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BIPOC Artists Receive More than $1 Million in Fellowships Through Philadelphia’s Cultural Treasures Program

Philadelphia’s Cultural Treasures 2024 Fellows
Wednesday, December 18, 2024
... Eleven fellowships totaling $1,185,000 have been awarded to Black, Latino, Asian, and Indigenous Philadelphia artists. ... (Read more about the 2024 Fellows HERE .) The fellowship awards range from $75,000 to $120,000 in unrestricted funds, ... Center for Arts & Heritage. “Artists are essential to a city’s vitality, and the 2024 Philadelphia’s Cultural ...

Leeway Foundation announces 2019 Transformation Awardees

Leeway Transformation Awards
Friday, December 27, 2019
... $15,000 per awardee is in affirmation of their commitment to their communities and art for social change. This year’s ... Orafidiya of West Mt. Airy, Crafts & Textiles How can organizations work towards a method that supports artists’ ... was facilitated by Philadelphia based cooperative and community organizer Mo Manklang. Panelists included ...

Impact100 Philadelphia announces 2021 grant finalists

Impact100 Philadelphia
Tuesday, May 11, 2021
... announced the eight organizations selected as Finalists to receive a total of $420,000 in funding in 2021. Core ... programming, and food and housing assistance. Community Awards Each of the following organizations will receive an ... and reduce trauma-related reactive violence in the City of Chester, PA. Its vision is to provide compassionate ...

William Penn Foundation and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Announce more than $8 million in Covid-19 Relief and Recovery Grants

Philadelphia Orchestra by Jeff Fusco
Wednesday, December 2, 2020
To continue to address the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, ... over 12 months was awarded to 48 organizations. Grant awards range from $25,000 to $200,000 and are based on ...

Philadelphia Arts Groups to Lift Diverse Voices with $923,600 in Funding from Knight Foundation

Wednesday, March 7, 2018
... March 7, 2018 – From diversifying arts board leadership to commissioning 25 Asian-American artists to create ... Pony. Many of the organizations lift the voices of the city’s cultural communities through high-quality arts ... Photo Art Center, which will expand its successful community programming with new Knight funding, and the ...
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Arts & Culture Funders: COVID-19, Government Budget Cuts, & the Impact on the Arts

Thursday, May 7, 2020
9:00am - 10:00am
Video Conference
... year the Cultural Fund provided over $3 million in funding to 349 organizations across the city. The City is also expected to cancel or not renew some ... services contracts, which will also likely impact the arts community. Additionally, the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts ...

Pia Agrawal named incoming executive director of Leeway Foundation

Pia Agrawal
Tuesday, December 17, 2024
... 2024 — We, the Leeway Board of Directors, are delighted to announce that Pia Agrawal will join the Leeway Foundation ... with a demonstrated passion for curating and resourcing community-based arts and artists. She has brought this ... artists and I am honored to bring this energy back to the city I called home for so many years. I look forward to ...
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Bucks County Foundation Grants Boost Area Nonprofits

Tuesday, November 26, 2024
... Board of Directors awarded more than $157,000 in grants to Bucks County area nonprofits in 2024. The Foundation’s ... and vulnerable populations in Bucks County. Fall 2024 awards include a leadership gift to the Bucks County ... Way of Bucks County HELP Truck Exhibit: Connecting Kids to Community, planned for late 2025. This collaborative project ...
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Pew Appoints Donna Frisby-Greenwood as Vice President for Philadelphia Programs

Donna Frisby-Greenwood
Wednesday, August 31, 2022
... will lead the organization’s work across the region to advance critical public policy solutions, support local ... life. A recognized leader with extensive experience in the city, Frisby-Greenwood joins Pew after serving as president ... and for its contributions to the arts and culture community,” said Frisby-Greenwood. “I welcome this ...

