PHILADELPHIA, April 19, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- In a
continued response to the COVID-19 pandemic and its devastating
impact on the Greater Philadelphia
Area's rich ecosystem of music performance, education, and
community engagement, The Presser Foundation announces new Capital
Support grants to thirty-five music organizations. These
grants, totaling $1,954,200 and paid
over six years provides both single year and multi-year support to
music organizations. The Foundation will also make payments on
previous and deferred commitments totaling an additional
$547,500. A full listing by category
of the forty-four grantee organizations is below.
These grants are designated for capital projects of music
presenting, music performing and music education organizations in
the Greater Philadelphia Area.
Capital projects typically include the construction of new
facilities and the renovation or expansion of existing facilities.
The Foundation also provided for a one-time extension of grant
guidelines to consider the equipment and supply needs of
organizations as they continue to respond to the pandemic with
innovative, uplifting and inspiring music programming.
Corey R. Smith, Chair of the
Capital Support Committee, commented on these grants,
"Given the environment of continued uncertainty due to the
pandemic, the Foundation is pleased to be in the position to
support music organizations of a great variety of scale and
purpose. These grants will support the purchase of a computer,
equipment for recording, supplies for summer camps, a micro-stage,
and needed maintenance and renovation of buildings. We want our
music organizations to come roaring back when it is safe to do so,
because so many musicians, students, and enthusiasts depend on
them."
2021 Capital Support Grantees (in alphabetical order by
category)
Traditional Large Capital Projects - $1,760,000 in Multi-Year Grants
Community
Music School Lehigh Valley
Curtis Institute of Music
EMEAPP (Electronic Music Education and Preservation Project)
Kimmel Center, Inc.
Kutztown University Foundation
LiveConnections DBA World Cafe Live
Philadelphia Clef Club of Jazz & Performing Arts
Philadelphia Youth Orchestra Music Institute
Settlement Music School
The Music School of Delaware
West Philadelphia Cultural Alliance
COVID-Related Capital Needs - $194,200 in Single Year Grants
Annenberg
Center for the Performing Arts
ArtSmart
Berks Youth Chorus
Bowerbird
Chester Children's Chorus
Choir School of Delaware
Choral Arts Philadelphia
Commonwealth Youthchoirs
Community Conservatory
Community Music School of Collegeville
Darlington Arts Center
Esperanza
Friends of the Wanamaker Organ
Harrisburg Symphony Association
Musicopia
OperaDelaware
Orchestra 2001
Philadelphia Sinfonia Association
Princeton Symphony Orchestra
PRISM Quartet, Inc.
Reading Symphony Orchestra
Singing City
Sruti
Tempesta di Mare, Inc.
Previous & Deferred Capital Project Commitments -
$547,500 in Multi-Year
Grants
Haverford College
Historic Lansdowne Theater Corporation
Lebanon Valley College
Lafayette College
Rider University – Westminster Choir College
Swarthmore College
Stetson University
The Mann Center for the Performing Arts
University of the Arts
About The Presser Foundation
The Presser Foundation
was established in 1939 under the Deeds of Trust and Will of the
late music publisher Theodore
Presser. It is one of the few private foundations in
the United States dedicated solely
to music education and music philanthropy. The Presser
Foundation considers proposals for funding from music organizations
working in a broad range of traditions, genres, and styles and
provides general operating and program grants to music
organizations; capital grants for music building projects;
undergraduate and graduate student awards; and assistance to
retired music teachers. Much of the grant making focus of the
Foundation is on organizations and institutions in the 75-mile
radius surrounding Center City
Philadelphia. For more information:
www.presserfoundation.org.
Contact: Teresa Araco
Rodgers
267.519.5350
trodgers@presserfoundation.org
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