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Kenney names new board to oversee Mayor's Fund

Thursday, March 22, 2018
...  | cvargas@phillynews.com Mayor Kenney has appointed a new board to oversee the beleaguered Mayor’s Fund . The new ... The new board members will be charged with hiring a new executive director. Ashley DelBianco , who as executive ... organizations. Sidney Hargro, executive director of Philanthropy Network, which includes nearly 150 grantmaking ...
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New Administration's Policies Create Extraordinary Challenges for Nonprofits, New Study Finds

Challenging Times: How U.S. Nonprofit Leaders Are Experiencing the Political Context
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
Press release via the Center for Effective Philanthropy CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 5 – Nonprofit ... U.S. political climate.   Since late January, the new administration has targeted significant portions of the ... attacks on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) via executive orders, and stated policy that suggests that ...
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Glenmede’s Nina L. Cohen Appointed to Exponent Philanthropy Board of Directors

Nina L. Cohen
Thursday, October 11, 2018
... management (AUM), is pleased to announce Nina L. Cohen, Director of Endowment & Foundation Advisory , has been appointed to the Exponent Philanthropy Board of Directors. As Director of Endowment & ... Services and the Jewish Community Foundation of Southern New Jersey, where she previously served as president. She is ...

Philanthropy Network welcomes LeBrian Brown as Manager, Network Organizing, Knowledge, & Engagement

LeBrian Brown
Monday, June 7, 2021
Philanthropy Network is pleased to announce LeBrian Brown (he/him) as our new Manager, Network Organizing, Knowledge & Engagement. In this role, LeBrian will manage Philanthropy Network member relationships and work to ...
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100+ gather for Philanthropy Network's 35th Annual Members' Meeting

Mailee Walker and Christine Robinson
Wednesday, April 12, 2023
... for Architecture & Design in Center City Philadelphia for Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia’s 35th Annual ... invited to the podium Dale Mitchell former President and Executive Director of Delaware Valley Grantmakers (precursor ... Bianco called the meeting to order and began by welcoming new president Christine Robinson. She thanked her fellow ...
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Philanthropy Network President Jennifer Pedroni to Join FMA

Jennifer Pedroni
Friday, November 2, 2018
Effective January 2019, Philanthropy Network Board president Jennifer Pedroni will ... she has held since 2010.   She was elected President of Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia's Board of ... will strengthen the firm’s work in the Philadelphia and New Jersey region.   Philanthropy Network President Jennifer ...
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Philanthropy Network launches 2022 Member Pulse Survey

2022 Member Pulse Survey
Thursday, January 27, 2022
2022 Pulse Survey_image small.png Last February, Philanthropy Network conducted a survey of members to learn ... shared at last year’s annual members’ meeting. View an executive summary of the 2021 Member Pulse Survey results ... practices, and year-ahead outlook, and contains a few new questions about your human resources practices, benefits ...
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Regional Foundation LLC Takes Next Step In Evolution With New Leadership

Kevin Dow
Tuesday, November 16, 2021
... today the appointment of Kevin Dow as its first executive director. Dow is a long-term resident of the Philadelphia region, with decades of finance, philanthropy, and community and economic development ... and $100 million in charitable assets into the new foundation operated as a component of the Philadelphia ...

Independence Public Media Foundation Welcomes Seven New Board Members

IPMF new board members 2025
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
... Independence Public Media Foundation (IPMF) welcomes seven new members to its board of directors. The new board members ... nonprofit governance, public relations, and philanthropy. They will join IPMF’s seven other board ... Ahmed Moor , Palestinian-American writer Hannah Sassaman , executive director of People's Tech Project Lauren Stebbins , ...
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A New Giving Circle That is Exclusively Funding Black-led, Black-Serving Nonprofits

Wednesday, December 26, 2018
Via Inside Philanthropy By Alyssa Ochs According to a report out last ... we’ve discussed in the past. As Nat Chioke Williams, the executive director of the Hill-Snowdon Foundation, told us ... scale social change in our region. Continue reading... A New Giving Circle That is Exclusively Funding Black-led, ...

Dwayne Wharton selected for new national leadership program to build health equity

Dwayne Wharton
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
... motorists, pedestrians and cyclists; and spearheading a new community garden that teaches kids about culture, race, ... Brian Smedley, Culture of Health Leaders co-director and executive director and co-founder of the National ... serves on the boards of  The Kynett Foundation ,  Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia  and Bridging the ...

City and Welcoming Center for New Pennsylvanians Launch Citywide Immigrant Workforce Initiative

Monica Munn
Wednesday, January 15, 2020
  IMG_1680.jpg Monica Munn, Senior Director of the WES Mariam Asefa Fund Philadelphia, PA (January 15, 2020)   – Welcoming Center for New Pennsylvanians, in partnership with the City’s Office ... employer-informed efforts,” said Sheila Ireland, executive director of the Office of Workforce Development. ...

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

Friday, May 7, 2021
... have long been challenging,” said Mitchell Little, executive director of CEO. “As CEO supports our communities ... This kind of inclusiveness is both rare for government and philanthropy, but critical to an equitable recovery.” ... our expertise in community-driven grantmaking to this new partnership with CEO.” The deadline to apply for this ...

Connelly Foundation Elects Tom Riley as new President

Tuesday, January 23, 2018
... is proud to announce the election of Tom Riley as its new President. Mr. Riley succeeds Josephine C. Mandeville, ... foundation since 2012. Mr. Riley has had a long career in philanthropy and public policy. He was previously Vice ... in Washington, D.C., and from 2001-2009 was Associate Director of the White House Office of National Drug Control ...
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GreenLight Raises New $3.5 Million Fund to Combat Systemic Poverty in Philadelphia

Omar Woodard
Monday, September 14, 2020
... with greater clarity and purpose,” said Omar Woodard, Executive Director of GreenLight Philadelphia. Fund III fuels ... composed of leaders from government, business, and philanthropy, to facilitate cross-sector alignment and ... With seven years of impact, GreenLight welcomes six new investors to Fund III: Firstrust Bank, Hamilton Family ...

Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia and Philly Counts announce third-round COVID-19 Prevention & Response Fund grant recipients

COVID-19 PR Fund Round 3 Grant Recipents
Thursday, November 4, 2021
... — The City of Philadelphia’s Philly Counts office and Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia announced the ... and trauma,” said Natasha Danielá de Lima McGlynn, Executive Director of the Anti-Violence Partnership of Philadelphia. ...

Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia and Philly Counts announce first-round of the COVID-19 Prevention & Response Fund grant recipients

Friday, May 21, 2021
... Stewart-Jackson imani.stewartjackson@phila.gov   For Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia: Shira Hodges at ... getting back to our neighborhoods,” said Stephanie Reid, Executive Director of Philly Counts. To ensure the funding process was ...

Pennsylvania Humanities Council announces new grant program for cultural organizations affected by COVID-19

Monday, April 6, 2020
... today announced Pop-Up Grants for Cultural Producers , a new grant program supporting efforts to sustain public ... sector is particularly vulnerable,” said Laurie Zierer, executive director of the Pennsylvania Humanities Council. “Whether ...

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