Leeway Foundation announces spring 2020 Art and Change grants
Friday, May 22, 2020
The Leeway Foundation announces $42,500 in support to 17 individual artists and cultural producers focused in community and cultural preservation for Spring 2020.
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Leeway Foundation announces $55,000 in Art and Change Grants
Monday, October 7, 2019
The Leeway Foundation announced $55,000 in funding for 31 individual women, trans and gender nonconforming artists and cultural producers in Greater Philadelphia, to support their work addressing a range of social change issues.
William Penn Foundation, Philly’s biggest foundation focused solely on the city, is changing what it funds
Thursday, June 27, 2024
Leadership of the foundation is undergoing a generational shift.
Over $10 Million in New Funding to Strengthen Philadelphia-Area Cultural Groups and Artists
Tuesday, September 24, 2024
The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage announced that it has awarded $10.2 million to 39 Philadelphia-area cultural organizations and artists, including $3.5 million to help ensure the future of several of the most prominent institutions in the city and $1 million in unrestricted fellowships to 12 local artists.
Leeway Foundation Announces $49,950 in Support To 23 Individual Artists Highlighting Practices of Reclamation Of LGBQA Social Movements and Cultural Preservation
Wednesday, October 13, 2021
In a time of global unrest and uncertainty, Leeway Foundation continues to be led by our community and grantees to reimagine our world and reclaim spaces of power through their socially engaged artistic and cultural practices.
The Leeway Foundation Announces $48,950 in Support to 22 Individual Artists and Cultural Producers
Friday, October 16, 2020
Leeway's Fall 2020 Art and Change Grants (ACG) support 22 artists leading the exploration of how we adapt art and community-based practices in the time of a global pandemic. Cultural preservation and feminism were highlighted as trending areas of focus.
Fels Fund Awards Arts & Culture Grants
Friday, June 29, 2018
The Board of Directors of the Samuel S. Fels Fund approved 22 grants to 19 arts and culture organizations
Leeway Foundation announces $62,500 in project-based funding
Monday, November 25, 2024
Thirty women, trans, and/or gender nonconforming artists and cultural producers in Greater Philadelphia were selected to receive the 2024 Art and Change Grant (ACG).
Leeway Foundation announces $180,000 in Transformation Awards
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
The Transformation Award provides unrestricted annual awards of $15,000 to women, trans*, and gender nonconforming artists and cultural producers living in greater Philadelphia who create art for social change and have done so for the past five years or more, demonstrating a long-term commitment to social change work.
Leeway Foundation announces 2019 Transformation Awardees
Friday, December 27, 2019
Leeway announced $150,000 in unrestricted funding to 10 artists committed to art for social change.
15Jan2021
Impact of COVID-19 on the Cultural Sector: Data from the Cultural Alliance
Friday, January 15, 2021
10:00am - 11:15am
Video Conference
The Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance recently surveyed cultural organizations about the economic and programmatic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Join us to learn more about lost revenue, staffing changes and more.
17May2021
Arts & Culture Funders Meeting
Monday, May 17, 2021
2:00pm - 3:15pm
Video Conference
We are excited to announce our meeting theme this year is Pandemic Adaptations: Arts & Culture. Join us on May 17th for a discussion on Changing Funding Practices.
Leeway Foundation awards 12 artists with the Transformation Award
Friday, January 17, 2025
The grants will move $180,000 of unrestricted support to women, trans, and/or gender nonconforming artists and cultural producers.
Leeway Foundation Awards Nine Philadelphia Artists with $15,000 Transformation Award
Friday, December 21, 2018
The Leeway Foundation announced $135,000 in grants to nine women and trans* artists and cultural producers in Greater Philadelphia, acknowledging their commitment to art and social justice that impacts a larger audience or community.
Pew Announces $1.85M to Strengthen the Free Library of Philadelphia and Improve Access to Drexel University’s Atwater Kent Collection
Wednesday, July 19, 2023
$1 million will go to the Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation to undertake a comprehensive strategic planning and community engagement process and $850,000 will go to Drexel University to expand access to the Atwater Kent Collection.
Philadelphia Takes First Steps Toward City-wide Historic and Cultural Resources Survey
Wednesday, March 4, 2020
$250,000 from William Penn Foundation will support a plan for an ongoing, city-wide survey of historic and cultural assets.
Leeway Foundation Introduces Immediate Relief Funds for Individual Artists in the Launch of the 2021 Community Care Fund
Thursday, February 4, 2021
In response to the continuing financial impacts on the arts and culture community, Leeway Foundation is launching the WOO Community Care Fund in 2021.
"A Goal of Justice." Behind a Push for Racial Equity in Arts Funding
Published:
12/2017
This article from Inside Philanthropy predicts the top arts philanthropy trend for 2018 will be institutional funders' intensifying efforts to boost equitable funding and access to the arts.
Three new programs will help Berks County nonprofits navigate a post-pandemic future
Monday, February 22, 2021
Up to $100,000 in grants may be awarded through each of three programs: Nonprofit Planning, Arts & Culture Ramp-up, and "You Are Here," to foster human connection in Berks County.
Leeway Foundation announces the inaugural recipients of the IPMF Artist + Activist Residency
Monday, December 13, 2021
Leeway Foundation recognizes the longstanding power of media artists and social-justice activists throughout the Greater Philadelphia region with $125,000 in funding to five inaugural Leeway x IPMF Media Artist + Activist Residency recipients.