First Round of Neighborhood Equitable Recovery Fund Grant Recipients Announced
The City of Philadelphia in partnership with Bread & Roses Community Fund announce grants of $15,000 to 30 grassroots organizations and community groups.
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The City of Philadelphia in partnership with Bread & Roses Community Fund announce grants of $15,000 to 30 grassroots organizations and community groups.
Communities across the country are integrating smart growth, environmental justice, and equitable development to design and build healthy, sustainable, inclusive, and safe neighborhoods for all ages. Join local experts in a conversation on how livable communities support policies, programs, and inclusive practices to help older adults age in place.
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Join co-hosts Marcus Walton and Omar Woodard for a conversation with TeQuion Brookins, McGregor Fund and Jason Murray, BIPOC Executive Search Inc. about the complexity of advancing equity internally through operations, tech, processes, and internal structures.
This session will focus on the role and experience of the Community Action Team for the Dr. Frank E. Boston Black Justice Fund. The session will explore how the creation and facilitation of the Community Action Team incorporated power-building strategies and principles of trust-based philanthropy. This focus created a space for open and dynamic dialogue that centered justice and liberation.
The third round of grants from the COVID-19 Prevention & Response Fund will support ongoing efforts to increase vaccination rates in communities hardest hit by the pandemic.
This is your opportunity to CONNECT with your peers and expand your NETWORK. All conference attendees are invited to join your host, John Chen, CEO of Engaging Virtual Meetings, as he helps you engage with others, learn how to network without being #zawkward* and get the most out of your conference experience.
*What is #zawkward? It’s that awkward turtle feeling that we all get when we try to network virtually via Zoom.
Foundations distribute grants as a tool for social change, but have you thought about your endowments? Foundations have over $1 trillion in assets under management in the U.S., and this trillion can be used as a powerful tool to advance social and economic justice for workers in Philadelphia and nationally. This includes worker justice campaigns to pay livable wages, improve worker safety, and provide sufficient benefits.
Montgomery County Funders' Community of Practice discuss equity in the grantmaking process.
As we kick-off the final day of SPARX 2021, join us for this opportunity to reflect on the past two days and how your experience will inform your path towards a more equitable and just future. Mailee Walker, Executive Director of the Claneil Foundation, will speak about the importance of reflection as a tool for processing ideas, and guide us through short breakout room discussions to share reflections with other attendees
Philanthropy in the 21st century goes beyond funding and encompasses the community as a whole. LaTosha Brown, co-founder of Black Voters Matter Fund, shares what funders can do to create authentic relationships as infrastructure, to build power among marginalized communities, and create a just society.
As part of Philanthropy Network's Mission-Aligned Investing Cohort, philanthropic leaders are learning together how to align their assets with their mission and invest in the community using a racial equity lens.
This session will provide an opportunity for small funders to reflect and share together, with a focus on how we are incorporating equity into our work.
Film and Media As Organizing Tools
Led by Louis Massiah, filmmaker and founder of Scribe Video Center and Sarah Lutman, Founder and Principal at 8 Bridges Workshop