Check out our timeline for COVID-19 impact assistance for mid-sized arts nonprofits Black working artists, gender justice community organizers, trans communities, Indigenous businesses, and more.

Many people believe that the rich are inherently less generous — or that they donate only to museums and art galleries, preferably at fancy galas. But not so fast, says Benjamin Priday, an economist who studies charitable giving.

Includes news from Brandywine Health Foundation, Bread & Roses Community Fund, The Pew Charitable Trusts, The Philadelphia Bar Foundation, The Presser Foundation, The William Penn Foundation, and more.

The six local and three national organizations included in our timeline are offering help ranging from covering essential needs like rent and food for artists, to microgrants for cancelled events, to unrestricted grants.

We asked the leaders at the Brandywine Health Foundation, the Foundation for Delaware County, GreenLight Fund, Knight Foundation, New Century Trust and the Samuel S. Fels Fund to tell us what they are doing.

In this edition, philanthropists make higher education more accessible, and investments in community conversations as well as programs steal the show.

"Investing in local businesses is inherently impact investing," says George Cook, the co-founder and CEO of Honeycomb Credit.

But hurry — because one of the opportunities has a Friday deadline, and other deadlines are quickly approaching...

Our chart is more conversation-starter than report, but it does handily illuminate the wide-range of salaries across the equally wide-range of nonprofits in the city.

Matt Stephenson, the cofounder of Code2College, shares his experience participating in Philanthropitch: a fast-pitch competition for nonprofits coming to Philadelphia April 21.