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

Tuesday, February 27, 2024
The Presser Foundation is pleased to announce another round of general operating support grants ... music organizations working to make a difference in their community while significantly contributing to music and the ... publisher Theodore Presser. It is one of the few private foundations in the United States dedicated solely to music ...
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Independence Public Media Foundation announces grants totaling $4.3 million

Media Mobilizing Project
Thursday, December 19, 2019
... a new round of grants today, including $3.6 million to six organizations representing key partners for advancing ... or that have innovative media projects, were nominated by community members to receive $25,000 grants each, totaling ... making, including media making for movement building, and community-led storytelling to bring new information and ...
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Salem Health & Wellness Foundation awards $25K to Southern NJ Perinatal Cooperative

Salem Halth & Wellness Foundation
Thursday, August 17, 2023
... grant within six months. The goal of the initiative is to improve the health, safety and well-being outcomes for ... Perinatal Cooperative will create a process in which community members, stakeholders, community-based ... Board to support the efforts of the initiative.

Greater Philadelphia Corporate Volunteer Council Partners with Philadelphia Foundation

Greater Philadelphia Corporate Volunteer Council
Friday, November 22, 2019
... is now partnering with the Philadelphia Foundation to help strategically guide corporate volunteerism throughout ... volunteers to provide sustained support to our nonprofit community. The GPCVC’s focus on employee volunteerism will ... established,” noted Martina Mansell, Communications and Community Relations Specialist at RevZilla and a GPCVC ...
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Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability

The Barr, Kresge, and William Penn Foundations Introduce $13M Funding Collaborative

The Cuture and Community Power Fund
Tuesday, May 30, 2023
... Foundation In 2021, the Barr, Kresge, and William Penn Foundations joined together to more deeply understand the ... The inquiry resulted in the formation of The Culture and Community Power Fund developed throughout 2022 with project ...

Philadelphia Foundation’s YOUTHadelphia grants help Philly youth initiatives

Monday, May 28, 2018
... program. The Philadelphia Foundation provides grants to low-income non-profit organizations in Philadelphia to ... as the Youth Advisory Committee for the Philadelphia Foundations Fund for Children. The mission of YOUTHadelphia ... with the youth is a dream for us,” said Joshua Glenn Co-founder of the Youth Art & Self Empowerment Project. This ...

Regional Foundation LLC Takes Next Step In Evolution With New Leadership

Kevin Dow
Tuesday, November 16, 2021
... with decades of finance, philanthropy, and community and economic development experience. Keviin_Dow.jpg ... Wells Fargo Regional Foundation and Wells Fargo Regional Community Development Corporation transferred their ... the new Regional Foundation has reaffirmed its commitment to strengthening neighborhoods in eastern Pennsylvania, New ...

The Philadelphia Foundation Hosts Inspiring Exhibition of Art Created by Individuals Living with Dementia

Monday, September 10, 2018
... a vibrant new art exhibit in its offices as part of a partnership with ARTZ Philadelphia.  The new exhibit named ... Mon., Sept. 17, 2018 through Fri., Jan. 25, 2019 at the Community Art Gallery of The Philadelphia Foundation , ... the program she has rediscovered what it feels like to be inspired, to be freed -- for a time -- from the ...
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Arts & CulturePeople with Disabilities

Philadelphia Bar Foundation Posts Largest Grant Distribution Increase in Nearly a Decade

Wednesday, February 14, 2018
... broadened their scope of support for the legal aid community with a 22 percent increase in grants awarded to nearly 40 Philadelphia legal aid nonprofit partners in ... to promoting access to justice for all people in the community, particularly those struggling with poverty, abuse, ...

Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation Awards $1.25M in Grants

Tuesday, July 30, 2019
... awarded 37 grants totaling $1,249,497 in grant requests to local non-profit organizations, schools and municipalities ... health or that strengthen non-profits, and ultimately the community. “To make a difference in the health and wellness ...

