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Knight Foundation invests $2.2 million in projects to advance Philadelphia’s public spaces and digital engagement

Photo courtesy Smith Memorial Playground
Friday, April 9, 2021
... S. and James L. Knight Foundation today announced a $2.2 million investment in nine Philadelphia projects. Knight Foundation’s new ... Philadelphia’s Bartrams Garden. Philadelphia Parks & Recreation – $250,000 To reimagine the City of ...

The Foundation for Delaware County Awards Over $1.1 Million to Local Nonprofits

Foundation for Delawre County
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
... through 46 grants to 42 area non-profits. Grants were awarded in the areas of children's health and nutrition, ... home visiting services, and the Pennsylvania Health Law Project to increase access to healthcare for children with ... Drug Free Communities, El Centro (a Hispanic resource center), and a health resource center for students in the ...

October 2018 Rebuild Update

Friday, October 19, 2018
Rebuild was featured at Exponent Philanthropy ’s National ... at five Rebuild sites. The projects are:   Vare Recreation Center , Olney Recreation Center , Glavin Playground , ... Cecil B. Moore Recreation Center.  The nonprofit for each project is expected to be selected later this year. That will ...

Regional Foundation Announces $4.75 Million in Grant Awards

Regional Foundation Neighborhood Implementation Grants
Tuesday, April 18, 2023
... PA ] – Today, the Regional Foundation announced $4,750,000 in Implementation Grants to seven organizations ... and safe” streets through a creative placemaking project that will empower residents through a new ... a youth programming space, and Kingswood Community Center, providing early learning education and senior citizen ...

Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation awards over $1.4 million to community organizations

Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation
Friday, August 20, 2021
... to physical activity. East Coventry Township Parks and Recreation—Towpath Park Phase I Engineering North Coventry ... Program Boyertown Area Multi-Service—Ricketts Center Camp Rainbow—Life Skills Development Chester County ... Children's Discovery Center Comes to Life Project Purpose—General Operating Save Alliance ...

$9.5 Million From The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage to Support 30 Philadelphia Organizations and 12 Artist Fellowships

Mural: The Talented Mr. Trotter: You Can Be Anything
Monday, September 19, 2022
... PHILADELPHIA (Sept. 19, 2022)—The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage (the Center) announced its 2022 ... The 42 awards total $9.5 million: $7.2 million in project funding, plus $1.4 million provided as unrestricted ... nontraditional venues such as a public park, a community recreation center, and a botanical garden, while others will ...
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Rebuild Receives Grant to Support Needed Improvements to Vare

Thursday, July 12, 2018
... PHILADELPHIA – Rebuilding Community Infrastructure (Rebuild) – the City of Philadelphia’s initiative to ... invest hundreds of millions of dollars to improve parks, recreation centers, playgrounds, and libraries across the ... and design process for improvements at Vare Recreation Center. The grant will also release $62,500 in matching funds ...
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City Appoints New Executive Director of Rebuild

Kira Strong
Friday, January 3, 2020
... Kira Strong as the new Executive Director of the City’s Rebuild initiative. Strong has served in that role in an ... leading over $126 million of new investment in 61 parks, recreation centers, and libraries in the last year. ... and Economic Development for the People’s Emergency Center before joining Rebuild in 2016. Prior to that, she ...

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

Tuesday, November 21, 2017
... Burnley Given all the news stories that have described Rebuild as a “ $500 million initiative ,” you might have assumed that,  at least by now , the project’s funding was set in stone. While that’s largely ... sign came earlier this month, when the Knight Foundation awarded the Fairmount Park Conservancy  $3.28 million  for ...
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Independence Public Media Foundation Announces $2.8 Million in Film and Journalism Grants to 30 Projects and Organizations

IPMF Film Grants Dec 2020
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
... films with a commitment to social justice. The foundation awarded the grants following a series of listening and ... filmmaking community. The foundation also awarded a $1.5 million, three-year operating support grant to Resolve ... to help Resolve launch “Equally Informed Philly,” a project to provide rapid response public health and ...
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06Jun2017

REBUILD: Building a Framework for Philanthropic Engagement

Tuesday, June 6, 2017
8:30am - 11:30am
South Philadelphia Library
... join Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia and the Rebuild Leadership Group for a conversation about the City of ...

William Penn Foundation awards $2.6M to support River Alive! Project

Tuesday, December 5, 2017
... 5, 2017)  –  Independence Seaport Museum  has been awarded a $2.6 million grant from the William Penn Foundation ... Penn Foundation for their support and belief in this project.” The River Alive! exhibition will position the ... facilities, the River provides drinking water, food, and recreation to millions of people living across 13,500 square ...
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Regional Foundation Announces $1.95 Million in Grant Awards

Thursday, July 13, 2023
... Greater Newark will receive $300,000 to build on the last 5 years of implementation in Newark’s West and Central ... and safety. Habitat will continue to distribute about 4,000 weekly meals andexpand its ID restoration program and ... of its grant investment. On the horizon, NJCDC’s newest project is the development of a 56-unit “healthy homes” ...
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Comcast RISE to Award $5 Million in Grants to BIPOC-Owned, Small Businesses

Comcast RISE
Tuesday, February 9, 2021
... can apply for $10,000 grants.   Additionally, over $2 million has been awarded to more than 20 community-based organizations and ... announced the Comcast RISE Investment Fund, providing $5 million dollars of grants to hundreds of Black, Indigenous, ...

$9 Million From The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Supports 28 Philadelphia Organizations and 12 Artist Fellowships

Pew Fellow Pepón Osorio, My Beating Heart/Mi corazón latiente, 2023, installation view at the New Museum, New York. Photo by Liz Ligon.
Thursday, September 14, 2023
... stories. PHILADELPHIA (Sept. 14, 2023)— The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage (the Center) announced today that it has awarded 40 grants and fellowships totaling $9 million in ... million to 28 local arts and heritage organizations for project funding, $1.3 million of which is provided as ...
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Philadelphia Receives $5 Million in JPMorgan Chase’s AdvancingCities Challenge

Thursday, October 8, 2020
... them to grow.  PIDC, Rebuilding Community Infrastructure (Rebuild), and Philadelphia Works, Inc. are collaborating to ... at renovating and repairing local parks, libraries, and recreation centers across the city. “JPMorgan Chase is ... corporate, institutional and government clients under its J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Information about JPMorgan ...
13Jul2018

Rebuild Update Briefing

Friday, July 13, 2018
8:30am - 10:30am
Logan Square Conference Center
... Greater Philadelphia for an update on the future of Rebuild, Mayor Jim Kenney’s visionary initiative to invest in neighborhood parks, recreation centers and libraries in the City of Philadelphia. ...

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