Accelerators

2019 Annual Report

KEY SKILLS HUB

Volunteerism is a pillar of Philadelphia Foundation’s service to the community. While volunteer opportunities abound throughout the Greater Philadelphia Region, Philadelphia Foundation identified an untapped opportunity: skills-based volunteering.

GPCVC

The human spirit and professional skills of our community members play a large role in creating long-lasting, positive change in our communities. The Greater Philadelphia Region’s corporate sector is overflowing with talented individuals willing to lend a hand to support local nonprofits and those they serve.

YOUTHADELPHIA

The teens of today will be the leaders of our region tomorrow. YOUTHadelphia, a program supported through Philadelphia Foundation’s Fund for Children, prepares these young leaders by nurturing civic and philanthropic engagement in the next generation.

KEY SKILLS HUB
VOLUNTEER PORTAL SPOTLIGHT

Connecting for better impact.

When we open ourselves up to new perspectives and ways of thinking, we can unlock powerful positive outcomes for those around us.

As Philadelphia Foundation embarks on its second century of service, our organization is prioritizing skills-based volunteerism and service as a key element of our work and solutions. The Key Skills Hub Volunteer Portal is a critical driver of this mission. It’s a marketplace for volunteerism where skills-based volunteers in the private and corporate sectors are matched with nonprofits that seek to benefit from their unique skill sets.


Throughout our centennial year, we made great progress in expanding this program.
By partnering with the Greater Philadelphia Corporate Volunteer Council, the number of skilled professionals available to our region’s nonprofits through the Key Skills Hub Volunteer Portal skyrocketed. We’re fortunate to have thousands of amazing nonprofits call the Greater Philadelphia Region home. These organizations are already doing incredible work. But by partnering with skilled volunteers from the corporate sector, we know these organizations can amplify their positive impact and increase their operational effectiveness.

In 2018, 116 nonprofits in the region benefited from over $1 million in skills-based volunteering support from hundreds of volunteers through this program. In 2019, 176 nonprofits received nearly $2.1 million in support, surpassing our goal of providing $2 million in services.

Together, our community is stronger. And by deepening connections between nonprofits and skills-based volunteers, we can accelerate positive change in our region.

“No task is too small that might help someone else. Whether you’re cleaning an office as part of the MLK Day of Service or consulting on a marketing plan, there are so many ways to help nonprofits with what they wouldn’t otherwise be able to afford to pay for.”

— Tamara Scott,

Social Media Marketing Manager at Vanguard

GPCVC

The human spirit and professional skills our of community

members play a large role in creating long-lasting, positive

change in our communities. The Greater Philadelphia

Region’s corporate sector is overflowing with talented

individuals willing to lend a hand to support local

nonprofits and those they serve.

Philadelphia Foundation is now the host organization for the Greater

Philadelphia Corporate Volunteer Council (GPCVC), a forum for

philanthropically-minded professionals to harness their skills for the

betterment of their communities. Among the GPCVC’s membership,

17% of the companies reported more than 25,000 corporate

volunteers donated nearly 200,000 hours of their time in 2019.

In addition to providing the GPCVC with a space to convene, share

best practices, network and support one another, Philadelphia

Foundation has begun to match the council’s thousands of skillsbased

volunteers with nonprofits through its Volunteer Portal. As

a result, nonprofits are able to receive an extra boost of creativity,

business expertise and staff time that will take their effectiveness to

new levels.

YOUTHADELPHIA​

The teens of today will be the leaders of our region tomorrow. YOUTHadelphia, a program supported through Philadelphia Foundation’s Fund for Children,
prepares these young leaders by nurturing civic and philanthropic engagement in the next generation.

It gives local teens the opportunity to examine the city’s
needs and work together to distribute grants to nonprofits
within the Greater Philadelphia Region.

 

This year marked the program’s 15-year anniversary. To celebrate that and our centennial, YOUTHadelphia awarded a signature $25,000 grant, the largest made in the program’s history, to Youth HEALers Stand Up, a nonprofit dedicated to fighting youth homelessness and housing insecurity. YOUTHadelphia awarded additional grants to
organizations supporting youth leadership and addressing policing and gun violence. In all, $60,000 was awarded to five community organizations.

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2019 year in review