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Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation awards over $1.4 million to community organizations

Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation
Friday, August 20, 2021
... to physical activity. East Coventry Township Parks and Recreation—Towpath Park Phase I Engineering North Coventry ... Program Boyertown Area Multi-Service—Ricketts Center Camp Rainbow—Life Skills Development Chester County ... Children's Discovery Center Comes to Life Project Purpose—General Operating Save Alliance ...

$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
... PHILADELPHIA (Sept. 19, 2022)—The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage (the Center) announced its 2022 ... The 42 awards total $9.5 million: $7.2 million in project funding, plus $1.4 million provided as unrestricted ... nontraditional venues such as a public park, a community recreation center, and a botanical garden, while others will ...
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Rebuild Receives Grant to Support Needed Improvements to Vare

Thursday, July 12, 2018
... PHILADELPHIA – Rebuilding Community Infrastructure (Rebuild) – the City of Philadelphia’s initiative to ... invest hundreds of millions of dollars to improve parks, recreation centers, playgrounds, and libraries across the ... and design process for improvements at Vare Recreation Center. The grant will also release $62,500 in matching funds ...
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City Appoints New Executive Director of Rebuild

Kira Strong
Friday, January 3, 2020
... Kira Strong as the new Executive Director of the City’s Rebuild initiative. Strong has served in that role in an ... leading over $126 million of new investment in 61 parks, recreation centers, and libraries in the last year. ... and Economic Development for the People’s Emergency Center before joining Rebuild in 2016. Prior to that, she ...

As city waits on soda tax ruling, private sector pours on support for Rebuild

Tuesday, November 21, 2017
... Burnley Given all the news stories that have described Rebuild as a “ $500 million initiative ,” you might have assumed that,  at least by now , the project’s funding was set in stone. While that’s largely ... sign came earlier this month, when the Knight Foundation awarded the Fairmount Park Conservancy  $3.28 million  for ...
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Independence Public Media Foundation Announces $2.8 Million in Film and Journalism Grants to 30 Projects and Organizations

IPMF Film Grants Dec 2020
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
... films with a commitment to social justice. The foundation awarded the grants following a series of listening and ... filmmaking community. The foundation also awarded a $1.5 million, three-year operating support grant to Resolve ... to help Resolve launch “Equally Informed Philly,” a project to provide rapid response public health and ...
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William Penn Foundation awards $2.6M to support River Alive! Project

Tuesday, December 5, 2017
... 5, 2017)  –  Independence Seaport Museum  has been awarded a $2.6 million grant from the William Penn Foundation ... Penn Foundation for their support and belief in this project.” The River Alive! exhibition will position the ... facilities, the River provides drinking water, food, and recreation to millions of people living across 13,500 square ...
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Regional Foundation Announces $1.95 Million in Grant Awards

Thursday, July 13, 2023
... Greater Newark will receive $300,000 to build on the last 5 years of implementation in Newark’s West and Central ... and safety. Habitat will continue to distribute about 4,000 weekly meals andexpand its ID restoration program and ... of its grant investment. On the horizon, NJCDC’s newest project is the development of a 56-unit “healthy homes” ...
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Comcast RISE to Award $5 Million in Grants to BIPOC-Owned, Small Businesses

Comcast RISE
Tuesday, February 9, 2021
... can apply for $10,000 grants.   Additionally, over $2 million has been awarded to more than 20 community-based organizations and ... announced the Comcast RISE Investment Fund, providing $5 million dollars of grants to hundreds of Black, Indigenous, ...

$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
... stories. PHILADELPHIA (Sept. 14, 2023)— The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage (the Center) announced today that it has awarded 40 grants and fellowships totaling $9 million in ... million to 28 local arts and heritage organizations for project funding, $1.3 million of which is provided as ...
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Philadelphia Receives $5 Million in JPMorgan Chase’s AdvancingCities Challenge

Thursday, October 8, 2020
... them to grow.  PIDC, Rebuilding Community Infrastructure (Rebuild), and Philadelphia Works, Inc. are collaborating to ... at renovating and repairing local parks, libraries, and recreation centers across the city. “JPMorgan Chase is ... corporate, institutional and government clients under its J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Information about JPMorgan ...

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

Monday, October 2, 2017
... by  Louis Bolling , Contributor Yesterday the  National Recreation and Park Association  (NRPA) concluded its  ... Director , presented the City of Philadelphia’s Rebuild Community Infrastructure ( Rebuild ) initiative — ... attention in recent years because of the renaissance of Center City, which was partly driven by a major investment in ...

City of Philadelphia Selected for $1 Million Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge Grant to Fund Temporary Public Art Project that Addresses Gun Violence in Germantown

Bloomberg Art Challenge
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
... projects addressing an urgent civic issue.   The winning project Healing Verse Germantown: The Streets Are ... Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy (OACCE), in collaboration with artistic leads Trapeta Mayson and ... @CreativePHL.   City of Philadelphia Selected for $1 Million Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge Grant ...
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Seventeen-member oversight board named for Rebuild

Monday, October 30, 2017
Via Generocity | By  Albert Hong  / STAFF   Rebuild is a $500 million citywide initiative that’s seven ... impacted by whatever changes are made to their libraries, recreation centers and parks . To its credit, the Rebuild ... one  is this Thursday, Nov. 2, at the  Mayfair Community Center .) Now, the Rebuild effort has its own oversight ...

Comcast RISE Investment Fund to Provide Additional $1 Million In Grants To Support Philadelphia Small Businesses

Monday, May 16, 2022
... and women, bringing the total to $16 million in grants awarded as part of the Comcast RISE Investment Fund ... RISE, will help these businesses as they recover and rebuild to emerge from this crisis stronger than ever.” ...

Philadelphia Cultural Fund to Award $2.68M to 339 Arts Organizations Across the City

Friday, March 29, 2019
... said Philadelphia Cultural Fund executive director Barbara J. Silzle. Twenty-eight organizations are first-time ... “I’m proud that in addition to benefitting established Center City institutions, the City can meaningfully support ... and PHILADANCO! and its leader and national treasure Joan Myers Brown are such deserving recipients of this award.” ...
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What's New at Rebuild (November 2017)

Monday, December 4, 2017
... news and developments with the City of Philadelphia's Rebuild initiative for November 2017: November 1  - The ... Oversight Board held its inaugural meeting at Kingsessing Recreation Center.  The Oversight Board, which is made up of a diverse ...

Independence Public Media Foundation Announces $1.75 Million in Grants for COVID-19 Community Storytelling and Information Projects

Thursday, July 30, 2020
... announced its Community Voices Fund grants, totaling $1.75 million to 43 projects which will document, share, and ... “IPMF launched the Community Voices Fund to amplify and center voices, particularly from vulnerable communities, to ... Reclaim Philadelphia, Free Press, and Movement Alliance Project will partner to strengthen and expand information ...
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