Core Support for Arts and Cultural Organizations

Introduction

To ensure that arts organizations have flexibility to try new ideas, offset program expenses, and support operations, we provide general operating funds to organizations that present high quality artistic work as a means to supporting a rich, innovative cultural landscape for the region.

 

What We Fund

Only organizations whose principal mission is arts and culture are eligible to receive core support.

The Foundation awards three-year core support grants to arts and cultural organizations that meet our criteria of artistic and organizational strength. Grants are awarded in unrestricted funds so as to give grantees the flexibility to meet their unique needs. Funding may be used toward any purpose that advances the mission of the organization, as determined by the grantee organization.

Organizations recommended for core support funding will have their grant amount determined by their budget size and financial health, based on their most recent audit or accountant's review submitted with the pre-proposal. The recommended grant amount and grant term are determined during the pre-proposal review. In no case will William Penn's support be greater than 20% of an organization's annual operating budget, as determined by its most recent audit.

Budget categories have been broken down into ten ranges, with the smallest range being budgets of $100,000 or less and the largest being budgets of $17,500,001 and above. Each budget range has a corresponding annual grant size.

The Foundation also wants to recognize those organizations demonstrating good financial health. Additional funding of 25% may be added to the annual grant amount when an organization has three or more months of liquid unrestricted net assets at the end of its last fiscal year AND surpluses that total no less than 5% of expenses for the last two fiscal years.

The following chart outlines the budget range breakdown and corresponding annual grant sizes and potential added funding for financial health (in this round of funding, organizations must have a fiscal 2017 audit or accountant's review, and their Cultural Data Project (DataArts) profile must be up-to-date through fiscal 2017):

LOWER LIMIT BUDGET ANNUAL BASE GRANT SIZE ANNUAL FINANCIAL HEALTH BONUS ADDED TO BASE GRANT, WHEN APPLICABLE
$1 $15,000 $3,750
$100,001 $20,000 $5,000
$150,001 $25,000 $6,250
$250,001 $50,000 $12,500
$500,001 $75,000 $18,750
$750,001 $100,000 $25,000
$1,250,001 $150,000 $37,500
$2,500,001 $200,000 $50,000
$10,000,001 $225,000 $56,250
$17,500,001 $275,000 $68,750

In all cases, however, the ultimate grant award, grant term, and allocation of a financial health bonus are at the discretion of William Penn's internal review committee and determined during the pre-proposal review. There may be cases in which an organization's particular circumstances call for a different grant amount or grant structure.

Baseline Financial Eligibility Requirement

According to the audited financial statements, an organization having two or more months of negative liquid unrestricted net assets in their most recently completed fiscal year, or having between one to two months of negative liquid unrestricted net assets and an operating deficit greater than 5% of operating expenses will not be considered for funding.

Positive liquid unrestricted net assets represent funds available to support operations and are calculated by subtracting the net equity position of the fixed assets from unrestricted net assets. Net equity is the net fixed assets (capitalized assets less accumulated depreciation) less associated debt; this represents the amount of organizational capital locked up in non-liquid investments and therefore not readily available to support operations.

Months of
Liquid Unrestricted
Net Assets		    =    Unrestricted Net Assets -
      (PPE* - PPE Debt)      
(Total Expenses/12)
*PPE: Property, Plant & Equipment

(An optional Self-Test Tool is available that allows an organization to test its financial eligibility.)

 

What We Do Not Fund

Organizations having the following characteristics are ineligible for core support:

  • Not having an audit or, at minimum, an accountant's review for the five most recently completed fiscal years.
  • Using a fiscal agent to apply.
  • Located outside of Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia Counties in southeastern Pennsylvania, or Camden City, New Jersey.
  • Do not have at least one full-time paid administrative or artistic staff person in place.
  • Less than five consecutive years of ongoing operations and programming (in the related discipline, when applicable), including the most recently completed fiscal year (fiscal 2017).
  • Less than three consecutive years of data profiles in DataArts (formerly the Cultural Data Project), including the most recently completed fiscal year (fiscal 2017).

