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The Douty Foundation announces final, ‘Legacy’ grants totaling $2.2 million as its sunset plan is complete

The Douty Foundation
Tuesday, November 9, 2021
... supporting grassroots organizations and movements in making social change, announced that its sunset plan has ... along with approximately $1 million to The Bread & Roses Community Fund . The grants are the manifestation of the ... at the end of 2021 was courageous. Bread & Roses shifts power and resources to people most affected by oppression, so ...

Foundation Awards $1.2 Million in Pottstown Area Grants

Thursday, July 21, 2022
... has awarded $1,220,000 to 34 projects and programs in the Pottstown area.  The funds, aimed at ensuring equitable opportunities for all community members to embrace a healthier lifestyle, are ... Community Network, Inc.: Resident Engagement, Equity, Power United Way of Boyertown Area: Supporting ...

Ruch Family Foundation Awards Richard R. Ruch Scholarship to Deserving College Student

Chester County Community Foundation
Thursday, June 25, 2020
West Chester, PA – June 25, 2020: Chester County Community Foundation (CCCF) is pleased to hold in trust the inaugural Richard R. Ruch scholarship awarded by ... for the sporting goods industry and his belief in the power of education. The Richard R. Ruch scholarship will be ...
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Rebuild: Strengthening Neighborhoods Across Philadelphia

Thursday, March 21, 2019
... We are committed to galvanizing the philanthropic community around this project, convening a small member-led ... framework and to support broad philanthropic engagement in Rebuild. We engaged in this work because we believe this ... buildings and parks, but as a strategy to leverage the power and expertise of communities, to promote diversity and ...

Leeway Foundation Announces $49,950 in Support To 23 Individual Artists Highlighting Practices of Reclamation Of LGBQA Social Movements and Cultural Preservation

Leeway Foundation
Wednesday, October 13, 2021
In a time of global unrest and uncertainty, Leeway Foundation continues to be led by our community and grantees to reimagine our world and reclaim spaces of power through their socially engaged artistic and cultural ...

2022 Lipman Family Prize Honorees Named

Lipman Family Prize
Friday, March 18, 2022
... Pennsylvania. One grand prize winner will receive $250,000 in unrestricted funds. The winner will be announced at an ... truly inspiring to us as an organization and as a growing community to expand our honoree base in such a way.” In ... cusp of great change with resources, skills, and people-power to expand the impact and influence of their work. ...
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Philadelphia Food Justice Initiative Announces New Grant Awards

Food Equity
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
... food options. This is part of an effort to find and fund community-driven solutions to historic food injustice. The ... part of the Philadelphia Food Justice Initiative (PFJI). In total, the initiative has provided over $620,000 in grants over two rounds since its launch in 2019. “PFJI ...

Independence Public Media Foundation Announces 71 Grants Totaling $8.9 Million

IPMF grantee
Monday, August 15, 2022
... (IPMF) announces grants totaling $8.9 million for community-centered, BIPOC-led media organizations and projects in the Philadelphia region. In total, the foundation awarded ... media-making is a critical way for communities to build power as they fight for justice and change. As a key ...

Diversity of Asset Managers in Philanthropy

Diversity of Asset Managers in Philanthropy
Published: 
02/2020
... asset managers when investing its endowment. In response to frequent questions from a variety of ... endowment investments managed by investment firms based in the United States, amounting to $63.95 billion in invested assets (“Analyzed AUM”). The study found: ...

Philadelphia Foundation announces the 2022 Civic 50 Greater Philadelphia Honorees

PECO representatives receiving 2022 Civic 50 Greater Philadelphia award
Friday, June 24, 2022
... PA – June 23, 2022 – Philadelphia Foundation, in partnership with Points of Light and its local chamber ... The Civic 50 Greater Philadelphia 2022 honorees. These 50 community-minded regional companies were determined by an ... at the local level. These 50 honorees demonstrate the power of that focus.
17Dec2020

A National Reckoning on Race

Thursday, December 17, 2020
2:00pm - 3:00pm
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Virtual
... they are responding to the call for action to build real power for Black communities and demand bold systems and institutional change in civic engagement, criminal justice, employment and social ... (Robin Hood) will share more about Robin Hood’...

2018 Diversity Among Philanthropic Professionals Report

Published: 
11/2019
In 2018, Funders for LGBTQ Issues set out to survey the board and staff of foundations in order to identify how many LGBTQ people worked in philanthropy. In the process, the organization realized ...

A Farewell Message from President Sidney Hargro: A Time for Change

Time for Change
Friday, July 16, 2021
... Network Greater Philadelphia.  My last virtual day in the office will be August 13.  My tenure at Philanthropy ... communities that honor lived experience, shift and share power, and seek to co-create change with communities, not for ... to unlock leaders’ radical imagination and inherent power to achieve transformative change, healing, and ...
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