|
|
|
Monthly News & Updates
January 2025
| |
|
Dear Kristyn,
A reflection for today: “Everybody can be great because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.” - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
Please continue to keep us informed of what's happening with you in Bucks and Montgomery Counties. The information here comes from you, with links to our website for more complete information and resources. Send your events and updates to Kristyn: kristyn@bucksmontcollab.org. Thank you!
Warmly,
Kristyn DiDominick, Executive Director
Nadja Mummery, Program Coordinator
Board of Directors
| |
Thank You to our Sponsors and Funders! | |
Bucks-Mont Collaborative Sponsors | | |
Bucks-Mont Collaborative Funders | | |
|
Coming up with the Collaborative!
January 2025
| | |
|
Coming up with the Collaborative!
February 2025
| | |
|
Pennsylvania Housing Action Plan Survey
On September 12, 2024, Governor Josh Shapiro signed Executive Order 2024-03, directing the Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED), in collaboration with other agencies and stakeholders, to develop a comprehensive Housing Action Plan to help ease the burden of high housing costs in Pennsylvania. DCED has created this survey to help collect public input as part of the development of the Housing Action Plan. Share your feedback!
| |
Upcoming Community Events | | |
|
The 2024 Annual Homelessness Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress
"The number of people experiencing homelessness on a single night in 2024 was the highest ever recorded. A total of 771,480 people – or about 23 of every 10,000 people in the United States – experienced homelessness in an emergency shelter, safe haven, transitional housing program, or in unsheltered locations across the country. Several factors likely contributed to this historically high number. Our worsening national affordable housing crisis, rising inflation, stagnating wages among middle- and lower-income households, and the persisting effects of systemic racism have stretched homelessness services systems to their limits.” Read the report.
| |
|
5 Trends That Will Shape Fundraising in 2025
Fundraisers need to keep key issues on their radar: potential changes to tax law, artificial intelligence, DAFs, and more.
Read the article.
Thank you to the Catalyst Center for Nonprofit Management for sharing!
| |
|
New Pennsylvania Annual Report Requirement
A new annual report requirement for owners of businesses operating in Pennsylvania has gone into effect on January 1, 2025. This includes nonprofit corporations and replaces the prior decennial and nonprofit corporation reporting requirements. Learn more!
Thank you to the Catalyst Center for Nonprofit Management for sharing!
| |
|
Can a Merger Expand Your Impact? 5 Lessons From Leaders Who Did It - The Chronicle of Philanthropy
By Janet Carter and Jason Sacks
Two leaders explain why their nonprofits joined together after the pandemic — and what they learned that can help other groups pull off a successful merger. Read the article.
| |
|
Montco 2024 Food Insecurity Report
This new report on Food Insecurity pulls on multiple data sources to develop a more granular understanding of food insecurity in Montgomery County. The goal is that this report can help organizations in grant writing, advocacy, and programmatic decision making, establish a baseline for measuring progress on addressing food insecurity, and draw more attention to the fact that needs exist in Montgomery County. If you have any questions, comments, or feedback on the report, please send them to samuel.applefield@montgomerycountypa.gov.
Thank you, Montgomery County Food Policy Council, for this report!
| |
|
Small Mortgages Offer Opportunity to Invest in Rural Communities
Low-cost homes are available but unattainable for many because of limited financing
“Research indicates that plenty of low-cost properties remain available, especially in rural areas where land values are low, but a lack of small mortgages makes it difficult for homebuyers to take advantage of these opportunities. As a result, many would-be homebuyers are stuck competing for a limited supply of affordable rental housing or are forced to buy using risky, costly alternative financing arrangements.” Read more.
| |
|
From Fixers to Builders, Stanford Social Innovation Review
Four narrative shifts proven to get people of all parties to support progressive goals without compromising anyone’s values.
Read the article here.
