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Where Does Your Cash Sleep at Night?

Wednesday, July 10, 2019
... great onramp to local investing in a loan fund managed by Philadelphia’s  Reinvestment Fund , an Aeris-rated CDFI. ( ... with three full-time staff, that invests in the Greater Philadelphia region. At  Aeris , we offer information to ... leave their money in the loan fund for a minimum of three years. The Barra Foundation saw in Reinvestment Fund a ...

Can one business improve schools with a single donation? It's happened before | Donna Frisby-Greenwood

Thursday, April 5, 2018
... the director of the nonprofit that raises funds to support Philadelphia’s public schools, it’s hard not to be in awe ... that Ripple’s donation brought more than $236,000 to Philadelphia public school classrooms, funding 364 projects ...
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CEO, Scattergood Announce 22 Grant Recipients for Tax Credit Outreach

Friday, January 13, 2023
... about the Child Tax Credit and Earned Income Tax Credit PHILADELPHIA - The Office of Community Empowerment and ... tax credits help to improve the economic stability of Philadelphia families, ultimately reducing the stress and ... “We think it is so important to educate Southwest Philadelphia residents on the federal Child Tax Credit and ...
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WCU Students Demonstrate Benjamin Franklin’s Philanthropic Legacy through Annual Grant

CCCF Grant Students
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
... (1790), he left 1,000 pounds of sterling to the city of Philadelphia.  This donation by Benjamin Franklin became the ... Franklin’s philanthropic vision remains a reality 230 years later.  In 1995, the Trust was allocated among numerous nonprofit entities, including several Philadelphia-area community foundations.  Now, annually ...
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Independence Blue Cross Foundation Collaborates with Temple University to Create a Pathway to Nursing for Students of Color

Independence Blue Cross Foundation
Tuesday, October 12, 2021
Philadelphia, PA — October 12, 2021 — Today, the  ... The initial cohort will include five students from north Philadelphia and surrounding neighborhood high schools and ... Program. We are proud to work with Temple University and Philadelphia-area high schools to launch this program and ...
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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
... to a cause, an idea, and especially to other people.  As Philadelphia Foundation's team crisscrossed the region ... .  Standout highlights for me included:  a table at the Philadelphia Free Library at 6th and Lehigh, where each ... forward?  Take the next step and apply for a grant.

Highlights from the 36th Annual Members Meeting

Friday, March 29, 2024
...  Donna Frisby-Greenwood introduced keynote speaker, Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker.  rashanda and donna.png Mayor Cherelle Parker spoke about her vision for Philadelphia as the "safest, cleanest, greenest big city" in ... audience Q&A with  Kafi Lindsay , Director of the City of Philadelphia's Office of Strategic Partnerships about her new ...
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Future-focused takeaways from the 2017 Philanthropy Network conference

Friday, November 3, 2017
... The 2017 conference took place yesterday at the Loews Philadelphia Hotel with a more alliterative title, “ ...
07Mar2019

Legal Matters for Corporate and Private Foundations

Thursday, March 7, 2019
9:00am - 4:00pm
Cigna Foundation
Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia is excited to partner with Council on ... member rate of $149 to Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia members. If you are interested in attending this ... Council on Foundations and Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia.                    Legal Matters ...

Justice, not charity: Liz Dozier thinks philanthropy should be rooted in equity and solidarity

Liz Dozier
Tuesday, October 29, 2019
... be the keynote speaker at Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia's SPARX Conference, taking place from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Thursday, October 31 at the Hilton Philadelphia at Penn's Landing. By Sabrina Vourvoulias  ... police brutality took place in the 1800s. “Twenty-five years ago people wouldn’t set foot in the West Loop,” ...

United Way of PA Sheds Light on Financial Hardships: The ALICE Report

United for ALICE
Tuesday, June 18, 2019
Philadelphia, PA (June 18, 2019) – United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey (UWGPSNJ), along with ... number one challenge, with 26 percent of people in Philadelphia alone living in poverty” said Bill Golderer, ...
23Sep2022

Delaware County Funders’ Community of Practice: Funders’ Tour of Upper Darby, Our Region’s 2nd Largest Municipality

Friday, September 23, 2022
9:30am - 1:30pm
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... second largest municipality in our region, second only to Philadelphia. Upper Darby’s motto, “The World In One ... Guests: State Sen. Tim Kearney and State Rep. Gina Curry 1:15 PM Bus leaves the church and returns to 69th Street ...

City Announces $360,000 in Grants to Improve Quality of Life in Kensington through Fourth Round of the Kensington Community Resilience Fund

KCR Fund
Thursday, July 11, 2024
KCRFund logo.png PHILADELPHIA (July 11, 2024) — Today, the City of Philadelphia announced $360,000 in grants awarded in the ... every day. “As a Harrowgate resident for close to 30 years, I’m grateful that the KCR Fund lifts up the voices ...
19May2022

Bucks-Mont Collaborative Virtual Community SummitOur Evolving Journey: Adverse to Healing Community Environments

Thursday, May 19, 2022
9:00am - 3:30pm
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Virtual on Whova
... Professor of Family Therapy at both Drexel University in Philadelphia , and Syracuse University in New York, and has ... of San Francisco, and has spent more than twenty years exploring the intersections of anti-racist education, ...

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