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Stockton Rush Bartol Foundation Announces Partnership with Small But Mighty Arts

Tuesday, March 20, 2018
... career-enhancing opportunities for artists. This micro-grant program is designed to give teaching artists the ... they need to advance or complete a creative project in the community. “By partnering with Small But Mighty ... and directly support individual artists who are working in communities,” said Beth Feldman Brandt, Executive ...
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William Penn Foundation previews revised programs and grantmaking approach

William Penn Foundation new funding areas
Thursday, May 16, 2024
... CONNECTING MORE PEOPLE TO MORE OPPORTUNITIES Last fall, we shared our plans to review and update the ... grantmaking areas and practices, which had been in place for a decade. Our work since then helped us to ... Board of Directors has set the new direction for our grant programs and the way we’ll operate in the years ...

Leeway Foundation announces $62,500 in project-based funding

Leeway Foundation (mark)
Monday, November 25, 2024
... PHILADELPHIA, PA — Leeway Foundation announces $62,500 in project-based funding to 30 women, trans*, and/or gender ... in Greater Philadelphia with the 2024 Art and Change Grant (ACG). For over two decades, the Art and Change Grant has supported ...
22Jan2020

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
... initiative to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in neighborhood parks, recreation centers, and libraries. Just over a year after the Rebuild’s first groundbreaking, ... programs PROGRAM MATERIALS Rebuild Presentation Slidedeck (1.22.20) Rebuild by the Numbers 2019 14 Rebuild Projects to ...

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 ... program taking place both in and out of school time for 1 st through 6 th grade students at Grover Cleveland Mastery ... the program from 13 to 40 students in grades 6 through 12 over 8 years.  The 2018-19 MusiCore expansion pilot program ...
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Leeway Foundation announces the inaugural recipients of the IPMF Artist + Activist Residency

Leeway Foundation
Monday, December 13, 2021
... throughout the Greater Philadelphia region with $125,000 in funding to five inaugural Leeway x IPMF Media Artist + ... women, trans*, and gender nonconforming media artists in documenting, reframing, and/or amplifying the issues and ... and social justice. For more information about Leeway, its grant programs, grantees, and events, visit leeway.org . ...

Putting Art to Work

Color me Back mural. Photo by Steve Weinik
Monday, August 5, 2019
BY  PATRICK BILOW   for The Philadelphia Citizen In the southeast concourse at SEPTA’s Suburban Station, a ... more the artists.  The mural is the first installation in a 28 week pilot program by Mural Arts Philadelphia called ... by Steve Weinik In the first 13 weeks of the program, over 430 participants received payments totaling more than ...

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

Philadelphia Cultural Fund
Thursday, June 27, 2019
... The Philadelphia Cultural Fund today announced $223,918 in grants to 13 cultural organizations that use arts to ... through other avenues. Many of the children are living in Philadelphia’s most underserved, impoverished ... free of charge to the youth participants. The maximum grant is $20,000. These grants provide essential support for ...
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Philadelphia's Lenfests receive Carnegie Medal for their extraordinary philanthropy

Thursday, October 5, 2017
... NEW YORK — As patrons and major supporters of the arts in Philadelphia, Marguerite and H.F. “Gerry” Lenfest are ... and a half years, the Lenfests have distributed more than $1.2 billion to arts and culture, education, social services, ... Though gracious while speaking both from the stage at the awards ceremony and at the luncheon table, Lenfest quietly ...
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14Apr2025

Arts Funders Listening Session

Monday, April 14, 2025
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Virtual via Zoom
... will focus on the experiences of invited guests over these past few months in the current political environment, where both federal ... Vice President of Esperanza Arts Center , who brings over 25 years of experience in the arts sector and has been ...

New director of Philly Cultural Fund has a message for the next mayor

Gabriela Sanchez
Monday, April 3, 2023
... of city funding as arts grants.   She starts the job in a time of transition in the city leadership, with a mayoral election upcoming, ... Power Street Theatre. “I didn’t go to school for grant writing. I went to school to be an actor,” she said. ...

Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance Releases Economic & Social Impact Study

Arts Culture and Economic Prosperity
Friday, May 3, 2024
... Cultural Alliance. “The return on investment in the arts is undeniable, underscoring our continued calls ... economic impact of $3.3 Billion. This includes:  $1.9B in direct expenditures by organizations and their ... have a remarkable return on investment and generate $429 million in tax revenue at the local, state, and federal ...
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Philadelphia Takes First Steps Toward City-wide Historic and Cultural Resources Survey

Wednesday, March 4, 2020
... a project to explore that question. When the project ends in December 2022 the City will have a plan for an ongoing, ... will also have completed a pilot survey based on that plan in one city neighborhood. In its April 2019 final report ... The William Penn Foundation will provide a $250,000 grant to support the project. To ensure that preservation ...
25Mar2020

Arts & Culture Funders COVID-19 Response Meeting

Wednesday, March 25, 2020
11:00am - 12:15pm
Video Conference
... information as well as ask questions. You must be logged in to the website in order to register. If you have technical difficulties or ... is Being Decimated by COVID-19. What Are Funders Doing in Response? - by Mike Scutari for Inside Philanthropy ...

Leadership Transition at the Philadelphia Cultural Fund

Barbara Silzle
Monday, April 11, 2022
... with the City and the cultural sector, improved its grant panel process, and increased the number of small ... While City Council led the way for additional funding in the City’s FY2021 and FY2022 budget, the Mayor’s ... proposed FY2023 budget does not reflect the need to invest in the City’s critical arts and culture sector which will ...
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16Dec2022

Arts and Culture Funders Community of Practice: Transforming Arts and Culture Investments

Friday, December 16, 2022
11:00am - 12:15pm
Video Conference
... culture-driven enterprises are catalyzing positive impact in communities, from increasing resource access for underrepresented artists to stewarding culture in changing neighborhoods.
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15Nov2017

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

Wednesday, November 15, 2017
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Webinar
... are increasingly aware of diversity and equity issues in the nonprofit cultural sector. However, despite this ... 60 percent of all contributed revenue – up 5 percent over a decade. Funding inequities are systemic and local ... from their recent report, Not Just Money: Equity Issues in Cultural Philanthropy . Not Just Money  explores ...

"A Goal of Justice." Behind a Push for Racial Equity in Arts Funding

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12/2017
... for arts & culture, served on the board of Grantmakers in the Arts, and was the chair of its Thought Leader Forum on ... and build alternatives to systemic racism and capitalism, in the memory of our ancestors, for the benefit of black ... that are "building power by engaging community in planning and strategy," and works with primarily white-led ...
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14May2019

Equitable Grantmaking in the Arts & Culture Sector

Tuesday, May 14, 2019
1:00pm - 3:00pm
Philanthropy Network Greater Philadelphia
... Arts & Culture Funders Group session on Tuesday, May 14th, 1:00-3:00 PM, at Philanthropy Network offices (230 S. Broad ...

Philadelphia Foundation and Mural Arts Unveil “Strength in our Bonds” Centennial Legacy Mural

Philadelphia Foundation Centennial Mural Dedication
Friday, November 8, 2019
... the foundation’s Centennial Legacy Mural “Strength in our Bonds” at its permanent location at 23rd and Market ... dazzling mosaics and the faces of some of the 1,000 residents who donated more than 2,000 hours to help ... workshops and paint days were held throughout the region over a four-month period to gain insight into how individuals ...

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