The following types of organizations are ineligible:

  • University-affiliated cultural organizations
  • Museums not accredited by the American Alliance of Museums
  • Choruses that do not have either a paid professional core of at least 12 singers or 25% of the singers in the chorus, whichever is less; or are not fully professional, paying all of its singers all of the time. Minimum payment to singers must be twice the federal hourly wage for each hour singers are contracted to rehearse and/or perform (based upon an average of combined rehearsal and performance hours per production). (Professional chorus standard per Chorus America)
  • Theatres scheduling less than 30 hours of rehearsal time for primary production activities and whose annual budgets comprise less than 20% for artist compensation (including but not limited to actors). (Professional theatre standard per Theatre Communications Group)
  • Battlefields/forts/military/ships
  • Churches, synagogues, or other religious institutions
  • Government agencies
  • Presses or publications
  • Schools/colleges/universities/conservatories
  • Organizations that are not professional nonprofit arts or cultural organizations
  • For arts organizations, organizations that do not regularly engage and pay artists
  • Community arts organizations whose programming is less than 80% arts production/presentation
  • Rehabilitation or arts therapy
  • Hospitals
  • Public television and radio
  • Video/recording/online organizations
  • Gardens/cemeteries
  • Youth-centered or youth-composed organizations
  • Arts education organizations (arts education organizations may be eligible for funding under the Foundation's Arts Education program.)

Click here for frequently asked questions about the grant process.

 

Evaluating Pre-Proposals and Proposals

How do we select grantees?

An internal review committee composed of Board members and staff evaluates each pre-proposal submitted. Each organization is assessed on its own merits, but in the context of the applicant pool. It is at the pre-proposal stage where most key decisions are made, including which organizations will be invited to submit an updated final proposal for consideration by the Foundation’s Board of Directors as well as the recommended grant amount and grant term. 

The internal review committee is looking for organizations that demonstrate:

  • High-quality programming and management and financial viability.
  • An ongoing and demonstrated commitment to excellence, innovation, and audiences, as informed by mission and vision.
  • Strength of staff and board leadership, and evidence of capacity to carry out the proposed work.
  • A history of planning and disciplined implementation.
  • Demonstrated understanding and trends of the audience/constituency served.
  • Articulation of the role played in creating a sense of place and civic engagement in their community (as the organization defines community).

Organizations that otherwise meet the eligibility requirements but currently have a core support grant should check with the Creative Communities staff before applying.

 

Application Process

Organizations that meet the eligibility requirements must apply for core support first through a pre-proposal. 

Step 1: Submit a pre-proposal

Submit a pre-proposal, audits for the three most recently completed fiscal years, and three years of annual operating budgets spanning the fiscal years to be covered by the requested grant. Additionally, operating budgets for the most recently completed fiscal year and the current fiscal year should be submitted. Also submit an applicable strategic, business, and/or financial plan if available and the DataArts Funder Report for fiscal 2017. Please do not submit work samples unless requested by the Foundation.

For this round of core support funding, organizations must submit their fiscal 2017 audit or accountant's review with the pre-proposal. Organizations must have their DataArts profile up-to-date for their pre-proposals to be considered, including data for fiscal 2017.

An internal review committee composed of Foundation Board members and staff will review the pre-proposals to determine eligibility and competitiveness given the applicant pool.

Bear in mind that it is at the pre-proposal stage where most key decisions are made, including which organizations will be invited to submit an updated final proposal for consideration by the Foundation’s Board of Directors as well as the recommended grant amount and grant term.  The pre-proposal is the stage at which applicants must make their most compelling case to the internal review committee.

Based upon this assessment, final proposals will be invited for the most promising applications.

Submitting your pre-proposal

Core Support applicants must submit a pre-proposal through the William Penn Foundation online Grantee Portal. The Grantee Portal can be accessed at the following link:  http://williampennfoundation.force.com.  Applicants will need to use an existing WPF Grantee Portal account or create a new one in order to initiate a Core Support request. Before getting started, please download and thoroughly review the Core Support Portal Resource Guide. If you encounter any difficulties, please email portal@williampennfoundation.org for support.

 

Step 2: Submit a final proposal

Upon invitation, submit a final proposal and standard Foundation submission documents. The final proposal stage allows the applicant organization to make any changes or updates to the pre-proposal that are necessary due to changes in the organization’s planning or circumstances since the pre-proposal was submitted, or to make revisions requested by the Foundation’s internal review committee, and sometimes both.

There may be additional materials requested based on the pre-proposal assessment. Please do not submit work samples unless requested by the Foundation.