William Penn Foundation Announces Hilary Rhodes as New Director of Evaluation and Learning

Hilary Rhodes
Monday, January 29, 2018
... and support the foundation’s strategic use of evaluation to improve the effectiveness of its grantmaking across all focus areas. Rhodes is the second addition to join William Penn Foundation’s leadership team from a ... and advance philanthropy in the Philadelphia region. In partnership with others, the Foundation works to advance ...
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Independence Public Media Foundation Announces $5.5 Million in Grant Renewals

Large puppet with sign "Our Community Is Not For Sale"
Wednesday, July 12, 2023
... grants unless otherwise stated—for ongoing support to organizations and projects aligned with the Foundation’s program areas, as listed below: Community Storytelling  ¡Presente! Media Collective — ... All Media, Inequality and Change Center — $80,000 Philly Community Wireless — $200,000, three-year grant Technology ...

William Penn Foundation awards $2.6M to support River Alive! Project

Tuesday, December 5, 2017
... a $2.6 million grant from the William Penn Foundation to open River Alive! – a landmark exhibition focusing on ... system whose health and sustainability is vital to our lives.  “The River Alive! exhibit has been years in ... and advance philanthropy in the Philadelphia region. In partnership with others, the Foundation works to advance ...
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Environment
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Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability

Connelly and William Penn Foundations announce major support of workforce initiative

UCD Green City Works
Friday, December 20, 2019
... of $895,000 in funds from the Connelly and William Penn Foundations . The funding will help to expand the reach of ... City District’s commitment to economic opportunity and community placemaking.  WPF’s support will enable a partnership between UCD’s Green City Works and the ...

New Community-Driven Grant Program Available for Community-Based Organizations

Friday, May 7, 2021
The community-driven grantmaking process will support ... 7, 2021 | The City today announced the launch of the N, a partnership between the Office of Community Empowerment and Opportunity (CEO) and Bread & Roses Community Fund to support grassroots neighborhood nonprofit organizations ...

Community Voices: from a Moment and for a Movement

Spiral Q 2
Monday, August 24, 2020
... truth, and fostering healing. Arundhati Roy speaks to this in her recent article  The pandemic is a portal , ... Public Media Foundation (IPMF) , which supports community media in the Philly region, I’ve been reflecting ... respond to this moment with a sense of urgency, trust of community and commitment. In our recent grant cycle, the ...

Douty Foundation announces plans to sunset

The Douty Foundation
Monday, August 3, 2020
... past, its mission and on its future. Central to our conversation has been: Should the foundation continue ... aligned bank of resources to further movement and community building in the Philadelphia region. While we are ... as a small foundation to fund and fuel grassroots, community-driven opportunities and aspirations for social ...

Seybert Foundation Announces Management Transition

Tuesday, January 8, 2019
... Loukedis Doherty, and the appointment of Theresa Jackson to the Manager role beginning in February, 2019.  Doherty ... foundation, a move designed to be a model for how small foundations could merge assets to create greater ... will continue her work with the region’s philanthropic community through her management of BLBB Charitable and ...
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Carrolle Perry Devonish, former director of the Philadelphia Foundation and celebrated philanthropy expert, has died at 85

Carrolle Perry Devonish
Tuesday, May 30, 2023
... Foundation, retired executive director of the Anguilla Community Foundation, former local development director for ... the United Negro College Fund, celebrated consultant on community philanthropy, and mentor, died Wednesday, May 3, of ... as director of the Philadelphia Foundation, from 1991 to 1999, is called the “Perry phase” by admiring ...

City Announces $300,000 in Grants for Third Round of the Kensington Community Resilience Fund

Tuesday, March 14, 2023
Thirty $10,000 general operating grants will be distributed to grassroots, community-based organizations, addressing quality of life ... Resilience Fund (KCR Fund) , a public-private-community partnership between community members, City government, ...

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