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Chester County Fund for Women and Girls to Honor Susan Elko with Kitchen Table Award

Thursday, January 25, 2018
... through service and/or philanthropy to improve the lives of women and girls through her own time, talent or resources. ... women faced with homelessness – to her role as Board President of The Barn at Spring Brook Farm, a nonprofit ... Officer of Advancing Adolescent Girls' Rights at the NoVo Foundation. Tynesha has over a decade of experience ...
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Vanguard awards $1.63M to childhood learning effort

Friday, April 27, 2018
... @MercBiz  on Twitter Pictured: Carra Cote-Ackah, director of Vanguard’s Community Stewardship efforts, speaks with ... In addition to Vanguard’s grant, the William Penn Foundation also presented a three-year $987,000 grant to the ... Community Stewardship efforts, along with Drexel President John Fry and Janet Hess, board chairwoman for the ...
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Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia launches field scan

Friday, May 3, 2019
... has launched a field scan to learn more about the state of philanthropic practices in our region. Through a grant from the William Penn Foundation, we’ve partnered with Equal Measure – a local ... equity in philanthropy, contact Philanthropy Network president Sidney R. Hargro at 215-790-9700 x4 or ...
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United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey and Comcast Launch Nonprofit Finance Accelerator to Strengthen Nonprofit Community

Nonprofit Finance Accelerator
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
Press release via United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey ...   PHILADELPHIA, PA (March 17, 2021) —  United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey (UWGPSNJ) and ... Finance Fund, said Dalila Wilson-Scott, Executive Vice President and Chief Diversity Officer at Comcast. “The ...

Pew Awards $7.7M to Philadelphia Human Services, Arts, and Civic Nonprofits to Expand Programs, Adapt Business Models

The Pew Charitable Trusts
Wednesday, February 16, 2022
... operations, and business models to the changing needs of the residents and communities they serve. In doing so, the ... physical space can better serve audiences. The Independence Visitor Center Corp.  has been awarded $500,000 ... activities at home. Frazierita Klasen , senior vice president leading Pew’s work in Philadelphia, said of the ...

$9 Million From The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Supports 28 Philadelphia Organizations and 12 Artist Fellowships

Pew Fellow Pepón Osorio, My Beating Heart/Mi corazón latiente, 2023, installation view at the New Museum, New York. Photo by Liz Ligon.
Thursday, September 14, 2023
... 40 grants and fellowships totaling $9 million in support of Philadelphia-area cultural organizations and artists. The ... Frisby-Greenwood, The Pew Charitable Trusts’ senior vice president leading the organization’s work in Philadelphia, ... exhibition of artifacts from the past three centuries. Independence Seaport Museum will collect and archive oral ...
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Giving USA: Total U.S. charitable giving remained strong in 2021, reaching $484.85 billion

Tuesday, June 21, 2022
... charitable giving in 2021 grew 4.0% over the revised total of $466.23 billion contributed in 2020. However, while giving ... charitable giving in America, is published by Giving USA Foundation , a public service initiative of The Giving ... Josh Birkholz, vice-chair of Giving USA Foundation and CEO of BWF. “Conversely, several subsectors that ...
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College Students Spend Their Summer Helping Local Nonprofits

FCP 2024 Summer Youth Corps
Thursday, September 19, 2024
... 2. “This experience has opened my eyes to the world of nonprofits and the various things they do throughout the ... has impacted the personal and professional growth of the interns.” Reynolds, a Chalfont resident, currently ... resident Katharine Catalano worked at the Travis Manion Foundation in Doylestown. She studies Finance at the ...
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United Way Receives More Than $1 Million from Lincoln Financial Group Employees for Sixth Straight Year

Tuesday, January 29, 2019
... 2018. Lincoln Financial’s employees have a rich history of charitable giving and community commitment, and the ... philanthropic efforts – through the Lincoln Financial Foundation – to strengthen local communities. "We are proud ... the $1 million mark again this year," said Nancy Rogers, president of the Lincoln Financial Foundation, the ...
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City Launches “Kensington Community Resilience Fund”

Tuesday, April 27, 2021
... participatory grantmaking process   The City of Philadelphia announced the “Kensington Community ... noted by Jennifer Leith, Executive Director of the Douty Foundation ,“This is an approach to funding support that ... of $500,000 by the end of year one (2021). Joe Pyle, President of the Scattergood Foundation , implored other ...

