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line Grant Records were last updated on 09/04/2010
Search found 72 grants totaling $32,561,040 to 58 organization(s)
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   Approval Date: 2008
   Program Areas: children, youth, & families
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CHILDREN, YOUTH, & FAMILIES
ACORN Institute
New Orleans, LA 70119

Date: 06/30/2008 Duration: 24 months
Grant amount: $165,000
Priority: Public Education
Objective: Urban School Reform
Toward strengthening the parent organizing campaign in Philadelphia public schools and surrounding neighborhoods, run by its local Philadelphia chapter, focusing on issues of teacher quality and school funding reform.
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Attic Youth Center
Philadelphia, PA 19102

Date: 02/25/2008 Duration: 36 months
Grant amount: $432,000
Priority: Youth Development
Objective: Youth Development Opportunities
Toward building its organizational capacity through implementing the recommendations of its three-year strategic plan completed in June 2007.
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Berks County Intermediate Unit
Reading, PA 19612

Date: 06/30/2008 Duration: 36 months
Grant amount: $1,800,000
Priority: School Readiness
Objective: Early Care and Education System Building
Toward Phase II of the Pre-K Counts Partnership for Educational Success, to ensure quality outcomes for young children, improve the capacity of early childhood teachers and build public will to sustain advances in public investment in early learning.
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Big Brothers Big Sisters Southeastern Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19107

Date: 06/30/2008 Duration: 36 months
Grant amount: $289,850
Priority: Youth Development
Objective: Youth Development Opportunities
Toward support for two staff positions, a development specialist and a human resources specialist
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Big Picture Company
Providence, RI 02905

Date: 02/25/2008 Duration: 16 months
Grant amount: $149,560
Priority: Public Education
Objective: Urban School Reform
Toward Big Picture Philadelphia's High School Conversion Initiative, to reorganize a large neighborhood high school into small schools of fewer than 200 students.
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Brandywine Health Foundation
Coatesville, PA 19320

Date: 07/14/2008 Duration: 12 months
Grant amount: $82,500
Priority: Youth Development
Objective: Neighborhood Service Delivery
To conduct a 12-month community planning process to explore the feasibility of the community's investing in a youth development initiative in the city of Coatesville.
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Business Center at New Covenant Campus
Philadelphia, PA 19119-1650

Date: 09/29/2008 Duration: 24 months
Grant amount: $82,500
Priority: Youth Development
Objective: Youth Development Opportunities
To increase the capacity of its Urban Youth Entrepreneurship Program.
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Center for Literacy, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA 19143

Date: 02/25/2008 Duration: 18 months
Grant amount: $359,454
Priority: Public Education
Objective: High School Drop Outs
For the expansion of literacy intensive interventions within the Philadelphia School District including the introduction of literacy coaches to enhance at-risk youth performance in core content and effect change in youth reading levels.
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Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA 19104

Date: 11/17/2008 Duration: 28 months
Grant amount: $438,176
Priority: School Readiness
Objective: Early Care and Education System Building
Toward a study to evaluate the cognitive, academic, and behavioral outcomes of children at age 8 who participated from infancy to age 5 in a home-visiting program for cognitively impaired mothers.
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Civil Society Institute, Inc
Newton, MA 02459

Date: 06/30/2008 Duration: 24 months
Grant amount: $104,162
Priority: School Readiness
Objective: Early Care and Education System Building
Toward implementation of the Build Initiative in New Jersey, including taking advantage of the current preschool expansion opportunity to advance a quality rating and improvement system for child care.
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Community Foundation for the National Capital Region
Washington, DC 20005

Date: 12/02/2008 Duration: 12 months
Grant amount: $29,000
Priority: Public Education
Objective: High School Drop Outs
Toward support for the Youth Transition Funders Group to help vulnerable youth become productive and connected members of society by age twenty-five.
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Community Legal Services, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA 19102

Date: 02/25/2008 Duration: 36 months
Grant amount: $750,000
Priority: Regional Impact
Objective: Public Systems and Investments
Toward a collaborative advocacy, education, and technical assistance effort to improve the lives of children, youth and families by improving the justice and human service systems.
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Congreso de Latinos Unidos, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA 19133

Date: 02/25/2008 Duration: 36 months
Grant amount: $1,861,090
Priority: Youth Development
Objective: Neighborhood Service Delivery
To continue building an infrastructure for its Youth Development Initiative.
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Crozer-Chester Foundation
Upland, PA 19013-3995

Date: 02/25/2008 Duration: 36 months
Grant amount: $1,973,763
Priority: Youth Development
Objective: Neighborhood Service Delivery
To continue building an infrastructure for its Youth Development Initiative.
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Delaware Valley Association for the Education of Young Children
Philadelphia, PA 19103

Date: 11/17/2008 Duration: 24 months
Grant amount: $490,600
Priority: School Readiness
Objective: Public Investment
Toward advocacy and leadership development designed to increase public sector investments and improve the quality and supply of early childhood education in Pennsylvania.
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