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City launches $1.5 Million 2024 Illuminate the Arts Grant

Monday, August 12, 2024
... uplift Philadelphia’s creative sector, particularly in Philadelphia’s Black and Brown communities, and those that do not have access to most traditional sources of arts ... arts organizations with 2023 operating budgets of $100,000 or less can apply for grants ranging from ...
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15Nov2017

Arts & Culture Funders Webinar - Not Just Money: Equity Issues in Cultural Philanthropy

Wednesday, November 15, 2017
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Webinar
... are increasingly aware of diversity and equity issues in the nonprofit cultural sector. However, despite this ... region; Discuss challenges often cited by organizations that struggle with equitable practices, and strategies to ... which started with the report,  Fusing Art, Culture and Social Change , published in 2011 by the National Committee ...

The Rider-Pool Foundation Announces Grant Awards for Lehigh Valley Programs

The Rider-Pool Foundation
Wednesday, January 23, 2019
... Foundation of Allentown recently awarded $376,000 in funding. This total represents major proactive investments ... support, childcare, and employment training. A grant of $100,000 was awarded to Promise Neighborhood of the Lehigh ... for students in recovery from drug and alcohol addiction that will open in August of 2019. The grant serves as ...

Over $10 Million in New Funding to Strengthen Philadelphia-Area Cultural Groups and Artists

BalletX company performs choreographer Jennifer Archibald’s Maslow’s Peak, 2024. Photo by Whitney Browne, courtesy of BalletX.
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
... Center for Arts & Heritage (the Center) announced today that it has awarded  $10.2 million to 39 Philadelphia-area ... the future of several of the most prominent institutions in the city and $1 million in unrestricted fellowships to 12 ... use their exceptional creativity to spark important social conversations—and produce accessible works of art ...
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PA Humanities announces $1.4 million in recovery funds to 92 organizations

PA SHARP
Thursday, December 16, 2021
... Press release Today PA Humanities announced $1.4 million in recovery funds to 92 Pennsylvania organizations. Called PA ... new PA SHARP Learning Network, a statewide learning group that fosters resource sharing, networking, professional ... revealing the ongoing impact of COVID-19 on the cultural sector. Funds from PA SHARP will help address this challenge ...
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More Than $1 Million in Fellowships Awarded to 12 BIPOC Artists Through Philadelphia’s Cultural Treasures Program

Tuesday, December 6, 2022
... (Dec. 6, 2022) — The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage in collaboration with The Barra Foundation, Neubauer Family ... and exemplary community-driven work by artists of color that are critical to the city’s cultural landscape,” said ... more than $276 million in critical funding to more than 100 organizations across the country led by and/or serving ...
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$9 Million From The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Supports 28 Philadelphia Organizations and 12 Artist Fellowships

Pew Fellow Pepón Osorio, My Beating Heart/Mi corazón latiente, 2023, installation view at the New Museum, New York. Photo by Liz Ligon.
Thursday, September 14, 2023
40 new grants will fund artists and public events that connect art with healing, explore cultural identity, and ... has awarded 40 grants and fellowships totaling $9 million in support of Philadelphia-area cultural organizations and ... This year’s grants to cultural institutions range from $100,000 to $300,000, plus an additional 20% in general ...
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Pennsylvania Humanities Council announces new grant program for cultural organizations affected by COVID-19

Monday, April 6, 2020
... public engagement during the COVID-19 crisis.  Due to social distancing requirements, cultural organizations have canceled in-person programs, festivals, and other major events that bring people together to build community and uplift ...

$9.5 Million From The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage to Support 30 Philadelphia Organizations and 12 Artist Fellowships

Mural: The Talented Mr. Trotter: You Can Be Anything
Monday, September 19, 2022
... Center) announced its 2022 grants and fellowships today in support of cultural events and artistic work that will enliven and enrich the Philadelphia region and ... of color, engaging with topics such as the rich history of social dance within Philadelphia’s Black communities, the ...
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07May2020

Arts & Culture Funders: COVID-19, Government Budget Cuts, & the Impact on the Arts

Thursday, May 7, 2020
9:00am - 10:00am
Video Conference
... Fund. This year the Cultural Fund provided over $3 million in funding to 349 organizations across the city. The City is ... While confronting the impacts of COVID-19, don’t forget that the arts can be part of the solution (Generocity, ... RESOURCES: GPCA Prosperity Report American for the Arts:  Social Impact of the Arts City of Philadelphia proposed ...

