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16Nov2022

Closing the Gender Wealth Gap Forum: Why the Student Loan Crisis is a Gender Justice Issue

Wednesday, November 16, 2022
4:00pm - 5:30pm
Where: 
Virtual
The student loan crisis in the U. S . has spelled serious trouble for the economic lives of many women. With 2/3 of all ... advancement of gender and racial equity. The White House' s newly released Federal Student Loan Debt Relief program is...

A digital effort to fight hunger in Montgomery County

Food pantry by ANTHONY PEZZOTTI
Tuesday, January 29, 2019
... a month in federally subsidized housing in Lansdale’s  Schwenckfeld Manor . And she couldn’t have imagined ... on the kind of online grocery ordering normally reserved for people in higher economic brackets. And Kahr, who gets ... agencies such as the Pottstown Cluster of Religious Communities, and the Open Link in Pennsburg, helped create ...
20Sep2019

Regional Foundation Center Workshop

Friday, September 20, 2019
3:00pm - 4:30pm
Montgomery County Community College Library
... Montgomery County Community College (MCCC) on a session for participants to learn more about free resources available ... College.

Philly dominates Knight Cities Challenge … again

Monday, June 12, 2017
...  @wbender99  |   benderw@phillynews.com You want ideas for how to make cities more successful? Philadelphia has a ... of $5 million in urban-revitalization grants that the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation  offers annually  to 26 ... city service solutions. George Abbott, Knight Foundation’s director for community and national initiatives, said he ...
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Regional Vibrancy and Sustainability
21Jun2018

[Webinar] Report in Focus: Revving up the Deportation Machinery: Enforcement and Pushback under Trump

Thursday, June 21, 2018
4:00pm - 5:15pm
Where: 
Webinar
... percent versus the year before. The new administration’ s decision to halt prioritization of certain immigrants for enforcement, and instead treating all unauthorized or ... will feature two authors of Migration Policy Institute’ s report,...
29May2019

Webinar: No Housing Support for Mixed Status Families? How Philanthropy Can Respond to Proposed HUD Rule

Wednesday, May 29, 2019
1:30pm - 2:30pm
Where: 
Webinar
... status. Yet a newly introduced regulation from the U. S Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) would force U. S . citizen children and their families out of public ... status. Current law already prorates housing subsidies for “mixed-...
03Feb2021

Special Funder Briefing: City of Philadelphia FY 2022 Budget

Wednesday, February 3, 2021
9:00am - 10:00am
Video Conference
... increased community needs due to COVID-19, and calls for action and accountability on racial justice, state and ... budget plan . The updated strategy outlines Philadelphia’s COVID recovery efforts while addressing urgent and emerging ... about renewed municipal efforts to advance the mayor’s goals , in light of the pandemic. This discussion will also ...

Philadelphia Cultural Fund to Award $914,517 to 205 Art and Culture Organizations Across the City

Philadelphia Cultural Fund logo
Wednesday, April 14, 2021
... (3) to ensure fair and apolitical access to public funding for a broad and diverse spectrum of arts organizations that ... serve all corners of the city. Due to COVID-19, the City’s 2021 allocation to PCF was reduced by 68%, thus the number ... Recognizing that not all segments of the city’s population have equitable access to financial resources, ...
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Arts & Culture
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Leadership, Culture and Community
25Jan2022

Investing in Change: How and Why Funders Can Participate in Public Policy

Tuesday, January 25, 2022
9:30am - 10:45am
Video Conference
... third year of the pandemic, it is more important than ever for foundations to understand how they and their grantees can ... change at the local, state, and federal levels. Join us for this workshop series led by Abby Levine, Director of the ... bold, courageous, and legally compliant advocates. Abby’s expertise focuses on lobbying, election-related activities, ...
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Public Policy
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NationalPennsylvania (state)
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Public Policy and Civic Engagement

The Presser Foundation Will Distribute $1.148 Million In Capital Support Grants This Year

Tuesday, May 3, 2022
... COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on Greater Philadelphia’s music organizations and their efforts, The Presser ... organizations is below. These grants are designated for capital projects of music presenting, music performing ... facilities. The Foundation extended its COVID-guidelines for another year to consider the equipment and supply needs ...
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COVID-19Leadership, Culture and Community

Successful ‘Read To Succeed’ Summer Program Goes Virtual

Read to Succeed
Monday, June 22, 2020
... will begin on July 6, and the registration deadline for the four-week program has been extended to June 25. ... grade in literacy over the summer months. The program's goals of promoting literacy and preventing the phenomenon ... efforts are particularly essential given the state of our world.” Statistics show that 65 percent of School ...
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Early ChildhoodEducationYouth Development
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Read by 4th Initiative

Animal Grantmakers 2023 Conference in Philadelphia: Advancing Social Change Through an Animal Protection Lens

Animal Grantmakers
Thursday, October 12, 2023
... as Workshop Facilitator Animal Grantmakers , the nation’s only group of philanthropic funders focused on protecting ... Philadelphia at Rittenhouse Square. Held exclusively for foundations, other philanthropic entities, and ... between the wellbeing of animals and the wellbeing of communities; laws and UN policy issues advancing animal ...
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Animal-related

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