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Foundations Community Partnership Dedicates Grant Cycle to “New” Nonprofits

Washington Crossing Historic Park’s Executive Director Jennifer Martin
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
... Partnership (FCP) recently awarded its spring Partnership in Youth Services (PYS) Grant to nine nonprofits serving ... was the second year we specifically encouraged nonprofits that never received funding from us to share their innovative ... Kids U! and Inspire U! summer programs. Diakon Lutheran Social Ministries ($2,500) – to keep families together and ...
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Children, Youth, and Families

Cheryl Brubaker named Executive Director for The Fund for Women and Girls

Cheryl Brubaker
Wednesday, June 26, 2024
... Fund for Women and Girls, a leading nonprofit organization in Chester County dedicated to empowering women and girls ... at Eastern University. She earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Work from Eastern Mennonite University in Virginia. As ... the community through philanthropy and advocacy to ensure that women and girls have resources and opportunities to ...
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Women and Girls

Brandywine Health Foundation’s Youth Philanthropy Program Issues RFP

Monday, February 12, 2018
... of the Brandywine Health Foundation announced, today that they are requesting proposals from organizations ... and/or substance use programs that treat individuals in a holistic and trauma-informed manner. Fourteen ... to: be philanthropist, explore careers in the non-profit sector and develop their leadership skills. “CAYPP is truly ...
22Mar2018

POSTPONED: Federal Policy, Budget and Revenue Outlook – What Funders Need to Know

Thursday, March 22, 2018
11:00am - 1:00pm
Philadelphia, PA
... their 15th Annual Budget and Tax Briefing for Grantmakers in Washington, DC. This briefing provides funders with a ... shifting political landscape could impact the nonprofit sector and funding landscape in our region.  Come learn ... How can we, as grantmakers, work collaboratively to ensure that decisions made about public funding impacting struggling ...
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Issue Briefing
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Budgeting
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Philadelphia (City/County)

2020 Complete Count Committee Recommends State Funding To Ensure Accurate Census In PA

Monday, May 20, 2019
... an amount equal to $1 per person currently residing in the state to ensure a complete and accurate census count ... community we undercount and all the groups we ignore, that will have a tremendous impact on the federal program ... assistance. Sims led a group of commissioners to determine that public funding was a critical element needed to ensure ...
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Census 2020

Philadelphia Bar Foundation Announces Release of Emergency Funding

Monday, April 20, 2020
PHILADELPHIA, PA (April 20, 2020) – In response to the coronavirus pandemic, the Philadelphia Bar ... unrestricted grants in April to 36 nonprofit organizations that represent the full range of vital legal aid services for ... to have a significant and negative impact on the nonprofit sector in Philadelphia and across the state, exposing our ...
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Disaster ReliefLegal Aid
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COVID-19

The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage to Focus on Recovery Funding for Philadelphia Arts and History Organizations in 2021

Tuesday, January 19, 2021
... Pew Center for Arts & Heritage (the Center) has announced that its 2021 grant making will focus on assisting arts and history organizations in the Philadelphia region to recover from the effects of the ... grants is to further bolster the resurgence of the sector by creating opportunities for our recent grantees to ...

William Penn Foundation Welcomes Stuart Clarke as New Program Director of Watershed Protection

Stuart A. Clarke
Wednesday, July 28, 2021
... million annual grant portfolio, which includes investments in research, data gathering, and advocacy focusing on ... leader for the Foundation and the regional environmental sector.” “I have worked with Stuart in almost every ... planning, fundraising, and communications. Prior to that, Clarke served for 15 years as the Executive Director of ...
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Environment
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Leadership, Culture and Community

U.S. Giving Tops the $400 Billion Mark for the First Time

Tuesday, June 12, 2018
... Giving USA 2018: Americans Gave $410.02 Billion to Charity in 2017, Crossing the $400 Billion Mark for the First Time ... breakdown of the numbers for each philanthropic source and sector.) Giving USA,  the longest-running and most ... record-breaking charitable giving in 2017 demonstrates that even in divisive times our commitment to philanthropy is ...
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National Philanthropy News
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Facts, Figures, Trends

Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation Awards Over $800K in Grant Dollars

Pottstown Area Health and Wellness Foundation
Tuesday, December 18, 2018
... Health & Wellness Foundation (PAHWF) has awarded $854,078 in grant requests during the fall grant round of fiscal year ... access to physical activity 1C: Creating and promoting social networks involving healthy living 2: Physical and ...

Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation Awards $1.25M in Grants

Tuesday, July 30, 2019
Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation Awards $1.25M in Grants in Spring 2019 for Local Organizations, Quality of ... during the spring grant round of fiscal year 2018-2019 that sustain and grow health and wellness, and ultimately ...

Philadelphia Cultural Fund announces its 2020 Art & Culture Grants

Thursday, March 26, 2020
... and broadest community of arts and cultural organizations in Philadelphia. The funding is critical at this time when a ... non-cash award recognizes an arts and culture organization that has demonstrated an outstanding commitment to social and economic justice through its mission, programming, ...
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Arts & Culture
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Leadership, Culture and Community
04Jun2020

The Crisis of White Supremacy in America: What’s Philanthropy’s Role?

Thursday, June 4, 2020
9:00am - 10:30am
Video Conference
... traumatic white supremacy over the lives of Black people in this country. What will it take for America to finally and ... philanthropy do to dismantle white supremacy and advance social justice? Before we can discuss solutions, however, we must speak truth to philanthropy’s complicity in the advancement of white supremacist culture and thinking ...

Nonprofit Organizations Awarded More than $6 Million from William Penn Foundation for Workforce Development and Pandemic Recovery Efforts

William Penn Foundation
Tuesday, January 4, 2022
... needs. These grants follow more than $8 million awarded in the  first half of 2021  as part of the Foundation’s ... $14 million. The grants announced today support programs that offer relevant skills, certifications, or credentials, ... Philadelphia Energy Authority   Philadelphia Lawyers for Social Equity   Philadelphia OIC   Per Scholas   Resilient ...

New EPIP Philly Book Club Discusses "Decolonizing Wealth"

Decolonizing Wealth book cover
Friday, May 17, 2019
... book club to bring together EPIP Philly members and others in the world of philanthropy to discuss the hottest new ... read the book? Check out this  article  in the Stanford Social Innovation Review by Edgar Villanueva for an overview ... some of the observations about philanthropy at its worst that came up during our Decolonizing Wealth conversation. ...
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Blog Post
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Equity and Social Justice

Pew Announces $4.5M in Grants Supporting Philadelphia Region’s Frail Elderly

Wednesday, March 28, 2018
PHILADELPHIA—The Pew Charitable Trusts announced today that it will provide nearly $4.52 million over the next three ... many of whom are struggling with economic hardship, social isolation, and health and mobility challenges. ... help agencies fulfill four core objectives: Assist seniors in meeting their basic needs by helping them obtain available ...

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