hands and resort to our ... our self-imposed deadlines, our comfortable ways of making grants and doing business.  We retreat to our own familiar ... that eight foundations worked on together in 2018 for the benefit of our grantees.  The Premise: To have more ...

The Alliance for Health Equity Kicks off the Nonprofit Justice and Equity Institute

Nonprofit Justice and Equity Institute Wordle
Wednesday, February 9, 2022
... Pennsylvania) - On February 1st  2022, The Alliance for Health Equity (The AHE) launched the Nonprofit Justice ... and equitably through strategies that build communities for long-term success. The goal of the Nonprofit Justice and ... please visit our website at alliancehealthequity.org. Keep up to date with this important work and the outcomes by ...

Arts + Business Council programming, including Business on Board, finds new home within The Nonprofit Center at La Salle University

Tuesday, October 15, 2024
... Council from its longtime host, the  Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia , beginning fall 2024. The Nonprofit ... expansion of The Nonprofit Center’s work to lift up the nonprofit sector and support the organizations that ... Center Executive Director Kara Wentworth. “Standing up the phenomenal Business on Board and Inclusive Onboarding ...
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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
... Mindy Aldridge Listen4Good (L4G) recently invited Trellis for Tomorrow and The Nelson Foundation , an L4G participant ... This new process has underscored the importance of follow-up and sharing data with stakeholders. Going forward, Trellis ... giving grant money isn’t enough. Our general operating grants are critical to the ongoing operations and programming ...
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The New FAQ: What Do Our Nonprofit Partners REALLY want from the Funder/Grantee Relationship?

VNA Foundation Grant Partners
Wednesday, August 30, 2023
... we were on the same page.  At our recent annual breakfast for grantees, we asked for their thoughts about “What ... appreciate the opportunity to apply for general operating grants" “Operating grants that allow for maintaining and ... were excited to learn that VNA Foundation is teaming up with HealthSpark Foundation to launch a pilot program in ...

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
... Fund, administered by SeaChange Capital Partners, offers grants at three levels, including Seed Awards of up to $2,500, Exploratory Awards with an average grant size ... County,” said the Fund’s Director Lindsay T. Kijewski. For additional information about the Fund and how to apply ...
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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
Coatesville, Pennsylvania -  On January 24th, The Alliance for Health Equity launched its second cohort of the Nonprofit ... and Equity Institute was co-created by The Alliance for Health Equity and the Tammy Dowley-Blackman Group, LLC ... .  Keep up to date with this important work and the outcomes by ...

Foundations Community Partnership Launches #FCPresents Series to Help Strengthen Non-Profit Sector

Foundations Community Partnership
Thursday, May 25, 2023
... fundraising tactics and making them approachable for small, community-based non-profit organizations. Tony ... to donor centered. He is the Director of Donor Impact for Independence Mission Schools and has 24 years of ... tell one’s story and meet funding goals while staying up-to-date on the latest non-profit funding trends. In ...
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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
... the launch of a virtual Nonprofit Finance Accelerator for regional nonprofits. This inaugural program will provide up to 200 poverty-fighting nonprofits with access to ... disruptions to financial and human resources, specifically for funding, cash flow, staff and volunteer absences, and ...

Funders Must Walk the Talk of Collaboration

Working together
Friday, February 26, 2021
... five+ years since our inception, we have made over 71 grants or small awards totaling over $1.5 million to support ... more evident that collaboration will be a vital strategy for both nonprofits and funders to consider if the nonprofit ... upon their services, whether they be social, educational, cultural, or spiritual in nature.  And it will, again, ...
09Sep2019

Creative Ways to Support Capacity Building

Monday, September 9, 2019
10:00am - 2:00pm
Friends Center
... and PEAK Grantmaking Delaware Valley Regional Chapter for a workshop on effective grantmaking practices to support ... reporting. Lunch will be provided, and there will be time for networking with peers. Building the capacity of your ... current status of grant reporting Learn about strategies for supporting grantee capacity in data and learning Cover ...
09Jun2017

The Story of a Block – A Tour of Chester’s Avenue of the States with Artists, Entrepreneurs & Urban Farmers

Friday, June 9, 2017
9:00am - 2:00pm
Chester, PA
... Place-Based ,  Arts & Culture , and  Food Funders  for an interactive site visit and tour of Chester’s ... Pennsylvania Humanities Council , and  The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage .

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