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City Appoints New Executive Director of Rebuild

Kira Strong
Friday, January 3, 2020
... 267-251-3064, maita.soukup@phila.gov   Rebuild2.jpg PHILADELPHIA - Managing Director Brian Abernathy today appointed Kira Strong as the new Executive Director of the City’s Rebuild initiative. ... rec centers, and libraries. I look forward to building on the great work our team is doing to deliver excellent ...

United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey announces $1 million challenge to boost regional Census Outreach Efforts

Philly Counts
Thursday, October 24, 2019
... Douglas - United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey  |  adouglas@uwgpsnj.org , 856-583-1855 Irene ... at a meeting of Philly Counts 2020’s Corporate and Philanthropy Subcommittee, intends to generate the funding ... challenge will enable the region’s leaders focused on the census to draw in the new resources they need to ...

Forman Arts Initiative and Philadelphia Foundation Launch Art Works, A New Grant Program to Support Arts and Culture in Greater Philadelphia

Forman Art Works
Friday, March 26, 2021
Press release via Philadelphia Foundation PHILADELPHIA, PA (3/25/ 2021) – ... and Philadelphia Foundation are launching Art Works, a new $3 million grant program for community-based ... and community-focused. Art Works will place a premium on work that is designed to connect, build and transform ...
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Philanthropy Needs A New Endgame: The Liberation of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color Communities In America

Breaking Chains
Thursday, June 4, 2020
... disperse those advocating for change. This is America and Philanthropy Operates in It This is America in 2020. This is ... I discuss with my children and now the one they discuss on their Instagram stories. It is an America that has been ... seeks justice in his book From Generosity to Justice: A New Gospel of Wealth . ( 3 ) In Philadelphia, Philanthropy ...

United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey and Comcast Launch Nonprofit Finance Accelerator to Strengthen Nonprofit Community

Nonprofit Finance Accelerator
Wednesday, March 24, 2021
Press release via United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey UW_NPOaccelerator.png   PHILADELPHIA, PA (March ... pandemic. The Accelerator will have an intentional focus on supporting organizations led by, and serving, people of ...

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
PHILADELPHIA—The Pew Charitable Trusts announced today that ... of the collection’s artifacts and, importantly, fund a new community lending program that will bring hundreds of ... Library of Philadelphia branches. For more information on the Free Library of Philadelphia, please visit ...

Philadelphia Foundation’s YOUTHadelphia grants help Philly youth initiatives

Monday, May 28, 2018
Via The Philadelphia Tribune | By Eric Moody   Six local non-profit ... teens opportunities to build youth leadership through philanthropy and civic engagement. YOUTHadelphia is a example of programs in Philadelphia that focus on supporting the youth and their initiatives by helping to ...

Reflecting Forward: Philadelphia-Based Black Leaders’ Recommendations For Regional Funders

Report: Reflecting Forward: Philadephia-based Black Nonprofit Leaders’ Recommendations for Regional Funders
Monday, June 13, 2022
... for Regional Funders.” The report is based on semi-structured interviews with a diverse group of sixteen ... funders would embrace. Embrace “Trust-based Philanthropy” : All the leaders interviewed for this study ... as “incompetent” and “risky.” The release of this new report coincides at a time when Black nonprofit leaders ...

PECO Announces New Powering the Arts Grant for Community-Based Organizations in Southeastern PA

Friday, July 1, 2022
PECO has introduced a new competitive grants program that will help community-based ... to preliminary analysis of a recent survey by the Greater Philadelphia Culture Alliance, PA Humanities, and PA Museums, ... 31, 2022. The applications, along with further details on program eligibility and award structure, are available on ...
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Philadelphia to benefit from $100M Starbucks initiative to advance racial equity

Starbucks
Thursday, January 14, 2021
Via the Philadelphia Business Journal By Chris Fuhrmeister   ... its Starbucks Community Resilience Fund, which is "focused on supporting small businesses and community development ... Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, New Orleans, New York City, Philadelphia, San Francisco, ...

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 ... Foundation’s Executive Director , presented the City of Philadelphia’s Rebuild Community Infrastructure ( Rebuild ) ... parks in areas of need,” said Tulipane. Rebuild focuses on promoting equity and fairness across Philadelphia, seeking ...
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Equity in Philanthropy Event

Thursday, October 26, 2017
8:30am - 10:00am
Philadelphia, PA
... and Inclusion (DEI) remains a major issue, that members of Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia, indicate they want to learn more about and work ... , Edna G. Kynett Memorial Foundation, & Board Member, Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia Sulaiman Rahman: ...

The Lenfest Institute announces $1.3 million in grants to support The Philadelphia Inquirer’s community-focused journalism

The Lenfest Institute for Journalism
Thursday, May 20, 2021
LenfestInst_May2021grants.png PHOTO: Heather Khalifa/Philadelphia Inquirer (May 20, 2021) The Lenfest Institute for Journalism today announced $1.3 million in new grants to The Philadelphia Inquirer to support ... most pressing issues, with a particular focus on communities that have been historically underserved or ...

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
... Territories describe their interactions with institutional philanthropy. The research had two purposes. The first was to build a body of information on the health and well-being of existing Black social change ... should staff, consultants and trustees in institutional philanthropy change their approaches when working with BLOs ...

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

Philadelphia Foundation
Thursday, May 13, 2021
PhilaFound_header.jpg Press release from Philadelphia Foundation PHILADELPHIA, PA (5/12/2021) – ... Differ from White-led Organizations: Research Report on African American Nonprofit Organization in Philadelphia ... staffs, have fewer cash reserves and are more dependent on government grants than white-led organizations. These ...

Comcast RISE Awards 100 Small Businesses in Philadelphia With $10,000 grants

Comcast RISE
Wednesday, July 27, 2022
... an additional $1 million in total grants to more than 100 Philadelphia small businesses owned by women and people of ... and marketing resources to nearly 100 businesses in the city through  Comcast RISE . This is in addition to $1 ... small businesses nationwide to apply.

The Fund for The School District of Philadelphia Awards Grants Designed to Increase Projects in STEM and Inspire Black, Latinx and Female Students

Tuesday, June 29, 2021
PHILADELPHIA, PA—(June 17, 2021)— The Fund for The School ... applications to receive funding for projects that focus on or combine STEM disciplines and include significant ... students who are English-language learners and in Special Education were encouraged to attend. Teachers working ...

How African-American-Led Organizations Differ from White-Led Organizations: Research Report on African American Nonprofit Organizations in Philadelphia

PAALF Report (2016)
Published: 
04/2016
In 2013, the Philadelphia African American Leadership Forum (PAALF), with ... the United Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania and Southern New Jersey, commissioned a study of African American-led ... Differ from White-Led Organizations: Research Report on African American Nonprofit Organizations in Philadelphia ...

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