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Impact100 Philadelphia awards $362,000 to five organizations

Impact100 Philadelphia 2023 Grant Awardees (logos)
Tuesday, June 6, 2023
... — Impact100 Philadelphia announced the award of $362,000 in unrestricted funds to five nonprofit organizations in the ... Violence Center of Chester County 2023 Grant Awarded: $100,000 PAR-Recycle Works 2023 Grant Awarded: $100,000 The Pennsylvania Prison Society 2023 Grant Awarded: ...
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Kimberly Kirn joins Impact100 as first Executive Director

Kimberly Kirn
Tuesday, June 29, 2021
... – Impact100 Philadelphia, a grant-making organization that engages women to collectively fund large grants and community awards, is pleased to announce that it has hired Kimberly Kirn as its first Executive Director. Founded in 2008 by Beth Dahle and Mary Broach, Impact100 Philadelphia ...
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Impact100 Philadelphia Plans to Award $435,000 In Eight Grants and Awards

Impact100 Philadelphia
Tuesday, May 10, 2022
... Impact100 Philadelphia has announced the award of $435,000 in unrestricted funds to eight nonprofit organizations in the region. Representing the collective giving of 454 ... following organizations will receive an award of either $100,000 or $50,000, as determined by the vote of Impact100 ...
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Impact100 Philadelphia Awards $382,500 in Funding to Five Area Nonprofits

Impact100 Philadelphia 2019 Grant Awards
Tuesday, June 4, 2019
... 3, 2019, Impact100 Philadelphia voted to award $382,500 in grants at their eleventh Annual Meeting. At the Crystal ... finalists and cast their votes for those organizations that received Core Mission Grants and those that received unrestricted funding. Three $100,000 core mission grants and two $41,250 operating grants ...
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Philadelphia to benefit from $100M Starbucks initiative to advance racial equity

Starbucks
Thursday, January 14, 2021
... will be one of the first cities to benefit from a $100 million Starbucks initiative meant to "advance racial ... small businesses and community development projects in Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) neighborhoods." The company also announced that it is partnering with the Smithsonian’s National ...

Comcast RISE Awards 100 Small Businesses in Philadelphia With $10,000 grants

Comcast RISE
Wednesday, July 27, 2022
... Comcast announced it will award an additional $1 million in total grants to more than 100 Philadelphia small businesses owned by women and people ... Comcast RISE . This is in addition to $1 million in grants that were awarded to 100 small businesses located in ...

Philadelphia Foundation Announces $2.9 Million in Grants to Nearly 100 Nonprofit Organizations

Philadelphia Foundation
Thursday, December 12, 2024
... a significant funding initiative, awarding $2.9 million in grants for 97 nonprofit organizations serving vulnerable ... are investing in the future of our region and making sure that all members of our community have the opportunity to ... Foundation Announces $2.9 Million in Grants to Nearly 100 Nonprofit Organizations ...

Knight Foundation taps news media trailblazer Maribel Perez Wadsworth as new president and CEO

Maribel Perez Wadsworth
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
... appointment of Maribel Perez Wadsworth as president and CEO. As the former president of Gannett Media and publisher ... of experience to this role, along with a steadfast belief in journalistic excellence as a pillar of a vibrant ... passion for journalism, coupled with her staunch belief that arts and culture play a pivotal role in nurturing ...
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Leading Philadelphia Civil Legal Aid and Social-Service Agencies Sign On to Become Founding Member Tenants in the First Collaborative Center of its Kind

Friday, March 8, 2019
... many of the city’s leading civil legal aid agencies and social-service non-profits to become Member Tenants in a first-of-its-kind collaboration known as the ... through litigation and advocacy. It is anticipated that tens of thousands of people will be served through the ...
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Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia elects new directors and officers

New Board members 2019
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
... terms on April 1 are: Bill Golderer , President & CEO, United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New ... and strategically invest the collective power of more than 100,000 donors, advocates and volunteers, to end ... also ensuring access to the community stability supports that individuals and families need to stay healthy and meet ...
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Leeway Foundation Introduces Immediate Relief Funds for Individual Artists in the Launch of the 2021 Community Care Fund

Leeway Foundation Community Care Fund
Thursday, February 4, 2021
... Community Care Fund in 2021. We are thrilled to announce that the Fund is opening with $100,000 in funding thanks to the generous support of the ... is a trans-affirming organization committed to gender self-determination, and we use the term “trans” in its ...

