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Great Learning

14 Philadelphia Nonprofits Awarded Funding Through William Penn Foundation Racial Equity Grant Fund

Monday, October 4, 2021

Panel of community members awards $415,000 on behalf of the Foundation

Great Learning

Look to Philadelphia for smart ways to invest new early learning funds | Opinion

Monday, September 13, 2021

Philadelphia is home to programs that are ready-made for expansion with new federal funding.

Great Learning

Philly is a force behind a new book that helps infants and adults alike share the joys of reading aloud

Tuesday, August 24, 2021

A book designed to appeal to very young children — and help parents begin regularly reading to newborns, infants, and toddlers — has been...

Philanthropy

Money moves: More than $13M has been awarded to local nonprofits in the past few months

Tuesday, August 17, 2021

See who got funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Independence Public Media Foundation, Patricia Kind Family Foundation, the...

Watershed Protection

Power moves: New staff at HPC, Share Food Program, William Penn Foundation and 4 other orgs

Thursday, August 5, 2021

William Penn Foundation appoints Stuart Clarke as program director of watershed protection.

Watershed Protection

New East Falls boat landing on the Schuylkill River will be ADA-accessible — and a great bird-watching spot

Friday, July 30, 2021

Paddlers will have a new entry point onto the Schuylkill this summer in the East Falls neighborhood.