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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
... BalletX.  PHILADELPHIA (Sept. 24, 2024)—The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage (the Center) announced today that it has ... a thriving future for the region’s cultural sector. The grants—which support Philadelphia organizations, including ... our long-standing support for individual artists and creative projects as well as to introduce the Evolving ...
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Philadelphia Cultural Fund Awards $3,267,407 to 282 Art and Culture Organizations Across the City

Philadelphia Cultural Fund
Wednesday, July 13, 2022
... has announced the recipients of its 2022 Art & Culture Grants. A total of $3,267,407 was awarded to 282 ... disruption and financial devastation to the arts sector for over the last two years. The Philadelphia Cultural Fund ... are likely to have less access to revenue sources such as foundation grants.  The Philadelphia Cultural Fund has long ...
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25Mar2020

Arts & Culture Funders COVID-19 Response Meeting

Wednesday, March 25, 2020
11:00am - 12:15pm
Video Conference
... What Are Funders Doing in Response? - by Mike Scutari for Inside Philanthropy (3.23.20) NOTES: Arts & Culture ... COVID-19 Response & Impact Fund Philadelphia Cultural Fund announces its 2020 Art & Culture Grants Arts & Culture Funders COVID-19 Response Meeting ...

An Open Letter to Arts Funders: Create a Pooled Loan Fund

BalletX by Chris Kendig
Tuesday, March 24, 2020
... Philadelphia and the San Francisco Bay Area, philanthropic foundation leaders and nonprofit cultural sector consultants, we have worked with arts groups for over 25 years on building financial sustainability. We ... citizens together through the most basic human impulse of creative expression. A few quick facts: The nonprofit arts ...

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
... to five Philadelphia-area nonprofit organizations. These grants will help the recipients create and implement new ... business models to the changing needs of the residents and communities they serve. In doing so, the awards will help to ... while also increasing comprehensive services such as those for behavioral health and substance use disorder, ...
09Apr2020

Arts & Culture Funders COVID-19 Response Meeting

Thursday, April 9, 2020
2:15pm - 3:15pm
Video Conference
... Arts & Culture Funders invites all funders to join us for continued conversation on collaborative and individual ... payments - Provided by Susan Sherman, Independence Foundation Bartol Foundation suggested Amy Smith as great resource for specific questions about artists ...
07May2020

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

Thursday, May 7, 2020
9:00am - 10:00am
Video Conference
... which would eliminate the Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy and all funding for the Philadelphia Cultural Fund. This year the Cultural ... join Philanthropy Network's Arts and Culture Funders for an update on government budget cuts at the regional, ...

Pew Appoints Donna Frisby-Greenwood as Vice President for Philadelphia Programs

Donna Frisby-Greenwood
Wednesday, August 31, 2022
... will join the organization as vice president for Philadelphia programs, effective Oct. 3, 2022. In this ... program director for the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, executive director of After-School All-Stars ... of Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education Foundation. Frisby-Greenwood graduated from the University of ...

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

Gabriela Sanchez
Monday, April 3, 2023
By Peter Crimmins for WHYY | April 3, 2023 PCF_Gabriela Sanchez.png Starting ... Fund, overseeing the distribution of city funding as arts grants.   She starts the job in a time of transition in the ... upcoming, much of City Council leaving to campaign for that position, and a new council president on the way. I ...
15Nov2017

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

Wednesday, November 15, 2017
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Webinar
... mirror national ones. Join the Arts & Culture Funders for a special webinar session where Helicon Collaborative’s ... levels; the lack of diversity among decision-makers (arts foundation staff and boards, individual donors and cultural ... by organizations of color and those serving low-income communities in both urban and rural communities. It concludes ...
03Feb2021

Special Funder Briefing: City of Philadelphia FY 2022 Budget

Wednesday, February 3, 2021
9:00am - 10:00am
Video Conference
... increased community needs due to COVID-19, and calls for action and accountability on racial justice, state and ... this video call, Maari Porter, Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy , will provide an overview of the Kenney ...

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

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12/2017
By Mike Scutari for Inside Philanthropy |  This article from Inside ... Philanthropy predicts the top arts philanthropy trend for 2018 will be institutional funders' intensifying efforts ... from Justin Laing, who spent 11 years working for the  Heinz Endowments  as senior program officer for ...
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Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance Releases Economic & Social Impact Study

Arts Culture and Economic Prosperity
Friday, May 3, 2024
... of $3.3 Billion annually, based on data from the Americans for the Arts and Economic Prosperity 6 (“AEP6”) survey ... that the arts and culture sector remains a powerhouse for Greater Philadelphia, delivering profound economic and ... the arts is undeniable, underscoring our continued calls for greater public investment at the local, state, and ...
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16Feb2017

Arts and Culture Funders Roundtable: DEI in the Regional Arts and Culture Sector

Thursday, February 16, 2017
8:45am - 11:30am
Philadelphia, PA
Please join Philanthropy Network for the next Arts and Culture Funders Roundtable that will ... session will help members to find this shared language for DEI work, and will further explore the full range of ...
24Sep2020

Arts & Culture Funders Meeting

Thursday, September 24, 2020
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Video Conference
Philanthropy Network’s Arts & Culture Funders will be discussing statewide trends and how arts nonprofits are adapting their models in response to COVID-19.
 
23Jun2020

Arts & Culture Funders COVID-19 Meeting

Tuesday, June 23, 2020
1:00pm - 2:30pm
Video Conference
From comparable data in other cities, learn insights that can help funders think about how to support the arts community as it prepares to reopen.
 
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
... priorities across the city: Investing equitably across communities in Philadelphia Complementing existing ... will include: Pati Codina , Community Development Director for Impact Services, a nonprofit managing Rebuild projects in ...

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