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Philadelphia Health Partnership Launches 25th Milestone Year with Kickoff and News of Celebration Plans

Friday, March 17, 2023
Philadelphia Health Partnership (PHP) recently launched its ... the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania. After 20 years, the board and staff engaged in a strategic planning ... vision, mission and guiding principles and a new name Philadelphia Health Partnership. Today, the Foundation is ...
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The Fund for Women and Girls Hosts 16th Annual Making a Difference Luncheon Celebrating 25 Years of Impact

Making a Difference luncheon
Monday, May 24, 2021
... (May 24, 2021) – The Fund for Women and Girls marked 25 years of serving local women and girls at the 16th Annual ... The Fund’s annual Luncheon recognized the power of 25 years of impact, honored the philanthropy and contributions ... through her work at Inclusiva and her role on the City of Philadelphia’s Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Board. Her ...
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Beech celebrates neighborhood transformation over 30 years

Beech Companies Christine Brown and Kenneth Scott
Wednesday, June 22, 2022
Via The Philadelphia Tribune | Stephen Williams, Staff Writer Three ... try to convince banks, businesses, homeowners and North Philadelphia stakeholders like Temple University that is was ... its 30th anniversary at Vie by Cescaphe — two years later than originally planned due to the COVID ...

Leadership Transition at the Philadelphia Cultural Fund

Barbara Silzle
Monday, April 11, 2022
BarbaraSilzle2022.png April 11, 2022 -- The board of the Philadelphia Cultural Fund announces that its Executive ... Barbara Silzle, will step down from her position on July 15, 2022 to explore other interests. Barbara has led the organization for seven years. During this time, she has strengthened the Cultural ...
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Leadership Transition at the Philadelphia Cultural Fund

Caralyn Spector
Tuesday, July 5, 2022
July 5, 2022 -- The board of the Philadelphia Cultural Fund announces that it has engaged ... Silzle , who will step down from her position on July 15, 2022 to explore other interests. “The board thanks Barbara Silzle for her 7 years of service to the Cultural Fund and is committed to a ...
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Douty Foundation releases $1.5 million in emergency funding amid COVID-19 crisis

Wednesday, April 8, 2020
... Foundation 215-620-1869  jennifer@doutyfoundation.org Philadelphia, PA (April 6, 2020) – Since 1968, The Douty ... grants to small grassroots organizations and movements in Philadelphia and Montgomery Counties that activate social ... Foundation is supporting with $500,000.00 each are the Philadelphia Worker Relief Fund and the PA Immigrant Relief ...

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

Tuesday, February 27, 2024
... grants to 114 music organizations in the Greater Philadelphia Area. In addition, the Foundation will honor ten ... contributing to music and the arts in Greater Philadelphia. William B. McLaughlin, III, Chair of the ... 121 proposals from music organizations across the Greater Philadelphia Area including 23 first-time applicants and 35 ...
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New Community Grants by Philadelphia City Fund Announced

Philadelphia City Fund
Wednesday, July 26, 2023
Via the Philadelphia City Fund Philadelphia, PA July 26, 2023 –It’s a little-known fact ... and education resources Breastfeeding Resource Center, $15,000 to provide free, ongoing clinical lactation support ...

Pew Report Examines Philadelphia’s Foreign-Born Population

Thursday, June 7, 2018
... of workers, and added to the already high share of poor PHILADELPHIA—A new analysis by The Pew Charitable Trusts ... increased 69 percent since 2000 and represented nearly 15 percent of the city’s population in 2016—the highest ... examines how these characteristics have changed in recent years, while also making comparisons with the nation, the ...

Philadelphia Foundation Announces Winners of Key to Community Grants

Key to Community Grants
Thursday, August 1, 2019
Related coverage: OPINION|  Philadelphia Foundation’s special $1 million initiative ... their voices heard by casting nearly 200,000 votes for 15 deserving nonprofit finalists selected from 200 proposals ... with the Philadelphia Foundation goes back 100 years, and we couldn’t be more excited to co-present these ...

Philadelphia’s Placing a $500 Million Bet on Play

Monday, September 11, 2017
... map to getting this overhaul right. Even as Lawncrest, the Philadelphia neighborhood, has transformed over the past half ... now dilapidated), and the community garden (just a few years old), the Lawncrest Recreation Center is almost exactly ... merely neutral. Surveyed park users between the ages of 15 and 19 — a target demographic for the city’s parks and ...

Philadelphia Food Justice Initiative Announces New Grant Awards to Increase Health Food Access in Philadelphia

Reinvestment Fund Food Justice Initiative
Thursday, January 27, 2022
... historic food injustice   RF_Food Justice Initiative.png PHILADELPHIA--As part of the Philadelphia Food Justice Initiative (PFJI) , Reinvestment Fund has joined the Philadelphia Department of Public Health and Wells Fargo in ...

Philadelphia Foundation’s Youth-In-Philanthropy Program Awards $72,000 In Grants to Philadelphia Nonprofits

Youthadelphia
Tuesday, June 23, 2020
Press Release via Philadelphia Foundation Youthadelphia.jpg PHILADELPHIA, PA – Philadelphia Foundation is pleased to ... and career readiness program for over 25 girls ages 15-18. The yearlong program meets to address youth-selected ...
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The Mayor’s Fund For Philadelphia is now The Philadelphia City Fund

Philadelphia City Fund
Thursday, February 9, 2023
Press release PhilaCityFund__tag_two-line_brick.png PHILADELPHIA, PA February 9, 2023 – With the launch of its ... website,   www.philacityfund.org, the Mayor’s Fund for Philadelphia officially has become the Philadelphia City Fund ... that benefit all Philadelphians. “Over the past three years, we have established new leadership, a new board, and ...
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City of Philadelphia Launches “PHLConnectED”

Thursday, August 6, 2020
... Partner with the City to Provide Support The City of Philadelphia today announced  PHLConnectED , a collaboration ... are expected to join. Initial partners include: City of Philadelphia School District of Philadelphia Select Charter ... phase of PHLConnectED will cost $17.1 Million over two years to implement, this means $9.1 Million in year one and ...

New report outlines the scale and scope of employer-driven philanthropy and volunteerism in Philadelphia

Report Cover - How Employers Give
Wednesday, May 15, 2019
... social responsibility report by Sabrina Vourvoulias  [May 15, 2019]  The Chamber of Commerce for Greater Philadelphia and Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia are pleased to release “ How Employers Give: A ...

Seeking to Build Community, Philadelphia Invests $500M in Recreational Spaces

FDR Park
Friday, September 22, 2017
... grant  from the William Penn Foundation, the City of Philadelphia launched a high-profile, mayor-backed,  ... half of those from Lawncrest. Black males between 7 and 30 years old are the primary users at both centers. Teenagers ... point” at both centers. Respondents between the ages of 15 and 19 were less likely to feel safe and feel a positive ...

The Philadelphia Foundation Announces On The Table Philly “Activate” Mini-Grants

Tuesday, January 15, 2019
Philadelphia, PA (Jan. 14, 2019) – The   Philadelphia Foundation   has announced 43 projects selected ...   into tangible initiatives that will improve the Greater Philadelphia region. The recipients were selected from 80 who ...
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