Announcements/News
Patricia Kind Family Foundation Strategic Planning 2023
Throughout the previous year, the Patricia Kind Family Foundation was led by Strategy Arts through a strategic planning process. In January 2023, the board approved a three-year Strategic Plan for the Foundation that emerged from a stakeholder inclusive, in-depth decision-making process. The Patricia Kind Family Foundation looked three years into the future as we considered our vision for the foundation. PKFF’s commitment to direct service grants will remain the emphasis of our grant-making. Additionally, we agreed on four areas to form an expanded vision which included capacity building, coalition building, advocacy, and trustee and staff development. These focus areas are intended to supplement and enrich PKFF’s commitment to direct service grants.
Thank you for being part of this process. We are excited about the changes and look forward to presenting a full update soon.
Our Mission
The mission of the Foundation is to financially support organizations that help those struggling daily with the effects of poverty.
Funding Areas
Featured Grantee
Anderson Monarchs
The Anderson Monarchs are regarded as a premiere youth sports program in Philadelphia and have gained local and national attention as a unique model of sports-based youth development. In route to winning dozens of soccer, basketball and baseball championships in local, regional and even national leagues and tournaments, the Monarchs have earned a reputation for playing smart, playing hard, and playing with class. The program has always been about more than sports. Locally, teams have engaged in community service and mentoring projects, and have participated in classes and workshops on topics ranging from the Civil Rights movement to financial literacy to college prep. In recent years, the Monarchs have deepened their commitment to expanding opportunity through athletics and promoting equitable access to youth sports. The organization launched a girls travel program, which currently supports three cohorts of girls between the ages of 8 and 11. The Monarchs have established relationships with South Philadelphia public and charter elementary schools, and currently provide in-school sports programs for more than three hundred youth each school year.
2022
Patricia & Philip Kind, Jr.
Patricia van Ameringen Kind, born in 1924, was the middle child of Arnold and Hedwig van Ameringen. She was raised in South Orange, N.J. with her two siblings, Henry van Ameringen and Lily Auchincloss. She attended Kent Place School, where she was a star athlete and was voted “best personality” by her classmates. She went on to become a registered nurse at the Monmouth Memorial Hospital School of Nursing, foreshadowing a lifetime devoted to caring for others. Her first nursing job was in Philadelphia where she met the love of her life, Philip Kind, Jr.