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Getting Past Inertia: Ten Simple, Valiant Steps To Align Your Foundation’s Endowment With Your Mission – Or Not

Thursday, June 29, 2017
Via HuffPost  | by Elizabeth Killough , Director, Untours Foundation There’s a lot of judgment these days about your endowment. You use it only ... face up to yours. You inherited a 100-year old practice of handing your endowment over to someone else while your ...

TD Charitable Foundation Awards $7 million in Grants to 37 Non-Profits Supporting Housing for Marginalized Communities

TD Housing for Everyone
Friday, May 17, 2024
CHERRY HILL, NJ – May 14, 2024 – TD Charitable Foundation , the charitable giving arm of TD Bank, America's Most Convenient Bank® , today ... Stops Abuse (St. Petersburg) – $175,000 Fort Lauderdale Independence Training & Education Center, Inc . (Ft. ...
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The Sarah Ralston Foundation Announces Successful Inaugural Year Funding Nonprofits that Serve Philadelphia’s Aging Population

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Monday, January 29, 2024
Elders sixty and over represent 20% of Philadelphia’s population – a total of 316,478 aging men and women. Of those, 21% live below the ... to age safely and with joy and dignity. The Sarah Ralston Foundation is the first and only charitable foundation in ...
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Foundations Community Partnership Launches #FCPresents Series to Help Strengthen Non-Profit Sector

Foundations Community Partnership
Thursday, May 25, 2023
... from self-centered to donor centered. He is the Director of Donor Impact for Independence Mission Schools and has 24 years of experience ... Partnerships at the Travis Manion Foundation, and Dr. Patricia Stern Smallacombe , Associate ...
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Dr. Myra Forrest joins Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation as Education Advocate

Myra Forrest
Tuesday, February 16, 2021
... been a priority at the Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation. And as community leaders and elected officials ... to show the deficit in education funding.  As part of that effort, she’s authored a case study centered on the ... she has served as the Foundation for Pottstown Education president, Owen J. Roberts School District superintendent, ...
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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 ... attend planning meetings and include outreach outside of the affluent Center City neighborhoods closest to the ... ensure it really is a citywide asset,” said Joe Forkin, president of the DRWC.  “How do we capture a person’s ...

Philanthropy Network launching new Equity Cohort with major support from Scattergood Foundation

Wednesday, March 20, 2019
... face as a region and a country are amplified in the lives of those who experience structural and systemic inequity. In ... change to embrace a full commitment to equity. Scattergood Foundation has made a $30,000 leadership grant to support the ... practice toward a full commitment to equity. Joe Pyle, president of the Scattergood Foundation, said: “A lot of ...

The Board of Directors of the VNA Foundation of Greater North Penn Announces Two New Changes for 2019

Diana Doherty and Joanne Kline
Tuesday, January 8, 2019
In the Spring of 2019, Joanne Kline, the founding Executive Director of the VNA Foundation of Greater North Penn, will retire from this ... period of growth,” notes Kathleen Fitzgerald, Board President. “The VNA Foundation has greatly benefited from ...
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The Foundation for Delaware County awards over $1M to local nonprofits, launches COVID-19 Response Fund

Wednesday, April 1, 2020
In its second major round of grantmaking, The Foundation for Delaware County awarded $1,055,488 in grant ... the COVID-19 crises,” says Frances Sheehan, foundation president. “The foundation has committed to allowing ...
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NCRP Power Moves Webinar Series: Make Your Power Move: Tools for your foundation’s equity journey

Wednesday, May 30, 2018
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... can examine their power, privilege and understanding of risk. With insights from knowledgeable funders and expert ... include Hanh Lee, executive director of the Weissberg Foundation ; Gita Gulati-Partee, founder and president of OpenSource...

Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation launches COVID-19 Relief & Recovery Fund

Wednesday, June 3, 2020
... June 2, 2020—The Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation has launched a new fund that will allow members of the community to make a difference by contributing towards ... will be vital in the months ahead,” said Foundation president Dave Kraybill. “We are facing unique challenges, ...

Code for America to strengthen local tech Brigade chapters with support from Knight Foundation

Code for America
Tuesday, May 11, 2021
News release from the Knight Foundation $1M investment will help Brigades in Miami, ... America will strengthen the business models and practices of local technology Brigades chapters in seven U.S. cities ... strong and resilient communities,” Code for America CEO Amanda Renteria said. “The Knight Foundation’s latest ...

Philadelphia Arts Groups to Lift Diverse Voices with $923,600 in Funding from Knight Foundation

Wednesday, March 7, 2018
... artists to create site-specific works, a range of projects from nine Philadelphia arts organizations will receive $923,600 from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. The groups are large and small, ranging from the ... said Victoria Rogers, Knight Foundation’s vice president/arts. “These eight organizations are doing that ...
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The Foundation for Delaware County awards over $30K to local nonprofits promoting a complete count in the 2020 Census

Delco Counts
Tuesday, February 4, 2020
... MEDIA, PA (January 30, 2020) — In the first of three rounds of grantmaking to encourage enrollment in the 2020 Census, The Foundation for Delaware County today announced $30,300 in ... for Delaware County,” said Frances Sheehan, foundation president. “We’re pleased that these nonprofits stepped ...
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The Presser Foundation Announces Over $1.3 Million in a Special Round of Grants to Music Organizations

Tuesday, April 28, 2020
Related coverage: Recipients call Presser Foundation awards of more than a half million dollars ... relationship with the Foundation.  Jeffrey Cornelius, President of The Presser Foundation, commented on these ...
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Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation awards over $1M in fall 2017 grant round

Wednesday, December 6, 2017
... December 6, 2017 – The Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation has awarded $1,048,204 in grant requests during the fall grant round of fiscal year 2017-2018 to 30 non-profit organizations, ... fulfilling the mission of the Foundation,” Foundation President Dave Kraybill said. Grant requests are submitted ...

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
... — April 8, 2021 — The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation today announced a $2.2 million investment in nine ... residents in the design, programming and development of public spaces. “A truly thriving Philadelphia is an ... in community,” said Kelly Jin, Knight Foundation vice president for community and national initiatives. “As we ...

NBC10, Telemundo62 and Comcast NBCUniversal Foundation Award $227,000 in Unrestricted Grants to Eight Local Nonprofits

NBCUniversal Local Impact Grants
Tuesday, August 27, 2024
... support to Philadelphia-area communities in the categories of youth education and empowerment, next-generation ... Local Impact Grant program,” said Ric Harris, President and General Manager of NBC10, Telemundo62 and NBC ... information. NBC10, Telemundo62 and Comcast NBCUniversal Foundation Award $227,000 in Unrestricted Grants to Eight ...
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Foundation Maps Greater Philadelphia

Foundation Maps Greater Philadelphia Access to accurate, ... from the Foundation Center. The map includes all types of funders and incorporates data provided directly by ...

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