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The Presser Foundation Announces Over $1.3 Million in a Special Round of Grants to Music Organizations

Tuesday, April 28, 2020
... 29, 2020 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and its devastating impact on the ... projects totaling $795,000, including $545,000 in new commitments and $250,000 satisfying previous commitments, ... Symphony Association Anna Crusis Women's Choir Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts Ars Nova Workshop Art Sphere, ...
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Community Voices: from a Moment and for a Movement

Spiral Q 2
Monday, August 24, 2020
... truth, and fostering healing. Arundhati Roy speaks to this in her recent article  The pandemic is a portal , ... Instead of feeling despair that the world will never be the same, Roy urges us to take a hard look at the ... caused by systemic oppression and reimagine and create a new normal that is better for the world, one where equality ...

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 ... The groups are large and small, ranging from the Kimmel Center to the experimental performance group Swim Pony. Many ... will expand its successful community programming with new Knight funding, and the Bearded Ladies Cabaret, which is ...
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Independence Foundation Announces CEO’s Retirement

Susan Sherman
Thursday, July 11, 2024
... Board has initiated a comprehensive process to select a new CEO and will consider both internal and external ... especially noteworthy in health care, the arts and in the legal community promoting justice and equality. Under her ... College, the department was recognized nationally as a center for nursing education excellence by the National ...
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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 ... and transformed their lobby into an online learning center 24/7 for students in grades K-7. Education Focus Area ... job insecurity. CCATE recently purchased and moved into a new space, and is creating an edible garden and food ...

Unprecedented program aims to ‘Rebuild’ Philadelphia, serve as national community investment model

Monday, October 2, 2017
...  (NRPA) concluded its  annual conference  in New Orleans, bringing together more than 7,000 park and ... ) initiative — From ‘Reimagining the  Civic Commons  to Rebuilding Civic Infrastructure.’ “Philadelphia has ... attention in recent years because of the renaissance of Center City, which was partly driven by a major investment in ...

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

Wednesday, March 5, 2025
... The Presser Foundation will award $1,445,500 in grants to 148 music organizations throughout the Greater ... a notable increase from 121 the previous year. Thirty-four new organizations applied for funding. Small organizations ... Delaware Choral Arts Philadelphia Christina Cultural Arts Center Community Music School Lehigh Valley Community Music ...
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PA Humanities announces Wingspan: $2.25 million to 24 BIPOC and rural organizations

PA Humanities Wingspan
Thursday, December 7, 2023
... - Today PA Humanities announced $2.25 million in funding to 24 organizations from across the Commonwealth that ... humanities in their work. Called Wingspan , this new grant program is part of PA Humanities’ 50th ... communities, 12 which are located in rural counties and center equity. Kicking off in January 2024, this Wingspan ...
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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
... grants totaling $1.85 million in its ongoing commitment to help Philadelphia-area organizations recover from the ... economic statuses, and neighborhoods, the library hopes to better address community needs through its programs ... of the collection’s artifacts and, importantly, fund a new community lending program that will bring hundreds of ...

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

The Cuture and Community Power Fund
Tuesday, May 30, 2023
... Barr, Kresge, and William Penn Foundations joined together to more deeply understand the needs of organizations ... by structural oppression.      Ashé Cultural Arts Center  uses art and culture to support human, community, ...

Fels Fund Awards Arts & Culture Grants

Samuel S. Fels Fund
Friday, June 29, 2018
... of Directors of the Samuel S. Fels Fund approved 22 grants to 19 arts and culture organizations. Most organizations received a two-year commitment for general support. Fels' Arts & Culture grants totaled ... Inc. Philadelphia Youth Poetry Movement Scribe Video Center, Inc. Taller Puertorriqueño, Inc. Twelve Gates Arts ...
12Feb2019

Equity in Action: Building Social Capital

Tuesday, February 12, 2019
4:00pm - 7:00pm
Esperanza Arts Center
... – Taller Puertorriqueño’s El Corazón Cultural Center in Fairhill in 2017 and Esperanza Arts Center in ... and organizations provide successful examples of how to support and grow arts and cultural organizations rooted in ... Cultural Alliance invite you to join us at Esperanza’s new Arts Center as we hear from funders and nonprofits on: ...

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 in ‘severe financial straits’ ... region, contributing to its identity as a national center of creativity. The sector generates nearly $1B ...

Philadelphia Cultural Fund Announces $200K in Youth Arts Impact Grants

Wednesday, July 15, 2020
... Fund announced that $200,170 in grants of $5,410 each will be awarded to 37 small and mid-sized Philadelphia organizations that are ... Collaborative, DBA Dancing Classrooms Philly Ballet X Center for Architecture and Design COSACOSA art at large, ...

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 ... Jersey Information Equity Project. The fund also aims to center voices and leadership from communities counteracting ... violence through community-led storytelling, archives for building community power, community-centered news and ...
14Apr2025

Arts Funders Listening Session

Monday, April 14, 2025
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Virtual via Zoom
... Philanthropy Network's Arts Funders Group, we invite you to join us for a virtual listening session with fellow arts funders, ... Bill Rhoads, Senior Vice President of Esperanza Arts Center , who brings over 25 years of experience in the arts ...

Philadelphia Takes First Steps Toward City-wide Historic and Cultural Resources Survey

Wednesday, March 4, 2020
... centuries of history and culture? Philadelphia is about to find out. Next month the Department of Planning and ... project ends in December 2022 the City will have a plan for an ongoing, city-wide survey of historic and cultural ... to support the project. To ensure that preservation will be community-driven, the project will create a strategy that ...

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

The Rider-Pool Foundation
Wednesday, January 23, 2019
... awards in this cycle. A $105,000 grant was awarded to Ripple Community Inc. to accelerate the development of RCI ... with housing stability including a community engagement center, financial literacy, substance abuse support, ... and creation of a mission and vision statement within a new strategic plan. A grant of $25,000 was awarded to the ...

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