Deadline: 15-Nov-2024
The Presser Foundation is accepting applications for the Advancement of Music Grant Program to provide flexible funding to music-focused organizations.
Funding Information
- Grants: $2,500 and $50,000 annually.
Eligibility Criteria
- Nonprofit, 501(c)(3) music performance, music presenting or music education organizations (pre-collegiate). Pre-collegiate music education organizations include after school music programs, community music schools, music preparatory divisions, and youth instrumental and vocal programs. The Foundation does not directly support K-12 schools, but funds nonprofit music organizations that provide music education and music programming.
- Organizations that are in Greater Philadelphia including Pennsylvania (including Harrisburg), New Jersey, Delaware or Maryland and are within a 75-mile radius of Philadelphia are eligible to apply. Organizations in the New York and Baltimore metropolitan areas will not be considered for funding.
- Newly established music organizations (within 5 years) are considered under Special Projects.
- The Presser Foundation does not support theater, commercial music theater, dance, or other non-music productions.
Criteria
- Considering the Foundation’s Social Justice Statement and Values, applications will be judged on all of the following:
- The strengths and accomplishments of the applicant organization
- The relationship between the music programming of the applicant organization and the needs of the community(ies) served
- The applicant organization’s history and stability, as well as its long-term impact on the community
- How a commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, access, anti-racism, and anti-bigotry is reflected in the applicant organization
- The value and feasibility of the applicant organization’s programs
- The contribution of the applicant organization to the overall music community
For more information, visit The Presser Foundation.
