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$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 new grants will fund artists and public events that connect ... his student-turned-colleague saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins. Penn Live Arts will host hip-hop choreographer Rennie Harris ... of Freedom: The African Presence on the Delaware.” William Way LGBT Community Center will produce a documentary ...
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BIPOC Artists Receive More than $1 Million in Fellowships Through Philadelphia’s Cultural Treasures Program

Philadelphia’s Cultural Treasures 2024 Fellows
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
... regionally through a collaboration among The Barra Foundation , Neubauer Family Foundation, The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, William Penn Foundation, and Wyncote Foundation. ...

Applications open Sept. 13th for third round of COVID-19 funding

COVID-19 Prevention & Response Fund
Monday, September 13, 2021
... & Response Fund is supported by: Independence Public Media Foundation, Green Family Foundation, The Barra Foundation, ... Comcast NBCUniversal, The Hummingbird Foundation, William Penn Foundation, VNA Foundation of Greater North Penn, PECO, ...

Philadelphia Takes First Steps Toward City-wide Historic and Cultural Resources Survey

Wednesday, March 4, 2020
... is the first step to implement that recommendation. The William Penn Foundation will provide a $250,000 grant to support the ...

Funders Unite to Launch Collaborative IMPACT Fund of Bucks County

Monday, April 15, 2024
... 2024) – Local grant makers BLBB Charitable, Bucks County Foundation (BCF), and Foundations Community Partnership (FCP) announce the launch of a new joint funding opportunity, Collaborative IMPACT Fund of ... advisory firm BLBB Advisors, invests in nonprofits whose creative approach and sound strategies yield meaningful and ...
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Philadelphia Receives $5 Million in JPMorgan Chase’s AdvancingCities Challenge

Thursday, October 8, 2020
... commitment awarded to the Rebuild program, building on the William Penn Foundation’s historic seed grant in 2016, and will unlock ...

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

Covid-19 Signs
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
... were left out? With these questions in mind, the Lenfest Foundation and William Penn Foundation funded Philanthropy Network Greater ...

Philly groups offer $9 million in funding for nonprofits celebrating the 250th birthday of the United States

Fireworks_Wawa Welcome America
Tuesday, August 8, 2023
... for the Semiquincentennial, a joint effort by the Connelly Foundation, the William Penn Foundation, the Pew Charitable Trusts, and the Neubauer ...

Donor Collaboration: How NPT Philanthropists are Working Together to Increase Impact

Donor Collaboration
Monday, October 21, 2019
... through the “Rebuild Fund” established at NPT by the  William Penn Foundation  (WPF), which has made a commitment of up to $100 ...

$9.5 Million From The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage to Support 30 Philadelphia Organizations and 12 Artist Fellowships

Mural: The Talented Mr. Trotter: You Can Be Anything
Monday, September 19, 2022
... Mexican artists and migrants. Several projects will bring creative work to public spaces and nontraditional venues such ... to visitor services, health, and safety. The Center’s new grants affirm that the arts will continue to play a vital ... performs the music of 20th-century Black composer William Grant Still, restoring the musical scores of his less ...
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Molly de Aguiar wonders why philanthropy isn’t ‘placing bigger bets’

Molly de Aguiar
Wednesday, July 17, 2019
... of Independence Public Media, last week — after the foundation announced its first set of grants and a new partnership with Bread & Roses Community Fund. The ... for programming and staff that reflected the diversity of communities across the Philadelphia region. In 2017, IPM ...
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Philly dominates Knight Cities Challenge … again

Monday, June 12, 2017
Via Philly.com  | by  William Bender , Staff Writer   @wbender99  |  ... grants that the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation  offers annually  to 26 cities. The foundation ... took the largest chunk of funding – again. “We ask for new ideas and I think that spirit of innovation is very ...
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Philanthropy's Response to the Coronavirus Outbreak

Philanthropy's Response to Coronavirus
Monday, March 2, 2020
... Will They Come? Speakers: Sachi Yoshii, East Bay Community Foundation; Dr. Faith Polkey, Beaufort Jasper Hampton ... with no cap on assistance by Jason N. Peters for Billy Penn (03.18.21) Local arts groups are still at risk of ... Hetrick  for the Philadelphia Inquirer (April 1, 2020) William Penn Foundation fast-tracks $6.6 million for the ...
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The Chronicle of Philanthropy Unveils Ambitious Growth Plan To Put National Spotlight On Social Sector, Become Nonprofit

Wednesday, May 4, 2022
Press release Nearly $6 million in new grant commitments will support innovation, growth, and ... and practical advice to nonprofit professionals, foundation executives, board members, development staff, and ... and growth from private philanthropies, including the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation ($3 million), Ford ...
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Momentum Fund Launches to Help Build Capacity of Nonprofits Managing COVID-19 Funds

Momentum Fund
Wednesday, May 27, 2020
Momentum Fund.jpg United Philanthropy Forum announces the launch of the Momentum Fund to support ... and sustain their funds. The grants can be used to add new staff, acquire new cutting-edge technology, or address ... made possible by a grant from the  Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation .  Momentum Fund Launches to Help Build Capacity ...

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