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City Council and Mayor Kenney play nice as rec center ‘rebuild’ advances

Thursday, May 24, 2018
... city’s public facilities in dire need —   Olney Rec Center . The hulking North Philadelphia community hub will ... million the city has on hand to spend on the $500 million Rebuild initiative. “As you can see, this site is a perfect ... in their favor. Olney will be second in line, after  Vare Recreation Center  in Point Breeze and Grays Ferry, to ...

What's New at Rebuild (November 2017)

Monday, December 4, 2017
... news and developments with the City of Philadelphia's Rebuild initiative for November 2017: November 1  - The ... Oversight Board held its inaugural meeting at Kingsessing Recreation Center.  The Oversight Board, which is made up of a diverse ...

Independence Public Media Foundation Announces 75 Grants Totaling $4 Million

Independence Public Media Foundation
Wednesday, August 11, 2021
... Public Media Foundation (IPMF), announces grants totaling $4 million to community media-makers, journalism, film and ... its Community Voices Fund open call. The foundation also awarded $1 million to 18 organizations through its Digital ...

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
... learn how leaders of Black-led social change organizations in the United States and U.S. Territories describe their ... well-being of existing Black social change infrastructure in this country. The second was to use this information to ... Foundation . In March of 2017, BSCFN released The Case for Funding Black-Led Social Change — its first case statement. ...

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

Friday, October 20, 2017
... Successful he was, and now, about to turn 82, the Center City real estate investor is converting 26 of his ... and place the proceeds in an endowment. The expected $16 million from the sale plus cash will join Heifetz’s existing $4 million donor-advised fund at the Philadelphia Foundation, ...
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The Case for Funding Black-Led Social Change: Case Statement

Published: 
03/2017
The Case for Funding Black-Led Social Change intends to spark new energy ... targeted to the Black community. Calling investment in Black-led social change a “moral imperative,” they recommend at least a 25 percent increase in giving by the nation’s largest foundations over the next ...
23Jun2021

Advancing Equitable and Adequate School Funding in PA

Wednesday, June 23, 2021
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Video Conference
... reliant on local property values, which has resulted in deep inequality and inequity that disproportionately ... adequate funding in 2018-19, with a shortfall of at least $4.6 billion. The state’s inadequate and inequitable funding ... and districts across the Commonwealth. The Education Law Center-PA and Public Interest Law Center filed a lawsuit in ...

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

Philadelphia Foundation
Thursday, May 13, 2021
... release from Philadelphia Foundation PHILADELPHIA, PA (5/12/2021) – Philadelphia Foundation today announced the ... nonprofit organizations serving Black communities in Greater Philadelphia. The Fund includes an initial $1 million contribution from Facebook, which selected ...
29Jun2021

Funder Briefing: The COVID-19 Prevention & Response Fund

Tuesday, June 29, 2021
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Video Conference
... & 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 ... you will hear about how this trust-based, participatory funding model has been implemented, learn more about the ...
25May2022

Centering Equity in Financial Due Diligence - Session 1

Wednesday, May 25, 2022
10:00am - 11:30am
Video Conference
... served as an essential component of grantmaking in which funders seek to understand and mitigate risk in their investments.  When this lens is applied to grant ... an overview of how to approach financial due diligence in a way that strengthens dialogue around an organization’s ...

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 ...

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

Friday, May 21, 2021
... & Response Fund , a community-led effort to invest in neighborhood-based solutions to urgent needs related to COVID-19.  The Fund awarded its first round of grants totaling $365,150 to 49 ... came to a halt due to Covid-19.  With the support and funding from PNAF, we are able to kickstart the reopening of ...

Grantmaking with a Racial Justice Lens: A Practice Guide

Published: 
11/2019
... activists first, and then of funders working on change in their institutions, to identify best practices for driving ... and solutions for advancing racial justice grantmaking in any philanthropic setting. Grantmaking with a Racial ...
15Mar2019

Race, Class, AND Gender: Intersectional Approaches to Social Justice Funding

Friday, March 15, 2019
10:30am - 2:00pm
Friends Center, Rufus Jones Room
... Greater Philadelphia is partnering with the Women’s Funding Collaborative to host a discussion on gender ... and gender-responsive approaches. Riki has been profiled in The New York Times , and TIME selected her one of " 100 ... with toolkits and leave-behinds. Finally, the Women’s Funding Collaborative will have an exciting announcement ...

2018 Diversity Among Philanthropic Professionals Report

Published: 
11/2019
In 2018, Funders for LGBTQ Issues set out to survey the board and staff of foundations in order to identify how many LGBTQ people worked in philanthropy. In the process, the organization realized ...

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 value, and it is influencing how they see themselves and operate. However, evaluation has for the most part remained untouched. Knowing how race/racism has influenced both, philanthropy and evaluation, deepens our understanding of how philanthropic evaluation practice may unintentionally reinforce racism. Equitable evaluation shifts the current evaluation paradigm to one that centers equity/racial equity, so that it is more aligned with the values and intentions of current day philanthropic endeavors.

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
... Pew Charitable Trusts announced today that it has awarded two grants totaling $1.85 million in its ongoing commitment to help Philadelphia-area ...

Race influences professional investors’ financial judgments

Published: 
05/2019
... asset allocators to determine whether there are biases in their evaluations of funds led by people of color, and, if ... of a 1-page summary of the fund’s performance his- tory, in which we manipulated the race of the managing partner ... tors did not express a high likelihood of investing in these teams. These results suggest first that ...

Diversity of Asset Managers in Philanthropy

Diversity of Asset Managers in Philanthropy
Published: 
02/2020
... asset managers when investing its endowment. In response to frequent questions from a variety of ... (“Analyzed AUM”). The study found: $8.62 billion (13.5%) is invested with diversely-owned firms. $6.82 billion (10.7%) is invested with women-owned firms, and $5.93 billion (9.3%) is invested with minority-owned firms, as ...

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