The funding recommendations of the internal review committee will be presented to the Foundation’s Board of Directors, who will make ultimate decisions about grant amounts, structures, and approvals.

The following table is provided to help eligible applicants for core support understand the schedule (which is tentative at this time):

Guidelines/Pre-Proposal Available
Pre-Proposal Due
 
Notification of Invitation to Submit Final Proposal
Final Proposal Due
Scheduled Board Review
June 1, 2018
July 6, 2018
October 1, 2018
November 30, 2018
April 2019 (tentative)
There is one round of core support funding each year. At this time, it is anticipated that the next round of funding for core support in 2019 would follow a similar timeline, leading to Foundation Board consideration in April 2020.

 

 

Frequently Asked Questions

Please see our Grants Overview page for general FAQs.

  • Q: How has funding of arts and culture changed from the previous guidelines?
    A: The Foundation continues to fund core support for arts and cultural organizations, but now grants will be awarded as unrestricted funds with an even greater emphasis on supporting organizations that are artistically, financially and organizationally strong and that are thus best equipped to enrich the region’s cultural offerings.
     
    Artistic projects will be funded through the New Audiences/New Places program. Please review the guidelines to learn eligibility requirements.
  • Q: Are organizations required to use the financial eligibility self-test tool?
    A: The Foundation strongly advises organizations to utilize the tool to determine their eligibility, but doing so is optional.
  • Q: In the past the Foundation has funded capital projects for arts and cultural organizations. Will the Foundation continue to do so under this new funding approach?
    A: Capital projects will be considered and can be included in the request for funding.
  • Q: Can/should I schedule a meeting with a program staff person before submitting an Inquiry Form?
    A: Prior contact with a Program Staff member is not required; however, first-time applicants and applicants that have been previously declined may find it helpful to do so. 
  • Q: Should we submit work samples?
    A: The staff will ask for work samples if they are needed.
  • Q: Who is on the internal review team?
    A: The review team is composed of board and staff.

 

 

Increasing Arts Education

What We Fund

The Foundation works to provide opportunities for Philadelphia students to experience arts learning.

We seek to fund arts education programs working as partners in Philadelphia schools, and that focus on the three areas of interest of the Foundation:

  • Expanding Students’ World Views: Greater Understanding of Cultures and Experiences
  • Building Students’ Skill and Interest in the Arts: A Next Generation for Philadelphia’s Art and Cultural Community
  • Strengthening Students’ Socioemotional Learning: Increased Interpersonal and Intra-Personal Skills

Preference is given to programs working with students in the 4th grade or younger, offered in Philadelphia schools with a high percentage of students from low-income families and a dearth of resources to provide arts education.

The Foundation’s funding is not intended to replace existing arts teachers in Philadelphia schools, but rather to support their important work.

 

What We Do Not Fund

  •  Nonprofits that are not direct providers of professional arts education programming.
  •  Support directly to early child care providers, elementary schools, middle schools, and high schools.
  •  Scholarships for individuals.
  •  Individual teaching artists.
  •  For-profit arts education providers.
  •  Arts organizations without professional teaching artists on staff.
  •  Organizations without a recent history of at least two consecutive years of programming in partnership with a Philadelphia school.
  •  Arts education programming in which the majority of participants are not from low-income families and are not residents of the city of Philadelphia.

 

Types of Funding Available

Implementation

The Foundation will consider funding for the direct provision of arts education to Philadelphia students in any type of school (e.g., Public District, Public Charter, Parochial, or Independent), as long as the program is primarily serving children from low-income households. Funding may include staffing costs, materials, and other required resources. Programs can be offered during the academic day or during out-of-school time, as long as equal access is provided to all students and transportation is not a barrier for student participation. Programs may provide either art instruction or opportunities to be exposed to an artistic discipline or art form, provided there is sustained engagement in the work rather than a single moment of exposure.

Planning

Planning efforts to scale or deepen high-quality arts education programs, or implementation of a comprehensive plan to deepen the impact, increase the scale, and/or improve the sustainability of a high-quality arts education program that is seeking to impact one of the above areas of interest for the Foundation (i.e., expanding a student’s worldview, building interest in the arts, or strengthening socioemotional learning). Funding may include staff time, expert consultants, and other required resources.

 

Evaluating Proposals and Grants

How do we select grantees?

