PHP Spring and Summer 2024 Grants Awarded
From January to June 2024, grants were awarded to nine nonprofits through our Nurture, Connect, Advocate, and Lead initiatives. Awards included a new $100,000 grant to Pennsylvania Voice, a partnership of over fifty non-partisan organizations working to build an inclusive, just, and multiracial democracy.
Philadelphia Health Partnership focuses on advancing equity in health and early childhood health and development. From January to June 2024, we awarded $615,000 in grants to nine organizations working to nurture, connect, advocate, and lead.
NURTURE – Promoting the Optimal Development of Children from Prenatal to Age Five to Influence Health and Well-Being Across the Lifespan
- Education Law Center: $50,000 in support of legal services and advocacy to improve children’s access to early intervention services and full inclusion in early childhood education.
- ParentChild+: $50,000 in support of home visiting services for families with children from 16 months to four years old to stimulate parent-child interaction and develop children’s language, early literacy, and social-emotional skills.
CONNECT – Improving Access to Equitable Care and Services to Address Disparities in Health and Well-Being
- HUNE (Hispanos Unidos para Niños Excepcionales): $30,000 in support of bilingual case management, family advocacy, and educational support services for children and youth with disabilities and their parents/caregivers.
- Legal Clinic for the Disabled: $20,000 in support of organization leadership transition and capacity to enhance data systems.
ADVOCATE – Advancing Policy, Systems, and Structural Change to Achieve Equity in Health
- Children First: $65,000 in support of improving children’s access to health insurance and care, reducing childhood lead poisoning, and expanding availability of quality, equitable child care and early intervention services.
- Early Intervention Part C (Infant Toddler) Work Group of Thriving Pa: $175,000 in support of statewide collaboration to improve the Pennsylvania Infant Toddler Early Intervention system with a focus on outreach, referral, enrollment; quality services; equitable access; mental health; and Medicaid partnerships. Pennsylvania Association for the Education of Young Children serves as the fiscal agent.
- Pennsylvania Partnerships for Children: $75,000 in support of improving access to quality, equitable child and perinatal health care and services including health insurance, child care, early intervention services, and home visiting services.
- Pennsylvania Voice: $100,000 in support of organizational capacity for engaging nonprofit partners to expand civic participation, make voting easier, and secure equitable representation in government.
LEAD – Building the Capacity of the Nonprofit and Health and Human Service Sectors for Racial Justice and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
- United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey: $25,000 in support of the Center for Leadership Equity’s public launch and programs including the provision of culturally competent professional development resources for Black nonprofit leaders.
- United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey: $25,000 in support of the Coordinated Capacity Building Strategy, a collaborative effort among local funders to develop an actionable, multi-year plan for nonprofit capacity building across the region. The United Way serves as the fiscal agent.