“Rather than starting with a problem statement and how to “fix a broken world,” next narratives assume that the sector exists to ‘build a better world.’ They start with aspirational statements—not an organization’s aspirations but the aspirations of the people it seeks to serve. From there, next narratives introduce the challenges that thwart those groups’ worthy ends and invite others to do their small but significant part to make a better world.”
| |
|
Exploring Mindsets About Diaper Need and Systemic Poverty
Across the country, 1 in 2 families with young children struggle to afford or access diapers required to keep their children clean and healthy—a result of structural inequities. But when asked to think about the causes of poverty, people tend to blame individuals for their needs. To explore the reasons behind those views and to set the stage for new communications strategies, the FrameWorks Institute, in conjunction with the National Diaper Bank Network, has released new research on how Americans think about the experience and impact of diaper need. Read more here.
| |
|
Thank you to the Catalyst Center for Nonprofit Management for researching and sharing these opportunities!
Wawa Foundation, Due: January 31, 2025
The Wawa Foundation provides financial grants on a local, regional and national level ensuring that their commitment extends from the local communities Wawa serves. Only registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organizations operating in Wawa’s areas are eligible to apply. Organizations must fall into The Wawa Foundation’s three key areas of focus: Health, Hunger and Everyday Heroes. Review their Criteria for Success.
Learn more
Bread & Roses Community Fund, Due: January 31, 2025
The Bread & Roses Community Fund is accepting applications to the Phoebus Criminal Justice Initiative, a fund that provides grants for criminal justice reform activism. Grantees target issues that include (but are not limited to) police accountability, racially biased sentencing policies, growth of the for-profit prison industry, criminalization of youth, and the death penalty.
Learn more
Tyson Foods Community Giving, Due: January 31, 2025
Tyson Foods, Inc. is accepting applications to the Community Giving program. They typically look to scale existing programs with positive outcomes for the community at large as well as their team members and their families. The most competitive proposals deliver programs within 20 miles of a Tyson Foods Production Facility, have defined outcome statements, and clearly demonstrate how the community and Tyson Foods’ manufacturing workforce could be involved. Priority consideration will be given to proposals that align with their corporate priorities of: Providing hunger relief; Assisting hourly Tyson team members and their families; and Community needs.
Learn more
Presser Foundation, Due: February 1, 2025
The Presser Foundation considers requests annually for grants of any size for support of a capital project that advances the cause of music education or otherwise supports music philanthropy. Capital projects include the construction of new facilities; renovation, repair or expansion of existing facilities; acquisition or repair of musical instruments, equipment and other property. It does not include grants to cover general operating expenses.
Learn more
Union Home Mortgage Foundation, Due: February 15, 2025
Union Home Mortgage Foundation is accepting grant applications in: Career Readiness, Education, Financial Literacy, and Housing. Grant funds may be used for capacity building, capital, programmatic and general operating needs.
Learn more
| |
|
Montco 2040 Implementation Grant Program Increases to $3 Million in 2025 Cycle
Montgomery County’s Montco 2040 Implementation Grant Program is back again for a new cycle of funding in 2025. The budget for this popular program has increased to $3 million, and the focus categories have expanded to include some of the transportation projects once funded by the County Transportation Program (CTP). The implementation grant program, open to municipalities and their project partners, focuses on projects that implement the goals of the Montco 2040 plan on a local level. For more information, visit the program web page or reach out to Chloe Mohr or David Greenberg with questions about project eligibility or other details.
| | |
|
Join A Woman’s Place for their February 2025 art showcase, honoring Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month! This showcase centers around the power of art to support healing from trauma, emotional processing, and resiliency. Submit your art and buy tickets! | |
| |
Food, Housing, and Financial Resources | | |
|
The Opportunity Starts at Home (OSAH) campaign and the American Institute of Architects (AIA) have announced the release of a jointly produced five-part podcast series! This special series, created in collaboration with AIA’s Housing & Community Development Knowledge Community’s Right-to-Housing Working Group, highlights the multi-sector impacts of affordable housing.
Featuring insightful conversations with architects, the episodes explore:
- How the human-centered design of housing can create enduring, supportive communities.
- How federal policies can address racial inequities and economic injustices in housing.
- Real-world examples of architectural innovations driving equity and sustainability.
Hosted by Chantelle Wilkinson and Julianne Walker of the OSAH campaign, the series focuses on the need to adopt a multi-sector approach to housing advocacy involving architects in pivotal roles in order to promote justice and equity. Tune in and share!
| |
Thank you for joining us and for supporting your fellow members.
See you next month!
| | |
Bucks-Mont Collaborative
We produce results-oriented impact on health and human services issues in our community through education, collaboration, and advocacy.
| |
| | | |
