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Independence Public Media Foundation Announces $2.8 Million in Film and Journalism Grants to 30 Projects and Organizations

IPMF Film Grants Dec 2020
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
... filmmaking community with grants totaling $1.3 million to filmmakers, festivals, and film organizations, with an ... a nonprofit dedicated to improving local journalism by connecting and building trust between local newsrooms and the ... in multiple languages for the public, in response to COVID-19. “Community media making and creative expression ...
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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
... the Arts and Culture Task Force (Task Force) are pleased to announce that 934 of Philadelphia’s individual artists, ... community from the impact and loss of revenue due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The grant seeks to financially uplift ... promotion of arts, culture and the creative industries; connecting Philadelphians to enriching, arts-infused ...

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

Philadelphia Cultural Fund logo
Wednesday, April 14, 2021
... Art & Culture Grants. A total of $914,517 will be awarded to 205 Philadelphia-based art and culture organizations. The ... organizations that serve all corners of the city. Due to COVID-19, the City’s 2021 allocation to PCF was reduced by 68%, ...
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City's Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy Shares Plans for 2021

OACCE
Thursday, January 14, 2021
... today shared its plans for new and returning programs to support Philadelphia's diverse arts community in 2021. ... timeline for this program is dependent upon the City’s COVID-19 guidelines.   Later in 2021: Art in City Hall The Art in ...
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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 ... coordinates, and connects philanthropic resources to leverage investments in the city’s public schools. “Donna shares our long-standing commitment to improving people’s lives across the Philadelphia ...

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
... offering area nonprofits a total of $9 million in funding to help celebrate. That funding comes in the form of the ... Foundation. The fund, announced Tuesday, is designed to give financial support to regional nonprofits’ programs that will commemorate the ...

Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance Releases Economic & Social Impact Study

Arts Culture and Economic Prosperity
Friday, May 3, 2024
... delivering profound economic and social benefit to our region,” said  Patricia Wilson Aden , President & ... approximately every five years by Americans for the Arts to gauge the economic impact of spending by nonprofit arts ... typical event attendee in Greater Philadelphia spends $49.19 per person per event, not including the cost of ...
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Applications Open for $1.2 Million in Recovery Grants for the Humanities in Pennsylvania

PA SHARP
Wednesday, September 1, 2021
... the American Rescue Plan), the initiative provides up to $20,000 in flexible funding to strengthen and grow the humanities in Pennsylvania.   ... allocated to the NEH funds to “prevent, prepare for, respond to, and recover from the coronavirus.” “With so ...

IPMF Announces 2024 Community Voices Fund Grant Recipients

IPMF 2024 Community Voices
Thursday, November 21, 2024
... Voices Fund grant recipients, with $800,000 awarded to 33 organizations and projects. These grants will support ... sharing, and preservation of community stories to advance social justice, build power, and strengthen local ... networks. “The Community Voices Fund allows us to conduct a listening scan of the region’s media ...

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

Monday, June 11, 2018
... the city.  The Cultural Fund announced $232,886 in grants to cultural organizations that use arts to enrich the lives ... in the Penn Museum’s flagship education program connecting classrooms studying ancient Egypt or ancient Rome ... Project $20,000 Founded in 2007, PhillyCAM is the only regional non-commercial media outlet devoted entirely to the ...
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Philadelphia Cultural Fund Announces $200K in Youth Arts Impact Grants

Wednesday, July 15, 2020
... that $200,170 in grants of $5,410 each will be awarded to 37 small and mid-sized Philadelphia organizations that are ... experiences for Philadelphia’s youth.   In response to COVID-19 and the impact it is having on the arts community, the ...

Three new programs will help Berks County nonprofits navigate a post-pandemic future

Berks County Community Foundation
Monday, February 22, 2021
... Planning initiatives for nonprofit organizations seeking to better map their futures. Arts and culture programs, ... the fourth quarter of 2021 or in 2022. Projects aimed at connecting community members to each other in ways that help ... organizations may apply for funding for projects aimed at connecting community members to each other in ways that help ...

Pew Center for Arts & Heritage announces 2018 grants for Philadelphia artists & organizations

Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
Tuesday, June 19, 2018
... experiences in the year ahead. It is our privilege to continue to support the region’s vibrant cultural community through ... at the Mütter Museum  exploring Philadelphia’s 1918–19 influenza pandemic; and a theatrical piece at the National ...
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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 ... arts and culture organizations. Last March, in the wake of COVID-19, Leeway, like our peers in the philanthropic sector was ...

$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
... identity. The Center’s 2023 awards include $8.1 million to 28 local arts and heritage organizations for project ... support. Plus, $900,000 in unrestricted funds will go to 12 Philadelphia-area artists as Pew Fellowships in the ... “Our newest grants illustrate the arts’ contributions to understanding and reflecting on salient issues of the ...
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William Penn Foundation previews revised programs and grantmaking approach

William Penn Foundation new funding areas
Thursday, May 16, 2024
... areas_horiz.png   OUR REVISED GRANTMAKING APPROACH: CONNECTING MORE PEOPLE TO MORE OPPORTUNITIES Last fall, we shared our plans to ... one central idea: Let’s help make more lives better by connecting more people to more opportunities and more ...
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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
Rebuild is the City of Philadelphia’s initiative to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in neighborhood ... after the Rebuild’s first groundbreaking, we invite to join a conversation about how collaborative funding can advance individual funders’ priorities while also driving change on a much ...

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 site-specific works, a range of projects from nine ... groups are large and small, ranging from the Kimmel Center to the experimental performance group Swim Pony. Many of the ...
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$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
PCAH_2022grants_Mural.png PHILADELPHIA (Sept. 19, 2022)—The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage (the Center) ... organizations receiving project grants, and $900,000 going to 12 Philadelphia-area artists as Pew Fellowships.   Many ... and migrants. Several projects will bring creative work to public spaces and nontraditional venues such as a public ...
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Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Announces 2019 Grants for Philadelphia Artists, Organizations

Philadelphia Orchestra
Tuesday, October 22, 2019
... grants include two new areas of support. In addition to the Center’s longstanding annual fellowships for ... program will bring two artists from outside the region to live, work, and embed themselves in the community, ... . Pew Fellowships provide awards of $75,000 to individual artists from all disciplines. This year’s ...
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