Programs are selected and evaluated utilizing the following criteria:

  • Quality of the arts education program (i.e., proficient teaching artists, appropriate materials/art-making supplies, well-designed program model, etc.).
  • Demonstration of successful partnership with at least two Philadelphia schools comprised of students from our target population of young people from low-income families, during two consecutive years.
  • Preference is given to programs that provide arts education programming in more than two Philadelphia schools.
  • Arts education providers from outside the region will be considered if they can provide a clear and demonstrated understanding of working with schools in Philadelphia and a track record of success in urban schools.
  • A willingness to participate in the learning communities and evaluation of the Foundation’s Arts Education funding strategy.

Application Process

Organizations that meet the eligibility requirements may apply through a two-step process.

 

Step 1: Submit an Inquiry Form (please e-mail Hillary Murray to request a link for the Arts Education Inquiry Form)

Submit an Inquiry Form that outlines the proposed funding request, in narrative and budget form, as well as background information on the organization and the arts education program. As part of the Inquiry Form review process, the Foundation may conduct a site visit to gain firsthand understanding of the arts education program. An observation tool is used during site visits to ensure programs are being assessed against the same set of criteria for a high-quality program; that tool is available upon request. The projects and organizations with the greatest potential will be invited to submit a full proposal.

 

Step 2: Submit a full proposal

Upon invitation, submit a full proposal. Applicants invited to submit a full proposal will receive instructions that outline the submission details and requirements of the proposal.

Please note that submission of an Inquiry Form does not guarantee a request for a full proposal or grant funding.

Before requesting an Inquiry Form from the Foundation, please make sure to review all of our program guidelines to confirm that your proposed work aligns with the Foundation's strategic priorities.

 

Investing in Great Public Spaces

Introduction

The Foundation works to support equitable access to great public spaces.

We believe that great public spaces strengthen communities. They are places in which we spend time with family, friends, and neighbors. They can also promote health through physical activity, help children learn through play, enhance appreciation of the natural environment, and offer platforms for cultural expression.

Great public spaces come in many forms, including parks, libraries, recreation centers, trails, waterways, community gardens, community centers, plazas and play areas.

We seek to fund public space efforts that value:

  1. Enriching Experiences: members of the public, especially children and elders, experience the space in ways that promote wellbeing and joy.
  2. Meaningful Community and Stakeholder Involvement: local knowledge, expertise, and interests are respected through engagement, partnership, and co-creation.
  3. Inclusion: public spaces strive for social and racial inclusivity, e.g., through age-friendly design, multi-lingual communication, culturally-relevant programming, transportation access, and marketing.
  4. Civic & Natural Context: public spaces reflect their local community and/or natural context, e.g., through public art, ecological restoration, or other connections to area histories.
  5. Quality Design & Materials: quality design and materials contribute to positive community identity, ensure durability and longevity, and contribute to environmental sustainability.
  6. Resilience: stewardship and maintenance are priorities, not afterthoughts.

 

What We Fund

  • Public space initiatives which directly serve low or moderate income communities OR which serve citywide populations and are of significant civic importance to Philadelphia or Camden.
  • Initiatives that seek to strengthen the local public space sector, e.g., network building, peer-learning, communications, and other efforts focused on system and sector-wide impact.
  • Meaningful community engagement and community partnership development.
  • Capital projects, including:
    • Design
    • Materials
    • Construction
  • Pilots or proof-of-concept efforts, including those related to programming or the development of a new revenue source.
  • Efforts that seek to remove barriers to equitable access, such as transportation network and connectivity enhancements, language access, communications, or marketing.
  • Research, planning and evaluation.
  • One-time organizational capacity-building for public space stewards in the form of:
    • Strategic/business planning
    • Organizational restructuring
    • Alliance/merger facilitation
    • Training, professional development
    • Key staff recruitment
  • Public space efforts that also advance the Foundation’s Arts & Culture, Watershed Protection and Great Learning strategies are desirable, though not required.

 

What We Do Not Fund

  • Projects that do not demonstrate clear alignment with the Great Public Spaces strategy, especially related to community involvement and partnerships;
  • Projects that do not demonstrate credible, realistic, reasonable work plans and budgets;
  • Spaces located outside of Philadelphia and Camden;
  • Spaces that are not publicly accessible;
  • Spaces that are privately owned or primarily profit-seeking;
  • Athletic leagues;
  • Streetscape or corridor beautification projects;
  • Public or private memorials;
  • Projects that represent a new, unfunded burden on City resources;
  • Routine maintenance or ongoing operational support.
Funding will not be considered to any organization that discriminates on the basis of race, ethnicity, creed, gender, or sexual orientation in policy or practice.

