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06Sep2024

Democracy & Philanthropy

Friday, September 6, 2024
12:00pm - 1:00pm
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Webinar
... under pressure, and philanthropy can help. The School of Social Policy & Practice at the University of Pennsylvania ... Director of the Sierra Club and former President and CEO of the NAACP, in conversation with Kat Rosqueta , Founding...

Leeway Foundation Introduces Immediate Relief Funds for Individual Artists in the Launch of the 2021 Community Care Fund

Leeway Foundation Community Care Fund
Thursday, February 4, 2021
... Community Care Fund in 2021. We are thrilled to announce that the Fund is opening with $100,000 in funding thanks to the generous support of the ... is a trans-affirming organization committed to gender self-determination, and we use the term “trans” in its ...

Anchor Collaboratives: Building Bridges With Place-Based Partnerships and Anchor Institutions

... the role of anchor institutions and collaboratives in leveraging the power of their economic assets to address social and economic disparities and to revitalize local ... the work of anchor institutions and partner organizations that have joined to form place-based networks, or anchor ...
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Putting Art to Work

Color me Back mural. Photo by Steve Weinik
Monday, August 5, 2019
BY  PATRICK BILOW   for The Philadelphia Citizen In the southeast concourse at SEPTA’s Suburban Station, a ... called Color Me Back, a same day work and pay program that pays economically insecure people in Philadelphia $50 ... holds a lottery every morning from Monday to Thursday at Love Park, where 10 people are selected to work that day. An ...

Philadelphia Foundation Announces Winners of Key to Community Grants

Key to Community Grants
Thursday, August 1, 2019
... and the Philadelphia Foundation, grants will fund programs that aim to enhance paths to financial stability and success, ... land ownership model. Second Place Grant Winner for $100,000:  Philabundance , to teach culinary and life skills ... and winners,” said Pedro A. Ramos, President and CEO of the Philadelphia Foundation. “We exceeded our high ...

Where Does Your Cash Sleep at Night?

Wednesday, July 10, 2019
... 5% of their assets each year. But what about the other 95% that are invested in return-generating financial instruments? ... (CDFIs) CDFIs are private financial institutions with a 100% impact focus. They finance affordable housing, small ... Greater Philadelphia region. Paige Chapel is president & CEO of  Aeris . Since 2004, Aeris has established risk ...

Strengthening the Field of Philanthropic Evaluation: A Call to Action

Thursday, June 28, 2018
... goal was to test the salience of the topic and interest in building an affinity network of leaders. In 12 short ... Organizations conference in San Francisco, CA, nearly 100 individuals spent a Monday morning considering ways to ... evaluators to  develop new skills and approaches  that go well beyond evaluating discrete programs. There are ...
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Philanthropy, Voluntarism & Grantmaking
23May2018

The Exchange 2018

Wednesday, May 23, 2018 - 9:00am to Thursday, May 24, 2018 - 5:00pm
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New York, New York
... direct action . There will be specific issue tracks in education , health , economic mobility , the ... Program, the Ford Foundation; Don Howard , President and CEO , The James Irvine Foundation; Kathleen McLaughlin , ... collaboration. Thanks...

Philadelphia Foundation’s Youth-In-Philanthropy Program Awards $72,000 In Grants to Philadelphia Nonprofits

Youthadelphia
Tuesday, June 23, 2020
... through philanthropy,” said Pedro A. Ramos, President & CEO, Philadelphia Foundation. “The areas of impact ... 2020 YOUTHadelphia Grant Recipients: The Youth Art & Self-Empowerment Project (YASP) , received $23,000 in ... It strives to motivate young people to challenge the laws that led to their incarceration and encourages them to ...
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Ten Philly Elementary Schools Awarded $500K in “Good To Great” Grants to Strengthen Early Literacy Programs

Wednesday, April 24, 2019
... their early literacy outcomes through targeted initiatives that meet school-specific needs. Grants are designed to ... made,” said Donna Frisby-Greenwood, President and CEO of the Fund for the School District of Philadelphia. ... instruction William H. Ziegler School: Support for “ 100 Book Challenge” program and a library self-checkout ...
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Early ChildhoodEducation

The Philadelphia Foundation and Catchafire Announce Partnership to Provide Volunteer Skills to Greater Philadelphia Nonprofits

Tuesday, March 13, 2018
... formalized partnership with Catchafire, an online service that connects social good organizations with a network of ... Greater Philadelphia nonprofits benefited from over 5,100 hours from Catchafire's pool of skills-based volunteers. ... to nonprofits," said Pedro A. Ramos, President and CEO of The Philadelphia Foundation. "Whatever a nonprofit's ...
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Nonprofit Infrastructure

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

Monday, October 1, 2018
Via Philly.com | By Bill Golderer, president and CEO of United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New ... report on the state of poverty  in Philadelphia, the city that we love. The data confirm what many of us suspected: While it ...

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