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Cheryl Brubaker named Executive Director for The Fund for Women and Girls

Cheryl Brubaker
Wednesday, June 26, 2024
... PA (June 26, 2024) – The Fund for Women and Girls, a leading nonprofit organization in Chester County dedicated ... strategic planning, program development, fundraising, and community engagement. She will also work closely with the ... new heights in its mission to make a lasting impact on the lives of women, girls and individuals with lived ...
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Beech celebrates neighborhood transformation over 30 years

Beech Companies Christine Brown and Kenneth Scott
Wednesday, June 22, 2022
... corridor was little more than boarded-up storefronts with a few mom-and-pop shops sprinkled here and there, remnants of ... of Broad and Cecil B. Moore Avenue; one block away on North Broad Street is the $17 million redeveloped Progress ... The developments have served as an economic engine for the community, providing jobs and opportunities for neighborhood ...

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s Center for Health Equity Receives $1M Grant from Bank of America

Thursday, July 21, 2022
...  (CHOP)  Center for Health Equity  received a $1 million grant from Bank of America to launch the Block ... clean air and water, and safe housing and neighborhoods. Building upon CHOP’s 5-year, $25 million  Healthier ... through the power of every connection. We’re delivering on this through responsible growth with a focus on our ...

Wells Fargo Appoints New Wells Fargo Regional Foundation Executive Director

Aisha Miller
Monday, January 14, 2019
... Executive Director of The Wells Fargo Regional Foundation, a role she officially assumed at the end of last year. As ... Baltimore and Seattle. “It is a great honor to take on this role and join the Wells Fargo Regional Foundation and ... Marshall Memorial Fellow focusing on global relationship building, and before that she served as the Executive Vice ...
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Bipartisan Policy Center and United Philanthropy Forum Create Partnership to Tackle Critical Policy Issues

Tuesday, November 7, 2023
... release via the United Philanthropy Forum By implementing a bipartisan solutions approach, this partnership will seek ... across the country. The two organizations will focus on raising public and policymaker awareness of the urgency to improve maternal health outcomes, safeguard ...
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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
... by Mid-April Funding Will Help Support the Purchase of 50,000 Chromebooks by The Philadelphia School District for ... District of Philadelphia announced today it has received a $5 million contribution from Aileen and Brian Roberts, and ... the equipment they need to begin participating in online lessons. This gift from the Roberts’ will support the ...

The Board of Directors of the VNA Foundation of Greater North Penn Announces Two New Changes for 2019

Diana Doherty and Joanne Kline
Tuesday, January 8, 2019
... structure and grantmaking program, and she led us through a tremendous period of growth,” notes Kathleen Fitzgerald, ... Diana is known to many of the local nonprofit and community groups for her philanthropic management and consulting work. Diana served on the Board of the VNA Foundation from 2016-2018 and ...
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Independence Blue Cross Foundation Collaborates with Temple University to Create a Pathway to Nursing for Students of Color

Independence Blue Cross Foundation
Tuesday, October 12, 2021
... Foundation  (Foundation) announced new grant funding for a collaboration with  Temple University’s College of ... programs for high school freshmen through seniors focused on safety and first aid, hygiene, healthy nutrition, stress ... solutions that improve the health and well-being of the community. The Foundation has awarded more than $55M in ...
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Opinion: Philadelphia’s recovery from COVID-19 must put housing first

Wednesday, May 6, 2020
... organizations – an unprecedented collective response to a public health crisis many of us could never have imagined. ... stable housing, you cannot maintain your health, focus on educating yourself or your children, secure employment, or ... and cleaning; and Financial support and capacity building to safeguard at-risk affordable rental housing and ...

Hurricane Dorian: How to Help

Thursday, September 5, 2019
Hurricane Dorian, which hit Great Abaco island on Sunday, September 1 as a Category 5 hurricane, is tied with the 1935 Labor Day storm ... of philanthropic strategies, promising practices, and lessons learned that aim at helping philanthropic ...

Independence Public Media Foundation Announces $500,000 in Grants Awarded to Local Independent Filmmakers

Independence Public Media Foundation
Thursday, April 17, 2025
... of their films and the expansion of their skills. A total of 30 film projects received funding through IPMF’s community-led grantmaking process. Each year, the foundation ... .

Rebuild Update - December 2018

Parkside Groundbreaking
Wednesday, December 19, 2018
... the City’s Rebuild Team , Philanthropy Network will hire a consultant to create a comprehensive fund development plan ... Network to further engage the local philanthropic community by supporting regular, strategic communications ... contact Ana Lisa Yoder at analisa@yoderconsultancy.com .

New Report on Nonprofit Financial Health Pre-Pandemic Serves as a Wake-Up Call

The Financial Heath of Greater Philadelphia Nonprofits 2020
Tuesday, December 8, 2020
... of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey , released a new report today at Philanthropy Network Greater ... prepare financial plans to help stabilize the nonprofit community that provides crucial services that advance the ... ability to thrive.” The report also sheds light on how crucial nonprofits will be to post-COVID economic ...

New Era for New Century Trust

Friday, March 2, 2018
... Trust This Women’s History Month marks the start of a new era for New Century Trust. After more than 111 years ... our home at 1307 Locust Street, we have chosen to sell the building, move our offices, and recommit to the original ... foundations, non-profits, and community members for input on how we could be of service. Given the enormous need in our ...
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HealthSpark Foundation Announces New Leader

Emma Hertz
Friday, November 4, 2022
Emma Hertz_HealthSpark 2022.jpg On behalf of HealthSpark Foundation’s Board of Directors, ... efforts since its inception in 2002.   For more than a decade, Emma has worked to create a more equitable, ... Frank E. Boston Black Justice Fund, which supports power-building, storytelling, and leadership development within ...
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WOMEN’S WAY Receives Grant to Advance the Financial Health of Women in the Philadelphia Region

WOMEN'S WAY Gender Wealth Institute
Thursday, April 13, 2023
WOMEN’S WAY has teamed up with JPMorgan Chase’s Women on The Move to positively impact the economic security of women, girls, and gender-expansive individuals. ... reality of many women. To address this challenge, a grant from JPMorgan Chase will enable WOMEN’S WAY to ...

Independence Public Media Foundation Announces $2.6 Million in Media-Making and Digital Equity Grants to 33 Projects and Organizations

Wednesday, December 15, 2021
... operated radio stations, and filmmaking, with an emphasis on supporting artists from, and films about, underrepresented ... to support the growth of its key nonprofit partners in a manner that allows each organization to grow at its own ... Nuala Cabral. “These grants, along with our capacity building initiatives, further the foundation’s goal to ...

Citizens Bank Teams with LISC Across Workforce Development Initiatives

Wednesday, November 14, 2018
... Charitable Foundation.  This partnership will fund a range of employment services designed to help people to ... to Career Opportunities, works with clients who, on average, test at the 6th-8th grade educational ... education is contextualized for specific industries—like building a vocabulary around healthcare—in order to prepare ...
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Rebuild: Strengthening Neighborhoods Across Philadelphia

Thursday, March 21, 2019
... L. Knight Foundation has been at the forefront of shaping a philanthropic investment and engagement framework for ... We are committed to galvanizing the philanthropic community around this project, convening a small member-led ... The city also announced plans to start improvements on the playground at Miles Mack, with community engagement ...

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