 

 

New Audiences/New Places

Introduction

The New Audiences/New Places grant making program funds artistic projects that engage new audiences through the use of public, civic, and community spaces as platforms for cultural performances and public art, supporting work that enriches community life and fosters creative expression throughout the city.

The Foundation believes in the intrinsic value of art and its ability to enhance the quality of life, inspire creativity, and enlarge worldviews and perspectives. The principal aim of the New Audiences/New Places effort is to increase resident and visitor engagement with dynamic, high quality public art by funding organizations to create art in places outside of their traditional venues and that reaches new audiences or deepens communities of constituencies. 

 

What We Fund

This strategy is intended to primarily provide funding support to professional arts and culture organizations operating outside their traditional venues. The Foundation supports a diverse range of high quality art projects in a wide range of public, civic, and community spaces with the over-arching expectation that the works will be highly available to the public. Specifically, the Foundation funds projects that have the ability to:

  • Engage audiences outside of traditional performance and exhibition venues, especially in community based settings where a diversity of people come together.
  • Promote new opportunities for residents throughout the city to engage in high quality cultural experiences.
  • Foster relationships between cultural organizations and neighborhoods, helping organizations reach audiences and communities that are new to them and/or the arts.
  • Expand the understanding of how enhanced engagement, active dialog, extended programming, or multiple points of access provide new audiences with cultural opportunities.

All aspects of project development and execution, including planning, design, civic engagement, and implementation, are eligible for funding through New Audiences/New Places.

Projects that are permanent, temporary, or seasonal in nature and in any discipline (e.g., performing arts, visual arts, media arts, literary/humanities, multi-discipline, etc.) are eligible for consideration.

 

Project Requirements

  • Work must reflect high artistic quality and artistic merit.
  • Work must be self-presented.
  • Projects must be located in the City of Philadelphia. [When an organization seeking funding through New Audiences/New Places is located outside of the City of Philadelphia, it should have strong understanding of local community and knowledge of working in Philadelphia.]
  • Work must be available to and targeted for an audience that is new to the organization, to the art being programmed, or to the arts in general. Proposals must include a detailed plan for communications, marketing, and outreach to the intended audience. Applicants will be required to articulate the thinking behind the selected location, describing how that space can reach the intended audience, how it fits the project being planned and how audiences will be engaged by that space.
  • Work must occur outside of the presenting organization's traditional venue and in a public or community space.
  • Preference will be given to works that can be executed within three years; however, all projects must be completed with 5 years.
  • Projects may be permanent or temporary, and in any discipline (e.g., performing arts, visual arts, media arts, literary/humanities, multi-discipline, etc.).
  • In cases where the project will require ongoing maintenance or some form of continuing stewardship, those needs must be addressed in the proposal.
  • When involving partnerships, projects must demonstrate close collaboration between artists, arts organizations, local community partners, and, when appropriate, directly with residents.
  • Evidence of organizational capacity to execute within the planned timeline/budget.

 

What We Do Not Fund

The following types of organizations are ineligible:

  • Battlefields/forts/military
  • Churches, synagogues, or other religious institutions
  • Government agencies
  • Presses or publications
  • K-12 Schools
  • Organizations that are not professional nonprofit arts or cultural organizations must apply to the Foundation as part of a partnership with an artistic team
  • For arts organizations, organizations that do not regularly engage and pay artists
  • Community arts organizations whose programming does not include any arts production/presentation
  • Rehabilitation or arts therapy
  • Hospitals
  • Video/recording/online organizations
  • Arts education organizations (youth or adult)
  • Organizations that do not have an audit, financial review, or compilation

The following types of projects are ineligible:

  • Projects outside of the City of Philadelphia
  • Public or private memorials
  • Film projects that are in final stages and seeking only finishing funds, post-production, and/or audience engagement support
  • Arts education projects (arts education organizations may be eligible for funding under the Foundation's Arts Education program)
  • Projects presented by a presenting organization

 

Evaluating Proposals and Grants

How do we select grantees?

