The Center’s 44 new grants support the ideas and creative practices shaping Philadelphia’s cultural landscape and civic life. Across museum galleries and theater stages, and in public spaces ranging from cafes to historic sites, our newest grantees will create meaningful cultural experiences that spark curiosity, enliven shared spaces, and connect communities.

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The Center is committed to an equitable, diverse, and inclusive workplace. We employ a staff of talented, motivated individuals with experience and interest in the nonprofit and/or arts and culture sectors.

This a full-time position reporting to the Center’s Grants Manager and Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) and works with Program staff to help support the grantmaking processes of the Center. The Grants Assistant facilitates the work of the Center’s Grants Manager (GM) by providing logistical support for awarded grants to—

• provide accurate day-to-day support of grants administrative operations for approximately 75 concurrent open grants, including preparation and processing of contracts and reports, tracking compliance and grant status, and stewarding requests to resolution.
• deliver technical support in response to grantee inquires, careful analysis and reconciliation of Center-funded project expenses and metrics to ensure that payments, contracts, and reports are completed accurately and processed in a timely matter.
• maintain optimized workflows for grants administrative processes to support evolving needs across the Center.
• communicate with grantees, consultants, and other Center staff, while upholding the standards for a professional, responsive, and problem-solving oriented grant management process.

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The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage (the Center) is a multidisciplinary grantmaker and hub for knowledge sharing dedicated to fostering a vibrant and diverse cultural community in Greater Philadelphia.

The Center invites applications for project grants in its Exhibitions & Public Interpretation and Performance programs. Projects must deliver distinctive, high-quality, and meaningful cultural experiences to communities in the Philadelphia region and reflect an organizational commitment to multiple perspectives and inclusive practices in program design, development, and impact. The center supports the following project areas:

Performance: Includes original works or new treatments of existing works in all performance forms. Works may feature film, video, and other moving images interpreted through performative intentions, installations of performance that use experimental media or technology platforms, archival sources, virtual programming, and live performances in public spaces and venues. The use of participatory strategies is welcome.

Exhibitions & Public Interpretation: Includes public display and/or interpretation of artworks, historical artifacts, scientific objects, living collections, archives, buildings, stories, or ideas; film, video, or other time-based media presentations and technology platforms; and all other forms of exhibitions and public cultural interpretation, including those that take place in public spaces, online, and/or make use of participatory strategies.

Single-organization project grants of up to $300,000 (depending upon organizational budget size), special opportunity project grants of up to $400,000, and multi-organizational project grants of up to $800,000 will be awarded.

Applicants must be in the five-county Philadelphia area of Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia counties; have 501(c)(3) designation; have a minimum annual budget of $150,000; and have paid professional artistic and managerial project staff. Applicants with parent organizations (such as libraries and departments/schools at academic institutions) must submit a letter of commitment from a governing official at the time of LOI submission.

All applicants must schedule an appointment to discuss their LOI project idea with Center senior program staff on or before February 9, 2023. To schedule an appointment or for questions, please email apply@pewcenterarts.org. Applicants must submit a 100-word written distillation of their idea by February 23, 2023. Upon review, selected applicants will be notified of eligibility to submit a full Letter of Intent, with a deadline of March 30, 2023, at 4:00 p.m. ET.

For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage website.

Deadline: February 9, 2023 (Contact Center Staff)

The Center is committed to an equitable, diverse, and inclusive workplace. We employ a staff of talented, motivated individuals with experience and interest in the nonprofit and/or arts and culture sectors.

This is an administrative assistant position that supports the work of the Center’s Project Grant Programs. This role is a critical interface between all staff at the Center and requires frequent communication with multiple external parties including consultants, vendors, grantees, and applicants. The job requires the use of technology skills in support of correspondence, scheduling, virtual meetings and events, databases, and grant application software.

You’ll provide primary support to the Center’s Project Grants Program Director, in close collaboration with other Center programs and administrative staff, in all phases of program operations.

We will be accepting applications through mid-February.

Full job description and application information.

To that end, the center invites applications for project grants in its Exhibitions & Public Interpretation and Performance programs. Projects must deliver distinctive, high-quality, and meaningful cultural experiences to communities in the Philadelphia region and reflect an organizational commitment to multiple perspectives and inclusive practices in program design, development, and impact. Recognizing the fluid boundaries in the presentation and interpretation of material and visual culture and in performance, the Center has two areas of funding with the same goals for cultural production:

Exhibitions & Public Interpretation: Includes public display and/or interpretation of artworks, historical artifacts, scientific objects, living collections, archives, buildings, stories, or ideas; film, video, or other time-based media presentations and technology platforms; and all other forms of exhibitions and public cultural interpretation, including those that take place in public spaces, online, and/or make use of participatory strategies.

Performance: Includes original works or new treatments of existing works in all performance forms, including those drawn from archival sources; film, video, and other moving-image performance works whose development and public presentation is interpreted through the project’s performative intentions; distribution and installation of performances using experimental media or technology platforms; and performances in public spaces, online, and/or making use of participatory strategies.

Maximum allowable grant requests for all project grants are dependent on organizational budget size and range from $75,000 to $300,000. Organizations with an operating budget minimum of $1 million and that meet additional criteria may be eligible to apply for project grants up to $400,000. Up to three organizations may pool their individual grants towards a collaborative effort, not to exceed $800,000 in total.

Applicants must be located in the five-county Philadelphia area of Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia counties; have 501(c)(3) designation; have a minimum annual budget of $150,000; and have paid, professional artistic and managerial project staff. Applicants with parent organizations (such as libraries and departments/schools at academic institutions) must submit a letter of commitment from a governing official at the time of LOI submission.

All applicants are required to schedule an appointment to discuss their LOI project idea with Center senior program staff on or before February 23, 2022. To schedule an appointment, or for questions, please email apply@pewcenterarts.org. Applicants must then submit a 150-word written distillation of their idea by March 2, 2022. Upon review, selected applicants will be notified of eligibility to submit a full Letter of Intent, with a deadline of April 8, 2022.

For complete program guidelines and application instructions, see the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage website.

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