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$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
... Center) announced its 2022 grants and fellowships today in support of cultural events and artistic work that will ... narratives. The 42 awards total $9.5 million: $7.2 million in project funding, plus $1.4 million provided as ... spaces and nontraditional venues such as a public park, a community recreation center, and a botanical garden, while ...
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Native Voices Rising Announces $3.5 Million to Native-Led Advocacy

Native Voices Rising Grants
Thursday, November 10, 2022
... Today, Native Voices Rising (NVR) announced $3.5 million in grants to 114 Indigenous and Native-led advocacy and ... climate and water justice, and preventing incarceration in Native communities, to name a few.   Established in 2013, ... we live our values as Native people, working with our own community leaders across the country to lead our own ...

Dwayne Wharton selected for new national leadership program to build health equity

Dwayne Wharton
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
... working across a range of fields, including social policy, community development, public health and government — have been selected to participate in the Culture of Health Leaders program. These leaders will explore a diversity of pressing issues in health and equity, such as addressing the legacy of ...

Rebuild Receives Grant to Support Needed Improvements to Vare

Thursday, July 12, 2018
... David Gould , 267-240-2010 PHILADELPHIA – Rebuilding Community Infrastructure (Rebuild) – the City of ... Recreation Center. The grant will also release $62,500 in matching funds from the William Penn Foundation as part of ... members can begin to see sorely needed improvements in their neighborhood as soon as possible.” Vare serves the ...
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Philadelphia Bar Foundation Announces Release of Emergency Funding

Monday, April 20, 2020
PHILADELPHIA, PA (April 20, 2020) – In response to the coronavirus pandemic, the Philadelphia Bar ... is releasing $254,745 to be distributed immediately in emergency grants. These funds are intended to alleviate ... of the unexpected economic pressure on the public interest community and to provide support for future needs. The ...
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Union Benevolent Association’s unrestricted response bolsters Philadelphia nonprofits amidst COVID-19

Thursday, March 4, 2021
... serve their respective communities. With this realization, in addition to Union Benevolent Association ’s (UBA) spring ... annual grant--typically one (1) $20,000 award, to four (4) community-based nonprofit organizations addressing the critical challenges affecting Philadelphia--in the amount of $25,000 each. These trusted and experienced ...

Brandywine Health Foundation Announces New Name: The Alliance for Health Equity - Same Vital Mission

The Alliance for Health Equity
Wednesday, October 27, 2021
... to the ever-changing needs of the Greater Coatesville community through partnerships, distributed nearly $19 million in grants and scholarships, and launched impactful programs ... and values—namely its commitment to centering equity in all efforts with the goal of deeper social impact, as well ...
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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 The Regional Foundation was created in December 2020 when The Wells Fargo Regional Foundation ... their programmatic activities and $100 million in charitable assets into the new foundation operated as a ...

With $16 million gift, gay causes get a big boost

Friday, October 20, 2017
... Writer @InquirerPeter | pdobrin@phillynews.com When he was in his mid-20s, Mel Heifetz made a pledge to himself that if ... and that the object of his generosity would be the gay community. Successful he was, and now, about to turn 82, the ... gifted them to the Philadelphia Foundation , which will in turn sell them and place the proceeds in an endowment. The ...
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PA is Ready! receives $150k in funding to support immigration services

Friday, April 6, 2018
A total of $150,000 in grants from the Ford Foundation , JPB Foundation , and ... Society Foundations will support the work of PA is Ready ! in fiscal year 2018/19. The funding is part of a program ... fundraising and technical assistance. PA is Ready!’s community-led grantmaking committee is made up of five ...
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Immigration and Refugees
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Public Policy and Civic Engagement

The Board of Directors of the VNA Foundation of Greater North Penn Announces Two New Changes for 2019

Diana Doherty and Joanne Kline
Tuesday, January 8, 2019
In the Spring of 2019, Joanne Kline, the founding Executive ... from Joanne’s leadership.”  Succeeding Joanne in the Executive Director role will be Diana Loukedis ... Diana is known to many of the local nonprofit and community groups for her philanthropic management and ...
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Brandywine Health Foundation Announces Healthcare & Economic Relief Fund Phase Two Grant Recipients

Tuesday, July 28, 2020
... revealed that over forty percent of our nonprofit sector in the five county region have net operating margins of zero ... strong.  This is even more alarming when factoring in the impact of COVID-19 on the nonprofit sector’s fiscal ... or journey with them to collectively build a racial equity community of practice.  This is what responsive philanthropy ...

BLBB Charitable Awards COVID-19 Emergency Grants to Area Cultural Institutions

BLBB Charitable
Wednesday, August 5, 2020
... pandemic. Grants were awarded to The County Theater in Doylestown, The Ambler Theater, The Bucks County ... Historical Society Mercer Museum, and ACT II Playhouse. In addition to its previous $25,000 grant to MontcoPA ... and leadership opportunities to preserve important community institutions in its own backyard. While BLBB ...
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Independence Blue Cross Foundation Launches Institute for Health Equity

Independence Blue Cross Foundation
Thursday, March 31, 2022
... anniversary. "Health care organizations must invest in inclusive innovation that improves the health of everyone, ... Blue Cross . "There are unacceptable disparities in health care access and outcomes, and we can't wait any ... commitment to improve the health and wellbeing of our community," said Reverend Dr. Lorina Marshall-Blake, ...
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Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation awards COVID-19 Fund grants

Tuesday, June 30, 2020
... and Recovery Fund. The fund supports social services in the Foundation’s service area and micro businesses ... including Donald Smith of Montgomery County Community College, Casey Fenoglio and Robin McMonagle from ... an urgent need to address the impact of coronavirus in the Pottstown community head-on, especially for ...

New grocery store experiment hopes to inspire learning

"Talk it Up"
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
... Ellis weighs some bananas at the Island Avenue Shoprite in Southwest Philadelphia while shopping with her ... (Philadelphia) -- If you're grocery shopping in Philadelphia over the next year you might run into a ... At strategically placed sites across 10 grocery stores in Philadelphia, A.J. appears on small, laminated signs and ...
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Read by 4th Initiative

William Penn Foundation Launches Informal Learning Initiative

Thursday, September 14, 2017
...  has announced the launch of a two-year, $2 million community-based initiative to connect children and families in the city's low-income neighborhoods to informal ... oral language, writing, and comprehension skills. Partners in the initiative include the  Barnes Foundation , the  ...
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