The Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance is the regranting partner for the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) PA Arts and Culture Recovery Program (PACR) Pandemic Payments to Art and Culture Professionals Component. Pandemic payments will be distributed to individual arts professionals in Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia Counties who suffered financial losses due to the Covid-19 Pandemic.
Applications for PACR are open from February 24 to March 21, 2025.
Additionally, the Cultural Alliance is a regional partner of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts (PCA) and distributes the Creative Entrepreneur Accelerator (CEA) grant - a program that provides creative entrepreneurs who aspire to start their own for-profit business, or who operate an existing for-profit micro business, with access to existing small business consulting services and financial resources.
The 2025 CEA grant opens on March 3, 2025. The Cultural Alliance will accept applications beginning Monday, May 5, 2025 at 12:00 p.m. (noon). The application portal closes on Friday, May 23, 2025 at 5:00 p.m
Join an upcoming virtual Information Session
Both Information Sessions will cover the same information and cover two grants available to individuals this year, the CEAC and PACR. A recording will be made available afterwards.