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Environment and Public Space
Barriers to equitable river access persist, but they’re not always what you expect.
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Nathan Boon
Pictured: RiverFest at Bartram's Garden. With the official start of summer, on-water recreation season has arrived. Here in the region, if you’ve walked the newly renovated trail along Delaware Avenue , cast a line from the Schuylkill Banks, pedaled in...
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Philly-area trail network gets nearly $6 million from William Penn Foundation to improve and expand
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Philadelphia Inquirer
The William Penn Foundation has announced $5.9 million in grants designed to help extend the Circuit Trails.
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William Penn Foundation Approves Nearly $6 Million in Grants to Advance Circuit Trails Network in Nine-County Region in Pennsylvania and New Jersey
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The William Penn Foundation has announced its most recent round of grants – $5.9 million – to 12 organizations in the regional Circuit Trails Coalition.
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Initiative to Expand High-Quality Early Learning Grows with $3.8 Million Grant from William Penn Foundation
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For eight years, the Fund for Quality has increased the availability of high-quality early childhood education for children across Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA (May 31, 2022) – Today, the William Penn Foundation announced a $3.8 million grant to Reinvestment...
Children and Families
Building Momentum for Teacher Diversity in Philadelphia (Part I)
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Ebony English
Think about your K-12th grade teachers. Did you have teachers who shared your racial or cultural background? Did you have teachers who did not? I hope the answer to both questions is “yes.” However, for many students of color the answer to the first...
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WPF and 23 Other Foundations Send Open Letter to the White House About the Shared Opportunity in the America the Beautiful Challenge
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William Penn Foundation
On April 11, 2022, the William Penn Foundation and 23 other philanthropic institutions sent a letter to the Biden-Harris administration expressing interest in further collaboration around the new America the Beautiful Challenge.
Children and Families
SEPTA stations get makeover for reading campaign
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Metro Philadelphia
Underground, at the Broad Street Line’s Tasker-Morris station in South Philadelphia, there’s now a mini-library. Riders, by placing their hand over touchless buttons, can now get free short stories, printed on store receipt-like paper. Many of the tales...
Children and Families
A colorful new childhood literacy campaign featuring real Philly kids is rolling out across SEPTA
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Philadelphia Inquirer
SEPTA has never looked this vibrant — and never this much fun. Welcome to Come Aboard the Reading Promise, a brilliantly hued, early literacy campaign that was officially rolled out on Wednesday, April 6, featuring the words and faces of real Philly...
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Want to fix Pennsylvania's education system? Fund our preschools
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Elliot Weinbaum in the Bucks County Courier Times
After months of witness testimony, the state’s first trial on the question of whether Pennsylvania’s school funding system meets its constitutional requirements concluded in March. A decision from Commonwealth Court is expected later this summer. Among...
William Penn Foundation Names Chief Philanthropy Officer
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The William Penn Foundation announced that Elliot Weinbaum will assume the role of Chief Philanthropy Officer.
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