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5 Ways Impact Investors and Philanthropists can Innovate to Solve Philly’s Biggest Problem

Friday, March 16, 2018
... cash. Admidst  crippling poverty  and a  proliferation of struggling nonprofits , the city  ranks 43rd  of the United States’ 50 biggest cities in charitable ... Partners Sidney Hargro , executive director, Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia Tom Balderston, managing ...
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Experiments in the Innovation Lab

Food Pantry
Wednesday, June 26, 2019
... Walls is a pilot program to deliver food to residents of the Upper Perkiomen Manor, a subsidized senior living ... public transportation is scarce in this more rural area of Montgomery County. Additionally, the stigma of going into ...  Innovation Lab  grant to the MontCo Anti-Hunger Network, in part to learn how each of these pilot projects ...

Matt Berghesier elected chair of Barra Foundation

Matt Bergheiser
Tuesday, January 12, 2021
Press release President of University City District for more than a decade brings wealth of non-profit knowledge to foundation   Matt Bergheiser ... Skills Initiative, the Job Opportunity Investment Network (JOIN), and Green City Works. “From the perspective ...
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2017 Women on the Move: Alyson Ferguson

Alyson Ferguson
Tuesday, October 24, 2017
... Coatesville Area Youth Philanthropy Program Director of Grantmaking, Scattergood Foundation Alyson Ferguson is a do-gooder with a mission—several of them. Not yet 30 years old, she holds positions at two of the region’s most influential philanthropies. The  ...
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EPIP 2018 National Conference

Monday, July 30, 2018 - 8:00am to Wednesday, August 1, 2018 - 2:30pm
Where: 
Detroit, MI
The United States has entered a period of social and political unrest, where fear and organized ... nation; keeping marginalized communities on the fringes of society. Yet, in spite of this, communities across the nation continue to organize ...

Building on Arthur Evans' Legacy: Next Steps For Behavioral Health In Philadelphia

Thursday, February 9, 2017
... steps down  Friday after 12 years as commissioner of the city’s Department of Behavioral Health and Intellectual disAbility Services – ... the following objectives: Evaluate the existing provider network for quality, adequacy, and accuracy of the service ...

OPINION | Instead of blaming government for Philly’s poverty problems, we must band together

Monday, October 1, 2018
Via Philly.com | By Bill Golderer, president and CEO of United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New ... email him at  bgolderer@uwgpsnj.org . Philadelphia Media Network is one of 21 news organizations producing Broke in Philly, a collaborative ...

A digital effort to fight hunger in Montgomery County

Food pantry by ANTHONY PEZZOTTI
Tuesday, January 29, 2019
Part of the series, Broke in Philly, collaborative reporting on ... she’d be unable to shop, forced to endure three weeks of eating nothing but peanut butter and bread. Kahr said she ... were organizations such as the  MontCo Anti-Hunger Network  (MAHN), Advanced Living Communities ...

New Report on Nonprofit Financial Health Pre-Pandemic Serves as a Wake-Up Call

The Financial Heath of Greater Philadelphia Nonprofits 2020
Tuesday, December 8, 2020
... Foundation , The Scattergood Foundation and the United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey , released a new report today at Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia’s SPARX Conference that details the financial health and resiliency of the region’s nonprofits.   Comparing data between 2014 ...

Philly parents, don't leave the city when your kids reach school age | Opinion

Friday, March 23, 2018
... away. Over the past several years, the School District of Philadelphia and other public schools have made ... investments in K-3 education, training thousands of teachers in evidence-based literacy instruction and making ... teachers’ use of best practices, and the citywide network of organizations behind the Read by 4th campaign is ...
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Special Report: Corporate Philanthropy

Corporate Philanthropy_The Inquirer
Sunday, September 23, 2018
... like Comcast NBCUniversal , Independence Blue Cross , Bank of America and QVC – and individuals will ... presented by M&T Bank and sponsored by the United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey. The ... Bergen Transformational giving helps people get a slice of the pie  by Jane M.
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Wells Fargo Appoints New Wells Fargo Regional Foundation Executive Director

Aisha Miller
Monday, January 14, 2019
... Aishah Miller has been named the new Executive Director of The Wells Fargo Regional Foundation, a role she officially ... Vice President for Development at the Opportunity Finance Network (OFN), a national association of community ... 2018 rankings of America’s largest corporations. News, insights and perspectives from Wells Fargo are also ...
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2020 Complete Count Committee Recommends State Funding To Ensure Accurate Census In PA

Monday, May 20, 2019
... Complete Count Commissioner Micah Sims, who led a group of commissioners to discuss and design the public funds ... community stakeholders organizing to tackle the challenge of insuring a successful 2020 census. One of the key aspects ... Representatives from Pennsylvania Health Access Network, Pennsylvania Voice and other entities shared key ...
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Bloomberg-Funded Efforts to Stem Pennsylvania Opioid Crisis Announced

Friday, July 12, 2019
... to be funded by  Bloomberg Philanthropies  as part of a $10 million commitment to address the opioid crisis in Pennsylvania. The initiative is part of a three-year,  $50 million  investment in a joint effort ... include support for the Hospital Opioid Learning Action Network, a partnership with the  Hospital and Healthsystem ...
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Foundations Community Partnership Founder Ron Bernstein to Retire

Ron Bernstein
Friday, November 1, 2019
... (October 24, 2019) – Ron Bernstein, Executive Director of Foundations Community Partnership (FCP), has announced his retirement effective June 30, 2020. Following the sale of Foundations Behavioral Health in 2007, Ron established FCP ... of the Institute of Behavioral Health, Philanthropy Network of Greater Philadelphia, and the Pennsylvania Health ...

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