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

Nina L. Cohen
Thursday, October 11, 2018
PHILADELPHIA-- Glenmede , a privately-held and independent ... appointed to the Exponent Philanthropy Board of Directors. As Director of Endowment & Foundation Advisory at Glenmede, ... currently serves as a board member of Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia and is on the Board of Advisors of ...

Wells Fargo Appoints New Wells Fargo Regional Foundation Executive Director

Aisha Miller
Monday, January 14, 2019
Philadelphia - January 14, 2019 –  Aishah Miller has been ... of the Wells Fargo Regional Foundation and CDC,” said Greater Philadelphia Region Bank President and Foundation ... crystal.dundas@wellsfargo.com @CrystalDundasWF Wells Fargo Appoints New Wells Fargo Regional Foundation Executive ...
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Patricia Kind Family Foundation announces Black-led Organization grant award winners

Patricia Kind Family Foundation
Wednesday, June 30, 2021
The Patricia Kind Family Foundation (PKFF) initiated a new grant cycle specifically for Black-led organizations in Philadelphia. The Foundation made a concerted effort to reach ... and women, addressing educational and racial inequities as well as engaging and empowering members of their ...

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

Thursday, February 9, 2017
COMMENTARY By Joe Pyle President, Thomas Scattergood Behavioral Health Foundation ... Dr. Arthur C. Evans   steps down  Friday after 12 years as commissioner of the city’s Department of Behavioral ... evidence-based practices throughout the agency’s work. Philadelphia will need to work hard to maintain and build ...

New report assesses the financial health of Philadelphia nonprofits

Friday, October 27, 2017
... looked at broadly or in aggregate, the nonprofit sector in Philadelphia actually isn’t doing too bad financially, ... health of local nonprofits. The report, funded by  The  Philadelphia Foundation  and produced by management ... of the report this past Monday not to look at the sector as a whole. In reality, he said, “when someone tells you ...

Mission-Aligned Investing: A model for maximizing philanthropic impact and equity

Evolving ideas
Wednesday, September 29, 2021
... around power, equity and insularity. Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia is working hard to amplify the local movement, ... working group model in 2017 from Laura Kind Mckenna, Patricia Kind Family Foundation , and Elizabeth Killough, and ...

Where Does Your Cash Sleep at Night?

Wednesday, July 10, 2019
... great onramp to local investing in a loan fund managed by Philadelphia’s  Reinvestment Fund , an Aeris-rated CDFI. ( ... with three full-time staff, that invests in the Greater Philadelphia region. At  Aeris , we offer ... projects. Investors can participate in the fund for as little as $1,000. The paperwork is simple to complete, but ...

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

Wednesday, August 9, 2017
... learned so far. Nearly two years ago, Barra Foundation President Tina Wahl knew the tide of change was coming in the ... mission investing , and Wahl wasn’t the only one. As the  Patricia Kind Family Foundation’s  former managing ...

Your board isn’t diverse enough

Wednesday, September 13, 2017
... about the issue of board and leadership diversity within Philadelphia nonprofits and foundations, partially because ... gender, professional experience and more. Even so — and as the BoardSource report found — board diversity isn’t ... , the first lady of megachurch  Enon Tabernacle , as its president. The church donated $100,000 to CCPF’s 50th ...

Douty Foundation celebrates 50th anniversary, releases new funding guidelines

Thursday, August 1, 2019
Philadelphia, PA (August 1, 2019) – Since 1968, The Douty ... has awarded grants to small grassroots organizations in Philadelphia and Montgomery Counties that are creating social ... Leith, Executive Director of The Douty Foundation. “As we begin our 51st year, our desire to support grassroots, ...

Future-focused takeaways from the 2017 Philanthropy Network conference

Friday, November 3, 2017
... The 2017 conference took place yesterday at the Loews Philadelphia Hotel with a more alliterative title, “ ... core values that guide us and give our work meaning, both as individuals and organizations” Sidney Hargro, who became ... reason why he’s commonly referred to throughout the web as the original “ Roving Listener .”) Here were the three ...

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

Donor Collaboration
Monday, October 21, 2019
... giving circles. But in recent years, interest has grown as more funders realize that individual efforts aren’t ... public-private partnerships facilitated by NPT: Rebuild Philadelphia: Investing in the city’s youth and ... Picher is National Philanthropic Trust’s Associate Vice President of Philanthropic Services. She leads grantmaking ...

How a Small Craft Navigates Shifting Tides

Tuesday, September 19, 2017
... Healy, Executive Director, First Hospital Foundation (now Philadelphia Health Partnership) Uncertainty, confusion, ... found ourselves wondering: is this the new reality? And as a relatively small local foundation (with $45 million in ... Benefits Metropolitan Area Neighborhood Nutrition Alliance (MANNA), a well-established nonprofit distributor of ...

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

Wednesday, July 10, 2019
... few to be done in any community,” said Wendy Leeper, President of the Chester County Women’s Commission and ... County Fund for Women and Girls and other key non-profits, as well as the county’s universities and high schools to begin ...

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
... their mission through time,” said Kathleen P. Enright, President and CEO of the Council on Foundations, and George ... maintenance of spending in a highly uncertain environment as well as incremental spending focused on COVID-19 needs. ... foundations did so. Compared with community foundations, a greater proportion of private foundations in all three size ...

Hurricane Dorian: How to Help

Thursday, September 5, 2019
... which hit Great Abaco island on Sunday, September 1 as a Category 5 hurricane, is tied with the 1935 Labor Day storm as the strongest storm to make landfall in the Atlantic and ... nothing left.” Although the storm is predicted to weaken as it approaches the U.S. mainland, the states in its path ...

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

Chester County Community Foundation
Thursday, August 20, 2020
... Edition . The program, formerly held in person and known as the Board Trustee Institute, will take place weekly on ... and Foundation Funding: Taking the Temperature as We Look Ahead” on 9/22 led by Beth Harper Briglia CPA ...