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Saint-Gobain gives $700K of love to LOVE Park

Saint Gobain logo
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
... iconic saucer-shaped welcome center - kicked off Tuesday. City officials announced that Saint-Gobain , a global ... will donate $700,000 in cash and construction resources to the new center. LOVE Park, officially known as JFK Plaza, ... $19.7 million redesign. The LOVE statue has been moved to Dilworth Park during the construction. The newly ...
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Getting Past Inertia: Ten Simple, Valiant Steps To Align Your Foundation’s Endowment With Your Mission – Or Not

Thursday, June 29, 2017
... judgment these days about your endowment. You use it only to grow more money when it could be doing that and much more. I admit to my own judgment and perhaps you can face up to yours. You ... to align our financial resources with the social justice values that guide the Foundation’s grantmaking,” ...

The Fund for Women and Girls to launch 2022 Blueprint Report on September 13th

2022 Blueprint Report
Wednesday, August 17, 2022
... Blueprint Report: Lighting a Path provides critical data to identify areas of progress for women and girls and ... and areas for improvement, with clear action steps for the community on ways to ignite change. Blueprint data can be used for fundraising ...
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New Lenfest initiative aims to connect more North Philadelphians to employment

Attendees during the first meeting of the Lenfest North Philadelphia Workforce Initiative. Photo: Jensen Toussaint/AL DÍA News
Wednesday, October 2, 2019
... North Philadelphia residents.  North Philadelphia is home to roughly more than 275,000 residents — approximately 18% of the city’s total population — with an overall employment rate ... rate in North Philadelphia lags far behind the rest of the city, which is at 54%.  The 43% of North Philadelphians who ...
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New grocery store experiment hopes to inspire learning

"Talk it Up"
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
... a sense of whimsy, A.J. has a serious task. He wants to transform your daily supermarket trip into a learning ... appears on small, laminated signs and prompts shoppers to play a quick game. One example: In the produce section of a Southwest Philadelphia ShopRite, A.J. asks kids to pick a nearby product, guess its weight, and then use the ...
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Claneil Foundation announces 2017 Partnership Fund and Critical Issue Fund Grantees

Claneil Foundation
Tuesday, December 19, 2017
... ( view list here ) who are initiating significant change to increase their impact.   Click here to view the 2017 Partnership Fund grantees. The Critical ... The Foundation identifies an emerging, critical issue to support in its grantmaking every five years.  Click here to ...
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Eight Heads Are Better Than One

Wednesday, June 5, 2019
... nicely in the sandbox” with other kids.  We tend to be bridge-builders, reaching out to create connections, ... around how to raise individual donations from the community.  Seeing as our foundation funding can be fickle ... thought that a workshop featuring ways to raise operating support from a variety of highly-engaged and dedicated donors ...

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.   ...

A Full House in Delco!

Delco Listening Tour - Laura, Joanne, Christine, Cyrise, Frances
Tuesday, August 15, 2023
... representatives from The Foundation for Delaware County (l to r) Laura DeFlavia, Joanne Craig, Cyrise Dixon and Frances ... Network Greater Philadelphia’s Delaware County Funders Community of Practice for a delicious breakfast and discussion of how we can work together to become a stronger and more responsive regional network. ...
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An emergency COVID-19 fund in Delco fights to feed the newly needy in the ’burbs

Wednesday, April 29, 2020
... up beyond Philadelphia proper. Now would be a good time to ditch the stereotype of suburban largesse and make sure ... calamitous shutdown of economic activity in our region due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Many people don’t know this. With the county as home to many service-sector workers who’ve lost Philadelphia ...

The Fund for the School District of Philadelphia School announces $5M gift for laptops to get students online

The Fund for the SDP
Friday, March 27, 2020
...   The Roberts Family Donates $5 Million For Laptops to Help Philadelphia Students Start Online Classes by Mid-April Funding Will Help Support the Purchase of 50,000 Chromebooks by The ... from Aileen and Brian Roberts, and their family, to give laptops to Philadelphia students so they can begin ...

$100,000 Grant Kicks off Campaign for Chromebooks for Pottstown School District

Tuesday, May 5, 2020
... for Pottstown Education are providing a way for the community to help students in the borough continue their education ... 25 percent of students do not have the equipment necessary to continue their education effectively. To meet the urgent ...

2024 Donor-Advised Fund Report: Grantmaking to Charities Remains Steady at $54.77 Billion Despite Contributions Decreasing

Tuesday, November 12, 2024
... in the U.S., details the value of DAF grantmaking to charitable organizations essentially remained flat year-over-year at $54.77 billion while contributions to DAFs decreased 21.7% to $59.43 billion. In 2023, DAFs ...
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United Way launches new funding cycle

Monday, October 16, 2017
... Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey (UWGPSNJ) is happy to announce the launch of the FY 2019-2021 funding process. In order to qualify for funding, an organization must complete the ... with UWGPSNJ's Investment Framework. We welcome aligned organizations to register up to two leadership staff (e.g. ...

The Council on Foundations opens 2024 Grantmaker Salary and Benefits Survey

2024 Grantmaker Salary and Benefits Survey
Friday, March 8, 2024
... survey yields the GSB Report, the most comprehensive guide to compensation information in the philanthropic sector, which grantmaking organizations across the U.S. use every year to set salary, benefits, and board policies. Both Council on ...
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