Giving USA 2021: In a year of unprecedented events and challenges, charitable giving reached a record $471.44 billion in 2020

Giving USA 2021
Tuesday, June 15, 2021
Via the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy Giving USA 2021: The Annual Report on ... charitable giving in America, is published by  Giving USA Foundation , a public service initiative of The Giving ... Josh Birkholz, vice-chair of Giving USA Foundation and CEO of BWF. “Those are the types of charities that might ...

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
... Philadelphia-area organizations recover from the impacts of COVID-19 and to preserve and highlight the region’s ... include $1 million for the Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation to undertake a comprehensive planning and ... programs,” said Donna Frisby-Greenwood , the senior vice president leading Pew’s work in Philadelphia. “The ...

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

Report Cover - How Employers Give
Wednesday, May 15, 2019
Coverage of the report in Generocity: Philanthropy Network and Chamber ... that employers give,” said Rob Wonderling , the President & Chief Executive Officer of the Chamber. ... together to address issues,” said Sidney Hargro , President, Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia. ...

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 recipients of the first ... Trauma Community Advisory Committee Member Maria Gonzalez, President of HACE, noted the importance of this new fund to ... of generous support from the following funders: The Douty Foundation, Scattergood Foundation, K10 Kids Foundation, ...

New Community-Driven Grant Program Available for Community-Based Organizations

Friday, May 7, 2021
... May 7, 2021 | The City today announced the launch of the N, a partnership between the Office of Community Empowerment and Opportunity (CEO) and Bread & Roses Community Fund to support grassroots ... The community-driven process, the first of its kind for CEO, advances equity by returning control to the community so ...

Chester County Fund for Women and Girls’ Hosts "Yes, All Women!" Dialogue

Yes, All Women!
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
... on Tuesday, October 17, at the First Presbyterian Church of West Chester to discuss how women from all generations can ... ads on body image and racial tension in America; the President’s war of words with San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin ... Fund for Women and Girls is a grantmaking and education foundation dedicated to addressing the needs of women and ...
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A digital effort to fight hunger in Montgomery County

Food pantry by ANTHONY PEZZOTTI
Tuesday, January 29, 2019
Part of the series, Broke in Philly, collaborative reporting on ... she’d be unable to shop, forced to endure three weeks of eating nothing but peanut butter and bread. Kahr said she ... (Schwenckfeld’s parent company), and the HealthSpark Foundation .  >> CONTINUE READING >> A digital effort to ...

2019 Lipman Family Prize Honorees Named

Lipman Family Prize
Friday, March 1, 2019
... Marie Lipman Family Prize . Chosen from an applicant pool of more than one hundred organizations, all three honorees ... About the 2019 Honorees ACEV ’s (Mother Child Education Foundation) mission is to make a lasting contribution to ... envision a world where distance is no longer a barrier to independence and livelihood. About the Lipman Family Prize ...
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Donor Collaboration: How NPT Philanthropists are Working Together to Increase Impact

Donor Collaboration
Monday, October 21, 2019
... Trust (NPT) to find creative solutions to some of today’s most complex social problems. Donor ... Fund” established at NPT by the  William Penn Foundation  (WPF), which has made a commitment of up to $100 ... Picher is National Philanthropic Trust’s Associate Vice President of Philanthropic Services. She leads grantmaking ...

Innovative COVID-19 Response Dashboard yields lessons for future disaster philanthropy

Covid-19 Signs
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
... funds to support the community. Within weeks, tens of millions of philanthropic dollars were distributed for ... were left out? With these questions in mind, the Lenfest Foundation and William Penn Foundation funded Philanthropy ... Director of the Lenfest Foundation; and Sidney Hargro is President of Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia. ...

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