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City Awards $200K to Community Organizations to Support Criminal Justice Reform

Wednesday, April 28, 2021
... of Criminal Justice will award twenty microgrants to community organizations that support the criminal justice ... organizations that advance criminal justice reform from a policy perspective, directly engage Philadelphia’s ...
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City announces first round of the Kensington Community Resilience Fund grant recipients

Kensington Community Resilience Fund
Wednesday, July 14, 2021
... announced the recipients of the first round of grants from the Kensington Community Resilience Fund (KCR Fund), a public-private-community partnership between community ...

Foundations Community Partnership Board Approves $240K in Grants to 28 Bucks Nonprofits

Thursday, July 11, 2019
Doylestown, PA (July 11, 2019 ) – Nearly a quarter of a million dollars in grant funding has been awarded by Foundations Community Partnership 's (FCP) Board of Directors to benefit ... Center. The Center provides support for those recovering from substance abuse problems. 11. The Village Improvement ...
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City Announces Third Round of Kensington Community Resilience Fund Grantees

Monday, August 28, 2023
... work with City to select 36 grassroots organizations and community groups to receive $360,000 to address the community ... third round of grant recipients that will receive support from the Kensington Community Resilience Fund (KCR Fund), a public-private-community partnership between community ...

CCFWG Unveils Women’s Suffrage Mural Before Election Day to Inspire Community to Get Out and Vote

CCFWG Suffrage Mural
Tuesday, November 3, 2020
... – Despite the heavy rain on Sunday, elected officials, community leaders, and residents joined the Chester County Fund for Women and Girls (CCFWG), West Chester Public Arts ... Suffrage Mural at 119 E. Market Street in West Chester, P A. The mural honors the 100th anniversary of the 19th ...

Code for America to strengthen local tech Brigade chapters with support from Knight Foundation

Code for America
Tuesday, May 11, 2021
News release from the Knight Foundation $1M investment will help Brigades ... will help these Brigades deliver impact and create a blueprint for success in their communities by developing ... that support their civic technology missions in each community, as well as implementing practices that help with ...

$9.5 Million From The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage to Support 30 Philadelphia Organizations and 12 Artist Fellowships

Mural: The Talented Mr. Trotter: You Can Be Anything
Monday, September 19, 2022
... work to public spaces and nontraditional venues such as a public park, a community recreation center, and a botanical garden, while ... heartened to see such dynamic and thoughtful work coming from the Philadelphia region’s institutions and artists, ...
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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 Builds Program and ... which will extend the hospital’s evidence-based  Community Asthma Prevention Program Plus (CAPP+)  to make ...

More than 300 U.S. philanthropic leaders call for removal of citizenship question from 2020 census

Tuesday, August 7, 2018
... — Reflecting an unprecedented consensus in philanthropy from local foundations to national grantmaking organizations, ... have called on the Trump administration to withdraw a citizenship question from the 2020 census. In a public ... by increasing the hesitancy of nonprofits and trusted community leaders to encourage participation in the ...

Five Local Organizations Receive $125k Grants from TD Bank to Develop Local Affordable Housing

Monday, March 9, 2020
... awarded 30 affordable housing development organizations from Maine to Florida a total of $3.75 million through its Housing for Everyone ... of TD Charitable Foundation and Office of Charitable and Community Giving. "This year's Housing for Everyone grant ...

City Announces Final Round of Anti-Violence Community Expansion Grant Program Awardees

Wednesday, December 8, 2021
... announced the fourth and final round of the Anti-Violence Community Expansion Grant Program awardees. The final round ... Day Rally Committee); Black Muslim Men United for a Better Philadelphia; Nicetown CDC; Mercy Neighborhood ... will start a long-needed process to save Philadelphia from gun violence deaths.   "I want to praise the team at ...
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Community Fund for Immigrant Wellness invests $215,000 to promote culturally-centered strategies to promote mental health

Fund for Immigrant Wellness
Thursday, December 12, 2019
(Philadelphia, PA)  – The Community Fund for Immigrant Wellness , a participatory ... to alter traditional philanthropic giving by elevating voices of individuals who are not typically at the ...

United Way Receives More Than $1 Million from Lincoln Financial Group Employees for Sixth Straight Year

Tuesday, January 29, 2019
... in October 2018. Lincoln Financial’s employees have a rich history of charitable giving and community commitment, and the campaign is an extension of the ... of unity valued by namesake Abraham Lincoln. Funds raised from Lincoln Financial’s latest employee campaign will help ...
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Philanthropy Network launching new Equity Cohort with major support from Scattergood Foundation

Wednesday, March 20, 2019
...          The greatest social issues that we face as a region and a country are amplified in the lives of those ... cohort will be one executive and one board member/trustee from up to 12 foundations. Each participating foundation will ... they will be able to involve staff, board members, and community in the work. The 12-month program will kick-off in ...

City Announces $360,000 in Grants to Improve Quality of Life in Kensington through Fourth Round of the Kensington Community Resilience Fund

KCR Fund
Thursday, July 11, 2024
... in grants awarded in the fourth cycle of the Kensington Community Resilience Fund (KCR Fund). The KCR Fund was ... of Philadelphia’s opioid settlement dollars and grants from the Scattergood Foundation , the Patricia Kind Family ... to 30 years, I’m grateful that the KCR Fund lifts up the voices of the community because we know what we need and what ...

Health Department Announces Significant Contributions to the Philly Joy Bank from the William Penn Foundation and Spring Point Partners

Monday, March 20, 2023
... Health is pleased to announce generous contributions from the William Penn Foundation and Spring Point Partners to ... activities of the Philly Joy Bank. The Philly Joy Bank is a pilot program of the Philadelphia Community Action Network (CAN) a collective impact ...
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Four Takeaways from Race, Class AND Gender: Intersectional Approaches to Social Justice Funding

Friday, April 5, 2019
... Cornman-Levy As part of its ongoing efforts to foster a more equitable philanthropic sector, Philanthropy Network ... entrenched gender norms shape every aspect of the work, from our internal structures to our grantmaking and ... of researchers and experts that improves life outcomes for at-risk youth through race- and gender-responsive ...
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United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey and Comcast Launch Nonprofit Finance Accelerator to Strengthen Nonprofit Community

Nonprofit Finance Accelerator
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
... with Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) announced the launch of a virtual Nonprofit Finance Accelerator for regional ... Director of Capacity Building of UWGPSNJ. “As relief from COVID-19 begins to arrive, many nonprofit leaders are ... at Comcast. “The health and wellbeing of our nonprofit community is critical to our region’s recovery efforts and ...

Pew Awards $4.25 Million to 4 Philadelphia Nonprofits to Expand Economic Opportunities and Address Growing Impacts of Community Violence

Wednesday, July 20, 2022
... impact of violence on local residents. The awards include a grant to University City District’s West Philadelphia ... growing number of adults and children who have experienced community violence. More details on the grants: University ... at this critical moment as our region starts to emerge from the pandemic.” “Our growth grant to University City ...

Foundations Community Partnership Awards Grants That Will Serve More Than 11,500 Bucks County Residents

FCP presents grant to to Ivy Hill Therapeutic Equestrian
Thursday, October 19, 2023
Doylestown, PA (October 19, 2023) – Foundations Community Partnership (FCP) recently awarded its fall ... provide essential services for their clients during a time of need and continued uncertainty,” said Abigail ... raising a baby in the first year of life. These babies are from underserved, at-risk low-income families living in Bucks ...
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