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City Announces Additional $30 Million in Funding for Rental Assistance and Small Business Relief
New funding brings the City’s direct support for small businesses to $38.7 million and for rental assistance to $39.4 million since start of the pandemic.
Mayor Kenney Cuts Ribbon at Hancock Playground
Officials celebrated the completion of a $1.1 million renovation project at Hancock Playground, made possible through the City of Philadelphia's Rebuild initiative.
Urgent Briefing for Philanthropy on the City's Winter Plans for Homeless Residents
GSK awards Greater Philadelphia nonprofits making a powerful IMPACT on health outcomes now more than ever
Ten nonprofits each received $40,000 for their integral community support in the age of COVID-19.
Spruce Council Virtual Winter Meeting
Day 1 Concurrent Session - Participatory Grantmaking: Lessons from an Immigrant Community Fund
How do you identify and create next steps for your organization when it comes to participatory grantmaking? Using PA is Ready! as our lens, along with an evaluation of a participatory approach that spanned three years, we will explore how we, as philanthropy organizations, can increase collaboration, participation, flexibility and responsiveness.
Day 1 Concurrent Session - Media Reparations: Transforming the Landscape
Join us to learn more about Media 2070. Media 2070, a national initiative that is making the case and building a movement -- for media reparations.
Giving circles around the world: Understanding & supporting the growing global phenomenon
Day 2 Concurrent Session - Reimagining Community Safety
Communities across Philadelphia are reimagining what systems of safety and justice looks like. In this session you will hear from community safety practitioners in an engaging dialogue on defining true public safety, facilitating resident-based initiatives, and resetting around relationships with law enforcement. The panel will explore these questions in the context of The Village of Arts & Humanities’ safety and social justice work in North Philadelphia – a neighborhood with one of the highest incarceration and poverty rates in the city.
PA is Ready! grants expand support for Immigrant communities
Now in its fifth year, PA is Ready! announced its 2020 grant awards, totaling $228,750, to 22 groups serving communities across Pennsylvania.
Day 3 Concurrent Session - Investing in Returns
America is the incarceration capital of the world, having invested in exponential imprisonment rates and leaving one third of its citizens with a criminal record. 95% of those in prison eventually come home, facing formidable barriers to successful reentry. This includes over 25,000, mostly Black and Hispanic, who return to Philadelphia annually. This interactive seminar exposes the injustices of mass incarceration and systems of reentry, and invites attendees to explore 5 ways they can take action to invest in the successful return of persons to their communities.
Financial Commons Launch
CCFWG’S 4th Annual Champions of Change Event Leaves Chester County Business Community Inspired to Elevate Women in the Workplace
Nearly 100 people tuned in for the virtual event that raised over $27,000 in support of local women and girls.
Day 2 Concurrent Session - Coaching for Our Communities
“Leaders are made, not born.” – Vince Lombardi
Given the challenges facing the world and the people leading change, nurturing thoughtful, secure, open-minded leaders is imperative for equitable outcomes for our organizations and communities. But how do we develop the leadership of people within our communities, especially those that are marginalized and under-resourced?
Day 3 Concurrent Session - What's Your Equity Footprint?
It is not enough for foundations to simply avoid inequitable practices in a society premised on white supremacy and patriarchy; rather, foundations must consciously dedicate themselves to centering equity in all facets of their institutions’ work. Rather than simply minimizing a damaging footprint, an Equity Footprint invites the foundation to enact positive, equitable change.This conversation seeks to provide a framework, a lens, and perhaps some tools to support foundations to interrogate their respective cultures, practices and norms, toward the aim of embedding equity.
Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia announces Mariah Casias as Vice President, Learning & Evaluation
Effective December 16, 2020, Mariah Casias will join the Philanthropy Network team in the newly-created role of Vice President, Learning & Evaluation.
Post-election check-in: Now what?
Nonprofit Law: Year in Review
Day 4 Keynote - Vu Le, Nonprofit AF - Transforming the Social Sector: A Call to Action for 2021
Over the last three days, you have been learning, connecting and discovering ways in which philanthropy not only can, but has a vital role in, moving society to create just communities.
Vu Le, Nonprofit AF, shares with us how nonprofit and philanthropic sectors have successfully engaged our communities this past year, his views on the vital steps necessary to move forward, and how our philanthropy has an integral role to play if we are to see a more just future.