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Strong Foundations: Financial Security Starts with Affordable, Stable Housing – A Research Primer

Strong Foundations Housing Report
Published: 
01/2020
... US households—nearly 100 million people—struggle with housing costs that jeopardize their financial security. The ... 1 in 4 renters who spend 50% or more of their income on housing—and its effects ripple throughout our communities and economy. In 2019, Aspen Institute’s Expanding Prosperity Impact Collaborative (EPIC) recognized ...
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Affordable Housing/Housing and Shelter

COVID-19: Nelson Foundation's Grantee Communications

Published: 
04/2020
... closely with impacted communities rely on your foundation's transparency and timeliness in response. Direct and open ... Nelson Foundation has kindly agreed to share some of their COVID-19 grantee email communications with Philanthropy Network ...

The Case for Funding Black-Led Social Change: Redlining by Another Name: What the Data Says to Move from Rhetoric to Action

Published: 
12/2019
... social change organizations in the United States and U.S. Territories describe their interactions with institutional ... philanthropy. The research had two purposes. The first was to build a body of information on the health and ... and Black communities. In late 2015, BSCFN was birthed from a partnership between ABFE and the Hill-Snowdon ...

Philadelphia Impact Investment Landscape Scan

Philadelphia Impact Investment Scan Exec Summary
Published: 
05/2019
In July 2018, Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia engaged Urbane Development through a grant from The Barra Foundation to assess the impact investing ecosystem in the Philadelphia area. Through a series of interviews, ...

COVID's Effect and Influence on Grant Management

Report: COVID's Effect and Influence on Grant Management
Published: 
06/2021
As a result of COVID-19, grantmakers and foundations were faced with a ... the granting world, contains candid advice, and insights from leading grantmakers about what it was like to give in ... several key issues: How the pandemic affected funder's missions and impact The biggest challenges faced by giving ...
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Facts, Figures, Trends
Areas of Focus 
COVID-19

How African-American-Led Organizations Differ from White-Led Organizations: Research Report on African American Nonprofit Organizations in Philadelphia

PAALF Report (2016)
Published: 
04/2016
In 2013, the Philadelphia African American Leadership Forum (PAALF), with funding from the United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania and Southern ... commissioned a study of African American-led nonprofits in Philadelphia. PAALF was interested in understanding whether ...

Building Impact: A Closer Look at Local Cross-Sector Collaborations for Education

Cross Sector Collaborations for Education
Published: 
01/2020
... promise, they also often face challenges. A new report from Teachers College, Columbia University commissioned by ... At the same time, many collaborations faced challenges, from the difficulty posed by school districts that view ...
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Report
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Sector Collaboration
Funding Area 
Education

The Status of Women in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania: 2018 Report

The Status of Women in Montgomery County, PA
Published: 
04/2019

The report is an in-depth baseline needs assessment of women in Montgomery County, PA and explores eight major areas affecting the lives of women: employment and earnings; work and family; poverty and opportunity; health and well-being; reproductive rights and infant health; violence and safety; political participation; and women veterans.

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ReportResearch
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Women and Girls

Benchmarking Survey: Electronic Payments to Grantees

Published: 
04/2020
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the transition to remote work has presented ... and two discussion threads found on PEAK Grantmaking's Open Forum.     Benchmarking Survey: Electronic Payments ...

Grantmaking with a Racial Justice Lens: A Practice Guide

Published: 
11/2019
... Guide centers the perspectives of racial justice activists first, and then of funders working on change in their ... transformation. Through reflections and frameworks built from the direct experience of activists and funders, we offer ...

What’s Race Got to Do With It? Equity and Philanthropic Evaluation Practice

Published: 
10/2018
... intentions of current day philanthropic endeavors. What’s Race Got to Do With It? Equity and Philanthropic Evaluation ...

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