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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
... spaces and nontraditional venues such as a public park, a community recreation center, and a botanical garden, while ... to visitor services, health, and safety. The Center’s new grants affirm that the arts will continue to play a vital ... performs the music of 20th-century Black composer William Grant Still, restoring the musical scores of his less ...
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Philadelphia City Council to Invest Over $3 Million in Local Arts Community

Philadelphia City Hall
Wednesday, December 1, 2021
... a $3.25 Million investment in the local arts and culture community. This funding is a combination of an allocation from the New Normal Budget Act and additional advocacy in a recent ... of Philadelphia’s Illuminate the Arts family with this grant of $100,000.” This announcement comes a week after ...
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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
... the continuing financial impacts on the arts and culture community, Leeway Foundation is launching the WOO Community ... as a second branch of the Window of Opportunity (WOO) grant. The WOO Relief Fund went live in April 2020. From ... and livelihoods.͘ The application and guidelines are available now on leeway.org. ### ABOUT LEEWAY: Leeway ...
26Feb2019

Creating a Data-Informed Community for Our Work

Tuesday, February 26, 2019
8:15am - 10:00am
Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia
... (230 S. Broad Street, Suite 402, Philadelphia, PA 19102) for Creating a Data-Informed Community for Our Work . As we move towards a more ...

Applications Open for $1.2 Million in Recovery Grants for the Humanities in Pennsylvania

PA SHARP
Wednesday, September 1, 2021
... today announced it is now accepting applications statewide for $1.2 million in pandemic recovery grants for ... In 2020, PHC rapidly responded by reallocating its program funding for emergency support through Pop-Up Grants ... educational programs, and learning networks. The PA SHARP grant portal is now open and applications are due by midnight ...

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 ... with $3.45 million in support, led by a $2.5 million grant from the William Penn  Foundation. OACCE, PCF and GPCA ... to represent Philadelphia, a city where the philanthropic community goes above and beyond in response to a crisis," ...

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

Friday, March 29, 2019
... the Cultural Fund supports the largest and broadest community of arts and cultural organizations in Philadelphia. ... the ‘culture’ of culture growing in Philadelphia.” Grant recipients are located in every City Council district. ... Youth Choirs’ “Find Your Instrument” vocal arts program provides the only music program offered in several of ...
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Pew Awards $7.7M to Philadelphia Human Services, Arts, and Civic Nonprofits to Expand Programs, Adapt Business Models

The Pew Charitable Trusts
Wednesday, February 16, 2022
... These grants will help the recipients create and implement new strategies to adapt their programs, operations, and ... Project HOME  has been awarded a $3.5 million  growth grant  to expand its work to end and prevent chronic street ... in poverty, encouraging a thriving arts and cultural community, and pursuing civic initiatives to strengthen the ...

The Philadelphia Cultural Fund distributes $2.67 million to a diverse mix of arts & culture organizations

Tuesday, March 27, 2018
... Mayor James Kenney and a host of city leaders attended the grant award ceremony in the Mayor’s reception room. “Our ... Theater Company is an excellent example of the type of community arts making that the Cultural Fund helps to sustain ...

Leeway Foundation announces $55,000 in Art and Change Grants

Leeway Foundation (mark)
Monday, October 7, 2019
... from early-20s to mid-70s. Leeway’s Art and Change Grant provides project-based funds of up to $2,500 to women ... propose a project that impacts a larger group, audience or community; have financial need; and live in the Greater ... and poet M. Nzadi Keita (ACG ‘14). Applications are made available on the Leeway website and may also be obtained by ...
08Oct2024

Arts & Culture Funders Community of Practice

Tuesday, October 8, 2024
12:00pm - 1:15pm
Virtual via Zoom
Join us on Tuesday, October 8 from 12:00-1:15pm for the next meeting of Philanthropy Network's Arts & Culture Funders Community of Practice. Share your latest work with fellow ... Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy became a program of the Managing Director’s Office. Under the Mayor ...
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15Mar2024

Arts and Culture Funders Community of Practice

Friday, March 15, 2024
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Virtual
... voices of Pennsylvania’s cultural, arts, and humanities organizations, along with other nonprofits and community groups. The two primary goals were to continue ... asset to economic development with many opportunities for growth. The future of this sector lies not in its past, ...
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Over $10 Million in New Funding to Strengthen Philadelphia-Area Cultural Groups and Artists

BalletX company performs choreographer Jennifer Archibald’s Maslow’s Peak, 2024. Photo by Whitney Browne, courtesy of BalletX.
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
... million in unrestricted fellowships to 12 local artists. New this year, the Center’s “Evolving Futures” awards ... chart a path toward greater sustainability. Through this program, nine grants will help organizations undertake major ... enjoy.” A full list of grantees and funded projects is available at  pewcenterarts.org/2024grants . Over $10 ...
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Impact100 Philadelphia awards five grants totaling $284,750

Wednesday, June 5, 2024
... by the vote of Impact100 members. Rock to the Future Grant Amount: $28,250 Focus Area: Arts & Culture Rock to the Future provides consistent, high-quality, and student-driven music programs in-school, after school, and during ... and teens from under-resourced zip codes in schools, community locations, and juvenile justice facilities.

City Announces Awardees of $1.5 Million 2024 Illuminate the Arts Grant

2024 Illuminate the Arts Grants
Friday, November 8, 2024
... and the Creative Economy) and the Illuminate the Arts Grant Committee are pleased to announce that 730 of ... culture and the positive social impact of the arts community in Philadelphia.” 730 applicants will receive a ... at disabled. Award amounts were determined based on available funds for each grant type with an emphasis on ...

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
... $4,825,000 over 12 months was awarded to 48 organizations. Grant awards range from $25,000 to $200,000 and are based on ... Lily, Inc./BlackStar Film Festival* Centennial Parkside Community Development Corporation Center for Art in Wood, ...

The Presser Foundation Will Distribute $1.148 Million In Capital Support Grants This Year

Tuesday, May 3, 2022
... and their efforts, The Presser Foundation announces new Capital Support grants totaling $687,800 in single year ... of Delaware - $15,000 Commonwealth Youthchoirs - $5,000 Community Music School of Collegeville - $5,000 Dolce Suono ... genres, and styles and provides general operating and program grants to music organizations; capital grants for ...
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City launches $1.5 Million 2024 Illuminate the Arts Grant

Monday, August 12, 2024
... and the Creative Economy) and the Illuminate the Arts Grant (ITAG) Committee today launched the $1.5 million 2024 ... geared to meet the needs of the local arts and culture community while providing funds quickly and efficiently. ... are encouraged to apply for support through other funding available from local, state, and national levels. A list of ...
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Philadelphia Cultural Fund announces its 2020 Art & Culture Grants

Thursday, March 26, 2020
... the Cultural Fund supports the largest and broadest community of arts and cultural organizations in Philadelphia. ... because of the Coronavirus threat. This is especially true for small and mid-sized community-based organizations. ... is also one of this year’s 27 first-time Art & Culture Grant recipients. “The Colored Girls Museum is honored to ...
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Leeway Foundation announces spring 2020 Art and Change grants

Leeway Foundation 2020 Art & Change Grants
Friday, May 22, 2020
... needs as a result of COVID-19.  Leeway’s Art and Change Grant provides grants of up to $2,500 to fund art for social ... informed educator Candy Alexandra González (ACG ‘18), community educator and burgeoning medicine woman Shivon Pearl ... artist and activist Tailinh Agoyo. Applications are made available on the Leeway website and may also be obtained by ...

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