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Leeway Foundation announces 2019 Transformation Awardees

Leeway Transformation Awards
Friday, December 27, 2019
The Leeway Foundation announced $150,000 in funding for 10 individual ... Philadelphia. The $15,000 per awardee is in affirmation of their commitment to their communities and art for social ... was facilitated by Philadelphia based cooperative and community organizer Mo Manklang. Panelists included ...

Leeway Foundation Awards Nine Philadelphia Artists with $15,000 Transformation Award

Friday, December 21, 2018
PHILADELPHIA – Today, Leeway Foundation announced $135,000 in grants to nine women and ... art and social justice that impacts a larger audience or community. This year’s recipients work in an array of disciplines, including folk arts, media arts, and ...

IPMF Announces 2024 Community Voices Fund Grant Recipients

IPMF 2024 Community Voices
Thursday, November 21, 2024
... November 21, 2024—The Independence Public Media Foundation (IPMF) announced its 2024 Community Voices Fund grant recipients, with $800,000 awarded ... will support the documentation, sharing, and preservation of community stories to advance social justice, build power, ...

Leeway Foundation announces $62,500 in project-based funding

Leeway Foundation (mark)
Monday, November 25, 2024
Press release via Leeway Foundation PHILADELPHIA, PA — Leeway Foundation announces ... artist and activist Paul Robeson said, “the gatekeepers of truth [and] civilization’s radical voice.” This ... a collective zine uplifting the transracial adoptee community; a musical-visual project intertwining folk songs ...

Independence Public Media Foundation Announces 71 Grants Totaling $8.9 Million

IPMF grantee
Monday, August 15, 2022
... August 2, 2022—The Independence Public Media Foundation (IPMF) announces grants totaling $8.9 million for community-centered, BIPOC-led media organizations and ... grants to organizations and projects working in the areas of community media-making ($3.2 million), narrative shift ...

The Barr, Kresge, and William Penn Foundations Introduce $13M Funding Collaborative

The Cuture and Community Power Fund
Tuesday, May 30, 2023
Press release via William Penn Foundation In 2021, the Barr, Kresge, and William Penn ... joined together to more deeply understand the needs of organizations utilizing art and culture to address ... The inquiry resulted in the formation of The Culture and Community Power Fund developed throughout 2022 with project ...

Leeway Foundation announces $55,000 in Art and Change Grants

Leeway Foundation (mark)
Monday, October 7, 2019
Leewaylogo.jpg (Ocotber 7, 2019) - Today, the Leeway Foundation announced $55,000 in funding for 31 individual ... Philadelphia, supporting their work to address a range of social change issues. The fall 2019 cycle of grantees ... propose a project that impacts a larger group, audience or community; have financial need; and live in the Greater ...

Leeway Foundation announces spring 2020 Art and Change grants

Leeway Foundation 2020 Art & Change Grants
Friday, May 22, 2020
PHILADELPHIA – Today, the Leeway Foundation announced $42,500 in funding for 17 individual ... Philadelphia, supporting their work to address a range of social change issues.  The spring cycle of grantees ... informed educator Candy Alexandra González (ACG ‘18), community educator and burgeoning medicine woman Shivon Pearl ...

Leeway Foundation announces the inaugural recipients of the IPMF Artist + Activist Residency

Leeway Foundation
Monday, December 13, 2021
Press Release PHILADELPHIA, PA-Leeway Foundation recognizes the longstanding power of media artists and social-justice activists throughout the ... as well as the range of projects and media,” said Leeway Foundation Executive Director Denise Brown. “We are ...

"A Goal of Justice." Behind a Push for Racial Equity in Arts Funding

Published: 
12/2017
... program officer for arts & culture, served on the board of Grantmakers in the Arts, and was the chair of its Thought ... for the benefit of black people." Hillombo partners with community development organizations that are "building power by engaging community in planning and strategy," and works with primarily ...
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