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Wednesday, February 21, 2024

Recap: Meeting the Moment on Homelessness and Affordable Housing in Montgomery County

Last week, over 200 people joined us for our Community of Practice event, ‘Meeting the Moment: Taking Action on Homelessness and Affordable Housing in Montgomery County’ to discuss these dual crises taking place. Our goal was two-pronged: bring together the voices solutioning this important work and...

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Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Those in need find help in Norristown area food pantries

NORRISTOWN >> The volunteers and managers at the Catholic Social Services (CSS) food pantry serve up healthy doses of “basic human dignity and love” four days a week to their customers along with the typical canned goods, milk, bread and frozen meat that goes into the shopping carts.
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Thursday, September 1, 2016

Grantmakers in Health features HealthSpark Foundation

Grantmakers in Health has published an article on HealthSpark Foundation that features President and CEO Russ Johnson. HealthSpark Foundation August 2016
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Tuesday, August 9, 2016

Free-Range Food Funders: Pittsburgh Edition

We were told it was business casual, with an emphasis on casual since we were going to be walking around in dirt.
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Thursday, July 28, 2016

Blog Post: Getting Ready for the “Tenant” Olympics

The following blog post was co-authored by HealthSpark Foundation's Jennifer Pedroni for The Nonprofit Centers Network .
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Tuesday, July 12, 2016

HealthSpark Foundation Elects New Board Officers and Members

July 12, 2016 – For Immediate Release Colmar, PA – The HealthSpark Foundation Board of Directors is pleased to announce the election of the following officers and new members: George Marks , Chair Chinwe Onyekere , Vice Chair Warren Hilton , Secretary Lisa Dickson , Treasurer Joel Johnson , New...
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Friday, June 24, 2016

Five Ways Grants Managers Can Dig into Data to Make a Difference—A GMN2016 Session Recap

The following article was co-authored by HealthSpark Foundation's Jennifer Pedroni.
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Friday, June 24, 2016

Annual summit for the homeless, Blue Bell, draws more than 200 participants

If government, philanthropy and nonprofit groups join forces in earnest long enough, homelessness will one day become a thing of the past. That’s been the premise of Your Way Home Montgomery County since its inception three years ago as a “housing crisis response system,” with roots that date back...
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Wednesday, June 8, 2016

HealthSpark's Jennifer Pedroni co-authors article on collaboration and resource sharing

June 2, 2016 - The foundation's Vice President of Administration Jennifer Pedroni and Carla Ricci, Consultant for Schultz & Williams, wrote the following article on the North Penn Commons entitled, "Collaboration And Resource Sharing... Everyone's Doing it (Even the Authors of this Article)." Q...
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Wednesday, June 8, 2016

HealthSpark Foundation and MontCo Anti-Hunger Network host 2nd annual countywide emergency food conference

On May 20, 2016, close to 90 representatives from food pantries, soup kitchens, gleaning organizations, farms, hunger advocates and funders attended the 2nd annual Montgomery County Emergency Food System Conference. HealthSpark Foundation and the MontCo Anti-Hunger Network (MAHN) co-hosted the...
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Monday, June 6, 2016

Letters: Montco making gains helping the homeless

In Montgomery County, we realize that ending homelessness is a community effort ("Will reaching out be enough?" May 26). In 2014, we launched Your Way Home Montgomery County, a partnership of government, philanthropy, nonprofits, and community to end homelessness and housing instability for...