{"id":19011,"date":"2021-05-07T13:14:36","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T18:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/?p=19011"},"modified":"2021-05-07T13:14:36","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T18:14:36","slug":"poise-foundation-celebrating-40-years-of-poise-philanthropy-in-the-black-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/poise-foundation-celebrating-40-years-of-poise-philanthropy-in-the-black-community\/","title":{"rendered":"POISE Foundation | Celebrating 40 Years of POISE Philanthropy in the Black Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/poise-logo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-17736\" src=\"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/poise-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"327\" height=\"138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/poise-logo.jpg 327w, https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/poise-logo-300x127.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 327px) 100vw, 327px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>POISE Foundation has plenty of reasons to celebrate! This is its 40<sup>th<\/sup> year as a community foundation focused on inspiring and empowering African Americans. To commemorate this milestone year, the foundation has planned a series of online community conversations and events designed to bring greater awareness to the need for Black Philanthropy and the need to strengthen Black families and their communities.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Preliminary Event Schedule for 2021:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>May 13 \u2013 The Cousins Event<\/li>\n<li>June 24 \u2013 Community Conversation: Economic Justice<\/li>\n<li>July 8 \u2013 Scholarship Celebration<\/li>\n<li>August \u2013\u00a0Black Philanthropy Month Community Conversation: Why Do I Give?<\/li>\n<li>June \u2013 Community Conversation<\/li>\n<li>September \u2013 Community Conversation: Education<\/li>\n<li>October \u2013 Grantee Spotlight<\/li>\n<li>November \u2013 Community Conversation: Mental Health<\/li>\n<li>December \u2013 Year End Event<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cIn the midst of a pandemic, the POISE Foundation has positioned itself to thrive and make even greater investments in the Black community. For example, we successfully launched a Critical Community Needs Fund which supports small to mid-side Black Led organizations helping to sustain our community during the crises of Covid-19 and anti-Black violence. This has resulted in awarding more than $1 million to these local organizations. This is one of the many reasons we are celebrating,\u201d says Greg Spencer, Chair of the Board of Trustees, POISE Foundation.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cPOISE Foundation is the second Black public foundation created in the United States, and the first and only one in Pennsylvania. Its founder, Bernard H. Jones, Sr. believed in self-sufficiency and growing assets in, for and by the Black community. In 1980, the foundation began with 3 funds valued at $164,000. We now manage over 200 funds valued at over $11 million. That\u2019s a reason to celebrate,\u201d says Mark S. Lewis, President and Chief Executive Officer, POISE Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>POISE Foundation continues to educate the community on the power of collective giving and collective action. The year-long activities scheduled will celebrate Black excellence, while emphasize the importance of strengthening the Black community through wealth-building.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about POISE Foundation, visit www.poisefoundation.org<\/p>\n<p><em>POISE Foundation was established in 1980 in the format of a community foundation. Its mission it to assist the Black community in achieving self-sustaining practices through strategic leadership, collective giving, grantmaking and advocacy. Created in the format of a Community Foundation, POISE receives funds from a variety of donors. These funds may be unrestricted, and used to support its grantmaking strategy, or donor-directed for specific charitable purposes.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>POISE Foundation has plenty of reasons to celebrate! This is its 40th year as a community foundation focused on inspiring and empowering African Americans. To commemorate this milestone year, the foundation has planned a series of online community conversations and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/poise-foundation-celebrating-40-years-of-poise-philanthropy-in-the-black-community\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"xn-wppe-expiration":[],"xn-wppe-expiration-action":[],"xn-wppe-expiration-prefix":[],"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-profit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 18:57:12","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19012,"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19011\/revisions\/19012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesoulpitt.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}