Rebuild Update - December 2018
Wednesday, December 19, 2018
Philanthropy Network is pleased to announce an 18-month grant extension from the William Penn Foundation to continue engaging philanthropy in Rebuild , the ambitious public-private ...
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Connecting Regional Funders to Respond to COVID-19
Friday, March 20, 2020
coronavirus-thumb-l.png While we all work to adjust and respond to the fast-moving COVID-19 pandemic, Philanthropy Network members and other regional funders are ... clear understanding that our current circumstances require philanthropy to stretch beyond its traditional comfort zone ...
Native Voices Rising Announces $3.5 Million to Native-Led Advocacy
Thursday, November 10, 2022
... Voices Rising (NVR) announced $3.5 million in grants to 114 Indigenous and Native-led advocacy and organizing ... a grantmaking collaborative between Native Americans in Philanthropy and Common Counsel Foundation . NVR has ... of funders to advocate alongside us for more equitable philanthropy in Tribal communities.” – Erik Stegman ...
New Administration's Policies Create Extraordinary Challenges for Nonprofits, New Study Finds
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
Press release via the Center for Effective Philanthropy CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 5 – Nonprofit ... courts for now, a number of nonprofits have not been able to access their funding and face considerable financial ... the current political climate, the Center for Effective Philanthropy (CEP) surveyed 585 nonprofit leaders from ...
H.F. "Gerry" Lenfest | 1930-2018
Monday, August 6, 2018
... on his life and legacy, it’s nearly impossible to imagine the Philadelphia of today without the incomparable ... giving has exceeded $1.3 billion. While the Lenfest’s philanthropy touched on a range of issues, Gerry is perhaps ... roster of donors to be honored with the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy . The award citation noted their innate modesty ...
WCU Students Demonstrate Benjamin Franklin’s Philanthropic Legacy through Annual Grant
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
Grant Awarded to West Chester Public Library and The Garage Community & ... County Community Foundation (CCCF) aims to grow legacy philanthropy by engaging students in the power of giving ...
Brandywine Health Foundation Advances Mission with New Community Opportunities
Wednesday, March 11, 2020
... two new opportunities with the community. One helps to support area youth live healthier lives and the other ... member of the community for their dedicated service to Greater Coatesville. First, in alignment with The ... conjunction with the Foundation’s Coatesville Area Youth Philanthropy Program (CAYPP), currently in its fifth year of ...
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 ... serve disadvantaged communities, they’re more likely to meet their missions . (Similar point: Don’t accept ... leaders (executive directors, presidents, etc.) tend to have primarily African-American boards — and it’s the ...
City Launches Overdose Prevention and Community Healing Fund
Tuesday, December 20, 2022
... among non-Hispanic Black Philadelphians. These changing trends are due in part to the current toxicity of the drug supply; fentanyl continues to be the most common drug involved in unintentional ...
Centering Community Voice with Data: Perspectives from a Nonprofit and a Funder
Friday, October 27, 2023
... Foundation , an L4G participant and funder, respectively, to share their journey engaging in feedback programming and ... program that helps nonprofits survey their clients to improve outcomes and impact. L4G was founded in 2016 by ... helped the team filter responses so they could identify trends by sites and demographics. This filtering of data ...
Early Learnings on Building Foundation Openness
Friday, December 21, 2018
Originally posted by the United Philanthropy Forum By David Biemesderfer, President & CEO, United Philanthropy Forum | @dbiemesderfer Assessing a foundation’s performance is critical to its learning and improvement if it wants to be as ...
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 ... percent. Speaking of those health and human services orgs: Philanthropy for that industry is pretty low, with the median ... nonprofit earning only 4.7 percent of its revenue from philanthropy. Compare that to the average environmental and ...
Update from the Greater Philadelphia Nonprofit Repositioning Fund
Tuesday, December 26, 2017
... a little over two years in business, the Fund appears to be well ensconced within the region’s nonprofit ... Nonprofits. I want to take this opportunity to thank Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia for incubating and ... network can make possible, and we are grateful to Philanthropy Network for modeling this type of collaborative ...
Chester County Fund for Women and Girls to Honor Susan Elko with Kitchen Table Award
Thursday, January 25, 2018
... PA. CCFWG established the Kitchen Table Award in 2011 to honor a Chester County woman who has made substantive contributions through service and/or philanthropy to improve the lives of women and girls through ... Susan Elko has an impressive history of service and philanthropy in Chester County. With over 30 years of ...
Douty Foundation releases $1.5 million in emergency funding amid COVID-19 crisis
Wednesday, April 8, 2020
... – Since 1968, The Douty Foundation has awarded grants to small grassroots organizations and movements in ... opportunity for leadership and action in all sectors – philanthropy, government, corporate and nonprofit - to ... the Council on Foundations, National Center for Responsive Philanthropy and Grantmakers for Effective Organizations and ...
The Fund for Women and Girls names new Executive Director
Tuesday, April 26, 2022
... Fund for Women and Girls’ Board of Directors is pleased to announce the appointment of Kim Andrews as Executive ... and volunteers to lead and unite Chester County through philanthropy and advocacy. Throughout my nonprofit career and ... PA. *** The Fund leads and unites the community through philanthropy and advocacy to ensure that women and girls have ...
The Fund for Women and Girls Awards $15,600 to Create Change
Wednesday, July 26, 2023
... for Women and Girls recently awarded $15,600 in grants to two local organizations – Cheyney University and Mighty ... The Fund continues to lead and unite the community through philanthropy and advocacy to ensure that women and girls have ... in Chester County leads and unites the community through philanthropy and advocacy to ensure that women and girls have ...
The Presser Foundation announces more than $71,000 in new special project grants to music organizations
Tuesday, October 31, 2023
Press release The Presser Foundation is pleased to announce new Special Project single year and multi-year ... States dedicated solely to music education and music philanthropy. The Presser Foundation considers applications ... committed to equitable, transparent, and forward-thinking philanthropy. For more information: ...
Independence Public Media Foundation Welcomes Seven New Board Members
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
... Public Media Foundation (IPMF) welcomes seven new members to its board of directors. The new board members bring a wide ... nonprofit governance, public relations, and philanthropy. They will join IPMF’s seven other board ... to share power with communities typically excluded from philanthropy. Over 60 applications were received, and the ...
37th Annual Members Meeting Highlights
Monday, April 7, 2025
On March 27, 2025, we were delighted to welcome over 100 Philanthropy Network members to the ... in the spring and summer on a search process to identify Philanthropy Network’s next Executive Director, and ...