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The Barr, Kresge, and William Penn Foundations Introduce $13M Funding Collaborative

The Cuture and Community Power Fund
Tuesday, May 30, 2023
... joined together to more deeply understand the needs of organizations utilizing art and culture to address ... economic development of people of the African diaspora in New Orleans.    Asian Arts Initiative  in Philadelphia ...

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

Leeway Foundation (mark)
Monday, November 25, 2024
... artist and activist Paul Robeson said, “the gatekeepers of truth [and] civilization’s radical voice.” This ... of Northeast Philadelphia, Multidisciplinary, $2,500 Philly Queer Life Drawing of South Philadelphia, Visual Arts, ... consisted of cultural organizer and inaugural Executive Director of the Forman Arts Initiative (FAI), Adjoa Jones de ...

The Leeway Foundation Announces $48,950 in Support to 22 Individual Artists and Cultural Producers

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Friday, October 16, 2020
At the Leeway Foundation the true heart of our programming and the work of our community relies on in ... such as exhibitions and workshops are moved online. Cultural preservation and feminism were highlighted as ... Art and Change Grant provides grants of up to $2,500 to fund art for social change projects by women and trans* ...
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IPMF Announces 2024 Community Voices Fund Grant Recipients

IPMF 2024 Community Voices
Thursday, November 21, 2024
... Foundation (IPMF) announced its 2024 Community Voices Fund grant recipients, with $800,000 awarded to 33 ... will support the documentation, sharing, and preservation of community stories to advance social justice, build power, ... commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the MOVE bombing. Philly-Afghan Info Hub ($25,000) — to support the ...

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

Published: 
12/2017
By Mike Scutari for Inside Philanthropy |  This article from Inside ... program officer for arts & culture, served on the board of Grantmakers in the Arts, and was the chair of its Thought Leader Forum on Racial Equity. He is also a commissioner on Pittsburgh’s Equal Opportunity Review ...
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Leeway Foundation announces 2019 Transformation Awardees

Leeway Transformation Awards
Friday, December 27, 2019
... women, trans* and gender nonconforming artists and cultural producers in Greater Philadelphia. The $15,000 per awardee is in affirmation of their commitment to their communities and art for social ... of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, Ashley Minner, and New York based public artist , Tomie Arai . The second stage ...

Leeway Foundation announces the inaugural recipients of the IPMF Artist + Activist Residency

Leeway Foundation
Monday, December 13, 2021
... PA-Leeway Foundation recognizes the longstanding power of media artists and social-justice activists throughout the ... of projects and media,” said Leeway Foundation Executive Director Denise Brown. “We are grateful for the support for ... between so many talented artists and social justice and cultural organizations. The awarded proposals are all ...

Leeway Foundation Awards Nine Philadelphia Artists with $15,000 Transformation Award

Friday, December 21, 2018
... $135,000 in grants to nine women and trans* artists and cultural producers in Greater Philadelphia, acknowledging ... or community. This year’s recipients work in an array of disciplines, including folk arts, media arts, and ... trans queer poet and educator Kay Ulanday Barrett, and New Orleans-based cultural strategist and consultant Sage ...

Leeway Foundation announces spring 2020 Art and Change grants

Leeway Foundation 2020 Art & Change Grants
Friday, May 22, 2020
... women, trans* and gender nonconforming artists and cultural producers in Greater Philadelphia, supporting their work to address a range of social change issues.  The spring cycle of grantees ... Art and Change Grant provides grants of up to $2,500 to fund art for social change projects by women and trans* ...

Independence Public Media Foundation Announces 71 Grants Totaling $8.9 Million

IPMF grantee
Monday, August 15, 2022
... grants to organizations and projects working in the areas of community media-making ($3.2 million), narrative shift ... in Philadelphia. This “Shift the Narrative Coalition” has produced original research ,  lifted up community voices ... podcasting projects such as RadioCATA ($50,000), a New Jersey-based farmworker-run radio station by Comite de ...

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

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Monday, October 7, 2019
... women, trans* and gender nonconforming artists and cultural producers in Greater Philadelphia, supporting their work to address a range of social change issues. The fall 2019 cycle of grantees ... Airy), Music & Performing Arts, $2,500 Ebony Welch (South Philly), Visual & Media Arts, $2,500 Emily Bate (West ...