Educational Scholarships
A scholarship program to help cultivate the next generation of great artists and writers with the establishment of the Jack Kent Cooke Graduate Arts Award. Recognizes and rewards the most promising up-and-coming artists and writers from lower-income backgrounds.
Individual Artists and Small Arts Organizations
A unique coaching community for people doing creative work. The Network is comprised of small groups throughout the U.S. Members are trained to coach and be coached.
A national service, advocacy and membership organization for presenters of the performing arts.
Contains a source of information linking artists and arts organizations to a variety of arts funding sources from governments, foundations and private sources.
Provides support to artists who pursue innovation in form and/or content in the performing and visual arts, film and video and in emerging fields.
Contains a comprehensive list of funding available to individual artists and artists' organizations.
Online crowdfunding tool for funding creative projects.
Leeway Foundation supports individual women artists, arts programs, and arts organizations, with a focus on the Greater Philadelphia region, in order to help them achieve personal and community transformation.
One of the largest grant makers to individual artists.
Provides a comprehensive database of awards, services, and publications for artists in all disciplines.
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts offers links to services for Pennsylvania artists.
Provides financial grants for recognizable artistic merit and demonstrable financial need, whether professional, personal or both.
Provides grants to emerging artists in the fields of art, photography, music, theater, dance and literature whose works due to their genre and/or social philosophy might have difficulty being aired.
The William Penn Foundation provides funding to artists within the Philadelphia region
Small Business and Entrepreneur
Connects small business owners with the financing and advice it takes to create or grow healthy enterprises.