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Early Childhood Education Quality Improvement in Philadelphia Gets $1.5 Million Investment
Thursday, January 27, 2022
PHILADELPHIA, January 27, 2022 – William Penn Foundation awarded a $1.5 million grant to
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Nonprofit Organizations Awarded More than $6 Million from William Penn Foundation for Workforce Development and Pandemic Recovery Efforts
Tuesday, January 4, 2022
PHILADELPHIA (January 4, 2022) – The William Penn Foundation today announced 44 grants totaling more than $6 million to support workforce development...
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Watershed Protection
William Penn Foundation is giving $1.65 million to create a new Delaware River Climate Corps
Friday, December 3, 2021
The money would create a Delaware River Climate Corps to work for the Philadelphia region’s first localized climate resiliency program.
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Creative Communities
“Philadelphia’s Cultural Treasures,” Providing Multi-Year Grants to BIPOC Arts Organizations is now accepting Applications
Wednesday, December 1, 2021
This new regional fund is a collaboration of The Barra Foundation, Neubauer Family Foundation, The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, William Penn...
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William Penn Foundation Joins Other Funders to Support Black Community Leaders Fund
Thursday, November 18, 2021
   William Penn Foundation Announces $1 Million Commitment to Support the Black Community Leaders Fund
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Great Learning
The communities are side by side. They have wildly different education outcomes – by design.
Thursday, October 7, 2021
PHILADELPHIA – Tomea Sippio-Smith still remembers how depressed she felt after participating in an eighth grade math competition decades ago.
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