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Grantmaking
We fund organizations and projects which disrupt our current behavioral health space and create impact at the individual, organizational, and societal levels.
Participatory Funds
Our participatory funds alter traditional grantmaking by shifting power
to impacted communities to direct resources and make funding decisions.
Special Grant Programs
We build public and private partnerships to administer grant dollars toward targeted programs.
Program Related Investments
We provide funds at below-market interest rates that can be particularly useful to start, grow, or sustain a program, or when results cannot be achieved with grant dollars alone.
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Alyson Ferguson, MPH
Chief Operating Officer
Contact Alyson about grantmaking, program related investments, and the paper series.
Samantha Matlin, PhD
Senior Learning & Community Impact Consultant
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Caitlin O'Brien, MPH
Director of Learning & Community Impact
Contact Caitlin about the Community Fund for Immigrant Wellness, the Annual Innovation Award, and trauma-informed programming.
Joe Pyle, MA
President
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Bridget Talone, MFA
Grants Manager for Learning and Community Impact
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United Way Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey | Center for Leadership Equity
Grantee
The Center for Leadership Equity’s goal is to advance racial equity in the region’s nonprofit sector, ultimately designing and launching a centralized leadership hub to improve equity in the nonprofit sector and grant making institutions.
About
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey (UWGPSNJ), in partnership with six regional funders, launched the Center for Leadership Equity, which supplies critical support for Black nonprofit leaders. The Center for Leadership Equity provides the leaders with capacity-building opportunities through customized educational programming, access to funding resources, and advocacy tools to strengthen their work while advancing racial equity within the nonprofit sector.
According to a 2016 study led by Kelly Woodland and the Philadelphia African American Leadership Forum, Black-led nonprofit organizations are smaller in size and revenue; depend more predominantly on government funding; lack the social capital and connections of their white counterparts; and traditionally serve the most vulnerable populations with the least amount of resources.