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5 Ways Impact Investors and Philanthropists can Innovate to Solve Philly’s Biggest Problem

Friday, March 16, 2018
Via Generocity   | By  Julie Zeglen  / STAFF Philadelphia needs more cash. Admidst  crippling ... percent of foundations’ assets that remain after the foundation has granted out the mandatory  five percent ... local exceptions, including the  Patricia Kind Family  Foundation , the  Untours Foundation  and the  Barra ...
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Pew Announces $1.85M to Strengthen the Free Library of Philadelphia and Improve Access to Drexel University’s Atwater Kent Collection

Free Library of Philadelphia
Wednesday, July 19, 2023
... include $1 million for the Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation to undertake a comprehensive planning and ... and programs,” said Donna Frisby-Greenwood , the senior vice president leading Pew’s work in Philadelphia. ... of the collection’s artifacts and, importantly, fund a new community lending program that will bring hundreds of ...

Connecting Regional Funders to Respond to COVID-19

COVID-19
Friday, March 20, 2020
... , United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey and Philadelphia Foundation (Details for the PHL COVID-19 Fund were announced ... and rebuild moving forward. Posted  by Amy Seasholtz, Senior Director, Marketing and Communications at Philanthropy ...
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Equity, collaboration and asset framing: Smart ideas from Philanthropy Network’s 2018 conference

Flyground
Monday, November 5, 2018
Via By  Julie Zeglen  / STAFF Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia Executive ... length about the need for cross-sector collaboration  and new ways of operating to solve Philadelphia’s biggest ... 2018 annual conference, which convened a few hundred foundation heads, corporate social responsibility pros and ...
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Lenfest Institute offering $1 million in grants

Monday, June 5, 2017
Via Philly.com | by Jeff Gammage , Staff Writer The Lenfest Institute for Journalism will award ... of grants — “Experimentation,” up to $35,000 to help new projects get off the ground, and “Amplification,” up ... business development who need space and time to explore new projects that align with the institute’s mission. ...
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Horizon Commits $2.5 Million for Masks, Face Shields, Food, and Social Services

Thursday, April 2, 2020
... the COVID-19 pandemic, Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey (Horizon BCBSNJ) is spending $2.35 million to ... is also donating $100,000 to the Community Food Bank of New Jersey and $60,000 to the Jewish Family Service of ... Horizon BCBSNJ and its philanthropic arm, The Horizon Foundation for New Jersey, have contributed more than $80 ...
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Parks & Rec and RecPhilly announce the 10 local entrepreneurs selected as finalists for Making Space program

Wednesday, March 1, 2023
... Commerce Department, and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation , announced the ten local business owners selected ... Commissioner of Philadelphia Parks & Recreation. The new entrepreneur-in-residence program attracted more than 600 ... Impact Cafe, a new community cafe that would be run by staff and volunteers. It would serve healthy dining options ...

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
... community members, City government, and the Scattergood Foundation to address the harms caused by the opioid and ... & Jawn (PB&J).  “We started as an idea without any staff or funding and weren’t sure what to expect when we ... Committee member.   The KCR Fund recently launched a new website at www.kcrfund.org that highlights KCR Fund ...

Centering Community Voice with Data: Perspectives from a Nonprofit and a Funder

Trellis for Tomorrow students building a compost station
Friday, October 27, 2023
... (L4G) recently invited Trellis for Tomorrow and The Nelson Foundation , an L4G participant and funder, respectively, to ... registration process. Parents could meet program delivery staff ahead of time and complete paperwork in person. ... their learning. Here are some of the highlights of those new feedback muscles: Stronger survey development . The team ...
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An Open Letter to Arts Funders: Create a Pooled Loan Fund

BalletX by Chris Kendig
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
... Philadelphia and the San Francisco Bay Area, philanthropic foundation leaders and nonprofit cultural sector consultants, ...  To do so, they will need critical capital – to bring staff back on, to secure performance and exhibition venues, ... Andrew Ross Sorkin’s recent opinion piece in The New York Times, This Is the Only Way to End  the Coronavirus ...

Unprecedented program aims to ‘Rebuild’ Philadelphia, serve as national community investment model

Monday, October 2, 2017
...  (NRPA) concluded its  annual conference  in New Orleans, bringing together more than 7,000 park and ... sessions ,  Shawn McCaney  — now William Penn Foundation’s Executive Director , presented the City of ... said McCaney, who also serves as William Penn Foundation’s Director of Creative Communities and National ...

Blog Post: Finding Your Perfect Grants Management System

PhillyCAM producers retreat
Thursday, August 1, 2024
... retreat | Photo courtesy of Independence Public Media Foundation By Sherella Williams The first rule to choosing a ... in 2020, our identity was just developing. IPMF was a new Philadelphia-based private foundation that had only begun ... still struggling with.  By the end of 2023, IPMF staff and board had steadily become more systematized. We had ...

ComNet19: Lessons on Building a Community of Communicators

ComNet19
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
... communications lead at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. As the first person to have this role, Karel felt ... picked up the phone. He called a colleague at Rockefeller Foundation and asked him to meet for lunch. The result of ... at ComNet. The same isolation that Frank Karel felt in his new role at RWJF four decades ago is still felt by many in ...

Your board isn’t diverse enough

Wednesday, September 13, 2017
Via Generocity  | By Julie Zeglen, Staff.    Nationally, the diversity of nonprofit boards ... make leadership reflect the people you're serving. Seybert Foundation Board of Directors When BoardSource’s most ... longtime board members to roll off and make room for new members. “No matter what your board’s diversity is, ...

Giving USA: Total U.S. charitable giving remained strong in 2021, reaching $484.85 billion

Tuesday, June 21, 2022
... charitable giving in America, is published by Giving USA Foundation , a public service initiative of The Giving ... said Peter Fissinger, chair of The Giving Institute, and Senior Advisor for Campbell & Company. “While Giving USA ... Family School of Philanthropy are committed to providing new information on the most pressing topics in philanthropy. ...
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Delaware County COVID-19 Response Fund announces first round of grants

Monday, April 6, 2020
The Foundation for Delaware County announced the first round of ... Response Fund, created last month by the community foundation in response to the current pandemic crisis. The ... initial grant of $100,000 from the foundation. Foundation staff and an advisory committee chaired by Magnavita are ...
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Brandywine Health and Housing Center Celebrates 10th Anniversary

Friday, May 4, 2018
... by:  Ken Knickerbocker Pictured: Former Brandywine Health Foundation CEO Frances Sheehan (l) joins the Foundation's current CEO Vanessa Briggs at the podium to ... Vanessa Briggs, President and CEO of the Brandywine Health Foundation. “Our community has benefited greatly from this ...

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