Pottstown Regional Community Foundation: August 2025
The Pottstown Regional Community Foundation (PRCF) will launch its 2025 Fall Grant Round. For this final grant round of the calendar year, the foundation prioritizes organizations that demonstrate clear alignment with PRCF’s Results Framework and have not yet received an award this calendar year. Competitive requests will be supported by goals stated in community and regional plans and address needs communicated in foundation or other research studies.
Philanthropy @ Work – Grants and Programs – August 2025
The latest on grants and programs from the field.
How Foundations Can Accelerate Health System Improvement by Investing in Capacity Building Across Sectors
At a time when the health care system is facing a host of challenges, many with attributes that are impossible to solve alone, we see organizations from across the health and social sectors combining their skills and expertise through interesting partnerships to crack the “impossible” together.
Funding Upstream Solutions is Key to Remedy the Social Ills of Trauma
The root cause philanthropy cannot ignore, regardless of the outcomes we seek or the population we serve, is exposure to trauma. Trauma is defined as the effects of a single event, a series of events, and ongoing circumstances that are experienced or perceived as physically or emotionally harmful and life threatening.
Gun Violence Prevention
A key topic of conversation at this year’s GIH board retreat was the role of health philanthropy and GIH in responding to gun violence.
Philanthropy @ Work – Grants and Programs – May 2018
The latest on grants and programs from the field.
Episcopal Health Foundation Report: May 2018
A new Episcopal Health Foundation (EHF) report examining the health impacts of increased government investment in public health and social services found increased public spending on services like public health; fire and ambulance; housing and community development; and libraries would likely lead to improved health outcomes for Texas counties.