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Patricia Kind Family Foundation announces Black-led Organization grant award winners

Patricia Kind Family Foundation
Wednesday, June 30, 2021
... initiated a new grant cycle specifically for Black-led organizations in Philadelphia. The Foundation made a concerted effort to reach out and to encourage many smaller Black-led ...

Chester County Community Foundation “Food for Thought” Board Trustee Edition Goes Digital This September

Chester County Community Foundation
Thursday, August 20, 2020
... PA – August 20, 2020) : This fall, the Chester County Community Foundation is proud to invite nonprofit board and staff members “Back to ... Foundation holds nearly $60 million in trust and annually awards $2.5 million in grants and scholarships. ...

Douty Foundation celebrates 50th anniversary, releases new funding guidelines

Thursday, August 1, 2019
... – Since 1968, The Douty Foundation has awarded grants to small grassroots organizations in Philadelphia and Montgomery Counties that ... with its 2019 annual application deadline, Douty’s grant awards will increase to a minimum of $20,000 per year and ...

How a Small Craft Navigates Shifting Tides

Tuesday, September 19, 2017
... confusion, anxiety, fear. With services and supports to our community’s most vulnerable residents repeatedly at risk ... critical expenditures—at both the individual/family and city/state/federal levels. Improving health and decreasing ...

Wells Fargo Appoints New Wells Fargo Regional Foundation Executive Director

Aisha Miller
Monday, January 14, 2019
... she is also charged with leading the Wells Fargo Regional Community Development Corporation (CDC).  Miller replaces ... after more than 20 years in the role.   “We are excited to have Aishah join us as the Executive Director of the Wells ... Fargo Regional Foundation is a private foundation that awards Neighborhood Planning Grants and Neighborhood ...
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Mission-Aligned Investing: A model for maximizing philanthropic impact and equity

Evolving ideas
Wednesday, September 29, 2021
... can’t walk, then crawl. But, whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward. – Martin Luther King Jr. During ... and tools to address racial inequities and better support their community. Mission-aligned investing pools resources from ...

Where Does Your Cash Sleep at Night?

Wednesday, July 10, 2019
Originally posted to Exponent Philanthropy’s blog . By Kristina L. Wahl and ... supporting our local nonprofits, places of worship, or community members who are in need. On average, like most ... for example, keeps its operating cash in an account with City First Bank of DC, a certified CDFI that serves ...

Building on Arthur Evans' Legacy: Next Steps For Behavioral Health In Philadelphia

Thursday, February 9, 2017
... steps down  Friday after 12 years as commissioner of the city’s Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual ... from prevention, early detection and intervention, to a variety of treatment types for the most serious mental ... build collaborations with a broad array of partners and community leaders to address   social determinants of ...

Chesco Women’s Commission & Fund for Women and Girls releases findings of survey on sexual harassment in the workplace

Wednesday, July 10, 2019
... that nearly two-thirds of people, or 62 percent, reported to have witnessed or experienced sexual harassment at some ... kind in Chester County and is among few to be done in any community,” said Wendy Leeper, President of the Chester ... face in the workforce.  The coalition would work with organizations like the Chester County Fund for Women and ...

Your board isn’t diverse enough

Wednesday, September 13, 2017
... some local foundations are heeding the call. Here's how to make leadership reflect the people you're serving. Seybert ... not over and it’s going to have to keep evolving.” ### Community College of Philadelphia Foundation (CCPF) ... the present foundation, we have access to so much of the city, and it’s access with credibility” because the board ...

Hurricane Dorian: How to Help

Thursday, September 5, 2019
... tied with the 1935 Labor Day storm as the strongest storm to make landfall in the Atlantic and the strongest hurricane ... and lessons learned that aim at helping philanthropic organizations and individual donors be more strategic with ... page with a number of relief and recovery resources The  Community Foundation of Palm Beach and Martin Counties  has ...

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

Wednesday, August 9, 2017
... was coming in the funding world — but was hesitant to jump in herself. We’re talking  mission investing , and ... rehabbing them and renting them out as artist and community spaces. ( Generocity  profiled New Day cofounder ... equity in six social enterprises  and loans out to 35 organizations. There may come a time when every foundation ...

Glenmede’s Nina L. Cohen Appointed to Exponent Philanthropy Board of Directors

Nina L. Cohen
Thursday, October 11, 2018
... $40 billion in assets under management (AUM), is pleased to announce Nina L. Cohen, Director of Endowment & Foundation ... to foundations, endowments and other not-for-profit organizations. In addition, she assists individuals, families ... Jewish Family & Children’s Services and the Jewish Community Foundation of Southern New Jersey, where she ...

Future-focused takeaways from the 2017 Philanthropy Network conference

Friday, November 3, 2017
... on in these ways: “Staying squarely focused on our organizations’ missions — our north star — while finding new and creative ways to work together in order to amplify our impact” ... DeAmon Harges , faculty member at the Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) Institute at DePaul ...

Donor Collaboration: How NPT Philanthropists are Working Together to Increase Impact

Donor Collaboration
Monday, October 21, 2019
Originally posted to the National Philanthropic Trusts' blog, The ... Picher Whether tackling student debt or rebuilding urban community spaces, private and public funders are working with ... facilitated by NPT: Rebuild Philadelphia: Investing in the city’s youth and neighborhoods By renovating and ...

National Study Reports Foundations Maintained or Increased Spending in 2020; Long-Term Investment Returns Held Steady

2020 Council on Foundations–Commonfund Study of Investment of Endowments for Private and Community Foundations® (CCSF)
Monday, August 23, 2021
... Study of Investment of Endowments for Private and Community Foundations® (CCSF) (the “Study”) show that ... generally maintained or increased their spending rates in support of their mission during the year, while many also targeted spending to specifically address needs arising from COVID-19.   ...

New report assesses the financial health of Philadelphia nonprofits

Friday, October 27, 2017
... actually isn’t doing too bad financially, according to a recently published report examining the financial health ... morning presentation of the report this past Monday not to look at the sector as a whole. In reality, he said, ... no surplus funds at all. Fewer than 40 percent of organizations have more than six months of cash or operating ...