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City launches $1.5 Million 2024 Illuminate the Arts Grant

Monday, August 12, 2024
... 2024 at 11:59 p.m. The 2024 Illuminate the Arts Grant is a means to help strengthen and financially uplift ... support and acknowledge their creative practice and impact on Philadelphia’s disadvantaged and most underserved and ... geared to meet the needs of the local arts and culture community while providing funds quickly and efficiently. ...
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Regional Interest
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Arts & Culture
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Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability

Leeway Foundation awards 12 artists with the Transformation Award

Leeway Foundation (mark)
Friday, January 17, 2025
... change for the past five years or more, demonstrating a long-term commitment to social change work. Leeway received ... showcase a vision and intentional analysis for how art in community is a catalyst for social change. The 2024 ... to social change work. Applications are made available on the Leeway website and may also be obtained by calling ...

New EPIP Philly Book Club Discusses "Decolonizing Wealth"

Decolonizing Wealth book cover
Friday, May 17, 2019
Reposted with permission from EPIP Philly Ever read a book about philanthropy and wonder who you can call to ... will help us all learn so that we may heal. Represent the community:  We should explore grassroots funding and stop ... Director or board chair is the only person who speaks on behalf of an organization or the communities it represents ...
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Equity and Social Justice
09May2018

Walking the Talk: Values-Based Grantmaking

Wednesday, May 9, 2018
9:00am - 12:00pm
Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia
... always aligned grantmakers’ values. Learn how to bring a values-based approach to your grantmaking in a workshop ... values-based grantmaking. The workshop features tools for building consensus around values-based grantmaking as well as ... giving programs. Michelle speaks and writes regularly on effective grants management practices and has consulted ...

Health Department Announces Significant Contributions to the Philly Joy Bank from the William Penn Foundation and Spring Point Partners

Monday, March 20, 2023
... activities of the Philly Joy Bank. The Philly Joy Bank is a pilot program of the Philadelphia Community Action Network (CAN) a collective impact stakeholder group focused on reducing racial disparities in infant mortality. This ...
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Health CareWomen and Girls
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Collective ActionEquity and Social Justice
04Apr2017

The Farm Bill: Identifying New Bedfellows in the Reauthorization Debate and in Advocacy

Tuesday, April 4, 2017
3:00pm - 5:00pm
Philadelphia, PA
... this year, members discussed the importance of holding a policy briefing on the Farm Bill, where funders could get the facts on ... Adam C. Bonin Louise Hayes, Esq.

As city waits on soda tax ruling, private sector pours on support for Rebuild

Tuesday, November 21, 2017
... Given all the news stories that have described Rebuild as a “ $500 million initiative ,” you might have assumed ... Mayor Jim Kenney’s massive attempt to rewrite the future of the city’s rec centers, libraries, playgrounds, and ... tax, which the city has earmarked to pay off the interest on the $300 million in construction bonds. While city ...
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Rebuild Initiative

What's New at Rebuild (November 2017)

Monday, December 4, 2017
    Here is a round-up of recent news and developments with the City of ... made up of a diverse coalition of city officials, community leaders and subject matter experts, is charged ... reviewing Rebuild's progress and making recommendations on program implementation. Oversight Board meetings are open ...

Pew Center for Arts & Heritage announces 2018 grants for Philadelphia artists & organizations

Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
Tuesday, June 19, 2018
... to continue to support the region’s vibrant cultural community through our annual grant-making. This year’s ... that engage Philadelphians as participants, including a newly commissioned dance work from the Bill T. Jones/Arnie ... HIGHWAYMEN, that will pair 1,000 Philadelphians for one-on-one, guided conversations. Projects that examine and ...
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Leadership, Culture and Community

King Abdullah II of Jordan Awarded 2018 Templeton Prize

Wednesday, June 27, 2018
... of the world's largest annual individual awards and honors a person who has made an exceptional contribution to ... threatened to create deeper schisms within the Islamic community. In the face of these challenges, the King launched ...  and was announced via email to journalists and on Twitter via @TempletonPrize and #TempletonPrize2018 by the ...
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08Nov2018

Crossroads: TEDxWestChester 2018

Thursday, November 8, 2018
6:00pm - 8:00pm
Where: 
Uptown! Knauer Performing Arts Center
... whose lives and projects are at the crossroads of change. They are influencers and innovators improving ... stories from the front lines of emergency medicine and community resilience. They embody dedication, willpower and ... battle for...

Equity, collaboration and asset framing: Smart ideas from Philanthropy Network’s 2018 conference

Flyground
Monday, November 5, 2018
... the need for cross-sector collaboration  and new ways of operating to solve Philadelphia’s biggest problems, including poverty. One of those needed shifts: a focus on equity, not just diversity and inclusion, with a more ...
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Leadership, Culture and Community

Area funders call on Governor Wolf and Secretary Miller to close the Berks County Residential Center (BCRC)

Friday, November 9, 2018
In two letters posted on election day (Nov. 6, 2018), seven members of Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia issued a call to Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf and Human Services ... they await their immigration status hearings. We as a community of grantmakers in Pennsylvania - whose work ...

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