An internal review team reviews all submissions and makes recommendations for funding to the full board of the Foundation. Each application is reviewed on its own merits, but in the context of the applicant pool. We fund organizations that demonstrate high quality programming and management, a track record of successful project implementation and financial and management capacity to complete the proposed project. In addition, we consider the following criteria as part of the selection process:

  • An ongoing and demonstrated commitment to excellence, innovation, and audiences.
  • Strength of staff and board leadership and evidence of organizational capacity to carry out the proposed work.
  • A history of planning and disciplined implementation.
  • Demonstrated understanding of the audience served and how art identified will reach that audience.
  • Deep experience in promoting artistic/civic/social engagement.

However, it should be noted that not all applicant organizations that meet the eligibility criteria will be recommended for funding because the Foundation receives many more applications than it is able to support.

Organizations that otherwise meet the eligibility requirements but currently have a Core Support for Arts and Culture Organizations grant should check with the Creative Communities staff before applying.

How do we measure success?

  • Agreed-upon outcomes will be determined by the applicant organization in collaboration with the Foundation during the full proposal review.
  • Outcomes will be specific to the organization based on mission, the proposed project, and other key factors.

 

Application Process

Organizations that meet the eligibility requirements may apply through a two-step process.

Step 1: Submit an Inquiry Form (please e-mail Hillary Murray to request a link for the New Audiences/New Places Inquiry Form)

Submit an Inquiry Form, a project budget, an audit or financial review for the most recently completed fiscal year, and operating budgets spanning the fiscal years to be covered by the requested grant. An applicable strategic, business, and/or financial plan should be submitted, if available. Please do not submit work samples unless requested by the Foundation.

An internal review team will review the Inquiry Forms to determine eligibility and competitiveness given the applicant pool. Based upon this assessment, full proposals will be invited for the most promising applications.

Step 2: Submit a full proposal

Upon invitation, the applicant will submit a full proposal and standard Foundation submission documents. There may be additional materials requested based on the Inquiry Form review. Please do not submit work samples unless requested by the Foundation. During the proposal review, outcomes of the grant will be finalized by the applicant in collaboration with the Foundation.

The following table is provided to help eligible applicants understand the schedule:

Guidelines/LOI
      
LOI Due By 5:00pm
   
Notification of Invitation to Apply
Proposals Due By 5:00pm
Scheduled Board Review
September 20, 2018
November 9, 2018
December 17, 2018
March 8, 2019
July 19, 2019

 

Frequently Asked Questions

  • Q: Do you only review New Audiences/New Places proposals at the Foundation’s July Board meeting?
    A: We typically review all New Audiences/New Places proposals at the July board meeting. However, we do occasionally review certain proposals at the Foundation’s April or November Board meetings if the July schedule falls outside of a particular project’s time frame. Any applicants interested in bringing projects to the April or November Board meetings must seek prior approval from program staff to allow for adjustments to be made to proposal submission deadlines. These potential adjustments to the proposal schedule do not affect the LOI process; LOIs are due by the above LOI deadline. 
  • Q: Can we apply for funding through New Audiences/New Places if we already have a Core Support for Arts and Cultural Organizations or Arts Education grant?
    A: Yes, however, you should check with a program staff person before submitting because the Foundation does limit the amount of total aggregate support it provides to a single organization in a given year.
  • Q: What does “public, civic, and community space” mean? Can you provide examples?
    A: Examples of public, civic, and community spaces include parks, squares, plazas, trails, streets, libraries, recreation and community centers.
  • Q: What are “new" places?
    A: Public, civic, and community places outside of your organization’s traditional venue(s) and/or places not normally used for the production and presentation of art.
  • Q: Who are “new” audiences?
    A: Audiences in the City of Philadelphia who have less exposure to the arts, who are new to your organization, the project’s art form, or the arts in general.
  • Q: Is there a preferred project type?
    A: Projects may be permanent or temporary, and in any discipline (e.g., public art, performing arts, visual arts, media arts, literary/humanities, multi-discipline, etc.).
  • Q: Are all project costs eligible, including both planning and implementation?
    A: Yes, all costs associated with project development and project implementation are eligible.
  • Q: Can/should I contact a staff member of the Creative Communities Team before submitting an LOI?
    A: Prior contact with a William Penn Foundation Program staff member is not required.
  • Q: Should we submit work samples?
    A: Work samples will be requested if they are needed.