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Forman Arts Initiative and Philadelphia Foundation Launch Art Works, A New Grant Program to Support Arts and Culture in Greater Philadelphia

Forman Art Works
Friday, March 26, 2021
Press release via Philadelphia Foundation PHILADELPHIA, PA (3/25/ 2021) – Forman Arts ... launching Art Works, a new $3 million grant program for community-based organizations and emerging artists. Art ... working in partnership with Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) and other under-served communities. This is ...
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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 ...

Leeway Foundation announces $180,000 in Transformation Awards

Leeway Foundation 2023 Transformation Awardees
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
... Transformation Award provides unrestricted annual awards of $15,000 to women, trans*, and gender nonconforming artists ... (January 15, 2024) -- In December 2023, Leeway Foundation awarded 12 artists with the Transformation Award, ... respectability politics, filmmakers documenting community resistance and joy, playwrights combating medical ...

Leeway Foundation awards 12 artists with the Transformation Award

Leeway Foundation (mark)
Friday, January 17, 2025
Press release via Leeway Foundation PHILADELPHIA, PA [January 17, 2025] — In ... Greater Philadelphia region, working at the intersection of art and social change for the past five years or more, ... showcase a vision and intentional analysis for how art in community is a catalyst for social change. The 2024 ...

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
... the continuing financial impacts on the arts and culture community, Leeway Foundation is launching the WOO Community Care Fund in 2021. ... with $100,000 in funding thanks to the generous support of the Independence Public Media Foundation (IPMF) , the ...

William Penn Foundation announces new Creative Communities Grants

Monday, March 18, 2019
The William Penn Foundation is pleased to announce our recently approved ... hope sharing this information may help inspire new areas of collaboration to build on the strengths of your work in ... youth and families. This vision for a new Hunting Park community arts center was developed with input from ...

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, ...

The Presser Foundation Will Give Nearly $1.5 Million in General Operating Support Grants to Music Organizations

Wednesday, March 5, 2025
Press release  The Presser Foundation will award $1,445,500 in grants to 148 music ... the Greater Philadelphia Area. This year, the number of applications and organizational diversity significantly ... demonstrate strong commitments to several key areas. Community engagement emerged as a vital focus, with music ...
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Foundations, City of Philadelphia and key Arts & Culture organizations join together to launch $3.45M fund to meet the growing emergency need in this sector

PHL COVID-19 Arts Aid Fund Partners
Wednesday, April 8, 2020
Related coverage: New fund sparked by William Penn Foundation will dole out millions to arts groups and artists ... Inquirer   April 8, 2020 (PHILADELPHIA, PA) – The City of Philade lphia’ s Office of Arts, Culture and the Cre ... to represent Philadelphia, a city where the philanthropic community goes above and beyond in response to a crisis," ...

Philadelphia Foundation Fund Supports Community-based Programs in Northwest Philadelphia

East Mt Airy Neighbors
Tuesday, November 5, 2019
... AIRY (11/5/2019) – The East Mount Airy Neighbors (EMAN) Community Fund of the Philadelphia Foundation is pleased to announce it has awarded $69,700 in ...

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

Thursday, June 6, 2019
The William Penn Foundation announced their recently approved grants including ... $2.8 million to support education in Philadelphia. As part of the Creative Communities program, the Foundation works to ... Corporation (LISC) to partner with Strawberry Mansion Community Development Corporation in piloting a historic home ...

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 ...

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
... 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 ... support from the ACTF.   "Supporting our arts and culture community is crucial to our recovery from COVID-19," said ...

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 ... $43,000 in previous commitments, bringing the total impact of $375,750. Peter Burwasser, Chair of the Special Projects ... designed to engage and inspire the Greater Philadelphia community. Standout projects include the launch of the ...
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Unprecedented program aims to ‘Rebuild’ Philadelphia, serve as national community investment model

Monday, October 2, 2017
... from around the country. The premier annual meeting of the park and recreation community, over a three-day period conference attendees were ... sessions ,  Shawn McCaney  — now William Penn Foundation’s Executive Director , presented the City of ...

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

The Rider-Pool Foundation
Wednesday, January 23, 2019
ALLENTOWN, PA - January 23, 2019: The Rider-Pool Foundation of Allentown recently awarded $376,000 in funding. This total ... in this cycle. A $105,000 grant was awarded to Ripple Community Inc. to accelerate the development of RCI Village, ...

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