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College Students Spend Their Summer Helping Local Nonprofits

FCP 2024 Summer Youth Corps
Thursday, September 19, 2024
... Partnership’s Summer Youth Corps (SYC) offers college students the opportunity to participate in a 10-week, paid ... community, and earned college credit through a partnership with Bucks County Community College. Program Supervisor Patrick Reynolds supported this year’s ...
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New Community-Driven Grant Program Available for Community-Based Organizations

Friday, May 7, 2021
... organizations that serve communities of color and those with low incomes, which have been hardest hit by the COVID-19 ... said Mitchell Little, executive director of CEO. “As CEO supports our communities during the recovery, we must center ... our expertise in community-driven grantmaking to this new partnership with CEO.” The deadline to apply for this ...

Dwayne Wharton selected for new national leadership program to build health equity

Dwayne Wharton
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
... motorists, pedestrians and cyclists; and spearheading a new community garden that teaches kids about culture, race, ... Collaborative for Health Equity and CommonHealth ACTION with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Wharton ... access to affordable, nutritious food. In this role, he supports the organization’s health equity, policy and ...

Phoenixville Community Health Foundation Hires New Program Officer

Viviann Schorle
Thursday, December 10, 2020
... of seasoned nonprofit professional Viviann Schorle as program officer, effective January 4, 2021. CEO Tamela Luce ... decades of experience, including extensive work with diverse communities, will be an asset to both the ... Phoenixville Community Health Foundation Hires New Program Officer ...
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New Community Grants by Philadelphia City Fund Announced

Philadelphia City Fund
Wednesday, July 26, 2023
... address the health of formerly incarcerated women, people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, and ... Many  of PCF’s charitable initiatives focus on new and innovative solutions that enhance life in ... with intellectual and developmental disabilities Students Run Philly Style, $16,354 to support access to ...

Connelly Foundation awards 40 Catholic eighth graders full scholarships to high school

Wednesday, December 9, 2020
... Neumann Scholars, 40 academically talented eighth-grade students from 30 Catholic schools in the Philadelphia Archdiocese, with four-year scholarships to attend any archdiocesan high ... regional elementary schools in five counties. Among the 40 scholarship recipients are five students from Bucks County, ...
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FCP Selects Tobias Bruhn as New Executive Director

Tobias Bruhn
Thursday, January 9, 2020
... decades of management and development experience to his new role as Executive Director at Foundations Community ... subsidizes service learning internships for college students, underwrites community education programs and supports behavioral health education and research. To learn ...
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Connelly Foundation Welcomes New Senior Staff

Fran Burns, Tim Durkin
Tuesday, September 4, 2018
... as Vice President for Grantmaking. Ms. Burns started her new position on August 20 and Mr. Durkin starts on August 27. ... Corporation. Ms. Burns graduated from Villanova University with a Bachelor’s degree in political science and a minor ... on Catholic education, with thousands of Philadelphia-area students having attended Catholic high schools though the ...
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All K-3 students in School District of Philadelphia to receive free books every month

Elliot Weinbaum
Monday, June 3, 2019
... book ownership and early reading in schools, along with the William Penn Foundation , today announced a ... and an estimated 40,000 kindergarten to third-grade students.  The partnership is made possible by a $1.3 ... grown to 21 states, from Hawaii to New York, and annually supports 57,000 children in choosing and owning more than one ...
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The Fund for the School District of Philadelphia School announces $5M gift for laptops to get students online

The Fund for the SDP
Friday, March 27, 2020
... Family Donates $5 Million For Laptops to Help Philadelphia Students Start Online Classes by Mid-April Funding Will Help ... unprecedented time and COVID-19 is presenting our society with new challenges every day,” said Aileen and Brian ... possible when we work together to improve educational supports for all of our young people. I am grateful for their ...

New Administration's Policies Create Extraordinary Challenges for Nonprofits, New Study Finds

Challenging Times: How U.S. Nonprofit Leaders Are Experiencing the Political Context
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
... U.S. political climate.   Since late January, the new administration has targeted significant portions of the ... created by the current administration’s policies, with one noting, “I can see nothing but turbulence and ... Methodology and Analysis, manages research projects and supports research design and analysis training and work ...
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WCU Students Demonstrate Benjamin Franklin’s Philanthropic Legacy through Annual Grant

CCCF Grant Students
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
... (CCCF) aims to grow legacy philanthropy by engaging students in the power of giving back.  The Community Foundation recently partnered with the Honors Stewardship and Civics Engagement Class at ... Citro. Gracie Citro was also the recipient of the Hibberd Scholarship, a fund of CCCF.  For this year’s Benjamin ...
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Foundations Community Partnership places college students in internships at nonprofits

Monday, July 16, 2018
... By Chris English   2018 Summer Youth Corps For 16 college students in summer internships at nonprofits all across Bucks ... a difference. The students make up the Summer Youth Corps program run and funded by the Foundations Community ... High School East graduate wanted something that aligned with her career goals and college studies — she majors in ...
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Foundations Community Partnership Seeks Applicants for General Operating Support Grant Cycle and Summer Youth Corps Program

Foundations Community Partnership
Friday, December 1, 2023
... (GOS). In addition, FCP’s acclaimed Summer Youth Corps program (SYC) is accepting applications from college students for a paid internship experience with a non-profit organization serving Bucks County. FCP’s ...
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Arts + Business Council programming, including Business on Board, finds new home within The Nonprofit Center at La Salle University

Tuesday, October 15, 2024
... Center plans to host the regional board member training program “Business on Board,” as well as the ... workshop in 2025. The Nonprofit Center will collaborate with funders and partner organizations to identify and ... will continue to grow and thrive at Business on Board’s new home at La Salle’s Nonprofit Center.”  While The ...
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William Penn Foundation Welcomes Stuart Clarke as New Program Director of Watershed Protection

Stuart A. Clarke
Wednesday, July 28, 2021
... appointment of Stuart A. Clarke as the organization’s new Program Director of Watershed Protection. Clarke will oversee ... to broaden equitable public access to and engagement with the basin’s rivers and streams. He brings a wealth of ...
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Pennsylvania Humanities Council announces new grant program for cultural organizations affected by COVID-19

Monday, April 6, 2020
... today announced Pop-Up Grants for Cultural Producers , a new grant program supporting efforts to sustain public engagement ... it's a Zoom dinner-time book discussion or a podcast with local creative entrepreneurs, we want to quickly give ...

Philadelphia Foundation’s Youth-In-Philanthropy Program Awards $72,000 In Grants to Philadelphia Nonprofits

Youthadelphia
Tuesday, June 23, 2020
... priorities were identified through research conducted with the help of Edwin Mayorga, assistant professor of ... Girls Inc. of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey , received a $6,000 grant in support of the Girls ... Rebel Market is a new healthy school store concept run by students in schools, with the goal of providing healthy and ...
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