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14Apr2025

Arts Funders Listening Session

Monday, April 14, 2025
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Virtual via Zoom
... Network's Arts Funders Group, we invite you to join us for a virtual listening session with fellow arts funders, local ... and Philadelphia Magazine's "Luminary Leader," whose organization supports female, transgender, nonbinary, and ...

Leeway Foundation announces 2019 Transformation Awardees

Leeway Transformation Awards
Friday, December 27, 2019
The Leeway Foundation announced $150,000 in funding for 10 individual women, trans* and gender nonconforming ... producers in Greater Philadelphia. The $15,000 per awardee is in affirmation of their commitment to their communities ... Leeway, visit leeway.org . *Leeway is a trans-affirming organization committed to gender self-determination, and we ...

Impact100 Philadelphia awards five grants totaling $284,750

Wednesday, June 5, 2024
... over $5.1 million to regional nonprofits since the organization’s founding in 2008. Each of the following ... in-school, after school, and during the summer at no cost for over 1,100 Philadelphia County children and teens from ... Focus Area: Education The mission of Tree House Books is to enhance people’s lives through books and literacy ...

Community Voices: from a Moment and for a Movement

Spiral Q 2
Monday, August 24, 2020
... Roy speaks to this in her recent article  The pandemic is a portal , where she offers some insight and a valuable ... and reimagine and create a new normal that is better for the world, one where equality and justice are the norm. ... collaborative even though the proposal came from one organization. This is the case for  Spiral Q , which seeks ...

More Than $1 Million in Fellowships Awarded to 12 BIPOC Artists Through Philadelphia’s Cultural Treasures Program

Tuesday, December 6, 2022
... PHILADELPHIA (Dec. 6, 2022) — The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage in collaboration with The Barra ... . America’s Cultural Treasures is a national initiative created by the Ford Foundation to ... Ford Foundation  The Ford Foundation is an independent organization working to address inequality and build a future ...
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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 the funding collaboration with the Mellon Foundation for Philadelphia arts organizations, William Penn's board of ... cultural and public space grantee organizations. Below is a complete list of the William Penn Foundation-approved ...

The Barr, Kresge, and William Penn Foundations Introduce $13M Funding Collaborative

The Cuture and Community Power Fund
Tuesday, May 30, 2023
... of Asians in America.    The Boston Ujima Project  is a Black-led, democratic, member-run organization building a cooperative business, arts, and ... wealth to working-class communities of color.    Center for Transforming Communities  provides cultural programming ...

City's Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy Shares Plans for 2021

OACCE
Thursday, January 14, 2021
... and the Creative Economy (OACCE) today shared its plans for new and returning programs to support Philadelphia's ... “Like much of the City’s creative community, OACCE is reimagining how we can continue to support and promote ... Officer.  NEW: Visit Creativephl.org OACCE launched a brand-new version of the  creativephl.org  website today. ...
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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
... on the arts and culture community, Leeway Foundation is launching the WOO Community Care Fund in 2021. We are ... as part of their joint relief and recovery support effort for Philadelphia arts and culture organizations. Last March, ... Leeway, visit leeway.org *Leeway is a trans-affirming organization committed to gender self-determination, and we ...
07May2020

Arts & Culture Funders: COVID-19, Government Budget Cuts, & the Impact on the Arts

Thursday, May 7, 2020
9:00am - 10:00am
Video Conference
... of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy and all funding for the Philadelphia Cultural Fund. This year the Cultural ... in funding to 349 organizations across the city. The City is also expected to cancel or not renew some services ... on these funds to help support their ongoing work.  At a time when they are struggling to adjust to the impact of ...
15Nov2017

Arts & Culture Funders Webinar - Not Just Money: Equity Issues in Cultural Philanthropy

Wednesday, November 15, 2017
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Webinar
... sector. However, despite this awareness, arts funding is getting less equitable, not more. Just 2 percent of all ... percent of all contributed revenue – up 5 percent over a decade. Funding inequities are systemic and local patterns ... mirror national ones. Join the Arts & Culture Funders for a special webinar session where Helicon Collaborative’s ...
14May2019

Equitable Grantmaking in the Arts & Culture Sector

Tuesday, May 14, 2019
1:00pm - 3:00pm
Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia
Please join us for Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia's next Arts & ... arts and culture sector has long-term sustainability and is accessible to everyone.

Big Picture Alliance Named 2020 Bartol Award Winner

Monday, July 27, 2020
... filmmaking and digital media arts.   The Award of $5,000 is given to an organization that provides sustained, meaningful ... and community; and that maintains high artistic standards for its faculty and students. “In the past few months, we ...
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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
Press release via the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage 2024 Fellows Cultural Treasures.png ... as part of  Philadelphia’s Cultural Treasures  (PCT), a funding initiative administered regionally through a ... work.  The Philadelphia’s Cultural Treasures program is a component of America’s Cultural Treasures, which was ...
25Mar2020

Arts & Culture Funders COVID-19 Response Meeting

Wednesday, March 25, 2020
11:00am - 12:15pm
Video Conference
... COVID-19 crisis. On Wednesday, March 25th, we will host a virtual meeting with all Arts and Culture Funders. This ... - by Nancy Burd Marcelle Hinand (3.24.20) The Arts Sector is Being Decimated by COVID-19. What Are Funders Doing in Response? - by Mike Scutari for Inside Philanthropy (3.23.20) NOTES: Arts & Culture ...

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
... of the Bloomberg Philanthropies Public Art Challenge , a program that supports temporary public art projects ... to engage and heal our communities.”   Philadelphia is one of just eight winners, selected from more than 150 ... the project.
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William Penn Foundation awards $11.8 million in Arts & Culture funding

Thursday, May 30, 2019
... William Penn Foundation 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 ... as well as organizational sizes and operating budgets. It is intended to provide flexibility to support mission-related ...

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