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The Presser Foundation announces more than $71,000 in new special project grants to music organizations

Tuesday, October 31, 2023
... the following categories: 1) pilot projects/programs, 2) first-time, ongoing programmatic collaborations, and 3) ... Dolce Suono Ensemble* Philadelphia Boys and Girls Choirs* First-Time Collaboration – $10,000 Philadelphia Chamber ... States dedicated solely to music education and music philanthropy. The Presser Foundation considers applications ...
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Susan K. Urahn Appointed Pew’s New President and CEO

Susan K. Urahn
Friday, March 20, 2020
... Pew Charitable Trusts today announced Susan K. Urahn as its new president and CEO, effective July 1. Urahn, who ... approaches.” Urahn joined Pew in 1994 as a key member of its planning and evaluation division, and directed the ... the Pew Center on the States and served as the center’s director from 2007 to 2012. She became an executive vice ...
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Green Tree Community Health Foundation Is Now Foundation for Health Equity™

Foundation for Health Equity
Tuesday, July 20, 2021
... has funded a variety of health-related organizations since its inception, in recent years it has concentrated its grantmaking in three categories: hunger and food ... health and health care,” said Bethany Flood, Executive Director of the Foundation for Health Equity. “We look ...
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City Launches Fund to Support Philadelphia Organizations Pursuing Thriving Communities Grantmaking Program

Wednesday, March 12, 2025
... to expand their capacity,” said Elizabeth Lankenau, Director of the Office of Sustainability. “However, getting ... being reimbursement-based,” said Emily Gowen, Deputy Director of the Philadelphia City Fund. “General operating ...
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Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation East Auxiliary Volunteers Raise $20K to Promote Health & Wellness

Monday, January 22, 2018
... Auxiliary are: (left to right) Brian Parkes, Executive Director, TriCounty Area Active Adult Center; Felicity Jeans, ... the Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation and six of its grantees. These funds have been distributed as part of ... round and were awarded to the following organizations and its programs: Camphill Village Kimberton Hills – Aging in ...
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How you can help Philly reimagine our civic spaces

Friday, June 15, 2018
... welcome two new park projects as they complete the first phase of their development: Centennial Commons in West ... affordability. Read More Jamie Gauthier is executive director of the Fairmount Park Conservancy and Patrick J. Morgan is the Knight Foundation’s project director in Philadelphia.   How you can help Philly ...

The New FAQ: What Do Our Nonprofit Partners REALLY want from the Funder/Grantee Relationship?

VNA Foundation Grant Partners
Wednesday, August 30, 2023
... funders in general.  Like many of you, we are members of Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia because we are ... and limitations for partnering” “Trust-based philanthropy is the bomb!” Areas Where Funders Could ... v2.jpg Diana Loukedis Doherty is the Executive Director of the VNA Foundation of Greater North Penn , a ...

Foundations Community Partnership Board Awards Nearly $170,000 to Local Nonprofits

Wednesday, June 26, 2024
Doylestown, PA (June 26, 2024) – At the conclusion of its fiscal year, Foundations Community Partnership (FCP) ... Museum to train staff, docents, and volunteers to support its Art for All Program which engages adults with moderate ... dementia, as well as the Montgomery Theater to support its strategic planning process, focusing on developing ...

Funder/Nonprofit Happy Hour: Connecting the PEOPLE behind the roles

Happy Hour
Wednesday, September 18, 2019
8.8.19_HappyHOur(2).jpg   By Philanthropy Network's Member Engagement Committee Somehow, ... on equity, the nametags issued only listed people’s first names, NO organizational name or position title. To ... interests.  For those who completed their bingo cards first, there were equity-focused prizes (copies of the books ...

Leadership Transition at the Philadelphia Cultural Fund

Caralyn Spector
Tuesday, July 5, 2022
... announces that it has engaged Caralyn Spector to serve as its Interim Executive Director, effective July 18, 2022 following the announced ... cultural life and vitality of the City of Philadelphia and its residents, the Philadelphia Cultural Fund, through the ...
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Salem Health and Wellness Foundation names new leader

Salem Halth & Wellness Foundation
Thursday, September 22, 2022
... Foundation is pleased to announce the appointment of its new Executive Director, Paul DiLorenzo.  Paul will follow Brenda Goins who ... has a distinguished history in the community, specifically its commitment to reducing health disparities and improving ...
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Every Voice, Every Vote grants $2.875 million to 71 Philadelphia media and community organizations to expand access to civic news and information

Tuesday, June 25, 2024
... Neighborhood organizations including Children First PA, Committee of Seventy, Congreso  de Latinos Unidos, ... 2024 and 2025, Every Voice, Every Vote will build upon its initial success as  Philadelphia’s largest-ever ... in 15 languages.   “As we build on the momentum of the first round of Every Voice, Every Vote, we are again  ...
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Pew Announces $1.85M to Strengthen the Free Library of Philadelphia and Improve Access to Drexel University’s Atwater Kent Collection

Free Library of Philadelphia
Wednesday, July 19, 2023
... that it has awarded two grants totaling $1.85 million in its ongoing commitment to help Philadelphia-area ... library hopes to better address community needs through its programs and services. The Free Library will also examine ... 1,000 pieces publicly available online for the first time in the collection’s history; and with Pew’s ...

Census 2020: Your Family Foundation Needs to Engage

Monday, January 28, 2019
... originally posted here by the National Center for Family Philanthropy . By Maggie Osborn In October, you may have read ... the amazing work being done about census efforts by philanthropy-serving organizations (PSO) that are part of the ... Vice President of the Florida Philanthropic Network, Grant Director for the Conn Memorial Foundation, Vice President of ...
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Bank of America Commits Support to Help Philadelphia Students Start Remote-Learning Classes by Mid-April

Wednesday, April 1, 2020
... instruction. "We are so grateful to Bank of America for its generous gift to help thousands of our students, many of whom will for the first time be able to access remote learning from home,” ...
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An emergency COVID-19 fund in Delco fights to feed the newly needy in the ’burbs

Wednesday, April 29, 2020
... faces they’ve never before seen. The county itself, with its relatively meager commercial tax base, had to  furlough ... often means that this county of 567,000 is not among the first, or the last, to get charitable checks. “I think ...

Beech celebrates neighborhood transformation over 30 years

Beech Companies Christine Brown and Kenneth Scott
Wednesday, June 22, 2022
... residence hall for students with a food court on the first floor. Now, surrounding these developments, the ... and scholarships.” On Monday, Beech celebrated its 30th anniversary at Vie by Cescaphe — two years later ...

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