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Build up Nepal Wins $250,000 Lipman Family Prize

Barry & Marie Lipman presenting the 2023 Lipman Family Grand Prize award to Björn Söderberg, Co-Founder & CEO of Build up Nepal (Photo: Rebecca Barger)
Friday, April 21, 2023
... up Nepal  empowers rural entrepreneurs and communities in Nepal and India to build safe, affordable homes and ... are honored to welcome them into the Lipman Family Prize community. Our award ceremony was just the beginning of our ... the cusp of great change with resources, skills and people-power to expand the impact and influence of their ideas. ...
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... employs the principles and practices of the Asset-Based Community Development (ABCD) to bring together neighbors and ... institutions to discover the resources that are already in place to help them achieve their vision for a stronger ... there is violence. She is passionate about harnessing the power of conflict and dialogue to build relationships between ...

NBC10, Telemundo62 and Comcast NBCUniversal Foundation Award $227,000 in Unrestricted Grants to Eight Local Nonprofits

NBCUniversal Local Impact Grants
Tuesday, August 27, 2024
... the grant program. The competitive grant challenge, now in its seventh year, provides unrestricted funding to ... and empowerment, next-generation storytellers, and community engagement. The 2024 application period for ... blocks for personal and professional success through the power of an improv education. Programs are free for public ...
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2025 Program Series Listings

... Controls the Future: How Philanthropy Can Build Narrative Power That Lasts Click here to register  (registration is ... captured.

Afternoon Workshops & Roundtable Chat Sessions

... Communicating Funding & Program Impact to Your “Community” --   Columbus Ballroom A Communicating broadly ... media, etc. During this session, participants will work in small groups to identify their “community” of target ... High Impact Philanthropy Workshop Track #2: Equity Equity in Action: Equitable & Community-Centered Development of ...
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10/31/2019
1:20pm - 2:20pm

The Middleton Family presents PHLove, a concert for COVID-19 relief, on May 21

PHLove concert
Sunday, May 17, 2020
... serving on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic. In eight weeks, the Fund has raised $16 million dollars and aided nearly 400 regional nonprofits. However, in order to continue to meet the critical needs of the community, more funding is vital. “Despite the Fund’s ...
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Bridgespan Group Announces Launch of Leadership Program to Serve Philadelphia-Area Nonprofits with Support of $4 Million from Harris Philanthropies and The Pew Charitable Trusts

Thursday, August 13, 2020
... city, following the program’s successful implementation in cities such as Boston, Chicago and Detroit. Through these ... and strategic issues and improve their effectiveness in diverse local communities. The funding provided by Harris ... we can drive change and enable a lasting impact on this community.” “The Pew Charitable Trusts is very pleased to ...

Impact100 Philadelphia Awards $420,000 In Eight Grants and Awards

Impact100 Philadelphia 2021 Grant Awards
Friday, June 4, 2021
... Philadelphia has announced the award of $420,000 in unrestricted funds to eight nonprofit organizations in the ... higher education, affordable housing, supportive services, community and economic development, and accountability. ... job insecurity. Theatre Horizon uses the transformative power of storytelling to foster empathy and create an ...
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As Violence Against Asian Americans Intensifies, the Moment for Philanthropy to Act Is Now

Stop Asian Hate
Tuesday, March 23, 2021
By Patricia Eng of Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy (AAPIP) and Eric Stegman of Native Americans ... communities. The authors say that grantmakers can use the power of their voice and their dollars to make a difference, ... ways that you can take a stand and stop Asian hate in your community today (via the City of Philadelphia's Office of ...
13Dec2018

21st Century Leadership: Learn from NCFP’s Fellows

Thursday, December 13, 2018
12:00pm - 1:30pm
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... Philanthropy created its Fellows program to honor leaders in family philanthropy and nurture a generation of new ... the needs of communities being served, managing the power and privilege of your position while working on the ... manager at Self-Help, the nation's largest nonprofit community development lender, and served in senior positions ...
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The Collective Is Active: A Dispatch from the Mission-Aligned Investing (MAI) Program

Mission-Aligned Investing
Thursday, May 22, 2025
... it easier to do mission-aligned investing but puts us in position to better serve our communities and drive positive change in the Philadelphia region. One of the unique features of the ... how can foundations partner with CDFIs to better support community development? The group has spoken to several local ...
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A Working Mom on Back-to-School Life in COVID

Sanchez family
Thursday, September 3, 2020
... The Sanchez family at home, at work, and at school — all in the same room.   By Michelle Legaspi Sanchez ... racial justice, and access to healthcare — are the same community needs that brought CCFWG and other non-profit ... can we seize this moment? I challenge those with formal power and influence, such as our elected officials, ...
04Jun2020

The Crisis of White Supremacy in America: What’s Philanthropy’s Role?

Thursday, June 4, 2020
9:00am - 10:30am
Video Conference
... traumatic white supremacy over the lives of Black people in this country. What will it take for America to finally and ... we must speak truth to philanthropy’s complicity in the advancement of white supremacist culture and thinking ... Network) Resource Suite: Deciding Together: Shifting Power and Resources Through Participatory Grantmaking ...

The Philadelphia Cultural Fund distributes $2.67 million to a diverse mix of arts & culture organizations

Tuesday, March 27, 2018
... OF ARTS PROGRAMS ENRICHING CITY LIFE PHILADELPHIA — In a City Hall ceremony, hundreds of Philadelphia arts and ... than $50,000. Many of these groups have no paid staff. Power Street Theater Company is an excellent example of the type of community arts making that the Cultural Fund helps to sustain ...

Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia and Philly Counts announce third-round COVID-19 Prevention & Response Fund grant recipients

COVID-19 PR Fund Round 3 Grant Recipents
Thursday, November 4, 2021
... of grants from the COVID-19 Prevention & Response Fund , a community-led effort to invest in neighborhood-based solutions to urgent needs related to ... convenes, and leads the region’s funders to amplify the power of philanthropy as a catalyst for collective action, ...

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 ... Center (BCRC). The BCRC is one of only three centers in the United States that detains migrant families. Read the ... they await their immigration status hearings. We as a community of grantmakers in Pennsylvania - whose work ...
19Jan2022

Working together in Montgomery Beyond Crisis: Looking back and forward

Wednesday, January 19, 2022
1:00pm - 2:30pm
VIDEO CONFERENCE
... to coordinated funding helped drive broad participation in Census 2020 in Montgomery County. Teresa Harris, Public ... impact of the MontcoPA COVID-19 Fund that illustrated the power of collective giving to mobilize resources for our community.  She will also share her thoughts about how ...

Putting Values into Action: Building Mission & Impact-Aligned Operations

Putting Your Foundation's Values into Action
Monday, March 17, 2025
... (IPMF) we are committed to centering racial equity in our operations, governance, and funding while continuing ... many tenets of trust-based philanthropy to redistribute power to the communities we serve including but not limited to multi-year unrestricted funding, community-led grantmaking, and streamlined applications and ...
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