The grant funding will support causes such as youth tech education, childhood cancer research and reentry initiatives.

Plus, in the second edition of the column keeping tabs on philanthropic and corporate giving: Local Lyft riders donated a quarter-mil to causes through the app’s Round Up & Donate program.

In this first edition of a new column tracking philanthropic and corporate giving, read about local funds supporting college access programs, youth diversion advocacy, solar energy training and more. (There's a donated house in there, too.)

The group has gained 50 members and raised $30,000 since its February launch. There's still time to join and to apply for the inaugural grants.

Totaling $1,165,000, all grants were given to programs that improve maternal and child health, particularly for children living in poverty.

The facility would "provide more services to our young people and also, where appropriate, offer more opportunities for diversion out of the system."

The city just got another $4 million from the MacArthur Foundation to advance its criminal justice reform work, in addition to $3.6 million received in early 2016.

Little Smiles, Philadelphia Animal Welfare Society and The Seeing Eye are in the running for this round of the energy company's crowdsourced grant competition.

Or money on the table, if you will. The event aims to get citizens talking with each other about proposed fixes to community problems over a meal.

Aetna's Voices of Health contest is highlighting local orgs with a focus on addressing the social determinants of health in the communities they serve.