2025 Funding Alert
Over the past 2 years the Patricia Kind Family Foundation has been involved in developing a strategic plan which will strengthen the focus of our grantmaking and community networking activities. The information we gathered from over 500 partners and community members will enable the Foundation to fine tune our work in the coming years. However, for us to fully incorporate this feedback into our processes, we are pausing new grant funding for 2025.
This will not impact current grantees and their multi-year grant payments due in 2025.
We will NOT take new applications this August (which would have been funded in January 2025) and we will NOT take new applications in January 2025 (which would have been funded in June 2025).
We expect to accept new applications summer 2025 (to be funded January 2026)
We will continue with our Capacity and Collaboration efforts throughout 2025.
Please reach out if you have any questions.
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2024 Greater Philadelphia Social Innovation Awards
Social Innovations Journal announce the WINNERS of the 2024 Greater Philadelphia Social Innovations Awards.
On Thursday, January 25, 2024, The Social Innovations Journal (SIJ) hosted the 2024 Greater Philadelphia Innovation Awards (www.philadelphiainnovationawards.com) where Greater Philadelphia’s Social Sector Leaders presented the 2024 65 Finalists and Winners (https://www.philadelphiainnovationawards.com/2024-awards) selected through an open nomination and voted upon by over 3500 residents of Greater Philadelphia.
PKFF Capacity Building Grants
The Patricia Kind Family Foundation is pleased to announce that we awarded 33 Organizational Capacity Building grants to BIPOC-led Philadelphia non-profit organizations with budgets under $1 million. We are doubly excited that the William Penn Foundation will match $100,000 towards these grants. The total amount awarded was $282,500. These new one-year grants were part of a pilot program implemented as part of our Strategic Plan which we approved in January 2023.
NW Philly Inaugural Neighborhood Meet and Greet
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Non-profit organizations in Northwest Philly serving the Northwest community are welcome to our Inaugural Neighborhood Meet and Greet: October 26 from 9:00-10:30 am.
Learn More and Register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/707893186577?aff=oddtdtcreator
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.
Laura Kind McKenna - Trustee Emeritus
After almost 25 years of leadership in the day-to-day management of The Patricia Kind Family Foundation, Laura Kind McKenna has resigned from being an active board member effective June 3, 2022. She is now serving as Trustee Emeritus.
Laura was our first Managing Trustee, running the Foundation for the first years of its existence from 1998-2016. From 2016 to 2022 she served as Treasurer and Head of our Finance Committee. Laura is well known as a strong, consistent voice urging all foundations to use their endowment assets to support mission along with grants. Under her leadership PKFF became one of the earliest adopters of mission aligned investing, eventually steering PKFF’s endowment to over 95% mission alignment.
Laura and her husband Marc have four grown children and nine grandchildren living all over the country and she's looking forward to having time for more travel. Laura has been trying to "get bored and eat bonbons" for several years, although we all doubt she will.