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2024 Donor-Advised Fund Report: Grantmaking to Charities Remains Steady at $54.77 Billion Despite Contributions Decreasing

Tuesday, November 12, 2024
... the philanthropic ecosystem when outside influences impact giving patterns,” said Holly Welch Stubbing, CEO of ... grantmaking from DAFs to charitable organizations remained a sustainable source for good. DAF grantmaking ultimately ... Welch Stubbing continued, “Pre-funding charitable giving with a DAF is a wise long-term philanthropic and financial ...
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William Penn Foundation, Philly’s biggest foundation focused solely on the city, is changing what it funds

Thursday, June 27, 2024
... to Philadelphia’s largest foundation devoted solely to giving in the region. The William Penn Foundation is instituting a broad set of changes — from the kinds of projects and ... on the foundation’s board. Founded by the Haas family with fortunes amassed through ownership of chemical ...

Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia and Philly Counts announce third-round COVID-19 Prevention & Response Fund grant recipients

COVID-19 PR Fund Round 3 Grant Recipents
Thursday, November 4, 2021
... of grants from the COVID-19 Prevention & Response Fund , a community-led effort to invest in neighborhood-based ... $84,000  dollars were distributed to organizations with at least 90 percent BIPOC staff. A complete list of ... as a catalyst for collective action, effective giving and positive change in Greater Philadelphia, and to ...

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
... Fund (KCR Fund). The KCR Fund was launched in 2021 as a collaborative grant-making partnership between community ... general operating grant, bringing total resident-led giving through the KCR Fund to $1.12 million since 2021. All ... Director of the KCR Fund at ashley@kcrfund.org with questions or to discuss opportunities to support and ...

Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia and Philly Counts announce first-round of the COVID-19 Prevention & Response Fund grant recipients

Friday, May 21, 2021
... of grants from the COVID-19 Prevention & Response Fund , a community-led effort to invest in neighborhood-based ... and over 50 percent was distributed to organizations with at least 90 percent of their staff living in the ... as a catalyst for collective action, effective giving, and positive change in Greater Philadelphia, and to ...

The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Announces Over $10.2 Million in Pandemic Recovery Funding for Philadelphia Organizations and Fellowships for Artists

Pew Center for Arts and Heritage
Thursday, September 9, 2021
... move forward from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. In a pivot from the Center’s usual project grants for ... their work to the public but are emerging from this period with new perspectives on how the arts can become more ... arts education.” Anne Ishii , executive director of Asian Arts Initiative, which received a grant to develop a ...

Over $10 Million in New Funding to Strengthen Philadelphia-Area Cultural Groups and Artists

BalletX company performs choreographer Jennifer Archibald’s Maslow’s Peak, 2024. Photo by Whitney Browne, courtesy of BalletX.
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
... Futures” awards represent an investment toward a thriving future for the region’s cultural sector. The ... The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Asian Arts Initiative, Historic Germantown, Opera ... Academy of the Fine Arts, and People’s Light—come at a critical juncture following the pandemic, as the sector ...
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Leadership, Culture and Community

Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia and Philly Counts announce second-round COVID-19 Prevention & Response Fund grant recipients

COVID-19 Prevention & Response Fund
Friday, July 16, 2021
... Seventy-five percent of funds went to organizations led by a person of color, up 3 percent from the first round. ... be found here .  “We perform weekly in the community with signs that say ‘Get Vaxxed’ and a scratch DJ.  Our ... communities and given them faith that someone is finally giving them a voice.   The only way to truly and positively ...

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

Monday, May 16, 2022
Eligible small businesses can apply for a $10,000 grant from the Comcast RISE Investment Fund, ... of color, including Black, Indigenous, Hispanic, and Asian American owners, and women, bringing the total to $16 ... “This second infusion of investment grants, coupled with the hundreds of marketing and technology packages ...

Douty Foundation releases $1.5 million in emergency funding amid COVID-19 crisis

Wednesday, April 8, 2020
... in the short-term through these two relief funds, there is a long-term opportunity for leadership and action in all ... our funds support. If ever there was a time to step up giving and tap into endowments, this is it.” The two worker ... relief funds that The Douty Foundation is supporting with $500,000.00 each are the Philadelphia Worker Relief Fund ...

