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The Nelson Foundation Announces June 2024 Grant Awards

The Nelson Foundation
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
Nelson-Foundation logo.png The Nelson Foundation is excited to ... our Board of Directors has awarded the 2024 Core Grants as well as several Change Champions, and Grace Nelson Awards. ... very first grants of the Change Champions grant program, a new grant program piloted as an invitation-only initiative in ...

Ellen Hwang Will Lead Knight Foundation Investments in Philadelphia

Ellen Hwang
Thursday, April 18, 2019
Ellen Hwang will join the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation as the program director based in Philadelphia. She is leader ... at prominent events including SXSW, the Smart City New York Conference, and Tech Foundations for Congressional ...
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Barra Foundation Announces $520,000 in Immediate Funding

Thursday, April 2, 2020
... in coronavirus relief going to nonprofits from Barra Foundation (04.02.20) by Peter Dobrin for the Philadelphia ... the recovery issues and longer-term needs that will arise as organizations continue to deal with the public health and ... disruption of their services,” said The Barra Foundation President Kristina Wahl. “Our board and staff recognized ...
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Dr. Myra Forrest joins Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation as Education Advocate

Myra Forrest
Tuesday, February 16, 2021
... been a priority at the Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation. And as community leaders and elected officials continue to work ... fair school funding, Dr. Myra Forrest has taken up a new role as the Foundation’s education advocate to help ...
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New community-led pooled fund will support COVID-19 education and vaccine access

COVID-19 Prevention & Response Fund
Thursday, April 8, 2021
... with funders across the region is launching the new COVID-19 Prevention & Response Fund, a community-led ... disproportionately affected by COVID-19 are serving as Community Investment Advisors (complete list of names ... be up to $25,000. Joe Pyle, president of the Scattergood Foundation , which is a lead donor to the fund, said, ...

Arts + Business Council programming, including Business on Board, finds new home within The Nonprofit Center at La Salle University

Tuesday, October 15, 2024
... board member training program “Business on Board,” as well as the equity-focused “Inclusive Onboarding” ... will continue to grow and thrive at Business on Board’s new home at La Salle’s Nonprofit Center.”  While The ... We look forward to working collaboratively with nonprofit, foundation, and corporate partners to  support our arts and ...
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Three new programs will help Berks County nonprofits navigate a post-pandemic future

Berks County Community Foundation
Monday, February 22, 2021
READING, PA (February 22, 2021) – Berks County Community Foundation is launching three new programs aimed at guiding nonprofits in our region into a ... are turning their attention to what comes next, as they evaluate the changes wrought by the pandemic and look ...

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
... Fund , in partnership with its members from HealthSpark Foundation , The Scattergood Foundation and the United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey , released a new report today at Philanthropy ... for-profit industry practice. It also provides trend data, as it was designed to update a 2017 report supported by the ...

Philanthropy Needs A New Endgame: The Liberation of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Communities In America

Breaking Chains
Thursday, June 4, 2020
... become comfortable with naming and discussing equity as a critical catalyst for social change.  Aided by Black ... philanthropic paradigms.  Darren Walker, from The Ford Foundation, called for philanthropy to move from a charity ... seeks justice in his book From Generosity to Justice: A New Gospel of Wealth . ( 3 ) In Philadelphia, Philanthropy ...

New report assesses the financial health of Philadelphia nonprofits

Friday, October 27, 2017
... nonprofits. The report, funded by  The  Philadelphia Foundation  and produced by management consulting firm  ... of the report this past Monday not to look at the sector as a whole. In reality, he said, “when someone tells you ... The Financial Health of Philadelphia Area Nonprofits .” New report assesses the financial health of Philadelphia ...

New grocery store experiment hopes to inspire learning

"Talk it Up"
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
... The task involves numbers and mathematical concepts such as estimation. And the sign itself is carefully constructed ... initiative doesn't require much money. The William Penn Foundation is spending $190,000 over two years to seed the ... they have a replicable, effective formula, expanding to new locations won't require much more than the blessing of ...
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Philadelphia Selected For New Anti-Displacement Policy Network

Friday, March 23, 2018
... . With support from J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and The Kresge Foundation, the network of ten cities will work together over ... cities of Minnesota ( Minneapolis and Saint Paul ). “As leaders in their communities, the participants in this ... be an opportunity to sharpen these strategies, develop new and innovative ideas, and amplify what is working so that ...

Salem Health & Wellness Foundation awards $25K to Southern NJ Perinatal Cooperative

Salem Halth & Wellness Foundation
Thursday, August 17, 2023
The Salem Health and Wellness Foundation has awarded Southern New Jersey Perinatal Cooperative a $25,000 planning grant as part of its Salem Smart Start for Parents and Children ...

Tamela Luce Named CEO for Phoenixville Community Health Foundation

Tamela Luce
Tuesday, July 2, 2019
... PA) – The Phoenixville Community Health Foundation’s Board of Directors has named Tamela Luce the new President and CEO effective August 5, 2019. Luce has ... philanthropic experience. She spent more than seven years as the Senior Program Officer for HealthSpark Foundation, a ...
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Independence Public Media Foundation announces grants totaling $4.3 million

Media Mobilizing Project
Thursday, December 19, 2019
... of Independence Public Media of Philadelphia announced a new round of grants today, including $3.6 million to six ... organizations representing key partners for advancing the foundation’s vision for the Philadelphia region as a hotbed for creative media makers. Additionally, 17 ...
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Independence Blue Cross Foundation Launches Institute for Health Equity

Independence Blue Cross Foundation
Thursday, March 31, 2022
... PA - March 30, 2022 -  The Independence Blue Cross Foundation (Foundation), today announced a five-year, $15 ... to advance health equity through the creation of a new Foundation program, the Institute for Health Equity ... Institute for Health Equity," said Gregory E. Deavens, president and CEO of I ndependence Blue Cross . "There are ...
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The Starting Line: Behind a Push by Foundations to Expand Access to Childcare in Their Cities

Thursday, September 6, 2018
... detailed analysis of existing local supply and demand. As access to pre-K becomes more common, childcare could be ... the work includes collaborations with the William Penn Foundation in Philadelphia, the Richard W. Goldman Family ... D.C., the Foundation for Newark’s Future in Newark, New Jersey, and the Nicholson and the Henry and Marilyn Taub ...
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Brandywine Health Foundation announces over $320K in grants to benefit greater Coatesville

Tuesday, October 8, 2019
... COATESVILLE, PA. October 7, 2019 - The Brandywine Health Foundation recently distributed 36 grants totaling $322,340, ... and scholarships in 2002 to more than $18 million. “Our new strategic plan and approach includes engagement of our ... new strategic plan we also appointed Hannah J. Hill, MBA, as our new grantmaking committee chair.  Ms. Hill serves as ...

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