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

Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
Tuesday, June 19, 2018
... has announced their newest grants in support of the Philadelphia region’s cultural organizations and artists. The 2018 awards total ... as participants, including a newly commissioned dance work from the Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company for the Mann Center ...
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Philadelphia Foundation Fund Supports Community-based Programs in Northwest Philadelphia

East Mt Airy Neighbors
Tuesday, November 5, 2019
... The East Mount Airy Neighbors (EMAN) Community Fund of the Philadelphia Foundation is pleased to announce it has awarded ... East Mt. Airy neighborhood. The grants, ranging in size from $10,000 to $16,700, address priority funding areas ... Avenue and Cresheim Valley Drive.

Leadership Transition at the Philadelphia Cultural Fund

Barbara Silzle
Monday, April 11, 2022
BarbaraSilzle2022.png April 11, 2022 -- The board of the Philadelphia Cultural Fund announces that its Executive Director, Barbara Silzle, will step down from her position on July 15, 2022 to explore other ... During this time, she has strengthened the Cultural Fund’s relationship with the City and the cultural sector, ...
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Leadership Transition at the Philadelphia Cultural Fund

Caralyn Spector
Tuesday, July 5, 2022
July 5, 2022 -- The board of the Philadelphia Cultural Fund announces that it has engaged ... Executive Director Barbara Silzle , who will step down from her position on July 15, 2022 to explore other ... Caralyn will work alongside Barbara Silzle until Barbara’s departure, and will then provide day-to-day oversight of ...
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The Philadelphia Cultural Fund distributes $2.67 million to a diverse mix of arts & culture organizations

Tuesday, March 27, 2018
... THE DIVERSE MIXTURE OF ARTS PROGRAMS ENRICHING CITY LIFE PHILADELPHIA — In a City Hall ceremony, hundreds of ... received 2.67 million in Art & Culture Grants from the Philadelphia Cultural Fund for 2018. The funds will ... leaders attended the grant award ceremony in the Mayor’s reception room.

Stockton Rush Bartol Foundation Awards 22 Grants to Philadelphia Arts and Cultural Organizations

Tuesday, July 24, 2018
STOCKTON RUSH BARTOL FOUNDATION AWARDS 22 GRANTS TO PHILADELPHIA ARTS AND CULTURAL ORGANIZATIONS Five ... 2018 roster of grantees reflects the Bartol Foundation’s commitment to supporting cultural organizations that ... The Bartol Foundation supports diverse organizations from large to small, established and emerging. The Foundation ...
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Philadelphia's Lenfests receive Carnegie Medal for their extraordinary philanthropy

Thursday, October 5, 2017
... YORK — As patrons and major supporters of the arts in Philadelphia, Marguerite and H.F. “Gerry” Lenfest are ... families, and Michael Bloomberg, along with Philadelphia’s Annenberg, Pew, and Haas families. This year’s honorees ... News, and Philly.com. Though gracious while speaking both from the stage at the awards ceremony and at the luncheon ...
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The Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance Appoints Patricia Wilson Aden as President & CEO

GPCA
Tuesday, September 21, 2021
GPCA_logo.jpg September 21, 2021 (PHILADELPHIA, PA)  – The  Greater Philadelphia Cultural ... The appointment of Aden concludes the Cultural Alliance’s comprehensive 12-month national search and welcomes a ... arts and culture community and as she returns home from Memphis, we have no doubt that she will be that same ...
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The Philadelphia Foundation Hosts Inspiring Exhibition of Art Created by Individuals Living with Dementia

Monday, September 10, 2018
Press release via The Philadelphia Foundation PHILADELPHIA, PA (9/10/2018) – The ... When Creativity Transcends A Diagnosis will be on display from Mon., Sept. 17, 2018 through Fri., Jan. 25, 2019 at the ... works created by participants in ARTZ Philadelphia ’s programs that are held in long-term care communities or ...
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Leeway Foundation Awards Nine Philadelphia Artists with $15,000 Transformation Award

Friday, December 21, 2018
PHILADELPHIA – Today, Leeway Foundation announced $135,000 ... that impacts a larger audience or community. This year’s recipients work in an array of disciplines, including folk ... or gender expression is nonconforming and/or different from their gender assigned at birth. Download the full press ...

Philadelphia Cultural Fund Gives Much-Needed Support to Youth in 13 Local Arts and Culture Groups

Philadelphia Cultural Fund
Thursday, June 27, 2019
PHILADELPHIA—(June 27, 2019)— The Philadelphia Cultural Fund today announced $223,918 in grants ... avenues. Many of the children are living in Philadelphia’s most underserved, impoverished communities. “It’s an ...
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Philadelphia Foundation and Mural Arts Unveil “Strength in our Bonds” Centennial Legacy Mural

Philadelphia Foundation Centennial Mural Dedication
Friday, November 8, 2019
Pedro Ramos, President & CEO, Philadelphia Foundation PHILADELPHIA, PA (11/7/2019) — The ... Foundation and Mural Arts today dedicated the foundation’s Centennial Legacy Mural “Strength in our Bonds” at its ... paint day at Cherry Street Pier where we had residents from every neighborhood in the region.” “Great public art ...

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

Tuesday, December 6, 2022
...  | #phlculturaltreasures  PHILADELPHIA (Dec. 6, 2022) — The Pew Center for Arts & ... cultural practitioners of color through the Philadelphia’s Cultural Treasures (PCT) funding initiative.  The ... work of sustaining their own careers. The awards range from $75,000 to $120,000 in unrestricted funds, with the ...
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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
PHILADELPHIA – The City of Philadelphia announced today ... The Streets Are Talking—led by the City of Philadelphia's Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy (OACCE), ...
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The Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy and the Arts and Culture Task Force Launch $1 Million Illuminate the Arts Grant

OACCE
Tuesday, May 4, 2021
Philadelphia’s individual artists, small and mid-size nonprofit arts ... Arts Grants are a means to help sustain and stimulate the recovery of Philadelphia's arts and culture community, which ... the funds for the Illuminate the Arts Grants came from City Council’s New Normal Budget Act as an investment ...

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
... company performs choreographer Jennifer Archibald’s Maslow’s Peak, 2024. Photo by Whitney Browne, courtesy of BalletX.  PHILADELPHIA (Sept. 24, 2024)—The Pew Center for Arts & ... announced today that it has awarded  $10.2 million to 39 Philadelphia-area cultural organizations and artists , ...
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An Open Letter to Arts Funders: Create a Pooled Loan Fund

BalletX by Chris Kendig
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
... Photo of Ballet X by Chris Kendig | Courtesy of the Philadelphia Cultural Fund By Nancy Burd and Marcelle Hinand ... now. The intrinsic value of art and culture in people’s lives is more apparent and urgent than ever. Cultural ... back to business quickly. Andrew Ross Sorkin’s recent opinion piece in The New York Times, This Is the Only Way to ...

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

Tuesday, May 3, 2022
April 28, 2022 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - In a continued response to the ... COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on Greater Philadelphia’s music organizations and their efforts, The Presser ... Presser Foundation considers proposals for funding from music organizations working in a broad range of ...
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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 ... Independence Public Media Foundation (IPMF) , the Samuel S. Fels Fund , as well as the William Penn and Andrew W. Mellon Foundations as part of their joint relief and recovery support effort for Philadelphia arts and culture ...

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