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City Announces Awardees of $1.5 Million 2024 Illuminate the Arts Grant

2024 Illuminate the Arts Grants
Friday, November 8, 2024
... the Arts Grant Committee are pleased to announce that 730 of Philadelphia’s individual artists, small and ... and uplift Philadelphia’s creative sector, particularly in Philadelphia’s Black and Brown communities, and those ... grants of $5,000 per organization, worth a total of $100,000. 62 percent of eligible small nonprofit arts ...

Nine School District of Philadelphia Schools Awarded “Good To Great” Grants to Strengthen Early Literacy Programs

The Fund for the SDP
Thursday, May 21, 2020
... their early literacy outcomes through targeted initiatives that meet school-specific needs. Grants are designed to ... education," said Donna Frisby-Greenwood, President and CEO of The Fund for the School District of Philadelphia. ... engaging ways to continue to build a strong foundation and love of literacy. Solomon Solis-Cohen School : Strengthening ...
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The Philadelphia Foundation and Reinvestment Fund Launch PhilaImpact Fund

Monday, April 30, 2018
... The Philadelphia Foundation, and an asset manager that also originates community development loans, ... PhilaImpact Fund  is a fixed income product that will put 100 percent of investments toward enhancing the growth of ... tangible,” said Pedro A. Ramos, President and CEO of The Philadelphia Foundation. “Participants can see ...
01Nov2023

The Future of Female Leadership

Wednesday, November 1, 2023
6:00pm - 7:30pm
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Ludington Library
For this session, Impact 100 will be joined by Meghan Pierce, first President & CEO of the Forum for Executive Women, and Angela Curry, Forum ... leave the program with an appreciation of the challenges that female leaders have overcome, a...

Philadelphia Cultural Fund Gives $232,886 to Support Youth in 13 Local Arts and Culture Groups

Monday, June 11, 2018
... announced $232,886 in grants to cultural organizations that use arts to enrich the lives of young people, ages 5 to ... narrative films exploring the theme of “African-American self-determination” based on their in-class research and ... school, enabling the program to serve an additional 60 – 100 students. Through weekly music classes signers learn ...
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Pia Agrawal named incoming executive director of Leeway Foundation

Pia Agrawal
Tuesday, December 17, 2024
... the Leeway Board of Directors, are delighted to announce that Pia Agrawal will join the Leeway Foundation as our new ... cities around the country, including several years working in Philadelphia’s arts and culture sector. Most recently, ... is a trans-affirming organization committed to gender self-determination, and we use the term “trans” in its ...
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Chester County Fund for Women and Girls’ Grants Allocation Committee Awards $217,000 in Grants

CCFWG 2019 Grants Celebration
Monday, July 8, 2019
... needs of women and girls throughout Chester County. Nearly 100 community members, grantee partners, and CCFWG Board and ... of this year’s grantees. Christine Zaccarelli, CEO of The Crime Victims’ Center of Chester County, Inc., ... the community through philanthropy and advocacy to ensure that women and girls have resources and opportunities to ...
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2017 Speakers

... neighbors and institutions to discover the resources that are already in place to help them achieve their vision for a stronger ... The Giver . He’s the director of A  Fierce Kind of Love  by Suli Holum, commissioned by Temple University’s ...

Day 2 Concurrent Session - Philanthropic-Private Partnerships: New Models for Delivering Impact through Technology

... around digital engagement, particularly at a time when in-person activity is limited, so they can build ... be coordinated to target specific outcomes and how can that collective impact be measured?  These topics were ... , Principal and Founder of Civic Capital Consulting and CEO of Empact Data Solutions and Marcus Iannozzi , Principal ...
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12/09/2020
11:00am - 12:00pm

#FCPresents Internationally Known Founder of Nonprofit AF, Vu Le

Vu Le
Thursday, February 1, 2024
... County Community College’s Zlock Performing Arts Center in Newtown, Pa., from 8:45 to 11:15 a.m.  Supported by ... insights and observations,” said Dr. Tobi Bruhn, FCP’s CEO. “This is an excellent and affordable professional ... him into the field of non-profit work, where he learned that we should take the work seriously, but not ourselves. ...

The Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy and the Arts and Culture Task Force Announce Awards from the $1.5 Million 2022 Illuminate the Arts Grant

Monday, August 8, 2022
... Culture Task Force (Task Force) are pleased to announce that 934 of Philadelphia’s individual artists, small and ... Arts Grant launched on May 12, 2022, to continue to aid in the recovery of Philadelphia’s arts and culture ... grants of $1,000 per artist, worth a total of $861,000. 100 percent of eligible individual artists will receive ...

Bipartisan Policy Center and United Philanthropy Forum Create Partnership to Tackle Critical Policy Issues

Tuesday, November 7, 2023
... Center (BPC) and United Philanthropy Forum announced today that they entered into a partnership to build a cross-sector ... Forum and BPC strive to: Reinforce the idea that advocacy, in addition to grantmaking, is critical to achieving ... in Washington,” said Margaret Spellings, President and CEO of the Bipartisan Policy Center. “Bipartisanship is a ...
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Beech Provides Non-Profit Funding during the Coronavirus Emergency

Beech Companies 30 Years
Friday, April 17, 2020
In response to the worldwide crisis of the cornonavirus, ... Philadelphia, PA 19104 Tele 267-777-5800 Kitchen Of Love 8500 Pickering Street, Philadelphia, PA 19150 Tele ... Inc. Salvation Army Red Shield Center The Table Pantry Self, Inc. Yorktown Community Development Corporation  ...
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Future Think: Philanthropy, COVID-19, and the ‘Next’ Normal

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Thursday, January 28, 2021
MapWithPins.png By Sidney Hargro Originally published in Independence Blue Cross Foundation's Journal of Change, ... services to support communities. It was abundantly clear that unprecedented measures by philanthropy, both private and ... to helping those most vulnerable, funding safety net social services alone will not achieve sustained social ...
01Mar2018

Keystone Policy Series: CENSUS 2020: What Pennsylvania Funders Need to Know

Thursday, March 1, 2018
2:00pm - 3:00pm
... well as the number of elected seats individual states hold in the U.S. House of Representatives. The Census also provides critical data that funders and others rely on to inform decisions about how ... Philanthropy Should Care - David Biemesderfer, President & CEO, United Philanthropy Forum REGISTER via the Grantmakers ...

Brandywine Health Foundation Responds to Public Health Crisis

Thursday, March 19, 2020
... rate is a staggering nine percent. With COVID-19 that rate is expected to more than double. Acknowledging the ... first round of funds will allow us to deploy a total of $100,000 of rapid-response grants.  Grants will be ... the funding decisions made by our staff (president and CEO and a subset of the Grantmaking Committee) adhere to IRS ...

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