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What Barra Foundation has learned from dipping a toe into mission investing

Wednesday, August 9, 2017
...  | by  Julie Zeglen In the past year and a half, the foundation has employed two new investing strategies. Here's ... March 2016 with a $1 million investment in  Reinvestment Fund’s  core loan fund , which deploys collective capital ... rehabbing them and renting them out as artist and community spaces. ( Generocity  profiled New Day cofounder ...

Independence Blue Cross Foundation Institute for Health Equity grant expands Penn Medicine and CHOP’s Alliance of Minority Physicians

Independence Blue Cross Foundation
Wednesday, June 21, 2023
Press release via Independence Blue Cross Foundation The Independence Blue Cross Foundation announced a ... Health System (UPHS) and the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)’s Alliance of Minority Physicians ... new AMP initiative, we are seeking to utilize evidence-based principles and the groundwork of a decade of experience ...
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Foundation Awards $1.2 Million in Pottstown Area Grants

Thursday, July 21, 2022
... PA (July 20, 2022)—The Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation has awarded $1,220,000 to 34 projects and programs in the Pottstown area.  The funds, aimed at ensuring equitable opportunities for all community members to embrace a healthier lifestyle, are ...

Beech Provides Non-Profit Funding during the Coronavirus Emergency

Beech Companies 30 Years
Friday, April 17, 2020
... organizations providing urgent services in the City of Philadelphia.  The fifth round of organizations to receive a ... Philadelphia, PA 19150 Tele 215-868-4092 White Rock Community Food Pantry 5240 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA ...
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Knight Foundation gives $4M for citywide conversation about park over I-95

Tuesday, September 18, 2018
... by a $4 million grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation announced on  Sunday , the public engagement ... with little regard for citizen protests. Knight Foundation officials said that’s the point. “Not to get ... renewal,” said Patrick Morgan , program director for Philadelphia at the foundation. “This is a way to not just ...
08Oct2024

Arts & Culture Funders Community of Practice

Tuesday, October 8, 2024
12:00pm - 1:15pm
Virtual via Zoom
... meeting of Philanthropy Network's Arts & Culture Funders Community of Practice. Share your latest work with fellow ... , the Chief Cultural Officer of the newly named CREATIVE PHILADELPHIA*! Creative Philadelphia provides creative and ... for this event is open to Philanthropy Network members. * In 2020, the Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy ...
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15Mar2024

Arts and Culture Funders Community of Practice

Friday, March 15, 2024
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Virtual
PA CultureCheck is a study by PA Humanities and the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance to gather the voices of ... humanities organizations, along with other nonprofits and community groups. The two primary goals were to continue ... a stronger and more responsive cultural community. Now in its second year and expanded to include virtual listening ...
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Francis J. Myers Recreation Center Rebuild Project Awarded $4.5 Million in State Funding

Francis J. Myers Recreation Center Rebuild Project
Thursday, April 28, 2022
Rebuild_FrancisMyers.jpg PHILADELPHIA (April 28, 2022) - Pennsylvania House ... to frequent. I am so grateful for all that they do for our community and am excited for the upgrades that these dollars ... the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania back to Philadelphia to fund additional upgrades to the Francis J. Myers Recreation ...

An emergency COVID-19 fund in Delco fights to feed the newly needy in the ’burbs

Wednesday, April 29, 2020
Via the Philadelphia Inquirer By Maria Panaritis  |  @panaritism ... Frances Sheehan, who as president of the three-year-old Foundation for Delaware County has established a  Delaware County COVID-19 Response Fund  to help with immediate food aid in recent weeks. ...

The Fund for Women and Girls‘ Inaugural Champions of Change Summit Inspires Local Business Community to Embrace Inclusive Leadership and Elevate Women in the Workplace

Presentation by Dr. Katrina Sawyer
Thursday, April 8, 2021
WEST CHESTER, PA (April 8, 2021) - The Fund for Women and Girls hosted its first Champions of Change ... . *** The Fund for Women and Girls leads and unites the community through philanthropy and advocacy to ensure that ... In response to COVID-19, The Fund has developed innovative programs and initiatives to raise awareness about the ...
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