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Philadelphia Health Partnership Launches 25th Milestone Year with Kickoff and News of Celebration Plans

Friday, March 17, 2023
... (PHP) recently launched its 25th anniversary with a breakfast event hosted by Board Treasurer and Glenmede ... culminate with a party in June. The foundation’s new web page features information about the milestone anniversary ... details about the speaker series that will connect to our Nurture, Connect, Advocate, and Lead strategic ...
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Francis J. Myers Recreation Center Rebuild Project Awarded $4.5 Million in State Funding

Francis J. Myers Recreation Center Rebuild Project
Thursday, April 28, 2022
... Center is already slated to receive an investment from Rebuild Philadelphia – the City’s historic ... this past summer Rebuild unveiled new athletics courts and a soccer mini pitch as part of the first phase of the ... site improvements.   “I want to express my gratitude to our partners at the state level, specifically Democratic ...

William Penn Foundation Announces $3 Million for PHL COVID-19 Fund

Thursday, March 19, 2020
Special Announcement from the William Penn Foundation   This is an unprecedented ... for organizations, large and small. We will be defined as a community, city, region, and nation by how we come together ... project challenges you are experiencing. We greatly value our relationship with you and the work that you do to lift up ...
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Forman Arts Initiative and Philadelphia Foundation Launch Art Works, A New Grant Program to Support Arts and Culture in Greater Philadelphia

Forman Art Works
Friday, March 26, 2021
... and Philadelphia Foundation are launching Art Works, a new $3 million grant program for community-based ... under-served communities. This is the inaugural program from the Forman Arts Initiative and will provide direct ... is a wonderful city with great organizations and artists. Our goal in creating the Forman Arts Initiative is to ...
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Lenfest Institute for Journalism Announces Local News Sustainability Grants

The Lenfest Institute
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
... the Philadelphia Inquirer: Lenfest Institute awards half a million in grants to promote sustainable local journalism ... of journalism organizations. The projects include a mix of national news enterprises, local news organizations, ... journalists and Philadelphia’s leading public advocates from across the political spectrum, in the run-up to local ...
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Brandywine Health Foundation Announces Healthcare & Economic Relief Fund Phase Two Grant Recipients

Tuesday, July 28, 2020
... and organizational stressors of the COVID-19 pandemic. A 2017 study conducted by the Philadelphia Foundation, The ... Nonprofits, revealed that over forty percent of our nonprofit sector in the five county region have net ...

Showing up is half the battle when it comes to change. Here’s what comes next | Opinion by Pedro Ramos

Tuesday, November 20, 2018
... 80 percent of success is showing up, then we have made a strong start toward creating a better future.  Now, our ... that get us the rest of the way.  In short, we must move from showing up to stepping up for the long run. Showing up ... or looking at the  On the Table Philly's Facebook page .

OPINION | Instead of blaming government for Philly’s poverty problems, we must band together

Monday, October 1, 2018
... of the poor, that did not happen in Philadelphia. Our poorest neighbors who are looking for a good opportunity and a better life continue to fall ... shared. In each peer city I studied, leaders from philanthropy, government, the private sector, and ...

Independence Public Media Foundation Announces $2.8 Million in Film and Journalism Grants to 30 Projects and Organizations

IPMF Film Grants Dec 2020
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
... The Independence Public Media Foundation (IPMF) announces a major investment in the local filmmaking community with ... film organizations, with an emphasis on supporting artists from underrepresented communities, and films with a ... memory, and spark joy and imagination in ways that better our democracy. These grants couldn’t have happened at a ...
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Foundations Community Partnership Board Approves 21 Grant Awards Totaling $165,000 to Benefit Bucks Non-Profits

Monday, January 14, 2019
... capital campaigns, including structural improvements to a facility (bricks & mortar, such as new buildings or ...  for their generous donation toward the purchase of our new silver van to help with the transportation of the ...

Mission-Aligned Investing: A model for maximizing philanthropic impact and equity

Evolving ideas
Wednesday, September 29, 2021
... of racial reawakening, philanthropy is grappling with a number of unavoidable realities around power, equity and ... their community. Mission-aligned investing pools resources from your local foundations to share costs and grow racially ... efforts in the region.  See the executive summary here . Our learnings from the working group and the ecosystem scan ...

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

Friday, May 7, 2021
... 7, 2021 | The City today announced the launch of the N, a partnership between the Office of Community Empowerment and ... Little, executive director of CEO. “As CEO supports our communities during the recovery, we must center the ... priorities of residents to ensure that the solutions come from the ground-up and not the other way around. This kind of ...

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
In a time of global unrest and uncertainty, Leeway Foundation continues to be led by our community and grantees to reimagine our world and reclaim ... or gender expression is nonconforming and/or different from their gender assigned at birth. Leeway Foundation ...

Atlanta-based First Step Staffing Expands into Philadelphia

Wednesday, January 10, 2018
ATLANTA (January 10, 2018) —  First Step Staffing , a nonprofit social enterprise based in Atlanta, today ... by the city and look forward to making Philadelphia our first replication location,” said Greg Block, First ...

Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia elects new directors and officers

New Board members 2019
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
... 2019, Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia elected a new class of directors and 2019-2020 Officers to serve on ... Secretary, Mayor’s Fund for Philadelphia Profiles of our newly-elected directors are below. Bill Golderer ... Romens holds a bachelor’s degree in social science from Biola University and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law ...
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Connecting Regional Funders to Respond to COVID-19

COVID-19
Friday, March 20, 2020
... in Greater Philadelphia and beyond. We are convening our network regularly (and virtually, of course) so they can communicate what they’re hearing from their grantee partners about needs and challenges on the ... to support the region’s nonprofits. Discussed were: A joint fund for the region being formed through a ...
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Philanthropy Network selects Christine Robinson as its new President

Christine Robinson
Friday, October 21, 2022
... effective September 12, 2022.  Hailing most recently from the greater Boston area, Christine is a seasoned leader with expertise in nonprofit and public ... in Greater Philadelphia, and are committed to helping our members center racial equity in their operations and ...
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City Launches “Kensington Community Resilience Fund”

Tuesday, April 27, 2021
... “Kensington Community Resilience Fund,” ( KCR Fund ) a public-private-community partnership between community ... July 2021, with a second round of funding anticipated in fall 2021. The KCR Fund welcomes contributions from foundations, corporations, and individual donors. You ...

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