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CCFWG Unveils Women’s Suffrage Mural Before Election Day to Inspire Community to Get Out and Vote

CCFWG Suffrage Mural
Tuesday, November 3, 2020
... West Chester, P A. The mural honors the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which granted many women the right to ... a critical time,” Michelle Legaspi Sánchez , Executive Director of CCFWG, reminded the crowd. “Though a public art project is new for CCFWG, what is not new is being a beacon for gender ...
16Apr2020

Response, Recovery, Resiliency: What Nonprofits Need From Grantmakers During the COVID-19 Crisis

Thursday, April 16, 2020
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Where: 
Webinar
... More than 175 community funds have been created, hundreds of funders have offered new flexibility to grantees, and the federal government has ... Bugg-Levine, CEO, Nonprofit Finance Fund Trella Walker, Director , Nonprofit Finance Fund Nichole...

With $16 million gift, gay causes get a big boost

Friday, October 20, 2017
Via Philly.com By Peter Dobrin , Culture Writer @InquirerPeter | ... became successful, he would give back, and that the object of his generosity would be the gay community. Successful he ... , and at least part of what he would like to see this new gift do is to lift philanthropy in the gay community ...
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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
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LGBTQ
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Equity and Social Justice

Pew Awards $7.7M to Philadelphia Human Services, Arts, and Civic Nonprofits to Expand Programs, Adapt Business Models

The Pew Charitable Trusts
Wednesday, February 16, 2022
... These grants will help the recipients create and implement new strategies to adapt their programs, operations, and business models to the changing needs of the residents and communities they serve. In doing so, the ... the impacts of the pandemic.” Kristin Romens , project director of the Pew Fund for Health and Human Services in ...

Guidance for Place-Based Funders to Address Political Violence Before and After the 2020 Election

Democracy Fund
Published: 
10/2020
There is escalating concern about the threat of political violence around the United States election in ... on international violence and peacebuilding reveal that a great deal can be done to prevent (and, if necessary, ... in leaders and organizations who’ve been preparing for this moment for years. This guidance is based on the ...
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Civil Rights, Social Action & Advocacy

Unprecedented program aims to ‘Rebuild’ Philadelphia, serve as national community investment model

Monday, October 2, 2017
...  (NRPA) concluded its  annual conference  in New Orleans, bringing together more than 7,000 park and ... from around the country. The premier annual meeting of the park and recreation community, over a three-day period ... McCaney  — now William Penn Foundation’s Executive Director , presented the City of Philadelphia’s Rebuild ...

Lenfest Institute awards $2 million to 12 local news outlets

Lenfest Institute logo
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
...  (By  ANNE EIGEMAN )   During a time when news outlets of all sizes are experiencing unprecedented financial ... Institute again made news by awarding $2 million in new  grants  to support innovation in local journalism. ... and entrepreneurship. Jim Friedlich, executive director of the Institute, said in a statement, “We were ...
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Media/Journalism

The Starting Line: Behind a Push by Foundations to Expand Access to Childcare in Their Cities

Thursday, September 6, 2018
... access to high quality childcare using detailed analysis of existing local supply and demand. As access to pre-K ... D.C., the Foundation for Newark’s Future in Newark, New Jersey, and the Nicholson and the Henry and Marilyn Taub ... in each city to identify gaps. Elliot Weinbaum, the director of the William Penn Foundation’s Great Learning ...
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Early Childhood

Philadelphia's Lenfests receive Carnegie Medal for their extraordinary philanthropy

Thursday, October 5, 2017
Via Philly.com | by  David Patrick Stearns , Music Critic. ... at the Carnegie Medal for Philanthropy luncheon at the New York Public Library. NEW YORK — As patrons and major supporters of the arts in Philadelphia, Marguerite and H.F. “Gerry” ...
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Arts & Culture

Reggie Shuford Appointed President and CEO of the Independence Foundation

Reginald T. Shuford
Monday, January 13, 2025
Reginald T. Shuford .png The Board of Directors of the Independence Foundation is delighted to ... am absolutely thrilled Reggie Shuford has agreed to be our new leader and confident he will move the Foundation forward ... of equality and justice. Reggie served as the Executive Director of the ACLU of Pennsylvania for over 11 years, and ...
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2025 Policy & Advocacy Resources

... taking office in January, President Trump signed a number of executive orders that if enacted would serverly hamper the ... Grants?
06May2020

Weekly COVID-19 Funder Briefing #8

Wednesday, May 6, 2020
10:15am - 11:15am
Video Conference
... to update each other on the rapidly developing effects of COVID-19 in the five-county region, share what you're ... Houstoun, United Way of Greater Philadelphia & Southern New Jersey PA Immigrant Relief Fund - Ana Lisa Yoder, ... of Pandemic  (04/29/20) - prepared by the Managing Director’s Office and Office of Children and Families SLIDE ...

Knight Foundation gives $4M for citywide conversation about park over I-95

Tuesday, September 18, 2018
... to give all Philadelphians a chance to shape plans for a new waterfront park over I-95 at Penn's Landing, project ... attend planning meetings and include outreach outside of the affluent Center City neighborhoods closest to the ... scars of urban renewal,” said Patrick Morgan , program director for Philadelphia at the foundation. “This is a way ...

Small Funders Webinar: Finding and Using Data to Make Smarter Grants

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05/2018
... tools that funders can use to gain a better understanding of the needs and challenges in the communities where we fund, ... Officer, The Fund for the School District of Philadelphia Philly FUNDamentals,  https://fundamentals.thefundsdp.org/ , is a new site, developed by the Fund for the School District of ...

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