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The Presser Foundation Will Give Nearly $1.3 Million in Grants to Music Organizations This Year

Tuesday, February 27, 2024
... in this grantmaking area, and their focus and size vary a great deal. The Foundation is proud to support music ... Philomusica Chorale Piffaro, The Renaissance Band Play On, Philly! (POP) Princeton Symphony Orchestra PRISM Quartet, ... grants to music organizations; capital grants for music building projects; undergraduate and graduate student awards; ...
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Independence Blue Cross Foundation announces new funding to support recovery and sobriety for college students

IBX Foundation
Wednesday, March 31, 2021
... development and expert consulting services and apply for a Foundation grant to develop or expand their collegiate ... in recovery. Support for collegiate recovery builds on the Foundation’s  Supporting Treatment and Overdose ... solutions that improve the health and well-being of the community. The Foundation has awarded nearly $48M in grants ...

Help for Haiti and Afghanistan

Help for Haiti and Afghanistan
Thursday, August 19, 2021
... Disaster Philanthropy's Disaster Philanthropy Playbook is a comprehensive resource of promising practices and ... community in responding to disasters. ► For updates on the impact and critical needs resulting from the ... resources on Black immigrant leadership and our webinar Building Welcoming Communities for Tomorrow . Help for Haiti ...
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What Barra Foundation has learned from dipping a toe into mission investing

Wednesday, August 9, 2017
Via Generocity  | by  Julie Zeglen In the past year and a half, the foundation has employed two new investing ... good way to get started,” Wahl said in a phone interview on the heels of a trip to the  national Mission Investors ... rehabbing them and renting them out as artist and community spaces. ( Generocity  profiled New Day cofounder ...

Philadelphia’s Placing a $500 Million Bet on Play

Monday, September 11, 2017
By Jen Kinney via NEXT CITY As the city plans a major investment in rec centers, parks and libraries, two ... (replaced two decades ago, now dilapidated), and the community garden (just a few years old), the Lawncrest ... missing; playground equipment lies snapped and unusable on the ground. The center is dark, crowded, hot and  not ...

Take-Aways from the 2022 Member Pulse Survey

2022 Member Pulse Survey
Monday, May 16, 2022
... and evolve their grantmaking practices and priorities as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the economic downturn and ... view Public Policy/Advocacy as a priority Further details on the survey results are summarized below. Grantee/Community ... types of support for racial equity were Capacity-building grants to BIPOC-led organizations (60%) and ...
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FCP Selects Tobias Bruhn as New Executive Director

Tobias Bruhn
Thursday, January 9, 2020
BCCC Executive Brings Strategic Leadership to Foundations Community Partnership Bruhn.jpg Doylestown, PA (November 12, ... has announced that Tobi Bruhn, Ed.D., CFRE will take on the role of Executive Director in April 2020, upon the ... where he was responsible for advancing the College as a diverse community of learners and a vibrant center for ...
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First Round of Neighborhood Equitable Recovery Fund Grant Recipients Announced

Thursday, September 23, 2021
...   PHILADELPHIA - The City of Philadelphia’s Office of Community Empowerment and Opportunity (CEO) today announced ... recipients for the Neighborhood Equitable Recovery Fund, a partnership with Bread & Roses Community Fund to support ... $15,000 to 30 community-based organizations focused on issues including, but not limited to: health education, ...

Growing the Mission-Aligned Investing Ecosystem: Reflections from September 16

Mission-Aligned Investing
Tuesday, September 23, 2025
On September 16 th , Philanthropy Network Greater ... achievable when done collectively. The event opened with a national perspective from Mission Investors Exchange, which ... work requires boards and staff to evolve together, building trust, transparency, and shared commitment to move ...
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Philanthropy Network Launches "Philanthropy 101" Series

Betsaleel "Bets" Charmelus
Sunday, October 5, 2025
... launch our new five-part “Philanthropy 101” series as a part of reinvigorating our commitment to shared learning opportunities focused on the fundamentals of philanthropic practice. This new ... and strategic nonprofit leader with a deep commitment to building strong, interdependent communities. With years of ...
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Philly parents, don't leave the city when your kids reach school age | Opinion

Friday, March 23, 2018
... reach school age, it’s time to leave the city. So goes a familiar refrain in Philadelphia, repeated every time  new ... renovations. From new furniture and technology, to hands-on learning equipment, and capital improvements such as ... sure that students are engaged in exciting and effective lessons every day. For example, Temple University is helping ...
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In Pennsylvania, three newsrooms are teaming up to cover state government

Tuesday, October 2, 2018
... in Oregon announced  the Oregon Capital Bureau . In 2014, a Pew report found  a 35 percent drop  in the number of newspaper statehouse reporters. In Pennsylvania that year, ... in Pittsburgh and LNP Media Group in Lancaster, will focus on explanatory and investigative coverage, according to a ...

Funders Must Walk the Talk of Collaboration

Working together
Friday, February 26, 2021
... it is all the more evident that collaboration will be a vital strategy for both nonprofits and funders to consider ... analysis and updated a 2017 Philadelphia Foundation report on the financial health of area nonprofits. The good news? ... priority on ensuring racial equity. They are also building awareness of the changing demographics of their ...

Comcast RISE Investment Fund to Provide Additional $1 Million In Grants To Support Philadelphia Small Businesses

Monday, May 16, 2022
Eligible small businesses can apply for a $10,000 grant from the Comcast RISE Investment Fund, ... of the Comcast RISE Investment Fund initiative. Beginning on June 1, and through June 14, eligible businesses in ...

Enthusiastic Crowd Gathers at CCFWG Summit to Raise Awareness of Workplace Sexual Harassment

Chesco Knows Summit
Monday, October 21, 2019
Posted By:  Mark Hostutler   for VISTA Today As a direct response to survey findings on workplace sexual harassment in Chester County, the Chester ... on preventing unconscious bias and sexual harassment and building healthy workplace cultures. ChescoKnows-2.jpg Image ...

$50,000 in Grants To Be Awarded Through On the Table Philly

Wednesday, October 17, 2018
... FOUNDATION TO AWARD $50,000 IN GRANTS TO PARTICIPANTS OF ON THE TABLE PHILLY 2018 November 8 th  Open Dialogue ... the Greater Philadelphia Region. On the Table Philly   is a day dedicated to elevating civic conversations, fostering ...   conversations energized their thinking around important community issues,” said Philadelphia Foundation President & ...
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Independence Public Media Foundation Announces 75 Grants Totaling $4 Million

Independence Public Media Foundation
Wednesday, August 11, 2021
... Foundation (IPMF), announces grants totaling $4 million to community media-makers, journalism, film and digital equity projects with an emphasis on supporting projects led by underrepresented communities and with a commitment to justice. IPMF collaborated with the ...

Foundations' Executive Director Ron Bernstein Awarded Lifetime Achievement Award

Ron Bernstein
Friday, May 31, 2019
Doylestown, PA (May 21, 2019) – Foundations Community Partnership is pleased to announce that its Executive Director, Ron Bernstein, has been awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award in the ... organizations and individuals that have made an impact on the quality of life in Bucks County.   The prestigious ...
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$2,500 Grants Distributed to The Alliance for Health Equity’s Grant Partners to Support the Health and Wellness of the Staff

The Alliance for Health Equity
Wednesday, December 22, 2021
... these organizations was behavioral health.  COVID-19 put a significant burden on nonprofits and community members associated with mental health and ...

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