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College Students Spend Their Summer Helping Local Nonprofits

FCP 2024 Summer Youth Corps
Thursday, September 19, 2024
... offers college students the opportunity to participate in a 10-week, paid internship experience at a nonprofit serving Bucks County children, young adults, and ... community, and earned college credit through a partnership with Bucks County Community College. Program Supervisor ...
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Independence Blue Cross Foundation collaborates with Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic, NeuroFlow to Support Mental Wellness of Nurses

Independence Blue Cross Foundation
Wednesday, August 25, 2021
... 2021— Nurses and other frontline workers are dealing with stresses and challenges unlike any time in recent ... is collaborating with Trinity Health Mid-Atlantic on a program with NeuroFlow, a mental health software company based in Philadelphia. The ...
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COVID-19

DAY 3 SMALL GROUP DISCUSSIONS

What a Trusted Partnership Really Means? Led by Andrea ... - between funders and nonprofits . This session will begin with an overview of the Philanthropy Network's strategic ... shift, community collaboration, and the ecology of social giving. Session participants will be asked to complete a ...
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10/08/2021
10:50am - 11:30am

Largest Study on Narratives in Philanthropy Shows Sector’s Messaging Creates Confusion, But Better Stories Can Build Trust

Report - Philanthropy's New Voice
Thursday, April 4, 2024
... of narratives in philanthropy. The report, resulting from a yearlong, multimethod study, found that a big part of the ... strategies to build understanding and trust, starting with the words foundations use, and the stories they tell. ... world to build trust in philanthropy, expand pathways to giving, engage broader perspectives, and co-create solutions ...
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Leadership, Culture and Community

Reggie Shuford Appointed President and CEO of the Independence Foundation

Reginald T. Shuford
Monday, January 13, 2025
... will begin his post on February 18, 2025. He stated: “As a former grantee, I have admired the Independence ... now. I am excited to return to the city and join hands with the Foundation’s many stakeholders as I lead it into ... 1, 2025, added, “The Independence Foundation has become a trusted and valued member of Philadelphia’s philanthropic ...
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Showing up is half the battle when it comes to change. Here’s what comes next | Opinion by Pedro Ramos

Tuesday, November 20, 2018
... 80 percent of success is showing up, then we have made a strong start toward creating a better future.  Now, our ... people from so many walks of life talking to each other with respect, optimism, and shared purpose — and enjoying ... to inspire and nurture civic action and leadership, giving and doing.

Connelly and William Penn Foundations announce major support of workforce initiative

UCD Green City Works
Friday, December 20, 2019
... growth and pathways out of intergenerational poverty, with a particular focus on Green City Works (GCW). GCW, a landscaping social venture which employs West ...

Opinion: Philadelphia’s recovery from COVID-19 must put housing first

Wednesday, May 6, 2020
... organizations – an unprecedented collective response to a public health crisis many of us could never have imagined. ... housing was already in crisis prior to COVID-19, with a deficit of nearly 70,000 affordable rental units and ... $14 million in proposed cuts to the Housing Trust Fund and by deploying local, state and federal funds for: ...

Leeway Foundation announces spring 2020 Art and Change grants

Leeway Foundation 2020 Art & Change Grants
Friday, May 22, 2020
... in Greater Philadelphia, supporting their work to address a range of social change issues.  The spring cycle of ... a trend in cultural preservation and disability justice with grantees from Philadelphia, Bucks and Delaware County. ... Art and Change Grant provides grants of up to $2,500 to fund art for social change projects by women and trans* ...
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Keystone Policy Webinar Series - Session 2: Health Policy Advocacy

Thursday, February 23, 2017
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Webinar
... across the state will: Learn background information about a community issue from a statewide perspective Hear about work undertaken by ...

New report assesses the financial health of Philadelphia nonprofits

Friday, October 27, 2017
... actually isn’t doing too bad financially, according to a recently published report examining the financial health of ... GuideStar , states almost $16 billion in local revenue with an 11 percent margin of net income. Nonprofits also have ... of expenses via cash in the bank. But  John MacIntosh , a partner and board member at SeaChange and one of the ...

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 ... set in stone. While that’s largely true, there still are a few unknown variables for financing for Rebuild, Mayor Jim ... has been presented as a public-private partnership, with the William Penn Foundation ’s  $100 million ...
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Area funders call on Governor Wolf and Secretary Miller to close the Berks County Residential Center (BCRC)

Friday, November 9, 2018
... of Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia issued a call to Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf and Human Services ... that the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is complicit in a federal policy of intolerance and is eschewing its own ... PA Sarah Martinez-Helfman , President, Samuel F.

IBX’s Share Your Opioid Story is collecting the tales of Pennsylvanians impacted by addiction

Independence Blue Cross Foundation
Friday, November 30, 2018
... said Figueroa-Vargas, who is in long-term recovery and a program manager for the nonprofit Mental Health ... Partnerships (MHP). “Somebody gave me an opportunity with drug and alcohol treatment and as a result, I’m ... Greater Philadelphia that the org has a mission to fund strategies to end the opioid crisis.) Sterner said it he ...
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Chester County Complete Count Committee to Raise Awareness about 2020 Census

Chester County 2020 Census
Thursday, September 12, 2019
... Kichline, Kathi Cozzone and Terence Farrell approved today a resolution calling for the formation of a countywide Census 2020 Complete Count Committee (CCC) to ... “The main focus of the committee is to conduct outreach with neighborhoods and communities that had a low response ...

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