Putting Art to Work

Color me Back mural. Photo by Steve Weinik
Monday, August 5, 2019
BY  PATRICK BILOW   for The Philadelphia Citizen In the southeast concourse at SEPTA’s Suburban Station, a ... called Color Me Back, a same day work and pay program that pays economically insecure people in Philadelphia $50 ... holds a lottery every morning from Monday to Thursday at Love Park, where 10 people are selected to work that day. An ...

Philadelphia Foundation Announces Winners of Key to Community Grants

Key to Community Grants
Thursday, August 1, 2019
... and the Philadelphia Foundation, grants will fund programs that aim to enhance paths to financial stability and success, ... land ownership model. Second Place Grant Winner for $100,000:  Philabundance , to teach culinary and life skills ... and winners,” said Pedro A. Ramos, President and CEO of the Philadelphia Foundation. “We exceeded our high ...

Where Does Your Cash Sleep at Night?

Wednesday, July 10, 2019
... 5% of their assets each year. But what about the other 95% that are invested in return-generating financial instruments? ... (CDFIs) CDFIs are private financial institutions with a 100% impact focus. They finance affordable housing, small ... Greater Philadelphia region. Paige Chapel is president & CEO of  Aeris . Since 2004, Aeris has established risk ...

Strengthening the Field of Philanthropic Evaluation: A Call to Action

Thursday, June 28, 2018
... goal was to test the salience of the topic and interest in building an affinity network of leaders. In 12 short ... Organizations conference in San Francisco, CA, nearly 100 individuals spent a Monday morning considering ways to ... evaluators to  develop new skills and approaches  that go well beyond evaluating discrete programs. There are ...
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Philadelphia Foundation’s Youth-In-Philanthropy Program Awards $72,000 In Grants to Philadelphia Nonprofits

Youthadelphia
Tuesday, June 23, 2020
... through philanthropy,” said Pedro A. Ramos, President & CEO, Philadelphia Foundation. “The areas of impact ... 2020 YOUTHadelphia Grant Recipients: The Youth Art & Self-Empowerment Project (YASP) , received $23,000 in ... It strives to motivate young people to challenge the laws that led to their incarceration and encourages them to ...
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Ten Philly Elementary Schools Awarded $500K in “Good To Great” Grants to Strengthen Early Literacy Programs

Wednesday, April 24, 2019
... their early literacy outcomes through targeted initiatives that meet school-specific needs. Grants are designed to ... made,” said Donna Frisby-Greenwood, President and CEO of the Fund for the School District of Philadelphia. ... instruction William H. Ziegler School: Support for “ 100 Book Challenge” program and a library self-checkout ...
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The Philadelphia Foundation and Catchafire Announce Partnership to Provide Volunteer Skills to Greater Philadelphia Nonprofits

Tuesday, March 13, 2018
... formalized partnership with Catchafire, an online service that connects social good organizations with a network of ... Greater Philadelphia nonprofits benefited from over 5,100 hours from Catchafire's pool of skills-based volunteers. ... to nonprofits," said Pedro A. Ramos, President and CEO of The Philadelphia Foundation. "Whatever a nonprofit's ...
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Twelve Greater Philadelphia Foundations Pursue a More Equitable Future

Equit Cohort Kick-Off Meeting
Thursday, June 20, 2019
... most challenging issue of our time begins with vulnerable self-reflection. Recently 12 of greater Philadelphia’s ... in the cohort represent the range of funding entities that comprise Philanthropy Network’s membership - an ... journey from the perspectives of both the ED/President/CEO and board member representatives, offering their ...
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