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Leeway Foundation announces $62,500 in project-based funding

Leeway Foundation (mark)
Monday, November 25, 2024
... in Greater Philadelphia with the 2024 Art and Change Grant (ACG). For over two decades, the Art and Change Grant has supported artists who are, as beloved Philadelphia ... health, migration, and Arab identity. The 2024 Art and Grant Recipients are (in alphabetical order): Andrea Ngan and ...

How Mission-Aligned Investments Helped the Patricia Kind Family Foundation Expand Its Reach

Tuesday, January 22, 2019
... in the Greater Philadelphia area. Although PKFF’s grant-making reach is considerable, then Managing Trustee ... PKFF takes a broader approach to investing than applied to grant making. While grants are only given in the Greater ...
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Brandywine Health Foundation announces community service award winners

Sam Brown and Sandra Simmons
Tuesday, June 22, 2021
... in themselves and maximizing their effort levels. A $2,500 grant will be awarded to the Coatesville Youth Initiative in ... and Sunday School Teacher at Mt. Tabor Church.  A $2,500 grant award will be designated to the Women’s League for ... the opportunity to select a non-profit(s) to receive a grant in their honor (noted below in parentheses). Past ...
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The Philadelphia Cultural Fund distributes $2.67 million to a diverse mix of arts & culture organizations

Tuesday, March 27, 2018
... Mayor James Kenney and a host of city leaders attended the grant award ceremony in the Mayor’s reception room. “Our ... that have been operating for less than five years. All grant applicants are eligible for an evaluation session with ... for support.

Philly dominates Knight Cities Challenge … again

Monday, June 12, 2017
... Southeast Asian Mutual Assistance Corp., won a $175,478 grant this year with his proposal to start an immigrant-food ... wants to revive a vibrant – but technically illegal – network of Southeast Asian food vendors that once flourished ... of Amalgam Comics & Coffeehouse will use a $50,000 Knight grant to make space for more programming there, including ...
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Chesco Women’s Commission & Fund for Women and Girls releases findings of survey on sexual harassment in the workplace

Wednesday, July 10, 2019
... place on Tuesday, September 24 th at Penn State Great Valley.  The purpose of the summit, hosted by the Chester ... Chester County’s workplace. The keynote speakers for the event are Brad Johnson and David Smith, co-authors of ... Women Should Mentor Women.”  Additional details of the event will be published in the coming months. “The ...

As city waits on soda tax ruling, private sector pours on support for Rebuild

Tuesday, November 21, 2017
... in the city’s changing public spaces. While the grant is not going toward the $500-million purse of Rebuild, ... More than piggy-packing on Rebuild, Morgan says, the grant serves as a sign of the steadfast role that private ... nonprofit — in collaboration with city departments. This grant is a continuation of that work as much as it’s ...
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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
... with their communities. Leeway’s Art and Change Grant provides grants of up to $2,500 to fund art for social ... member for one-on-one support. The next Art and Change Grant deadline is March 1, 2022.   ABOUT LEEWAY The Leeway ... and social justice.

Pennsylvania establishes blueprint for successful collegiate recovery programs

Thursday, September 22, 2022
... Additionally, the Foundation has established a unique grant model for CRPs, which ARHE lauds as a gold standard to be implemented nationally. The grant provides for dedicated funding toward direct technical ... more than $3 million to address the opioid crisis through grant funding, promotion, and expansion of safe medication ...

$3.5 Million in COVID-19 Relief Awarded to Help Chester County Nonprofits Recover with Resiliency & Innovation

CCCF Grant
Thursday, December 10, 2020
... to Chester County based nonprofits. To breakdown the grant allocations by field of interest: $2.5 million was ... visit https://chescocf.org/covid-19/ . To apply for a grant through the Community Foundation please visit ...

Seventeen-member oversight board named for Rebuild

Monday, October 30, 2017

Seventeen stakeholders have been named to a new oversight board for the Rebuild initiative to improve Philadelphia's public spaces. Their first public meeting is 11/1.

National Study Reports Foundations Maintained or Increased Spending in 2020; Long-Term Investment Returns Held Steady

2020 Council on Foundations–Commonfund Study of Investment of Endowments for Private and Community Foundations® (CCSF)
Monday, August 23, 2021
... absolute return, market neutral, long/short, 130/30, event-driven and derivatives.) Community foundations reported ... of community foundations seek to invest with diverse managers (defined as those investment management firms having ... in 1971 as an independent asset management firm with a grant from the Ford Foundation. Today, Commonfund provides ...

Sidney Hargro named to Generocity's 2018 Leaders List

Wednesday, September 5, 2018
... Generocity selected the 2018 Leaders List. Philanthropy Network's executive director Sidney Hargro was named in the ... sector . Hargro, executive director of the  Philanthropy Network of Greater Philadelphia , said that in recent years, ... longer,” said the nonprofit pro, who joined Philanthropy Network in  Summer 2017  from the Community Foundation of ...

Philadelphia Foundation announces the 2022 Civic 50 Greater Philadelphia Honorees

PECO representatives receiving 2022 Civic 50 Greater Philadelphia award
Friday, June 24, 2022
... at the inaugural Civic 50 Greater Philadelphia event,” said Pedro Ramos, President and Chief Executive ... recognized on Thursday, June 23rd, at a celebratory event at the AmerisourceBergen Corporate Headquarters located ...

A Philanthropic Response to White Supremacy from the Birthplace of Freedom

Octavius Catto Statue
Monday, August 14, 2017
By Sidney Hargro, Executive Director, Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia | @SidneyRHargro  On Friday ... that philanthropy responds.  To that end, Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia condemns hatred and white ... in our communities and our institutions. Philanthropy Network embraces and affirms the inalienable rights outlined ...
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An emergency COVID-19 fund in Delco fights to feed the newly needy in the ’burbs

Wednesday, April 29, 2020
... Especially the one many of us know best as “Delco.” Delaware County is the poorest of the four counties that ... who as president of the three-year-old Foundation for Delaware County has established a  Delaware County COVID-19 Response Fund  to help with ...

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