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
... announced today that it has awarded  $10.2 million to 39 Philadelphia-area cultural organizations and artists , ... of several of the most prominent institutions in the city and $1 million in unrestricted fellowships to 12 local ... New this year, the Center’s “Evolving Futures” awards represent an investment toward a thriving future for ...
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Leadership Transition at the Philadelphia Cultural Fund

Caralyn Spector
Tuesday, July 5, 2022
... Fund announces that it has engaged Caralyn Spector to serve as its Interim Executive Director, effective July ... staff and work. She will also work closely with the board, City Council and the Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative ... allows the Fund to continue to support arts and culture organizations in the city through grant funding.   Caralyn ...
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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
... organizations, and small creative enterprises are invited to apply.   PHILADELPHIA – The City of Philadelphia Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative ... stimulate the recovery of Philadelphia's arts and culture community, which has been severely impacted by the COVID-19 ...

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

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Monday, November 25, 2024
... Foundation announces $62,500 in project-based funding to 30 women, trans*, and/or gender nonconforming artists and ... a collective zine uplifting the transracial adoptee community; a musical-visual project intertwining folk songs ... of Mount Airy, Media Arts, $2,500 CJ Jasen of University City, Performance, $2,500 Ella-Gabriel Mason of West ...

Independence Foundation Announces CEO’s Retirement

Susan Sherman
Thursday, July 11, 2024
... and more than three decades of distinguished service to the Foundation. The Independence Foundation’s Board has ... who, while addressing issues related to the health of our city, never lost sight of the arts’ important role in ... noteworthy in health care, the arts and in the legal community promoting justice and equality. Under her ...
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Pennsylvania Humanities Council Announces $780,500 in Emergency Relief Grants

PHC Cares
Tuesday, August 4, 2020
... (PHC) today announced $780,500 in emergency relief grants to 140 Pennsylvania cultural nonprofits impacted by the ... infrastructure by advancing humanities programs, helping organizations adapt to site closures and the cancelation of ... provided to Pennsylvania by the NEH. The 140 PHC CARES awards will help organizations continue to serve their ...

Bank of America Announces 2018 Museums on Us® Program

Wednesday, January 24, 2018
... announcement of more than 20 new institutions being added to the roster of participating museums and cultural ... one of the world’s leading corporate supporters of arts organizations with diverse programming that is global in ... Museum (Kingston, N.Y.) The Jewish Museum (New York City) Museum of Arts and Sciences (Daytona Beach, Fla.) ...
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Three new programs will help Berks County nonprofits navigate a post-pandemic future

Berks County Community Foundation
Monday, February 22, 2021
READING, PA (February 22, 2021) – Berks County Community Foundation is launching three new programs aimed at ... programs will fund: Planning initiatives for nonprofit organizations seeking to better map their futures. Arts and culture programs, ...

William Penn Foundation Announces Another $11.6 Million for COVID Emergency Action

Monday, March 30, 2020
To our grantees and partners, As the impact of the Coronavirus crisis on our community continues to grow, on Friday the William Penn ... two additional actions to support the urgent needs of organizations. New Emergency Fund for Early Education Today ...
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Arts & Culture Funders Webinar - Not Just Money: Equity Issues in Cultural Philanthropy

Wednesday, November 15, 2017
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Webinar
... institution leadership); and distinct challenges faced by organizations of color and those serving low-income ... urban and rural communities. It concludes with ideas how to move toward a new era of more equitable and inclusive ... that struggle with equitable practices, and strategies to overcome those challenges; and Learn of examples where ...

Leeway Foundation announces spring 2020 Art and Change grants

Leeway Foundation 2020 Art & Change Grants
Friday, May 22, 2020
... producers in Greater Philadelphia, supporting their work to address a range of social change issues.  The spring ... In the wake of COVID-19, it is imperative to continue to support artists and activists in the Greater Philadelphia ... informed educator Candy Alexandra González (ACG ‘18), community educator and burgeoning medicine woman Shivon Pearl ...

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