New director of Philly Cultural Fund has a message for the next mayor
Via WHYY | Theater artist Gabriela Sanchez will lead the city’s arts granting organization, and wants the next mayor to value the power of the arts.
Via WHYY | Theater artist Gabriela Sanchez will lead the city’s arts granting organization, and wants the next mayor to value the power of the arts.
42 new grants will fund local performances, exhibitions, events, and artistic practices that engage with issues of identity, representation, community, and history.
Grants will help organizations extend their arts programs to new, diverse audiences.
Grants include $3.5M for Project HOME to expand housing and support for people with substance use disorder.
42 new grants support individual artists and assist arts sector in emerging from the effects of COVID-19 through technology and facilities upgrades, diversity initiatives, new business models.
PHC announced Pop-Up Grants for Cultural Producers, a new grant program supporting efforts to sustain public engagement during the COVID-19 crisis.
$250,000 from William Penn Foundation will support a plan for an ongoing, city-wide survey of historic and cultural assets.
In November, the William Penn Foundation Board of Directors approved grants of nearly $20 million in support of Great Learning, Great Public Spaces and Watershed Protection.
EAST MT. AIRY (11/5/2019) – The East Mount Airy Neighbors (EMAN) Community Fund of the Philadelphia Foundation is pleased to announce it has awarded $69,700 in grants to six nonprofits providing services to Northwest Philadelphia, with an emphasis on programs serving the East Mt. Airy neighborhood.
William Penn Foundation announced $11.8 million in unrestricted operating support for 35 arts and culture organizations in the Philadelphia region.