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Health Department Announces Significant Contributions to the Philly Joy Bank from the William Penn Foundation and Spring Point Partners

Monday, March 20, 2023
PHILADELPHIA—The Philadelphia Department of Public Health ... life. When breaking down the data by race and ethnicity, Black infants in our city are over four times more likely to ... pregnancy pilots. The Health Department believes that giving cash during and immediately after pregnancy is a ...
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Lenfest Institute for Journalism Announces Local News Sustainability Grants

The Lenfest Institute
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
Read more in the Philadelphia Inquirer: Lenfest Institute awards half a ... Institute for Journalism today announced 13 winners of its latest grant programs, aimed at fulfilling its mission of ... The Institute selected seven grantees nationwide for the inaugural Local News Business Model Challenge. The grant ...
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Leeway Foundation announces $62,500 in project-based funding

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Monday, November 25, 2024
Press release via Leeway Foundation PHILADELPHIA, PA — Leeway Foundation announces $62,500 in ... project intertwining folk songs from Haitian and Black American traditions; fashion events designed to bring ... and social justice. For more information about Leeway, its grant programs, grantees, and events, visit leeway.org. ...

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 ... the Foundation is immediately releasing more than 25% of its investment corpus, $1.5 million, to respond to the ... our funds support. If ever there was a time to step up giving and tap into endowments, this is it.” The two worker ...

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

Thursday, July 30, 2020
PHILADELPHIA, July 30, 2020 – The Independence Public Media Foundation (IPMF) announced its Community Voices Fund grants, totaling $1.75 million to ... disconnected and disaffected Philadelphians, and support Black dignity, where systemic barriers to timely, quality ...
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The Foundation for Delaware County Awards Over $1.1 Million to Local Nonprofits

Foundation for Delawre County
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
MEDIA, PA (Oct. 30, 2018) -In its first major round of grantmaking, The Foundation for Delaware County, the largest ... to discuss setting up a donor advised fund or other giving vehicles, or visit the foundation's website and click ...

Leeway Foundation Announces $49,950 in Support To 23 Individual Artists Highlighting Practices of Reclamation Of LGBQA Social Movements and Cultural Preservation

Leeway Foundation
Wednesday, October 13, 2021
... trans* artists and cultural producers living in Greater Philadelphia. The Fall 2021 Art and Change grantees are (in ... (ACG ’20), multimedia and textile artist Lynda Grace Black (WOO ’01), and writer, photographer, and multimedia ... and social justice.

The Seybert Foundation Announces New Strategic Direction for Grants, Technical Assistance

Monday, April 16, 2018
... has engaged in a months-long process to review and revise its strategy for improving the lives of children in Philadelphia.  As a result, the Foundation’s approach to grantmaking and technical assistance will change in ...

PHL COVID-19 Fund Reaches $10M in Funds Deployed, Continuing to Amplify Regional Community Efforts

PHL Covid-19 Fund
Thursday, May 7, 2020
PHLCovid19Twitter.png PHILADELPHIA, May 7, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The PHL COVID-19 Fund today announced its fourth round of grants, totaling more than $3.25 ... Mount Carmel Baptist Church $        50,000 National Giving Alliance $          5,000 Neighbor To Neighbor ...

Vanessa B. Briggs, President & CEO, Departs The Alliance for Health Equity After Five Years of Stellar Leadership

Vanessa B. Briggs
Wednesday, July 6, 2022
... a population health management organization that, through its network of providers in Pennsylvania and New Jersey, ... implemented Trust-based Philanthropy approaches to grantmaking, launched the Nonprofit Justice & Equity ... and the Unemployment Collective and Coatesville Black Media Renaissance.  Most recently, Vanessa and The ...
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Independence Public Media Foundation Announces $800,000 in 2023 Community Voices Grants

IPMF Community Voices 2023 - Save Chinatown
Tuesday, August 15, 2023
News release via Independence Public Media Foundation PHILADELPHIA, August 15, 2023—The Independence Public Media Foundation (IPMF) announced its 2023 Community Voices Fund grants, totaling $800,000 ... payment of $131.5 million. With these funds, IPMF supports Black-led, Indigenous-led, and people-of-color led media ...
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Centering Community Voice with Data: Perspectives from a Nonprofit and a Funder

Trellis for Tomorrow students building a compost station
Friday, October 27, 2023
... with feedback: Trellis for Tomorrow Based in Greater Philadelphia, Trellis for Tomorrow is a non-profit whose ... in feedback work and capacity building We know that giving grant money isn’t enough. Our general operating ... incorporate that feedback into your work, you complete the circle. To learn more about how Listen4Good supports ...
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City announces first round of the Kensington Community Resilience Fund grant recipients

Kensington Community Resilience Fund
Wednesday, July 14, 2021
KCR Fund.png PHILADELPHIA — The City of Philadelphia today announced the ... Core to the KCR Fund’s approach is a participatory grantmaking process that elevates resident and community ... across these neighborhoods.” The KCR Fund awarded its first round of grants, totaling $200,000, to 20 nonprofit ...

New community-led pooled fund will support COVID-19 education and vaccine access

COVID-19 Prevention & Response Fund
Thursday, April 8, 2021
... hit by the pandemic   Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia in collaboration with funders across the region ... public health infrastructure has largely left low-income, Black, Latinx, and Asian communities behind in their COVID-19 ... as a catalyst for collective action, effective giving and positive change in Greater Philadelphia, and to ...

Parks & Rec and RecPhilly announce the 10 local entrepreneurs selected as finalists for Making Space program

Wednesday, March 1, 2023
Press release via the City of Philadelphia Department of Parks & Recreation   ... grant and access to the rec center spaces, our city and its youth will undoubtedly be better because of it." The ten ... and online grocery and personal care business featuring Black-owned products. Pedlar wants to run the business in a ...

Independence Public Media Foundation Announces $2 Million in Grants to Media Making Organizations

Independence Public Media Foundation
Thursday, June 3, 2021
IMPFlogo.png PHILADELPHIA, June 2, 2021 – The Independence Public Media ... Philadelphia Latino Film Festival , which is celebrating its ten-year anniversary, received $250,000 to support its ... and media-making that advances cultural equity for Latinx, Black, Indigenous, People of Color, immigrant and LGBTQIA+ ...
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The Fund for Women and Girls Awards $15,600 to Create Change

Girls with Cheyney University's Period Poverty Project
Wednesday, July 26, 2023
... Two earlier recipients in this grant cycle were the Black Women of Chester County in Action ($3,000 for a Bakers ... Fund awarded  ‘Moving Her Forward’ Impact Grants , a grantmaking program established to focus on swift responses ... Edition Blueprint Report: Lighting a Path , its comprehensive research report on the state of women and ...
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Philanthropy's Response to the Coronavirus Outbreak

Philanthropy's Response to Coronavirus
Monday, March 2, 2020
... our COVID-19 Philanthropic Response Funds for Greater Philadelphia and Regional COVID-19 Response Dashboard pages . ... Esperanza has been a success at vaccinating Latinos, but Black Philadelphians still lag behind by Jason Laughlin for ... | Philanthropy and COVID-19 in 2020: Measuring One Year of Giving – Center for Disaster Philanthropy and Candid MENTAL ...
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