The Fund for the School District of Philadelphia School announces $5M gift for laptops to get students online

The Fund for the SDP
Friday, March 27, 2020
... for Online Learning PHILADELPHIA, March 27, 2020 —  The Fund for the School District of Philadelphia announced today it has received a $5 million contribution from Aileen and Brian Roberts, and ... unprecedented time and COVID-19 is presenting our society with new challenges every day,” said Aileen and Brian ...

The Philadelphia Cultural Fund distributes $2.67 million to a diverse mix of arts & culture organizations

Tuesday, March 27, 2018
MAYOR JIM KENNEY AND A HOST OF CITY LEADERS HELP DISTRIBUTE $2.67 MILLION TO ARTS ... in Art & Culture Grants from the Philadelphia Cultural Fund for 2018. The funds will help support 325 local arts ... or theater or fine arts, our neighborhoods are brimming with the talent that is being recognized today and rewarded ...

United Way launches new funding cycle

Monday, October 16, 2017
... being an IRS-certified 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, a minimum two-year service provision track record in the ... Guidance Letters to ensure your organization's work aligns with our key strategies and feel free to forward this news to ... Before you register, partners must visit our Impact Fund grant application page to read the RFP Guidance Letters ...

$2.5 million Philadelphia COVID-19 Community Information Fund to provide support for coronavirus news and information needs

Coronavirus Testing by Tim Tai - Philadelphia Inquirer
Wednesday, April 8, 2020
... Inquirer Via The Lenfest Institute for Journalism A broad-based, collaborative group of media funders, news ... journalism; Curious Philly, the Inquirer’s community Q&A platform; and “From the Frontlines,” coverage of workers and communities dealing with COVID-19. These initiatives build upon a $3 million ...

City Launches Overdose Prevention and Community Healing Fund

Tuesday, December 20, 2022
... launch of the  Overdose Prevention and Community Healing Fund , which will begin accepting grant applications on ... Fund, using opioid settlement funds, will implement a community-driven grantmaking process that focuses on ... to community-based organizations across Philadelphia, with special consideration given to eligible organizations ...
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Addiction / Opioid Crisis

The Fund for Women and Girls’ Fifth Annual Champions of Change Event Leaves Local Business Community Inspired to Elevate Women in the Workplace

The Fund for Women and Girls
Wednesday, November 10, 2021
... opportunities for female employees. The event began with networking, as attendees had the opportunity to meet and ... Leadership search and its upcoming Blueprint Report, a comprehensive study of how women and girls are faring at ... uplift women in the nursing and healthcare fields. Before giving her remarks, Dr. Reifsnyder’s impact in her ...
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New Community Grants by Philadelphia City Fund Announced

Philadelphia City Fund
Wednesday, July 26, 2023
... City Fund Philadelphia, PA July 26, 2023 –It’s a little-known fact that a portion of the entrance fees for ... address the health of formerly incarcerated women, people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and ... allow us to award grants that are timely and important, giving us the nimbleness to respond to Philadelphia’s ...

Union Benevolent Assoication announces change to funding priorities

Union Benevolent Association
Friday, August 17, 2018
... meet basic needs Union Benevolent Association (UBA), a Philadelphia-based philanthropic foundation, announced it ... focus on alleviating the burden of poverty. Beginning with its fall 2018 grant cycle, the organization will target its charitable giving to organizations that help Philadelphia’s poorest ...

Beech stands in the gap during funding crisis

Derrick Thomas and Ken Scott
Friday, February 7, 2025
... 7, 2025 – Eighteen non-profits in Philadelphia received a boost when The Beech Companies, Inc. recently awarded ... and over 300 college scholarships through its scholarship fund . During the pandemic, the foundation provided $1,000 ... and very few grant funding organizations in the country with Black leadership. It’s also one of few Black ...

Foundations Community Partnership Joins Nonprofit Repositioning Fund

The Nonprofit Repositioning Fund’s Director Lindsay T. Kijewski (right) with Dr. Tobi Bruhn, CEO of Foundations Community Partnership.
Tuesday, April 8, 2025
Tobi and Lindsay.jpg The Nonprofit Repositioning Fund’s Director Lindsay T. Kijewski (right) with Dr. Tobi Bruhn, CEO of Foundations Community ... to join the Nonprofit Repositioning Fund (“the Fund”), a pooled-funding effort by local philanthropic organizations ...
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Nonprofit Infrastructure
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Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability

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