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The Fund for Women and Girls names new Executive Director

Kim Andrews
Tuesday, April 26, 2022
... Fund for Women and Girls’ Board of Directors is pleased to announce the appointment of Kim Andrews as Executive ... collaborator, and communicator who forges meaningful community partnerships and cares deeply about women’s ... and donors representing a variety of professional and community backgrounds, lived experiences, and volunteer ...
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NBME Supports Medical Students with New Scholarship Program

Thursday, November 2, 2023
Ten Inaugural Recipients Selected in Partnership with National Medical Fellowships PHILADELPHIA, ... on a new collaboration to support the next generation of community-focused medical professionals. Together, NBME and ... Assessment Services , Self-Assessments , the International Foundations of Medicine ® and Item-Writing Workshops . NBME ...
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Beech commemorates memory of former CEO during COVID-19 pandemic

Tuesday, May 26, 2020
... – The Beech Companies, Inc ., a small nonprofit founded to revitalize disadvantaged communities in Philadelphia would ... mission from day one of providing vital services to the community,” reflected Dr. Kenneth Scott, president/CEO of ...

Momentum Fund Launches to Help Build Capacity of Nonprofits Managing COVID-19 Funds

Momentum Fund
Wednesday, May 27, 2020
... Forum announces the launch of the Momentum Fund to support nonprofit organizations managing active COVID-19 ... pandemic. The Momentum Fund will be awarding grants of up to $100,000 to 501(c)(3) organizations managing COVID-19 funds that are ...

Innovative COVID-19 Response Dashboard yields lessons for future disaster philanthropy

Covid-19 Signs
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
... by establishing more than a dozen charitable funds to support the community. Within weeks, tens of millions of philanthropic ... The dashboard integrates both grant-level data from foundations with government statistics about community needs; ...

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

Friday, March 16, 2018
... impact investing  scene, which employs venture capital to support early-stage  social enterprises, or ... across those silos, and reimagine together.” 2. Foundations should invest beyond their required 5 percent. ... that is spent with grantmaking,” he said. Private foundations are traditionally conservative with their corpus, ...
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Experiments in the Innovation Lab

Food Pantry
Wednesday, June 26, 2019
How do you serve hungry people who cannot get to a food pantry?  Stu Bush, Executive Director for The Open ... services to individuals who have or are re-entering the community (within 30 days) from the penal system. ... of the TriCounty Area Chamber of Commerce to pilot a community leadership volunteer program that connects ...

Chester County Fund for Women and Girls’ Grants Allocation Committee Awards $217,000 in Grants

CCFWG 2019 Grants Celebration
Monday, July 8, 2019
... for Women and Girls (CCFWG) has awarded $217,000 in grants to 27 non-profit organizations serving the needs of women and girls throughout Chester County. Nearly 100 community members, grantee partners, and CCFWG Board and ... Perez of Mighty Writers spoke about how the Kennett Square community has embraced their efforts to establish new ...
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Philly groups offer $9 million in funding for nonprofits celebrating the 250th birthday of the United States

Fireworks_Wawa Welcome America
Tuesday, August 8, 2023
... offering area nonprofits a total of $9 million in funding to help celebrate. That funding comes in the form of the ... Foundation. The fund, announced Tuesday, is designed to give financial support to regional nonprofits’ programs ... historical importance, encourage widespread community participation, celebrate the diversity of the ...

PA Humanities announces Wingspan: $2.25 million to 24 BIPOC and rural organizations

PA Humanities Wingspan
Thursday, December 7, 2023
... - Today PA Humanities announced $2.25 million in funding to 24 organizations from across the Commonwealth that prioritize community-based humanities in their work. Called Wingspan , ... Kicking off in January 2024, this Wingspan Learning Community will meet regularly to discuss topics like ...
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Leadership Transition at the Philadelphia Cultural Fund

Barbara Silzle
Monday, April 11, 2022
... Silzle, will step down from her position on July 15, 2022 to explore other interests. Barbara has led the organization ... its grant panel process, and increased the number of small community-based organizations that receive important ... thank Barbara for her dedication to the arts and culture community and her inspired leadership of the Cultural Fund, ...
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PAHWF Announces Annual Health & Wellness Conference

Monday, June 11, 2018
... features breakout sessions that include active learning, community engagement and mental health. HBHM provides a day for educators to collaborate and learn with colleagues before the start of ... about the Foundation. Discover Pottstown area’s online community, Mission Healthy Living , an initiative of PAHWF, ...
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After federal cuts, Philly funders are stepping up for this refugee service nonprofit

Generocity
Thursday, January 11, 2018
... Trump administration’s executive decision last January to bar the entry of refugees from seven primarily Muslim ... However, the continued support and outreach of the funding community, including from Samuel S. Fels Fund, First Hospital ... because of what’s happening in Washington. We’ve had foundations that have stepped up and provided us with ...
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Philadelphia Takes First Steps Toward City-wide Historic and Cultural Resources Survey

Wednesday, March 4, 2020
... centuries of history and culture? Philadelphia is about to find out. Next month the Department of Planning and Development will begin a project to explore that question. When the project ends in December ... support the project. To ensure that preservation will be community-driven, the project will create a strategy that ...

Union Benevolent Association’s unrestricted response bolsters Philadelphia nonprofits amidst COVID-19

Thursday, March 4, 2021
... available resources, and the ability for its residents to cover basic needs such as food, housing, and utilities. As ... annual grant--typically one (1) $20,000 award, to four (4) community-based nonprofit organizations addressing the ... direct support (almost every dollar of support reached community members directly) to those in greatest need.  The ...

Future-focused takeaways from the 2017 Philanthropy Network conference

Friday, November 3, 2017
... — our north star — while finding new and creative ways to work together in order to amplify our impact” ... DeAmon Harges , faculty member at the Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) Institute at DePaul ... the gifts and talents for everybody in the life of the community, find a place for that gift, celebrate that gift in ...

NBME Selects Its First Philanthropy Director

Allison Anderson Acevedo
Wednesday, January 19, 2022
Press release ia NBME Allison Anderson Acevedo.jpg To further philanthropic efforts in medical education and ... as well as her professional and personal commitment to community engagement, namely building partnerships to improve ... communities. “Allison’s philanthropic and community engagement experience, as well as her deep roots in ...

$9 Million From The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Supports 28 Philadelphia Organizations and 12 Artist Fellowships

Pew Fellow Pepón Osorio, My Beating Heart/Mi corazón latiente, 2023, installation view at the New Museum, New York. Photo by Liz Ligon.
Thursday, September 14, 2023
... identity. The Center’s 2023 awards include $8.1 million to 28 local arts and heritage organizations for project ... The African Presence on the Delaware.” William Way LGBT Community Center will produce a documentary film chronicling ... who was a dedicated advocate for human rights and a founder of the Gay Liberation Front in Philadelphia. ...
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43 organizations receive Barra Awards

Tuesday, December 5, 2017
... a changing environment and continually looking for ways to be more effective in strengthening the communities they ...   This year, The Barra Foundation has awarded $2,150,000 to 43 exemplary organizations from across the field of Arts & ... to problems. To identify Awardees, Barra turns to the community. A new slate of nominators, selected each grant ...
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