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July 29, 2024

Interdisciplinary artist Homer Jackson died on July 13, 2024, at the age of 67. Jackson received a Pew Fellowship in 1998 and was a member of the first cohort of Philadelphia’s Cultural Treasures fellows in 2022.

Source: The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage

July 11, 2024

It’s been a year and a half since the first class of Philadelphia’s Cultural Treasures fellows was announced, and we’ve caught up with four of the fellows to see how the grant funds have affected their artistic work and their other efforts and engagements within their communities.

Source: The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage

February 26, 2024

The grants are designed to resource projects that position Greater Philadelphia’s BIPOC creative community for enduring success. Funded work includes performances, exhibitions, films, poetry, community-engaged public art projects, artistic archives, and organizational capacity-building efforts such as staff expansions and technology upgrades.

Source: The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage

December 6, 2022

$1,170,000 in fellowships have been awarded to 12 Philadelphia-area artists and cultural practitioners of color through the Philadelphia’s Cultural Treasures funding initiative. The recipients are artists and cultural workers who make a material difference in their communities and who work in music, performance, film, visual arts, literature, and multidisciplinary and community-based art forms.

Source: The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage

August 19, 2022

The William Penn Foundation, in collaboration with The Barra Foundation, Neubauer Family Foundation, The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, and Wyncote Foundation recently announced over $6 million in general operating support to 16 organizations through the Philadelphia’s Cultural Treasures (PCT) initiative.

Source: Philadelphia Sunday Sun

August 17, 2022

The grants were awarded through Philadelphia’s Cultural Treasures (PCT)—a three-part regional funding component of the Ford Foundation’s America’s Cultural Treasures that provides general operating support to Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) cultural groups, artists, and organizations.

Source: Philanthropy News Digest

August 17, 2022

Two South Philly organizations received a large chunk of more than $6 million awarded through Philadelphia’s Cultural Treasures Initiative. The Philadelphia Clef Club of Jazz and Performing Arts and the Brandywine Workshop will receive a combined $780,000 via the William Penn Foundation in collaboration with The Barra Foundation, Neubauer Family Foundation, The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, and Wyncote Foundation.

Source: South Philly Review

August 17, 2022

The William Penn Foundation has announced 16 local organizations will receive over $6 million in general operating support. The new funding will be distributed through the Philadelphia’s Cultural Treasures (PCT) initiative, which aims to support Black, Indigeneous, and People of Color (BIPOC) cultural groups, artists, and organizations with exceptional significance to the Greater Philadelphia region.

Source: Al Dia

August 11, 2022

The William Penn Foundation in collaboration with The Barra Foundation, Neubauer Family Foundation, The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, and Wyncote Foundation announced over $6 million in general operating support to 16 organizations through the Philadelphia’s Cultural Treasures (PCT) initiative.

Source: William Penn Foundation

December 27, 2021

From now until Jan. 14, 2022, Philadelphia’s Cultural Treasures is accepting grant applications from BIPOC arts organizations. Philadelphia’s Cultural Treasures is an affiliated grant program of the William Penn Foundation. The grant program is a multi-year program aimed at supporting the recovery and flourishing of BIPOC artists, cultural groups, and organizations serving the Philadelphia region.

Source: Al Dia

December 14, 2021

The William Penn Foundation in collaboration with The Barra Foundation, Neubauer Family Foundation, The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, and the Wyncote Foundation, is currently accepting applications for “Philadelphia Cultural Treasures" to help aid the recovery of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) cultural groups, artists, and organizations with exceptional significance to Greater Philadelphia.

Source: NBC10 Philadelphia

December 10, 2021

The William Penn Foundation, in collaboration with The Barra Foundation, Neubauer Family Foundation, The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, and Wyncote Foundation, recently announced that they will begin accepting applications for “Philadelphia’s Cultural Treasures,” the regional component of the Ford Foundation’s “America’s Cultural Treasures” initiative.

Source: The Philadelphia Sunday Sun

December 7, 2021

$10 million in grant money is now available for Black, indigenous, and people of color in Philadelphia’s arts community, as part of a multi-year collaboration between organizations to preserve arts groups hit hardest by the pandemic.

Source: KYW Newsradio

December 1, 2021

This new regional fund is a collaboration of The Barra Foundation, Neubauer Family Foundation, The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, William Penn Foundation, and the Wyncote Foundation, and is part of Ford Foundation’s “America’s Cultural Treasures” initiative

Source: The William Penn Foundation

December 1, 2021

At least $10 million will go to Philadelphia arts organizations over the next five years to support a “racially, economically, and socially just COVID-19 recovery.”

Source: The Philadelphia Inquirer

September 25, 2020

Some of the nation’s most prominent philanthropists and foundations announced plans on Thursday to donate more than $156 million to help arts organizations run by people of color recover from the coronavirus pandemic.

Source: The New York Times