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Philadelphia Foundation Announces $2.9 Million in Grants to Nearly 100 Nonprofit Organizations

Philadelphia Foundation
Thursday, December 12, 2024
... at the Philadelphia Foundation. “These grants, focused on advocacy, direct service, impact, leadership, and the Fund for Children, will support ... cycle of poverty, strengthening community connections, and making a difference in partnership with marginalized ...

Bipartisan Policy Center and United Philanthropy Forum Create Partnership to Tackle Critical Policy Issues

Tuesday, November 7, 2023
... across the country. The two organizations will focus on raising public and policymaker awareness of the urgency to ... in the social sector to help increase philanthropy’s impact in communities across the country. With a mission to ... where democracy gets to work, bringing its expertise and an extensive network of former elected officials, business ...
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Douty Foundation announces plans to sunset

The Douty Foundation
Monday, August 3, 2020
... over the past two years, our leadership team has reflected on the foundation’s past, its mission and on its future. ... which entity(ies) will receive our assets, we anticipate making that decision sometime in 2021. Further, the decision ... funding commitments that were made by our foundation in 2019. We will offer a Request for Proposals with a September ...

City Announces $1 Million Investment in Organizations Developing Innovative Workforce Solutions

Wednesday, February 10, 2021
... through the Workforce Solutions Grant, also announced an investment of $1 million in organizations and programs ... sought proposals from organizations which were evaluated on their ability to identify and accelerate innovative, ... with Equity: Philadelphia’s Vision for Inclusive Growth (2019), and Respond Restart Recharge Reimagine: An Equitable ...

Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation launches COVID-19 Relief & Recovery Fund

Wednesday, June 3, 2020
... the COVID-19 crisis. The announcement of the fund follows on the Foundation’s support of community-led efforts ... Grants from the fund will focus on programs that will have an immediate impact on the community.  Priorities include nonprofits ...

John Templeton Foundation to Invest $325 Million in Strategic Priorities

JTF Strategic Priorities
Tuesday, March 12, 2019
... we are focusing our giving in hopes of achieving greater impact, which means accelerating more discovery and inspiring ... in the coming years to doing that effectively.” From 2019 through 2023, the Foundation’s investment in these ...
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Ellen Hwang Will Lead Knight Foundation Investments in Philadelphia

Ellen Hwang
Thursday, April 18, 2019
... Reimagining the Civic Commons initiative. She will start on April 22, 2019.  For the last four years, Hwang has served the City of ... to join the Knight Foundation team and be a part of an organization that has deeply invested in the city that I ...
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Philanthropy Network partners to launch the Philly Counts 2020 Action Fund

Thursday, August 1, 2019
... commitment to support policy activities that increase the impact of philanthropic investments affecting the funding ... Action Fund will accept grant proposals between August 2019 and May 2020. Online grant applications may be submitted ... Network will facilitate grant approvals and payments on a rolling basis, taking advantage of a digital review ...

The City of Philadelphia Announces the 5th Cohort for the Targeted Community Investment Grant Program

Thursday, July 14, 2022
... the priority for this round of funding.  Established in 2019, the Targeted Community Investment Grant program funds ... communities than community organizations that have been on the ground for years now. The TCIG program allows us to ... to learn about various areas of entrepreneurship, go on trips, or go to the theater. Most of all the most ...

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
... of Philanthropy Giving USA 2021: The Annual Report on Philanthropy for the Year 2020 , released today, reports ... individuals, bequests, foundations and corporations gave an estimated $471.44 billion to U.S. charities in 2020. Total ... over the revised total of $448.66 billion contributed in 2019. Adjusted for inflation, total giving increased 3.8%. ...

Patricia Kind Family Foundation announces Black-led Organization grant award winners

Patricia Kind Family Foundation
Wednesday, June 30, 2021
... the past, to apply for one-year grants and participate in an expedited application cycle. After a robust review ... hopefully increase their foot prints both to expand their impact and make a more wide reaching and diverse array of ...

The Case for General Operating Support

Thursday, August 23, 2018
First posted on the Center for Effective Philanthropy blog | Image via CEP ... Walker, Claneil Foundation Recently, a grantee sent us an email to request an early disbursement of their ... able to bridge that gap. This is an organization that is making a big impact locally and globally, and was recently ...
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The Collective Is Active: A Dispatch from the Mission-Aligned Investing (MAI) Program

Mission-Aligned Investing
Thursday, May 22, 2025
... Designed for foundations ready to take the next step on their MAI journey, the Collective offers a flexible, ... interests shift, so will the focus of the working groups, making the Collective a living, breathing container for ... dive into how private investments can support place-based impact.  Session 3 (June 9): Along the Road to 100% ...
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Momentum Fund Launches to Help Build Capacity of Nonprofits Managing COVID-19 Funds

Momentum Fund
Wednesday, May 27, 2020
... evenly across the country, but have instead fallen hardest on the historically marginalized and underserved communities ...

Philadelphia Cultural Fund Gives Much-Needed Support to Youth in 13 Local Arts and Culture Groups

Philadelphia Cultural Fund
Thursday, June 27, 2019
PHILADELPHIA—(June 27, 2019)— The Philadelphia Cultural Fund today announced ... of young people, ages 5 to 18, throughout the city. These 2019 Youth Arts Enrichment (YAE) Grants aim to encourage and ... most underserved, impoverished communities. “It’s an honor to invest in the talented and creative minds of ...
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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
... Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture, We Are the Seeds, and an organization that has chosen to remain anonymous. The ... in and around Philadelphia was energizing. Decision making was intense, and often included difficult ... and projects led by communities of color with an emphasis on community-led storytelling, archives for building ...
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Media/JournalismRacial EquitySocial Justice

Getting Past Inertia: Ten Simple, Valiant Steps To Align Your Foundation’s Endowment With Your Mission – Or Not

Thursday, June 29, 2017
... to someone else while your board and staff focus mainly on grant making. You could help your grantees and your foundation’s ... and the other temptations on our time. Give this at least an entire board meeting. Step Two: Appoint and anoint. Create ...

A Call for Unprecedented Unity in Unprecedented Times

All in This Together
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
... it became abundantly clear that the Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) would substantially impact all of our lives. ... Like many of you, Philanthropy Network has experienced an exponential surge in calls, emails, and texts alerting us of the growing impact of this crisis on nonprofits, small neighborhood businesses, and individual ...

PHL COVID-19 Fund Continues Urgent Response to Community Amid Growing Needs

PHL Covid-19 Fund
Thursday, April 16, 2020
... than $2.5 million to 79 non-profit organizations serving on the frontlines of the coronavirus crisis. The Fund, ... “Our communities are experiencing this crisis on different levels,” said Nelly Jimenez, ACLAMO Executive ... to resources for them has highlighted the catastrophic impact this crisis will have on families we serve.” ACLAMO, ...
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