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The Fund for Women and Girls Awards $15,600 to Create Change

Girls with Cheyney University's Period Poverty Project
Wednesday, July 26, 2023
West Chester, PA (July 26, 2023) – The Fund for Women and Girls recently awarded $15,600 in grants to two local organizations – Cheyney University and ... a row, The Fund awarded  ‘Moving Her Forward’ Impact Grants , a grantmaking program established to focus on swift ...
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Dwayne Wharton selected for new national leadership program to build health equity

Dwayne Wharton
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
... from across the country by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation  Philadelphia, PA — Leaders from Honolulu to ... of structural violence and denial of access to basic needs for marginalized communities; using physical design and other ... Association, Build Healthy Places Network, Center for Creative Leadership, Institute for Alternative Futures, and ...

The Case for General Operating Support

Thursday, August 23, 2018
First posted on the Center for Effective Philanthropy blog By Andrea Bretting, Michael Jordan, and Mailee Walker, Claneil Foundation Recently, a grantee sent us an email to request an ... we provide in the past 10 years. Today, 100 percent of our grants are for general operating support. Prior to 2017, we ...
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Philanthropy Network welcomes new team members

Friday, September 15, 2023
... Network’s efforts to execute an ambitious agenda for our organization centered on equity and in sync with ... partnership with the National Urban Fellows at the Comcast Foundation where they wrote a capstone titled: "Corporate ... development, and DEIB initiatives; and adjunct teaching at Penn’s Carey Law (Higher Education Law and Policy).   Her ...
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Philanthropy Network selects Christine Robinson as its new President

Christine Robinson
Friday, October 21, 2022
... the U.S. and building onramps to policy and systems change for justice. She is a recognized strategist known for her ... of the nation’s leading foundations, including the Ford Foundation (as co-architect of the six-year initiative to close the racial wealth gap), the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (as coordinating consultant for the national ...
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Pottstown Area Schools Awarded Over $13,000 through Checklist Challenge

Face Mask Challenge
Tuesday, June 8, 2021
... (June 8)— The Pottstown Area Health & Wellness Foundation announced a total of $13,152 awarded to Pottstown ... the Medical University of South Carolina’s Boeing Center for Children’s Wellness (BCCW) School-Based Wellness ... is doing to foster wellness in schools and across our communities, and every year it becomes more and more ...

United Way Receives More Than $1 Million from Lincoln Financial Group Employees for Sixth Straight Year

Tuesday, January 29, 2019
... that its employees have raised approximately $1.1 million for United Way organizations across the country during its ... philanthropic efforts – through the Lincoln Financial Foundation – to strengthen local communities. "We are proud ... Financial Group. Under Lincoln Foundation guidelines, grants are made in the areas of arts, education, human ...
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IBX’s Share Your Opioid Story is collecting the tales of Pennsylvanians impacted by addiction

Independence Blue Cross Foundation
Friday, November 30, 2018
... who is in long-term recovery and a program manager for the nonprofit Mental Health Partnerships (MHP). ... coordinator and a criminal justice professor at Penn State University. The project is funded by the Independence Blue Cross Foundation with support from the state’s Department of ...
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An Open Letter to Arts Funders: Create a Pooled Loan Fund

BalletX by Chris Kendig
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
... Philadelphia and the San Francisco Bay Area, philanthropic foundation leaders and nonprofit cultural sector consultants, we have worked with arts groups for over 25 years on building financial sustainability. We ... citizens together through the most basic human impulse of creative expression. A few quick facts: The nonprofit arts ...

The Mayor’s Fund For Philadelphia is now The Philadelphia City Fund

Philadelphia City Fund
Thursday, February 9, 2023
... new website,   www.philacityfund.org, the Mayor’s Fund for Philadelphia officially has become the Philadelphia City ... only City charitable initiatives, the Fund applies for grants on behalf of the City, receives grant funds, convenes ... emphasis is on innovative programs—projects that offer creative solutions to city problems, often in ways that fall ...
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2022 Lipman Family Prize Honorees Named

Lipman Family Prize
Friday, March 18, 2022
... , and  Yamba Malawi  have been named as honorees for the 2022  Barry & Marie Lipman Family Prize . Chosen ... change worldwide. The Prize connects those on the cusp of great change with resources, skills, and people-power to ... Yamba Malawi  transforms children’s lives by empowering communities to break the cycle of poverty. Our vision is ...
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Kevin Ressler Appointed Incoming President and CEO of The Alliance for Health Equity

Kevin Ressler
Monday, May 22, 2023
... Ressler.png [Coatesville, PA; May 22, 2023] The Alliance for Health Equity (The Alliance) announces the appointment of Kevin Ressler to be the incoming ... check sharing; the Level Up & Launch community empowerment grants; and the recently revamped Project Blueprint, a ...
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Apply to the Philly Counts 2020 Action Fund

... in the upcoming 2020 Census. The fund will provide grants up to $10,000 and in certain circumstances above ... Philanthropy Network to provide grant management services for Philly Counts 2020. Philanthropy Network is being paid ... Women and Girls Dwayne Wharton, Edna G. Kynett Memorial Foundation Sulaiman Wood, Office of Community Empowerment and ...

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