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Douty Foundation announces plans to sunset

The Douty Foundation
Monday, August 3, 2020
... with others to help amplify and accelerate aligned areas of interest and change? As we continued these conversations ... What does this mean? Throughout 2020, we will continue to support - to the fullest extent of our resources - work that ... Douty Foundation provides general operating and program support grants to organizations in Montgomery and ...

Philadelphia Foundation Announces Fund Focused on Black-Led Nonprofits Serving Black Communities in Greater Philadelphia

Philadelphia Foundation
Thursday, May 13, 2021
... – Philadelphia Foundation today announced the creation of the Black Community Leaders Fund (BCL) to fortify ... selected nonprofits with operational and capacity-building support to enable strong leadership, resilient operations and ... Support Philadelphia Foundation is one of 20 community foundations nationwide to receive a grant from Facebook as a ...

Independence Public Media Foundation Announces 75 Grants Totaling $4 Million

Independence Public Media Foundation
Wednesday, August 11, 2021
... Fund open call, as well as nearly $750,000 in continued support for key IPMF partners. “We are grateful to our ... in the Philly region.  What unites our three foundations is the belief that communities should lead the ... individuals from the tri-state area submitted a wide range of media making proposals to the Community Voices Fund. Of ...

Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia and Philly Counts announce first-round of the COVID-19 Prevention & Response Fund grant recipients

Friday, May 21, 2021
Contact: For the City of Philadelphia: Imani Stewart-Jackson ... and events, came to a halt due to Covid-19.  With the support and funding from PNAF, we are able to kickstart the ... Network Greater Philadelphia and Philly Counts announce first-round of the COVID-19 Prevention & Response ...

Pew Announces $1.85M to Strengthen the Free Library of Philadelphia and Improve Access to Drexel University’s Atwater Kent Collection

Free Library of Philadelphia
Wednesday, July 19, 2023
... Philadelphia-area organizations recover from the impacts of COVID-19 and to preserve and highlight the region’s ... in the region. “The Pew Charitable Trusts is pleased to support two of our city’s most important institutions—the ... first time in the collection’s history; and with Pew’s support, the university will expand that number to 7,200 over ...

Diversity of Asset Managers in Philanthropy

Diversity of Asset Managers in Philanthropy
Published: 
02/2020
... In response to frequent questions from a variety of stakeholders into the performance of the charitable sector ... assess the representation of diverse asset managers among foundations. The study assessed the representation of women- ... investment firms used by the country’s top 50 charitable foundations. The study analyzed available endowment ...

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

Philadelphia Foundation
Friday, May 21, 2021
PhilaFound_header.jpg Following the launch of the Black Community Leaders Fund on May 13th, we asked ... and what the foundation hopes to achieve through this initiative. Philanthropy Network - What is the purpose of the ... and from the data that there’s a need for this kind of support. Black-led nonprofits have smaller staffs, have fewer ...
12Oct2018

2018 EQUITY Symposium: Laying the Foundation for Racial Equity in Grantmaking

Friday, October 12, 2018
12:00pm - 4:00pm
Asian Arts Initiative
... racial equity workshop focused on the creation of a shared language; distinguishing diversity from inclusion ... and three tools that can be used by grantmakers to support racial equity grantmaking; and early thoughts about ... the director of conference programming at the Council on Foundations, where he worked for 12 years. Prior to the ...

2018 Diversity Among Philanthropic Professionals Report

Published: 
11/2019
... for LGBTQ Issues set out to survey the board and staff of foundations in order to identify how many LGBTQ people ... DAPP Survey revealed a clear divide in the sector between foundations with a social justice focus and those with ...

The Case for Funding Black-Led Social Change: Case Statement

Published: 
03/2017
... by the Black Social Change Funders Network (BSCFN) , an initiative forged by the leadership of ABFE: A Philanthropic Partnership for Black Communities ... Case for Funding Black-Led Social Change is aimed at large foundations, social change grantmakers, and Black charitable ...

The Case for Funding Black-Led Social Change: Redlining by Another Name: What the Data Says to Move from Rhetoric to Action

Published: 
12/2019
... (ABFE) , recently conducted a study to learn how leaders of Black-led social change organizations in the United States ... research had two purposes. The first was to build a body of information on the health and well-being of existing Black ... of Black-led social change groups, and what are the major needs that institutional philan- thropic funding should ...

Grantmaking with a Racial Justice Lens: A Practice Guide

Published: 
11/2019
... Justice Lens: A Practical Guide centers the perspectives of racial justice activists first, and then of funders working on change in their institutions, to ... justice. This guide will be most useful to an audience of grantmakers who have already made or are close to making ...

Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia names Daria Torres as its first Executive in Residence

Daria Torres
Tuesday, April 9, 2019
... Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia is pleased to announce Daria Torres, Managing Partner of the Walls Torres ... which is made possible with the support of the  William Penn Foundation and the  Samuel S. Fels Fund  and led by ...

What’s Race Got to Do With It? Equity and Philanthropic Evaluation Practice

Published: 
10/2018
An increasing number of foundations are embracing racial equity/equity as a core ... philanthropy and evaluation, deepens our understanding of how philanthropic evaluation practice may unintentionally ...
14May2019

Equitable Grantmaking in the Arts & Culture Sector

Tuesday, May 14, 2019
1:00pm - 3:00pm
Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia
... Judilee Reed , Program Director of Creative Communities, William Penn Foundation The William Penn Foundation works with ...
22Sep2021

Setting the Table: Internal Equity Work

Wednesday, September 22, 2021
2:00pm - 3:30pm
Video Conference
... the proverbial table to explore ideas at the intersection of philanthropy, racial equity, and social justice, with ... to philanthropy for people of color, through financial support, education, and provision of technical business ... Leadership Advisory Council; the Council of Michigan Foundations which has announced a statewide Truth, Racial ...

With $16 million gift, gay causes get a big boost

Friday, October 20, 2017
... became successful, he would give back, and that the object of his generosity would be the gay community. Successful he ... 82, the Center City real estate investor is converting 26 of his Center City residential properties into a grand act of ... national level. In 2005, he paid off the mortgage of the William Way LGBT Community Center , and at least part of what ...
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Race influences professional investors’ financial judgments

Published: 
05/2019
... Dodson IV, and Jennifer L. Eberhardt Summary:  Of the $69.1 trillion global financial assets under ... equity, fewer than 1.3% are managed by women and people of color. Why is this powerful, elite industry so racially ... to determine whether there are biases in their evaluations of funds led by people of color, and, if so, how these biases ...
30Apr2019

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Workshop with Daria Torres

Tuesday, April 30, 2019
8:30am - 10:30am
West Chester University Graduate Center
... executives and senior leaders. Her clients span a range of industry sectors, from Fortune 500 companies to some of the world’s foremost philanthropic organizations. Daria ... , and will be leading a 12-month Equity Cohort, comprised of 12 of the Network’s foundation-members . Agenda TBD. ...
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