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Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia is deeply saddened by the news of the passing of our founding executive director, Alexandra (Sani) Wolf Fogel, who died February 28, 2023 at the age of 86.
United Philanthropy Forum President & CEO David Biemesderfer offers four learnings from a two-year effort to engage foundations in building openness and transparency, made possible with support from the Fund for Shared Insight.
Selected through a public voting process, Philadelphia Foundation revelaed the 9 winners of their $1 million Key to Community Grants initiative.
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey announced a $500,000 matching grant, with the goal ofraising $1 million in new funding to target greater engagement of historically undercounted groups in the city and region in the 2020 Census.
The PHL COVID-19 Fund announced it will grant over $400,000 in its 8th round of funding to aid 23 area nonprofits working to support the safe reopening of communities.
The Independence Public Media Foundation (IPMF) announces $2.6 million in its final round of grants for 2021, focused support for community-centered journalism, digital equity research and policy, community-led and operated radio stations, and filmmaking, with an emphasis on supporting artists from, and films about, underrepresented communities.
In response to profound changes in recent years, area funders sought a conversation with nonprofit leaders about how best to support them in evolving their practices and strengthening their organizations.
The local chapter of the national funding network is a women-only giving circle that awards five awards annually — three core mission grants and two general operating grants — to Philly-area nonprofits working in arts and culture, education, environment, family, and health and wellness.
The Philadelphia Black Giving Circle, started by a group of local Black professionals from the civic and philanthropic sectors eager to create a sustainable source of grants to strengthen and support Black-led and Black-serving non-profits in Philadelphia, will host a launch event on Thursday, February 22, 2018.
In two letters posted on election day (Nov. 6, 2018), seven members of Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia issued a call to Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf and Human Services Secretary Teresa D. Miller to shut down the Berks County Residential Center (BCRC). The BCRC is one of only three centers in the United States that detains migrant families.
Philadelphia Anchors for Growth & Equity, or PAGE, is a new citywide initiative that seeks to significant boost local purchasing by 13 city universities and hospitals,
The Philadelphia Black Giving Circle (PBGC), launched in 2018 to distribute pooled funds to nonprofits in the Philadelphia area that are black-led and black serving, has finished accepting applications for its first round of grantmaking.
The annual Greater Philadelphia Social Innovations Awards honor our region's most passionate social innovators, entrepreneurs and changemakers. This year's awards celebrated the theme: Innovating Ideas, Revolutionizing Realities.
In recognition of its important 100th year milestone, The Philadelphia Foundation has an exciting impactful year planned. In addition to the new grantmaking programs they have rolled out over the past two years, the foundation will support special initiatives available only this year.
The William Penn Foundation announced grants of $2.6 million in their Creative Communities program, which supports artistic and cultural expression that stimulates new viewpoints and helps create places and spaces where new cultural experiences and perspectives can be encountered and shared.
Through Rebuild, an historic public-private investment in Philadelphia's parks, rec centers and libraries will be transformational for neighborhoods across the city.
New grants will support the foundation's goal to establish the Philadelphia region as a “hotbed for creative media makers.”
The Fund for the School District of Philadelphia announced a $100,000 contribution from Bank of America to give laptops to Philadelphia students so they can begin learning from home by mid-April.
With this latest round of funding, more than $13 million has been deployed in eight weeks to nearly 400 regional nonprofits addressing critical community needs.