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43 organizations receive Barra Awards

Tuesday, December 5, 2017
... the communities they serve.   This year, The Barra Foundation has awarded $2,150,000 to 43 exemplary ... to problems. To identify Awardees, Barra turns to the community. A new slate of nominators, selected each grant ... health and human services by by Peter Dobrin for the Philadelphia Inquirer (12/6/17) 43 organizations receive ...
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Aid for Ukraine

Aid for Ukraine
Wednesday, March 2, 2022
... Things to Know   via Inside Philanthropy The C.S. Mott Foundation’s work to bolster civil society in Ukraine goes ... donating $10,000 each to: CARE for its Ukraine Crisis Fund ; Nova Ukraine ; Tikva Odessa ; The International Rescue ... guidance on where to donate (03.05.22) Via The Philadelphia Citizen - How to Help Ukraine Right Now The ...

WCU Students Demonstrate Benjamin Franklin’s Philanthropic Legacy through Annual Grant

CCCF Grant Students
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
... PA – February 17, 2020 – The Chester County Community Foundation (CCCF) aims to grow legacy philanthropy by ... nonprofit recipient(s) of the 2020 Benjamin Franklin Trust Fund award.  The class is taught by Dr. Gerardina L. Martin, ... (1790), he left 1,000 pounds of sterling to the city of Philadelphia.
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Finding evidence of our collective courage and strength

215 People's Alliance
Wednesday, May 27, 2020
... of our community grantmaking committee for our Solidarity Fund for COVID-19 Organizing , a rapid-response fund we ... Philanthropy Network members Independence Public Media Foundation, the Samuel S. Fels Fund, and Douty Foundation, we ... organizers are responding to this crisis right here in the Philadelphia region, I am filled with lasting faith in our ...

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 ... Journalism today announced 13 winners of its latest grant programs, aimed at fulfilling its mission of supporting ... share learnings with each other and the wider journalism community. LOCAL NEWS BUSINESS MODEL CHALLENGE The Institute ...
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City's Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy Shares Plans for 2021

OACCE
Thursday, January 14, 2021
Press release   OACCElogo.png PHILADELPHIA – The City of Philadelphia’s Office of ... programs, a $1M allocation to the Philadelphia Cultural Fund and a $350,000 allocation to the African American Museum ... creativity throughout the city’s neighborhoods. OACCE supports free cultural programming; creates opportunities for ...
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Strengthening the Field of Philanthropic Evaluation: A Call to Action

Thursday, June 28, 2018
... One year ago, catalyzed by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation’s initial investment, Engage R+D and Equal ... on achieving measurable results, and many are now tackling community and systems change work. This has challenged ... ). Meg Long  is President of Equal Measure, Philadelphia-based professional services nonprofit focused on ...
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The Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy and the Arts and Culture Task Force Launch $1 Million Illuminate the Arts Grant

OACCE
Tuesday, May 4, 2021
Philadelphia’s individual artists, small and mid-size ... stimulate the recovery of Philadelphia's arts and culture community, which has been severely impacted by the COVID-19 ... Budget Act as an investment to address racial disparities in the City of Philadelphia. City Council’s transfer ...

Opinion | As Philly’s historical organizations struggle, partnerships are key by Nadya K. Shmavonian

Historical Society photo by Heather Khalifa
Wednesday, April 17, 2019
Via the Philadelphia Inquirer In February,  the Philadelphia History ... wave, the Greater Philadelphia Nonprofit Repositioning Fund  was established in 2015 by a group of funders (now ... of two or more nonprofits seeking to enhance sustainable community impact. Each project we’ve supported represents a ...

City launches $1.5 Million 2024 Illuminate the Arts Grant

Monday, August 12, 2024
Press release Creative Philadelphia.png PHILADELPHIA – Creative Philadelphia ... geared to meet the needs of the local arts and culture community while providing funds quickly and efficiently. Applicants must be based in Philadelphia County. The 2024 grants will support: ...
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Philly dominates Knight Cities Challenge … again

Monday, June 12, 2017
... You want ideas for how to make cities more successful? Philadelphia has a million dollars’ worth. For the third ... grants that the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation  offers annually  to 26 cities. The foundation ... George Abbott, Knight Foundation’s director for community and national initiatives, said he wasn’t ...
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City Appoints New Executive Director of Rebuild

Kira Strong
Friday, January 3, 2020
... 267-251-3064, maita.soukup@phila.gov   Rebuild2.jpg PHILADELPHIA - Managing Director Brian Abernathy today ... efforts in West Philadelphia as Vice President of Community and Economic Development for the People’s ... a historic $100 million commitment from the William Penn Foundation.  “Rebuild came to Moss this spring and hit the ...

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

Friday, October 20, 2017
... Friday, Heifetz announced that he has gifted them to the Philadelphia Foundation , which will in turn sell them and place the ... will join Heifetz’s existing $4 million donor-advised fund at the Philadelphia Foundation, and investment income ...
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Awards Celebrate Our Region's Social Innovators

Wednesday, January 30, 2019
The Greater Philadelphia SIJ Awards honors our region’s most passionate ... were: Philanthropy 1st Place - Independence Blue Cross Foundation ; 2nd Place - Union Benevolent Association ; 3rd ... Out of the Box Social Investors  2nd Place- The Merchants Fund ; 3rd Place - Patricia Kind Family Foundation Law & ...
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Experiments in the Innovation Lab

Food Pantry
Wednesday, June 26, 2019
... Bush, Executive Director for The Open Link (a HealthSpark Foundation grantee) has long asked that question and thanks ... Schwenckfeld Manor that was profiled in a January 2019  Philadelphia Inquirer article . In December ... can be achieved when combined with other safety net supports such as financial literacy education.  Pottstown ...

Beyond the Check: Building Bridges in Arts and Trauma-Informed Practice through Philanthropy

Bartol staff and teaching artists
Wednesday, April 10, 2019
... the question that Beth Feldman Brandt of the Bartol Foundation and Joe Pyle of the Scattergood Foundation ... have little in common, with Bartol funding arts programs and Scattergood specializing in behavioral health. ... with them wherever they go, furthering their impact on Philadelphia’s communities. Click here to watch Beth and ...
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Your board isn’t diverse enough

Wednesday, September 13, 2017
... make leadership reflect the people you're serving. Seybert Foundation Board of Directors When BoardSource’s most ... about the issue of board and leadership diversity within Philadelphia nonprofits and foundations, partially because ... and people from other constituencies the organization supports. “It’s really the work of the chair of the board ...

Five Local Organizations Receive $125k Grants from TD Bank to Develop Local Affordable Housing

Monday, March 9, 2020
The Housing for Everyone grants will fund projects supporting the refurbishing of existing housing ... HILL, N.J., March, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- TD Charitable Foundation, the charitable giving arm of TD Bank, America's ... Ministries (Tampa, FL) Mission First Housing Group (Philadelphia, PA) Mountain Housing Opportunities (Asheville, ...

Statement: Including Immigrants and Refugees In Our Response to COVID-19

Immigrant Community courtesy Fels Fund
Wednesday, April 8, 2020
... sector’s response, both nationally and here in Greater Philadelphia. This spirit of “we are all in this ... as a supporter of this statement. Chester County Community Foundation The Alfred and Mary Douty Foundation Samuel S. Fels Fund Independence Foundation The Merchants Fund Nonprofit ...

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