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Philadelphia Cultural Fund Gives $232,886 to Support Youth in 13 Local Arts and Culture Groups

Monday, June 11, 2018
... youth affiliated with 13 arts organizations throughout the city.  The Cultural Fund announced $232,886 in grants to cultural organizations that use arts to enrich the lives ... our mission to nurture that talent by providing funds to community minded organizations that serve our children in a ...
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The Presser Foundation Announces More Than $332,000 in Special Project Grants for Music Organizations

Friday, October 25, 2024
Press release The Presser Foundation is pleased to announce new Special Project single-year and multi-year ... grants, totaling $332,750 to 22 innovative music organizations. This significant investment underscores the ... designed to engage and inspire the Greater Philadelphia community. Standout projects include the launch of the ...
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The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage to Focus on Recovery Funding for Philadelphia Arts and History Organizations in 2021

Tuesday, January 19, 2021
Related Post:  Despite COVID-19, Philadelphia’s Arts Community Continues to Adapt, Inspire, and Move Toward Recovery by Paula ... reach and serve.” The 2021 recovery project grants are awards of up to $400,000 for a single organization or an ...

The Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy and the Arts and Culture Task Force Announce Awards from the $1.5 Million 2022 Illuminate the Arts Grant

Monday, August 8, 2022
PHILADELPHIA – The City of Philadelphia Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative ... the Arts and Culture Task Force (Task Force) are pleased to announce that 934 of Philadelphia’s individual artists, ... for individuals compared to organizations and enterprises. Awards were given to applicants from a diverse set of ...
03Feb2021

Special Funder Briefing: City of Philadelphia FY 2022 Budget

Wednesday, February 3, 2021
9:00am - 10:00am
Video Conference
In the face of declining revenues, increased community needs due to COVID-19, and calls for action and accountability on ... in shaping their FY 2022 budgets. In July 2020, the City announced revisions to its FY21-FY25 Five-Year budget ...

IPMF Announces 2024 Community Voices Fund Grant Recipients

IPMF 2024 Community Voices
Thursday, November 21, 2024
... Public Media Foundation (IPMF) announced its 2024 Community Voices Fund grant recipients, with $800,000 awarded to 33 organizations and projects. These grants will support the ...

William Penn Foundation announces grants for Creative Communities, Great Learning and Watershed

Thursday, June 6, 2019
... four Great Leanring grants totaling more than $2.8 million to support education in Philadelphia. As part of the Creative ... Corporation (LISC) to partner with Strawberry Mansion Community Development Corporation in piloting a historic home ... grants totalling $11.8 million to  arts and culture organizations in the region. This funding provides flexible ...

William Penn Foundation announces new Creative Communities Grants

Monday, March 18, 2019
The William Penn Foundation is pleased to announce our recently approved Creative Communities grants ... youth and families. This vision for a new Hunting Park community arts center was developed with input from ... initiatives jointly with Friends of the Rail Park, City officials, community development advocates, developers, ...

City of Philadelphia Selected for $1 Million Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge Grant to Fund Temporary Public Art Project that Addresses Gun Violence in Germantown

Bloomberg Art Challenge
Wednesday, October 18, 2023
PHILADELPHIA – The City of Philadelphia announced today that it has been selected to receive $1,000,000 as part of the Bloomberg Philanthropies ... in Germantown.   “Our project will help Germantown community members translate their experiences with gun ...
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"A Goal of Justice." Behind a Push for Racial Equity in Arts Funding

Published: 
12/2017
... 2018 will be institutional funders' intensifying efforts to boost equitable funding and access to the arts. It ... for the benefit of black people." Hillombo partners with community development organizations that are "building power by engaging community ...
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Leeway Foundation Announces $49,950 in Support To 23 Individual Artists Highlighting Practices of Reclamation Of LGBQA Social Movements and Cultural Preservation

Leeway Foundation
Wednesday, October 13, 2021
... global unrest and uncertainty, Leeway Foundation continues to be led by our community and grantees to reimagine our world and reclaim ... Visual Arts/Media Arts, $2,500 Kristin Auer of Center City, Multidisciplinary, $2,500 Lex Wiley of Mantua, Folk ...

Independence Public Media Foundation Announces $500,000 in Grants Awarded to Local Independent Filmmakers

Independence Public Media Foundation
Thursday, April 17, 2025
... Media Foundation (IPMF) announces $500,000 in grants to support Greater Philadelphia's emerging and professional ... of 30 film projects received funding through IPMF’s community-led grantmaking process. Each year, the foundation ...

Philadelphia Cultural Fund Gives Much-Needed Support to Youth in 13 Local Arts and Culture Groups

Philadelphia Cultural Fund
Thursday, June 27, 2019
... Cultural Fund today announced $223,918 in grants to 13 cultural organizations that use arts to enrich the lives of young people, ages 5 to 18, throughout the city. These 2019 Youth Arts Enrichment (YAE) Grants aim to ... goals, and strengths. It’s gratifying to know that these community-minded organizations can help serve our children ...
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Philadelphia Takes First Steps Toward City-wide Historic and Cultural Resources Survey

Wednesday, March 4, 2020
PRESS RELEASE via the City of Philadelphia Department of Planning and Development ... centuries of history and culture? Philadelphia is about to find out. Next month the Department of Planning and ... support the project. To ensure that preservation will be community-driven, the project will create a strategy that ...

Leeway Foundation Introduces Immediate Relief Funds for Individual Artists in the Launch of the 2021 Community Care Fund

Leeway Foundation Community Care Fund
Thursday, February 4, 2021
Leeway CCFund.png PHILADELPHIA – In response to the continuing financial impacts on the arts and culture community, Leeway Foundation is launching the WOO Community ... recovery support effort for Philadelphia arts and culture organizations. Last March, in the wake of COVID-19, Leeway, ...

William Penn Foundation awards $11.8 million in Arts & Culture funding

Thursday, May 30, 2019
... announced $11.8 million in funding for 35 arts and culture organizations. These grants offer unrestricted operating support to a range of arts and culture organizations that contribute ... website to learn more. William Penn Foundation awards $11.8 million in Arts & Culture funding ...
05Dec2023

Arts & Culture Funders Community of Practice

Tuesday, December 5, 2023
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Virtual
... Network members supporting arts initiatives broadly—arts organizations, programs, education—are invited to join us for a renewed convening of the Arts & Culture Funders Community of Practice.  Our first meeting will take place on ...
15Mar2024

Arts and Culture Funders Community of Practice

Friday, March 15, 2024
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Virtual
... Humanities and the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance to gather the voices of Pennsylvania’s cultural, arts, and humanities organizations, along with other nonprofits and community groups. The two primary goals were to continue ...
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Leadership, Culture and Community

Unprecedented program aims to ‘Rebuild’ Philadelphia, serve as national community investment model

Monday, October 2, 2017
... The premier annual meeting of the park and recreation community, over a three-day period conference attendees were ... Penn Foundation’s Executive Director , presented the City of Philadelphia’s Rebuild Community Infrastructure ( ... ) initiative — From ‘Reimagining the  Civic Commons  to Rebuilding Civic Infrastructure.’ “Philadelphia has ...

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