Philadelphia Cultural Fund to Award $914,517 to 205 Art and Culture Organizations Across the City

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Wednesday, April 14, 2021
... for a broad and diverse spectrum of arts organizations that serve all corners of the city. Due to COVID-19, the ... and the amount of each grant is significantly less than in past years. In 2020, $2,928,500 was awarded to 349 ... and the Mayor, promotes arts and culture as engines of social, educational and economic development and has played a ...
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The Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy and the Arts and Culture Task Force Launch $1 Million Illuminate the Arts Grant

OACCE
Tuesday, May 4, 2021
... particularly Philadelphia’s Black and Brown communities, that have been disproportionally impacted by the COVID-19 ... Budget Act as an investment to address racial disparities in the City of Philadelphia. City Council’s transfer ... Small nonprofit arts organizations (operating budgets of $100,000 or less) can apply for grants ranging from ...

William Penn Foundation announces new grants

Monday, December 16, 2019
In November 2019, the William Penn Foundation Board of ... such as blankets and onesies, printed with messaging that reinforces the early learning messages they are sharing ... National Association of Conservation Districts ($100,000 over 24 months) to analyze the records of farmers in ...
23Jun2020

Arts & Culture Funders COVID-19 Meeting

Tuesday, June 23, 2020
1:00pm - 2:30pm
Video Conference
... will also share insights from comparable data gathered in other cities. This research will help provide a sector-wide perspective and is intended to help funders as ... closes promptly at the scheduled start time. Dial-in information will be made available within 24 hours of the ...

BLBB Charitable Awards COVID-19 Emergency Grants to Area Cultural Institutions

BLBB Charitable
Wednesday, August 5, 2020
... Montgomery County and Bucks County cultural institutions that continue to struggle with closures or reduced revenue ... pandemic. Grants were awarded to The County Theater in Doylestown, The Ambler Theater, The Bucks County ... their efforts to reduce poverty and promote economic self- sufficiency. BLBB Charitable has committed more than ...
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Bucks County Foundation Grants Boost Area Nonprofits

Tuesday, November 26, 2024
... and its Board of Directors awarded more than $157,000 in grants to Bucks County area nonprofits in 2024. The ... a community foundation, is a grantmaking public charity that is dedicated to improving the lives of people in Bucks ... Bucks County Foundation is a tax-exempt, public charity, that manages permanent endowment funds serving various ...
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Philadelphia Foundation Fund Supports Community-based Programs in Northwest Philadelphia

East Mt Airy Neighbors
Tuesday, November 5, 2019
... Foundation is pleased to announce it has awarded $69,700 in grants to six nonprofits providing services to Northwest ... our community.” This is the fifth consecutive year that the EMAN Fund has provided community support through the ... the Philadelphia Foundation strengthens the economic, social and civic vitality of Greater Philadelphia.

The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Announces Over $10.2 Million in Pandemic Recovery Funding for Philadelphia Organizations and Fellowships for Artists

Pew Center for Arts and Heritage
Thursday, September 9, 2021
... Pew Fellowships, awarded to 12 individual artists working in music, visual art, dance, theater, film, and poetry. $9.3 ... challenges and opportunities for transformation that have been heightened by the pandemic and calls for greater social justice over the last year and a half. They include ...
22Jan2020

One Year of Rebuild: Collaborating to Advance Opportunity, Engagement and Equity in Neighborhoods

Wednesday, January 22, 2020
9:00am - 11:00am
Free Library of Philadelphia
... initiative to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in neighborhood parks, recreation centers, and libraries. ... Join us to hear from a panel of partner organizations that are working with Rebuild to realize the program’s ... Rodriguez , Chair of the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and CEO and Founder of Rodriguez Consulting, a minority owned ...

Leeway Foundation announces $180,000 in Transformation Awards

Leeway Foundation 2023 Transformation Awardees
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
... gender nonconforming artists and cultural producers living in greater Philadelphia who create art for social change and have done so for the past five years or ... and other programs, we promote artistic expression that amplifies the voices of those on the margins, promotes ...

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