Penn’s Singh Center for Nanotechnology wants your tiny, tiny projects
The University of Pennsylvania’s Singh Center for Nanotechnology put out a call for researchers and startups to submit their brightest, tiniest projects as part of the Innovation Seed Grant...
View ArticleDrexel program gets $1.2 million grant to tackle city’s ‘desperate’ need for...
A program called Dragons Teach Middle Years led by Drexel University will aim to certify 40 undergraduate students as science and math teachers every year by 2022, thanks to a $1.2 million grant from...
View ArticleChester County ecommerce company Turn5 lands $611K in state grants
Turn5, a Malvern-based ecommerce company focusing on Jeeps and muscle cars, secured $611,000 in state credits to expand operations to an upcoming 90,000-square-foot headquarters. The move will create...
View ArticleStartUp PHL’s is giving out grant money again and this time, it’s all about...
StartUp PHL, the City of Philadelphia’s program to bolster entrepreneurship and tech, just put out its latest Call for Ideas. Now on its sixth iteration, this time around the grant program is looking...
View ArticleNext week: #Connect2Resources wants to build up your personal network
We all know the saying “your network is your net worth.” It means that you should invest in authentic personal and professional relationships because social capital is important. Thankfully, technology...
View ArticleCool talk alert: Learn how to score SBIR grant money
For companies in the tech space like SmartyPal or Baltimore’s SilcsBio, getting a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant can give product development and research a significant jolt. On July...
View ArticleStartup PHL announces winners of $100K Call for Ideas grant program
Five projects aimed at connecting kids with technology just got funded by way of Startup PHL’s sixth Call for Ideas. Backed by $100,000 in grant money, five Philly organizations will set up digital...
View ArticleBacked by $500K, this upcoming program will help startups go global
In a push to help Philly companies scale past U.S. borders, the Welcoming Center for New Pennsylvanians and the University City Science Center will launch a program called Global Startup Accelerator...
View ArticleDocumentCloud will launch a ‘News Nerds in Residence’ program
A Philly-based open source tool called DocumentCloud — used by over 8,000 journalists at some 1,600 news organizations around the world — will roll out a “News Nerds in Residence” program to build...
View ArticleNew round of Knight Foundation grants for art orgs embracing tech
The Knight Foundation’s Prototype Fund has $1 million in grants available for artists and cultural institutions looking to infuse tech into their approach to audiences. The call for ideas, launched...
View ArticleArtists and scientists look for common ground, thanks to this Knight...
Three artists will spend three months posted up in University City with one goal in common: exposing the subtle poetry of science. A $50,000 grant from the Knight Foundation to the University City...
View ArticlePhilly’s Digital Literacy Alliance has $175K to back innovative projects
The 19-organization coalition hoping the shrink Philly’s digital literacy gap has $175,000 ready to back innovative projects. The Digital Literacy Alliance’s 2018 round of grants are now open for...
View ArticleKnight Foundation grants boost two Philly art-innovation projects
Twelve institutions across the country will receive $50,000 each from the Knight Foundation in a push to explore the intersection of arts and technology, and two of them are in Philly. At Temple...
View ArticleThese 12 projects just got funding from the Digital Literacy Alliance
The Digital Literacy Alliance — a 19-organization collective born out of the Mayor’s Fund for Philadelphia — just awarded close to $175,000 to 12 Philly organizations as they try to reduce the digital...
View ArticleTwo Philly orgs will split $5M ‘art and tech’ fund from Knight Foundation
A $5 million Art and Technology Fund will help two Philadelphia art institutions boost innovation at their spaces — and online. The funding comes from the Knight Foundation. The Philadelphia Museum of...
View ArticlePhilly’s PHMC partners with Hopeworks Camden on $775K grant from TD Bank
Center City nonprofit Public Health Management Corporation scored big this week by securing a $775,000 grant from TD Bank aimed at youth workforce development. In a partnership with Camden, N.J.-based...
View ArticleScience Center just gave $700K to support four local researchers
Four life sciences researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, University of Delaware, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Temple University earned a total of $700,000 from the University City...
View ArticleThe City just launched a new grant program for underrepresented tech founders
The City of Philadelphia announced today a new component to its StartupPHL initiative: The Venture Program, a round of grants to back founders from socially or economically disadvantaged backgrounds....
View ArticleReimagine your city with this grant program for young civic innovators
Toronto-based nonprofit 8 80 Cities just put out a call that should be of interest to young civic innovators in Philly: A round of grants for projects that “enhance public space, urban mobility or...
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Kinetic sculptures and science carnivals and microgrants, oh my!
While kinetic engineers are working on ways to power their vehicles for the 2019 PFCU Kensington Derby & Arts Festival, Technically Media decided to power its imagination: Philly Tech Week 2019...
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