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Expanding Support For Immigrant Communities Across Pennsylvania

Wednesday, July 11, 2018
PHILADELPHIA PA (7/9/2018) – The   Pennsylvania ... and Citizenship Coalition (PICC) and The Philadelphia Foundation have announced $321,600 in grants to 20 groups ... coalition of immigrant-serving organizations. The grants fund nonprofits providing expanded access to information, ...
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City of Philadelphia Launches “PHLConnectED”

Thursday, August 6, 2020
... Partner with the City to Provide Support The City of Philadelphia today announced  PHLConnectED , a collaboration ... Prep Charter Comcast Corporation and Comcast NBCUniversal Foundation Lenfest Foundation Neubauer Family Foundation ... of the City’s larger digital equity initiative that supports internet adoption and digital literacy skill ...

Philadelphia’s Placing a $500 Million Bet on Play

Monday, September 11, 2017
... map to getting this overhaul right. Even as Lawncrest, the Philadelphia neighborhood, has transformed over the past half ... (replaced two decades ago, now dilapidated), and the community garden (just a few years old), the Lawncrest ... investment, and one that might. (The William Penn Foundation provided grant funding for the reporting and ...

Foundations, City of Philadelphia and key Arts & Culture organizations join together to launch $3.45M fund to meet the growing emergency need in this sector

PHL COVID-19 Arts Aid Fund Partners
Wednesday, April 8, 2020
Related coverage: New fund sparked by William Penn Foundation will dole out ... in ‘severe financial straits’ By Peter Dobrin for the Philadelphia Inquirer   April 8, 2020 (PHILADELPHIA, PA) – ...

Trust-Based Philanthropy Cohort

... of Learning and Evaluation at Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia and Yi-Ching Lin, Vice President of Learning at ...

Anchor Collaboratives: Building Bridges With Place-Based Partnerships and Anchor Institutions

... Anchor Collaboratives: Building Bridges with Place-Based Partnerships and Anchor Institutions  discusses the role of anchor institutions and collaboratives in leveraging the power of their economic assets to address ... and partner organizations that have joined to form place-based networks, or anchor collaboratives, to develop, ...
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New community-led pooled fund will support COVID-19 education and vaccine access

COVID-19 Prevention & Response Fund
Thursday, April 8, 2021
... | Spanish | Vietnamese COVID-19 Prevention & Response Fund_HorizPN_cropped.png The COVID-19 Prevention & Response ... hit by the pandemic   Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia in collaboration with funders across the region ... be up to $25,000. Joe Pyle, president of the Scattergood Foundation , which is a lead donor to the fund, said, ...

Stockton Rush Bartol Foundation Awards 22 Grants to Philadelphia Arts and Cultural Organizations

Tuesday, July 24, 2018
STOCKTON RUSH BARTOL FOUNDATION AWARDS 22 GRANTS TO PHILADELPHIA ARTS AND CULTURAL ... this year also include $10,000 in funds from Waterman II Fund of The Philadelphia Foundation. Updated guidelines and ...
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Knight Foundation invests $2.2 million in projects to advance Philadelphia’s public spaces and digital engagement

Photo courtesy Smith Memorial Playground
Friday, April 9, 2021
Knight_SmithPlaygorund.jpg PHILADELPHIA — April 8, 2021 — The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation today announced a $2.2 million investment in nine ... support will bolster local programs that advance equitable community development and digital innovation in city ...

City of Philadelphia, in Partnership with the MacArthur Foundation Safety and Justice Challenge, Announces Second Round of Microgrants for Criminal Justice Reform

Tuesday, May 24, 2022
PHILADELPHIA – The City of Philadelphia announced a second ... is made possible through a partnership with the MacArthur Foundation and a $2.275 million grant awarded to the City as ... objectives. In this round of funding, the City plans to fund 15 organizations with microgrants of $15,000 each.  ...
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Leeway Foundation Introduces Immediate Relief Funds for Individual Artists in the Launch of the 2021 Community Care Fund

Leeway Foundation Community Care Fund
Thursday, February 4, 2021
Leeway CCFund.png PHILADELPHIA – In response to the continuing financial ... impacts on the arts and culture community, Leeway Foundation is launching the WOO Community Care Fund in 2021. We are thrilled to announce that the Fund is ...

$9 Million From The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Supports 28 Philadelphia Organizations and 12 Artist Fellowships

Pew Fellow Pepón Osorio, My Beating Heart/Mi corazón latiente, 2023, installation view at the New Museum, New York. Photo by Liz Ligon.
Thursday, September 14, 2023
40 new grants will fund artists and public events that connect art with healing, ... explore cultural identity, and tell diverse and unique Philadelphia stories. PHILADELPHIA (Sept. 14, 2023)— The ... . $9 Million From The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Supports 28 Philadelphia Organizations and 12 Artist ...
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William Penn Foundation announces Creative Communities Grants

Thursday, December 13, 2018
William Penn Foundation Announcement The William Penn Foundation is ... spaces, we awarded a grant to  Bread and Roses Community Fund ($460,000)  to launch an Equitable Public Space Giving ... of the School District and early care facilities in Philadelphia. A grant was awarded to the  Free Library of ...
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City Awards $200K to Community Organizations to Support Criminal Justice Reform

Wednesday, April 28, 2021
PHILADELPHIA – The City of Philadelphia today announced ... the local jail population. The Criminal Justice Microgrant Fund will be administered by the Mayor’s Fund for ... . Resources for this effort are provided by the MacArthur Foundation Safety and Justice Challenge .  The Criminal ...
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Comcast NBCUniversal Awards $500,000 Grant to Elevate 215 in Support of Philadelphia Education

Friday, December 22, 2023
... learning outcomes and build a diverse teacher workforce in Philadelphia. The investment in Philadelphia education will ... Comcast’s one-year, $500,000 investment will help fund Elevate 215’s  Beat the Odds (BTO) K-8 School ...
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Impact100 Philadelphia Awards $382,500 in Funding to Five Area Nonprofits

Impact100 Philadelphia 2019 Grant Awards
Tuesday, June 4, 2019
On June 3, 2019, Impact100 Philadelphia voted to award $382,500 in grants at their ... life without parole (“juvenile lifers”), to structured supports and services.   The Education Law Center’ s ... Gardens Trust (NGT) is to acquire and preserve community gardens and shared open spaces to improve quality ...
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