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May 2019 Update: Rebuild is on the move!

Tuesday, May 14, 2019
... begun on 24 of the 64 sites approved by City Council for Rebuild funding. Rebuild is Philadelphia’s historic ... nonprofits have been awarded multi-million-dollar grants to carry out renovations at these sites. Conversations ... The fund provides a simple, streamlined process for making grants to support Rebuild and, with a 1:2 match from the ...
11Nov2018

Hungry for Change: A Summit about American and Israeli Strategies for Food Security, Recovery and Justice

Sunday, November 11, 2018 - 11:00am to Monday, November 12, 2018 - 3:30pm
Where: 
Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia
... of Greater Philadelphia are proud to present Hungry for Change. Hear from food security pioneers working to ... In small workshops, learn about innovative strategies for food rescue, recovery and justice and for integrating ... and Sharing Know...
20Apr2022

Montgomery County Funders Community of Practice

Wednesday, April 20, 2022
1:00pm - 2:15pm
Video Conference
... racial inequity plays out in our community. As a follow-up to its 2019 initial findings on racial equity and ... to redesign the Coordinated Entry “front door” system for housing and homeless services to be more culturally ... inequities in other systems and implications of this work for funders in our region.  Resources Your Way Home ...

City Launches Overdose Prevention and Community Healing Fund

Tuesday, December 20, 2022
... and directly addresses prevention, recovery, and healing for the many individuals and communities affected. In 2021, ... Overdose Prevention and Community Healing Fund will award grants to community-based organizations across Philadelphia, ... fund, supporting grantmaking activities and administering grants, as well as providing technical assistance to ...
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Addiction / Opioid Crisis

As city waits on soda tax ruling, private sector pours on support for Rebuild

Tuesday, November 21, 2017
... largely true, there still are a few unknown variables for financing for Rebuild, Mayor Jim Kenney’s massive attempt to rewrite ... remains in limbo, the nonprofit sector has already stepped up for Rebuild. The latest sign came earlier this month, when ...
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Community Improvement
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Rebuild Initiative

PHL COVID-19 Fund Continues Urgent Response to Community Amid Growing Needs

PHL Covid-19 Fund
Thursday, April 16, 2020
... The PHL COVID-19 Fund today announced its second round of grants totaling more than $2.5 million to 79 non-profit ... and SEAMAAC in South Philadelphia, both receiving $50,000 grants this week, are facing tremendous challenges. They ... are experiencing and the lack of access to resources for them has highlighted the catastrophic impact this crisis ...
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Disaster Relief
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COVID-19

New EPIP Philly Book Club Discusses "Decolonizing Wealth"

Decolonizing Wealth book cover
Friday, May 17, 2019
... the Stanford Social Innovation Review by Edgar Villanueva for an overview of the key concepts, including his seven ... the observations about philanthropy at its worst that came up during our Decolonizing Wealth conversation. And while ... feedback loops : These should exist between funders and recipients. We need to question why they aren’t there – ...
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Equity and Social Justice
11Mar2019

PEAK 2019 Annual Conference

Monday, March 11, 2019 - 7:00am to Wednesday, March 13, 2019 - 4:30pm
Where: 
Denver, CO
Hundreds of grants management professionals—from all types and sizes of ... converge on Denver, from March 11 to 13, for three days of professional development, networking, ... support. Her approach to tech solutions offers lessons for grants...

New Regional COVID-19 Response Dashboard analyzes more than $40M in giving from 13 shared funds in Greater Philadelphia

Wednesday, September 30, 2020
... COVID-19 Response Dashboard .  Developed by the Center for High Impact Philanthropy (CHIP) at the University of ... the dashboard is one of the first efforts to collect grants data from numerous pooled giving funds and share it ... of COVID-19 in Greater Philadelphia, including where grants were directed, who the funds were meant to help, what ...

Knight Foundation taps news media trailblazer Maribel Perez Wadsworth as new president and CEO

Maribel Perez Wadsworth
Tuesday, November 14, 2023
... Nuevo Herald, led the multibillion-dollar foundation for nearly two decades and oversaw the disbursement of $2.3 billion.  “Maribel’s passion for journalism, coupled with her staunch belief that arts and ... Forward campaign, which aims to raise one billion dollars for the growth and sustainability of local news ...
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A digital effort to fight hunger in Montgomery County

Food pantry by ANTHONY PEZZOTTI
Tuesday, January 29, 2019
... nothing but peanut butter and bread. Kahr said she grew up dutifully checking off all the boxes of society’s ... on the kind of online grocery ordering normally reserved for people in higher economic brackets. And Kahr, who gets ... the pantry. The limited hours, the  stigma  of lining up for charitable food, the difficulty of finding adequate ...

Placed-Based Impact Investing: Three Briefs for Practitioners

Published: 
06/2019
... and conversations with practitioners as opportunities for knowledge exchange: building strong ecosystems, mapping ... the field. Placed-Based Impact Investing: Three Briefs for Practitioners ...

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