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The Fund for Women and Girls Announces Leadership Transition

Michelle Legaspi Sánchez
Tuesday, August 10, 2021
... thanks Michelle for her service and steadfast leadership over the past five years as Executive Director: “Michelle has been our spark in The Fund’s igniting change in our community. Her vision ... Over the past 25 years, The Fund has awarded over $3.7 million to 80 local non-profit organizations serving women ...
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Guidance for Place-Based Funders to Address Political Violence Before and After the 2020 Election

Democracy Fund
Published: 
10/2020
... of political violence around the United States election in 2020. Research on international violence and peacebuilding ... designed to help local place-based funders invest quickly in leaders and organizations who’ve been preparing for this ... opportunities to support work like this nationally or in your region contact Nadia Firozvi ( ...
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Civil Rights, Social Action & Advocacy
29Jun2021

Funder Briefing: The COVID-19 Prevention & Response Fund

Tuesday, June 29, 2021
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Video Conference
... & Response Fund,  a community-led effort to invest in neighborhood-based solutions to urgent needs related to ... has been implemented, learn more about the first round of grant recipients and their work, and get a sneak peek at the ... Presentation - Stephanie Reid Interactive Map | Round 1 grant recipients Grantee website |  Unity in the Community ...

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 ... some portion of their assets with diversely-owned firms. Over half invest more than 10% of their assets with such ...

The Case for Funding Black-Led Social Change: Redlining by Another Name: What the Data Says to Move from Rhetoric to Action

Published: 
12/2019
... learn how leaders of Black-led social change organizations in the United States and U.S. Territories describe their ... well-being of existing Black social change infrastructure in this country. The second was to use this information to ... with Black-led organizations (BLOs) and Black communities. In late 2015, BSCFN was birthed from a partnership between ...

Chester County Community Foundation “Food for Thought” Board Trustee Edition Goes Digital This September

Chester County Community Foundation
Thursday, August 20, 2020
... Board Trustee Edition . The program, formerly held in person and known as the Board Trustee Institute, will take ... and forever.  The Community Foundation holds nearly $60 million in trust and annually awards $2.5 million in grants and scholarships. ...

Strong Foundations: Financial Security Starts with Affordable, Stable Housing – A Research Primer

Strong Foundations Housing Report
Published: 
01/2020
One in three US households—nearly 100 million people—struggle ... is acute for virtually all low-income families and for the 1 in 4 renters who spend 50% or more of their income on ...
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Philadelphia Cultural Fund announces Gabriela Sanchez as its new Executive Director

Gabriela Sanchez
Wednesday, February 1, 2023
... Photo Credit: Gene Smirnov   PHILADELPHIA, PA, Feb 1, 2023 - The Board of Directors of The Philadelphia Cultural ... a bridge that connected us with other funders. For over a decade, I have worked for multiple arts and culture ... Since its founding in 1992 PCF has awarded more than $60 million in grants to Philadelphia-based arts and culture ...
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Pew Announces $1.85M to Strengthen the Free Library of Philadelphia and Improve Access to Drexel University’s Atwater Kent Collection

Free Library of Philadelphia
Wednesday, July 19, 2023
... announced today that it has awarded two grants totaling $1.85 million in its ongoing commitment to help ... the region’s unique history and civic treasures. The awards include $1 million for the Free Library of ... support, the university will expand that number to 7,200 over three years. The grant will also support conservation of ...

Rebuild announces 21 nonprofits qualified as Project Users

Rebuild
Friday, November 17, 2017
... of design and construction on up to three projects over the last five years with a total value of $1 million or more; Community outreach/engagement: experience ...

ComNet19: Lessons on Building a Community of Communicators

ComNet19
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
... that there needed to be a network for those working in the field philanthropic communications. In early October ... Frank Karel’s lunch meeting. It is currently made up of over 1,600 communicators from foundations, nonprofit ...

Pew Announces $1M to Support Vulnerable Philadelphia-Area Residents Amid Pandemic

Wednesday, July 1, 2020
... Pew Charitable Trusts announced today that it has awarded $1 million in new grants to 13 Philadelphia-area nonprofits ... health issues. Each organization will receive $250,000 over two years. The other 11 awards will provide an additional year of support to current ...

The Barr, Kresge, and William Penn Foundations Introduce $13M Funding Collaborative

The Cuture and Community Power Fund
Tuesday, May 30, 2023
...   To date, the collaborative has invested over $5.8 million in grantmaking and research. Six ... in five cities have received unrestricted, multiyear awards based on their long-term commitment to supporting ...

Philadelphia Foundation Announces Fund Focused on Black-Led Nonprofits Serving Black Communities in Greater Philadelphia

Philadelphia Foundation
Thursday, May 13, 2021
... in Greater Philadelphia. The Fund includes an initial $1 million contribution from Facebook, which selected ... to this effort. Additional inaugural support of $200,000 over two years has been provided by the Barra Foundation, as ... by its donors and makes over 1,000 grants and scholarship awards each year. To learn more, visit:  philafound.org . ...

Foundations Community Partnership Founder Ron Bernstein to Retire

Ron Bernstein
Friday, November 1, 2019
... 2020. Following the sale of Foundations Behavioral Health in 2007, Ron established FCP to improve the lives of special ... of FCP, Ron has overseen the distribution of more than $5 million in grants and scholarships that support Bucks County ... the Summer Youth Corps has provided funding and placed over 150 college students into local nonprofits, where ...

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