Philanthropy
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Pennsylvania Institute of Technology Needs Your Help This GivingTuesday Nov. 30
Today’s higher education students face difficult challenges when it comes to paying for an education. At the Pennsylvania Institute of Technology, students are working hard to make a better life for themselves by learning a new career or improving their knowledge in a career they already work in. Yet more than 92% of those students…
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WSFS Bank Sets Up Collection Sites to Fight Food Insecurity in the Philadelphia Region
WSFS Bank has launched its 18th Annual Fall Food Drive to combat food insecurity across the Greater Philadelphia and Delaware region. WSFS banking office locations in Philadelphia, Bucks, Delaware, and Montgomery Counties (as well Burlington and Camden Counties in NJ) will serve as convenient food deposit centers. Donations are being sought from customers, members of…
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Progressive Insurance, Malvern, Recognizes Military Service with New Car to U.S. Army Member
Progressive Insurance, Malvern, recognized the military service U.S. Army Private First Class Howard Lindy in a big and tangible way. It gave him a new car in an emotional Veterans Day honorific, writes Ashley Johnson for 6abc. Lindy broke down in tears when he was presented with his new, apple-red Hyundai as part of Progressive…
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Bentley Systems Announces $150,000 Matching Grant Challenge to Support Chester County Food Bank
The Chester County Food Bank (CCFB) announced a Sustaining Community $150,000 Grant Challenge from Bentley Systems. The grant will match dollar-for-dollar all contributions donated between November 1, 2021, and the end of the year, up to $150,000. The grant and Sustaining Community gift challenge will support CCFB mission to ensure access to real, healthy food…
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MacElree Harvey Partner to Discuss Charitable Giving Strategies at Chester County Food Bank Webinar
Financial advisors increasingly offer charitable planning as a way to enhance their value to clients by helping them to incorporate philanthropy into their overall financial planning. As we approach the giving season, the Chester County Food Bank wants to offer four key ways advisors can help clients increase their giving power at a time when…
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Franklin Flood Gives Back to Downingtown Nonprofit After Flood Devastation
Hurricane Ida brought devastating rainfall to Chester County, particularly Downingtown, where many people lost their homes and/or businesses due to flooding. Among them, in the heart of the borough, is P.A.A.L. (Preparing Adolescents with Autism for Adult Life), a program for adolescents with moderate to severe autism that establishes a professional collaboration among the educational…
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6ABC: Massive Volunteer Effort Underway in Downingtown to Help Residents Recover in Wake of Storm
With much destruction left in the wake of Hurricane Ida, volunteers in Downingtown have organized a massive recovery effort, much of it organized online, to help residents, writes TaRhonda Thomas for 6ABC. “Just through social media, word of mouth, getting connected with different people,” Jason Houck said, describing the catalysts behind the help. In addition…
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Local Teacher Helps Former Student Escape Afghanistan
A Delaware County teacher helped get a former student and his family safely out of Afghanistan using social media, writes Jeff Cole for FOX29. Amir Sidiqi, now 33, was born in the U.S. but was living in Afghanistan with his family when the Taliban took over. He headed to the airport in Kabul with his…
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West Chester Charity Ball Benefitting Friends Association Returns In Person
The West Chester Charity Ball, benefitting the programs and services of Friends Association for Care & Protection of Children, returns this year in person. The Charity Ball has been a longstanding local tradition of fun and philanthropy and has brought community members together during the holiday season for 33 years. This year, the event returns Dec.…
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Local Family Donates More Than $200,000 to Library in Delco
A donation of $203,603.60 will be used to help expand the Rachel Kohl Community Library in Concord Township. The donation was recently presented to the library from the estate of a Concord Township and Chester Heights couple, Wilbur Wiley and Paralee Wiley. Lee Greskiewicz, daughter of the Wileys and a long-time resident of Chester Heights,…
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Child Guidance Named Beneficiary of Sun East Golf Classic
The Child Guidance Resource Centers have been chosen by the Sun East Foundation to be the beneficiaries of its annual Sun East Foundation Golf Classic Sept. 21 in Malvern. Child Guidance is a nonprofit community-based provider of behavioral health services to children and families across Southeastern Pennsylvania. Since 2011, the Foundation has supported local charities…
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Home of the Sparrow Receives $5,000 Donation to Aid Homeless Women
Home of the Sparrow, a nonprofit organization that supports women facing homelessness, has received a $5,000 donation from The Union Home Mortgage Foundation. The nonprofit helps over 1,000 Chester County women and children secure housing and financial security, while helping them chart new paths for their futures. Funding from the Union Home Mortgage Foundation will…
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Prominent Chadds Ford Man Who Helped Start the Brandywine Conservancy and Museum of Art Dies at 83
Andrew Johnson, a Chadds Ford resident and prominent conservationist who helped start the Brandywine Conservancy and Museum of Art, has died at 83, according to a report from the Daily Local News. Johnson, who was also instrumental in the establishment of the Natural Lands Trust and the North American Land Trust, additionally served as executive…
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Jeopardy! Guest Host Bill Whitaker Has Intimate Ties to Area
He’s guest-hosting Jeopardy! He’s a CBS journalist and a 60 Minutes contributor. Bill Whitaker is also from Media Borough, and he’s not letting anyone forget it, writes Neal Zoren for the Daily Times. Whitaker has made sure that Media Fellowship House receives matching funds equal to Jeopardy!’s combined winnings while he’s on the show. It’s…
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Friends Association Receives Wisler Pearlstine Grant
The Friends Association for the Care and Protection of Children has received a grant from Wisler Pearlstine to continue its work on behalf of homeless families in Chester County. Based in West Chester, the Friends Association helps homeless or near homeless families bring stability to their lives as well as find or maintain permanent housing.…
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‘I See Generous People’: Willistown’s M. Night Shyamalan Donates Location Fee to Pediatric Cancer Research
When Willistown Township’s famous filmmaker, M. Night Shyamalan, first sought an ideal location for his hit show, Servant, a family whose home caught the production’s eye had an unusual request, writes Gina Tomaine for Philadelphia magazine. Jay and Stacey Storm said they would allow the crew to shoot in their home on one condition: They…
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Malvern-Based Financial Advisory Firm’s Partnership with Chester County Food Bank a ‘Face of Philanthropy’
The Chester County Food Bank has been recognized with Malvern-based Hoover Financial Advisors as a 2021 Face of Philanthropy by The Philadelphia Business Journal. The Face of Philanthropy awards recognize companies in Greater Philadelphia that, through philanthropic initiatives with a local nonprofit, have made a large impact on the community through monetary donations, social impact,…
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Exton-Based Home of the Sparrow to Benefit from Tonight’s House of Hope Concert
The 11th annual House of Hope Concert from West Chester East High School, benefitting Home of the Sparrow in Exton, will take place virtually again this year. Students will perform Friday, April 9, starting at 7 PM. The live-streamed charity concert and talent show will be available to registered guests via Zoom. It will feature…
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