The Barra Foundation

Recovery and Response Effort Grantees

Our Recovery and Response Efforts grants were awarded to a select number of nonprofits in 2020 and 2021 that we believed were quickly and effectively responding to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and systemic racism on communities of color. We thank these grantees for their work centered on supporting those who are under-resourced while actively promoting social and racial justice during this time of recovery. To date, $5,110,000 in grants has been awarded.

2021 RECOVERY AND RESPONSE EFFORTS

December 2021

Violence Prevention & Intervention: $525,000

• Violence Intervention Collaborative/Department of Public Health (The Mayor’s Fund for Philadelphia)
• Education Plus Health
• Temple Hospital’s Cure Violence Program
• Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Violence Intervention Program (VIP)
• 100 Black Men Philadelphia
• Power of Paint Art Academy
• Impact Services
• La Puerta Abierta
• Sankofa Healing Studio
• The Creative Resilience Collective/Creative Resilient Youth program
• KITHS (Integrated and Targeted Human Services)
• Trades for a Difference
• Ones Up

September 2021

Education & Youth: $525,000

• The Center for Black Educator Development
• Tree House Books
• Growing Resilient Communities

June 2021

Education: $610,000

• Research for Action
• The Children’s Literacy Initiative
• Center for Black Educator Development
• Greater Philadelphia Extracurricular Collaboration
• Read by 4th
• Tree House Books
• CCATE (Centro de Cultura, Arte, Trabajo y Educación)
• Camp Sojourner
• Girls Justice League

March 2021

Health & Human Services: $250,000

• Philanthropy Network COVID-19 Prevention and Response Fund
• Black Leaders, Black Community Fund (Philadelphia Foundation)

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2021 RECOVERY & RESPONSE EFFORTS GRAND TOTAL: $1,910,000

2020 Recovery and Response Efforts

December 2020

Education: $235,000

• Community Navigators
• WHYY (Education Department)
• Access Centers
• Philadelphia Community Stakeholders
• Partners for Sacred Places
• Community YMCA of Eastern Delaware County
• Greater Philadelphia YMCA
• North Penn YMCA
• YMCA of Bucks County
• YMCA of Greater Brandywine
• YEAH Philly

Health: $170,000

• The Uplift Center
• Healing Hurt People (Drexel University)
• La Puerta Abierta
• New Leash on Life
• Salvation Army New Day Drop-In Center
• Sankofa Healing Studio
• The Creative Resilience Collective/CRY Program
• Black Doctor’s COVID-19 Consortium
• Miriam Medical Clinic

Multi-Support Health & Human Services: $90,000

• African Family Health Organization (AFAHO)
• Agape African Senior Center, Inc.
• Ardella’s House
• KITHS (Integrated and Targeted Human Services)
• Morris Home
• VietLead
• Why Not Prosper
• Cambodian Association of Greater Philadelphia
• Ones Up

Human Services: $125,000

• Dignity Housing
• Potter’s House Mission
• PAR Recycleworks
• PowerCorpsPHL
• Trades for a Difference
• The Merchants Fund
• The Foundation for Delaware County
• Brandywine Health Foundation

September 2020

Arts & Culture – Social Justice: $125,000

• Bartram’s Gardens
• First Person Arts
• Mural Arts
• Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture
• Asian Arts Initiative
• Power Street Theater
• Spiral Q
• The Village for Arts & Humanities

Health: $130,000

• Black Doctor’s COVID-19 Consortium
• Miriam Medical Center
• The Uplift Center
• Healing Hurt People – Drexel University
• La Puerta Abierta
• New Leash on Life
• One Day at a Time (ODAAT)
• Salvation Army New Day Drop-In Center
• Sankofa Healing Studio
• The Creative Resilience Collective/CRY Program

Multi-Support Health & Human Services: $105,000

• Philadelphia Black Giving Circle
• African Family Health Organization (AFAHO)
• Agape African Senior Center, Inc.
• Ardella’s House
• Bebashi
• KITHS (Integrated and Targeted Human Services)
• Morris Home
• VietLead
• Why Not Prosper

Human Services: $160,000

• PHL Rental Assistance Program
• Bethesda Project
• Dignity Housing
• Friends Rehabilitation Housing
• People’s Emergency Center
• Potter’s House Mission
• PAR Recycleworks
• PowerCorpsPHL
• Trades for a Difference
• Committee of Seventy
• Cambodian Association of Greater Philadelphia
• Concilio de Organizaciones Hispanas
• Ones Up

July 2020

Arts & Culture: $75,000

• City of Philadelphia Parks & Recreation Department: Playstreets
• Philadelphia Zoo
• Art Sphere
• Centro de Cultura, Arte, Trabajo y Educación (CCATE)
• Portside Arts Center
• Rock to the Future
• University City Arts League

Education: $135,000

• Philadelphia Youth Network
• Philadelphia Housing Authority’s partnership with Boys & Girls Club and Mighty Writers
• Read by 4th
• Center for Black Male Educator Development
• Girls Rock Philly
• Horizons at Greene Street Friends
• Smith Playground
• Tree House Books
• Youth Empowerment for Advancement Hangout (Y.E.A.H.)

Health & Human Services: $75,000

• Philadelphia Worker Relief Fund
• Restore and Reopen Program

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2020 RECOVERY & RESPONSE EFFORTS GRAND TOTAL: $1,425,000

Emergency Response

March through June 2020

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EMERGENCY RESPONSE TOTAL: $875,000

For a list of 2020-2021 Catalyst Fund grants, visit Grants Awarded