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Where Does Your Cash Sleep at Night?

Wednesday, July 10, 2019
Originally posted to Exponent Philanthropy’s blog . By Kristina L. Wahl and ... to an investor for more than 30 years. It also saw an opportunity to earn a market-rate return that was comparable ... because of the enterprise’s potential to achieve a higher return on the foundation’s impact objectives. ...

Comcast RISE to Award $5 Million in Grants to BIPOC-Owned, Small Businesses

Comcast RISE
Tuesday, February 9, 2021
... grants.   Additionally, over $2 million has been awarded to more than 20 community-based organizations and diverse chambers of commerce to provide support to BIPOC-owned, small businesses.   NEW ... more than $2 million to the Association for Enterprise Opportunity (AEO), Operation Hope, Ureeka, U.S. Black ...

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
... organizations, and small creative enterprises are invited to apply.   PHILADELPHIA – The City of Philadelphia Office ... Isaiah Thomas and Katherine Gilmore Richardson are pleased to announce the launch of the $1 million Illuminate the Arts ... May 28 .   The Illuminate the Arts Grants are a means to help sustain and stimulate the recovery of Philadelphia's ...

City Announces $360,000 in Grants to Improve Quality of Life in Kensington through Fourth Round of the Kensington Community Resilience Fund

KCR Fund
Thursday, July 11, 2024
... members, City government, and the Scattergood Foundation to address the harms caused by the opioid and overdose crises ... model gives community leaders and residents the power to set funding strategies and decide which organizations ... bringing total resident-led giving through the KCR Fund to $1.12 million since 2021. All recipients are located in or ...

Independence Public Media Foundation Welcomes Seven New Board Members

IPMF new board members 2025
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
... Public Media Foundation (IPMF) welcomes seven new members to its board of directors. The new board members bring a wide ... board members in support of the foundation’s mission to move resources for media and media-making owned and led by ... philanthropic processes, we’re constantly examining ways to make all aspects of our organization, especially ...
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Three new programs will help Berks County nonprofits navigate a post-pandemic future

Berks County Community Foundation
Monday, February 22, 2021
... Planning initiatives for nonprofit organizations seeking to better map their futures. Arts and culture programs, exhibits, or events to be held in the fourth quarter of 2021 or in 2022. Projects ... grants through this special program. The goal of this opportunity is to help organizations prepare for life after ...

Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Announces 2019 Grants for Philadelphia Artists, Organizations

Philadelphia Orchestra
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
... grants include two new areas of support. In addition to the Center’s longstanding annual fellowships for ... program will bring two artists from outside the region to live, work, and embed themselves in the community, ... Anadol; and a participatory movement and storytelling event from Nichole Canuso Dance Company that connects ...
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Systems transformation could have saved Daniel Prude’s life

Photo credit Warren Wong on Unsplash
Thursday, September 10, 2020
... Joe Pyle “A system cannot fail those it was never meant to protect.”  -W.E.B. Du Bois Last week we saw yet another killing of a Black man rise to the nation’s consciousness. Daniel Prude was just 41 ... know that, as a Black man, Daniel was at a significantly higher risk of receiving inadequate health care and ...

Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia elects new directors and officers

New Board members 2019
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
... elected a new class of directors and 2019-2020 Officers to serve on its Board of Directors. The membership elected ... of his work at Broad Street Ministry, Bill also had the opportunity to co-found Rooster Soup Company, the nation’s ... including at the Aspen Ideas Festival, Social Innovation Summit, USC Center on Philanthropy and Public Policy and the ...
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United Way of PA Sheds Light on Financial Hardships: The ALICE Report

United for ALICE
Tuesday, June 18, 2019
... more than the federal poverty level but still not enough to pay for essentials such as housing, food, transportation ... or 37 percent, of Pennsylvania households are struggling to survive. The ALICE® report, which stands for ... ALICE take steps toward empowering them and creating new opportunity.” UWP’s report defines the cost of a ...

First Round of Neighborhood Equitable Recovery Fund Grant Recipients Announced

Thursday, September 23, 2021
... of Philadelphia’s Office of Community Empowerment and Opportunity (CEO) today announced the first round of grant ... Fund, a partnership with Bread & Roses Community Fund to support grassroots nonprofit organizations that serve ... recommended the grantees that were awarded. The goal was to empower community residents to determine what would most ...

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

Friday, May 7, 2021
... between the Office of Community Empowerment and Opportunity (CEO) and Bread & Roses Community Fund to support grassroots neighborhood nonprofit organizations ... of its kind for CEO, advances equity by returning control to the community so that people affected by the issues work ...

Cheryl Brubaker named Executive Director for The Fund for Women and Girls

Cheryl Brubaker
Wednesday, June 26, 2024
... leading nonprofit organization in Chester County dedicated to empowering women and girls through grantmaking and advocacy, is thrilled to announce the appointment of Cheryl Brubaker as its new ... irrespective of their gender, deserves the resources and opportunity to earn a living wage, to have access to the ...
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William Penn Foundation previews revised programs and grantmaking approach

William Penn Foundation new funding areas
Thursday, May 16, 2024
... OUR REVISED GRANTMAKING APPROACH: CONNECTING MORE PEOPLE TO MORE OPPORTUNITIES Last fall, we shared our plans to review and update the Foundation’s grantmaking areas and ... for groups of people who have often been shut out of opportunity in the past because of disinvestment, ...

Philadelphia Cultural Fund announces Gabriela Sanchez as its new Executive Director

Gabriela Sanchez
Wednesday, February 1, 2023
... of The Philadelphia Cultural Fund (“PCF”) is pleased to announce Gabriela Serena Sanchez as the organization’s ... and vision in the fulfillment of PCF’s mission to support and enhance the cultural vitality of Philadelphia ... Alegría Hudes at the 2018 Association for Theatre in Higher Education Conference, in addition, to the plenary ...
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GreenLight Fund is bringing a new model of financial empowerment to Philadelphia

Friday, July 27, 2018
... supports the expansion of nonprofits with proven results to the cities where the network’s sites are based, focusing ... The Boston-based CWC trains public housing residents to build credit so they can move to home ownership. Financial services ...
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Beech celebrates neighborhood transformation over 30 years

Beech Companies Christine Brown and Kenneth Scott
Wednesday, June 22, 2022
... lots. Nevertheless, Beech Companies set out try to convince banks, businesses, homeowners and North ... stakeholders like Temple University that is was the time to invest. Today, there is a multi-million dollar movie ... single-family homes. On Cecil B. Moore Avenue, from Broad to 20th Street, there are groups of vibrant shops, ...

Is Your Organization Prepared for a Major Market Shift?

Glenmede Post 2019
Monday, November 4, 2019
... stability and favorable investment markets, it is easy to become content and simply “let the good times roll.” ... within their portfolios. Now might seem like an odd time to initiate transition planning, leadership succession or ... can be difficult and overwhelming, especially in the event of an unexpected change. At nonprofit organizations, ...

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