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Philadelphia Receives $5 Million in JPMorgan Chase’s AdvancingCities Challenge
Rebuild, PIDC, and Philadelphia Works join to help women and people of color access well-paying jobs and strengthen diverse-led small businesses across the city.
October 2018 Rebuild Update
City Announces $1 Million Investment in Organizations Developing Innovative Workforce Solutions
The City of Philadelphia’s Department of Commerce—in partnership with Philadelphia's economic and workforce development partners—announced a renewed strategic commitment to address workforce challenges brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic and that have been exacerbated by long-standing racial inequity and injustice.
City Appoints New Executive Director of Rebuild
Kira Strong, who has served in an interim leadership role with Rebuild since November 2019, has been named as the new Executive Director.
City announces first round of the Kensington Community Resilience Fund grant recipients
Twenty grassroots organizations and community groups will receive $10,000 grants for general operations; applications were reviewed by residents of Kensington.
What's New at Rebuild (November 2017)
Here is a round-up of recent news and developments with the City of Philadelphia's Rebuild initiative.
Comcast RISE to Award $5 Million in Grants to BIPOC-Owned, Small Businesses
Eligible businesses in Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Houston and Philadelphia can apply for $10,000 grants. Additionally, over $2 million has been awarded to more than 20 community-based organizations and diverse chambers of commerce to provide support to BIPOC-owned, small businesses.
The Alliance for Health Equity Invests $225,000 over two years in Opportunities Industrialization Center Inc. at Chester County (OIC) for the Coatesville Homelessness and Unemployment Collective
Coatesville's Collective Impact Initiative will help people live healthy and well by increasing employment, living wages, and housing stability for adults 18–24-year-old males and females of color living in Coatesville by 2026.
Citizens Bank Teams with LISC Across Workforce Development Initiatives
Nonprofit Organizations Awarded More than $6 Million from William Penn Foundation for Workforce Development and Pandemic Recovery Efforts
Seventeen-member oversight board named for Rebuild
Seventeen stakeholders have been named to a new oversight board for the Rebuild initiative to improve Philadelphia's public spaces. Their first public meeting is 11/1.
New Lenfest initiative aims to connect more North Philadelphians to employment
The Lenfest North Philadelphia Workforce Initiative will bring together more than a dozen collaborating partners in an effort to reduce the 9% unemployment rate in the area.
Rebuild Announces First Project to Launch, More to Come
Connelly and William Penn Foundations announce major support of workforce initiative
A combined $895,000 in grants from Connelly & William Penn Foundations will support University City District's West Philadelphia Sklils Initiative (WPSI).
William Penn Foundation previews revised programs and grantmaking approach
The Foundation shares a high-level preview of their five funding programs and a new approach that’s designed to make the grant application process simpler and more transparent.
City and Welcoming Center for New Pennsylvanians Launch Citywide Immigrant Workforce Initiative
A $242,000 grant from the World Education Services (WES) Mariam Assefa Fund will support Engaging Immigrant Talent, an 18-month initiative to advance employer-informed immigrant workforce integration.
City Announces Third Round of Kensington Community Resilience Fund Grantees
Kensington residents work with City to select 36 grassroots organizations and community groups to receive $360,000 to address the community impact of the overdose crisis.