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The Presser Foundation announces more than $71,000 in new special project grants to music organizations

Tuesday, October 31, 2023
Press release The Presser Foundation is pleased to announce new Special Project single ... year, music organizations applied for grants within three of the following categories: 1) pilot projects/programs, 2) ... 3) operating support for newer music organizations. The Foundation will also honor more than $61,000 in previous ...
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Philadelphia Cultural Fund Gives $232,886 to Support Youth in 13 Local Arts and Culture Groups

Monday, June 11, 2018
... Cultural Fund grants will foster the talent and potential of youth affiliated with 13 arts organizations throughout the ... our mission to nurture that talent by providing funds to community minded organizations that serve our children in a ... to children in Philadelphia, especially those from South Philadelphia. The Young Artists Program provides ...
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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
... Center for Arts & Heritage in collaboration with The Barra Foundation, Neubauer Family Foundation, William Penn ... to 12 Philadelphia-area artists and cultural practitioners of color through the Philadelphia’s Cultural Treasures ... film, visual arts, literature, and multidisciplinary and community-based art forms: Daryl Kwasi Burgee, Vashti Dubois, ...
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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 guiding ... exhibits, or events to be held in the fourth quarter of 2021 or in 2022. Projects aimed at connecting community ...

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 ... step to implement that recommendation. The William Penn Foundation will provide a $250,000 grant to support the project. To ensure that preservation will be community-driven, the project will create a strategy that ...

Impact100 Philadelphia awards five grants totaling $284,750

Wednesday, June 5, 2024
... PA — Impact100 Philadelphia has announced the award of $284,750 in unrestricted funds to five nonprofit ... and teens from under-resourced zip codes in schools, community locations, and juvenile justice facilities. Only ... home libraries by providing free books, and foster community year-round through events and programming. Norris ...

An Open Letter to Arts Funders: Create a Pooled Loan Fund

BalletX by Chris Kendig
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
BalletX_credit_ChrisKendig.png Photo of Ballet X by Chris Kendig | Courtesy of the Philadelphia ... are protected by endowments and reserves. Small community-based arts organizations are often working hand to ... Philadelphia and the San Francisco Bay Area, philanthropic foundation leaders and nonprofit cultural sector consultants, ...

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
... to organizations as they move forward from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. In a pivot from the Center’s ... this difficult period, Philadelphia’s cultural community has demonstrated great resilience and creativity, ... earned revenue potential. Thom Collins , The Barnes Foundation’s Neubauer Family executive director and ...

Philadelphia Cultural Fund to Award $2.68M to 339 Arts Organizations Across the City

Friday, March 29, 2019
... Philadelphia Cultural Fund will announce the recipients of its 2019 Art & Culture Grants. The awards total $2.68 ... the Cultural Fund supports the largest and broadest community of arts and cultural organizations in Philadelphia. ... support arts and culture in neighborhoods from Mayfair to South Philadelphia and Cobbs Creek to Pennsport.” At the ...
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Big Picture Alliance Named 2020 Bartol Award Winner

Monday, July 27, 2020
The Stockton Rush Bartol Foundation has selected  Big Picture Alliance  as the winner of the 2020 George Bartol Arts Education Award. Big Picture ... an active engagement in the lives of its students and community; and that maintains high artistic standards for its ...
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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 grants and fellowships totaling $9 million in support of Philadelphia-area cultural organizations and artists. The ... The African Presence on the Delaware.” William Way LGBT Community Center will produce a documentary film chronicling ... this October by Penguin Random House. Shehrezad Maher , a South Asian American filmmaker who intersects documentary and ...
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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
... artists. These unrestricted grants are provided as part of  Philadelphia’s Cultural Treasures  (PCT), a funding ... regionally through a collaboration among The Barra Foundation , Neubauer Family Foundation, The Pew Center for ... in visual art, traditional craft, music, performance, and community-based art forms. Many of the artists have made a ...

Philly groups offer $9 million in funding for nonprofits celebrating the 250th birthday of the United States

Fireworks_Wawa Welcome America
Tuesday, August 8, 2023
... Inquirer PhilaFundersCollab250.jpg The 250th birthday of the United States is just around the corner, and four ... for the Semiquincentennial, a joint effort by the Connelly Foundation, the William Penn Foundation, the Pew Charitable ... historical importance, encourage widespread community participation, celebrate the diversity of the ...

Pew Announces $1.85M to Strengthen the Free Library of Philadelphia and Improve Access to Drexel University’s Atwater Kent Collection

Free Library of Philadelphia
Wednesday, July 19, 2023
... Philadelphia-area organizations recover from the impacts of COVID-19 and to preserve and highlight the region’s ... include $1 million for the Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation to undertake a comprehensive planning and community engagement process to improve the Free Library’s ...

Pew Appoints Donna Frisby-Greenwood as Vice President for Philadelphia Programs

Donna Frisby-Greenwood
Wednesday, August 31, 2022
... Pew after serving as president and chief executive officer of The Fund for the School District of Philadelphia, which ... and for its contributions to the arts and culture community,” said Frisby-Greenwood. “I welcome this ... program director for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, executive director of After-School All-Stars ...

The Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance Appoints Patricia Wilson Aden as President & CEO

GPCA
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
... (Patty) Wilson Aden has been appointed by the Board of Directors as its next president and CEO. The appointment ... Aden currently serves as president and CEO of  The Blues Foundation  in Memphis, TN and will assume this new role in ... a powerful voice within Philadelphia’s arts and culture community and as she returns home from Memphis, we have no ...
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Arts & Culture Funders Meeting

Wednesday, August 18, 2021
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Video Conference
... Theater  We would also like to hear from you. What type of support are you providing your grantees? How are you ... 2021 series: November 15th, 2:00 - 3:15 PM -  The Future of Virtual Programming Recording   Arts & Culture Funders ...

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 ... aid in the recovery of Philadelphia’s arts and culture community from the impact and loss of revenue due to the ... I sincerely hope that this, or an expanded version of this initiative, will continue to be a project of the city. An ...

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