The Presser Foundation Announces Nearly $1.2 Million in General Operating Support Grants to Music Organizations
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 another round of general operating support grants to 86 music organizations. These grants, totaling $1,166,500 provide both single year and multi-year support to music organizations in the Greater Philadelphia Area. The grants will be paid immediately to help these organizations to continue to weather the current COVID-19 crisis, which has forced so many music organizations to reimagine operations, performances and other activities.
William B. McLaughlin, III, Chair of the Advancement of Music Committee, commented “While the ongoing pandemic has created stress on our beloved musical institutions, The Presser Foundation is inspired by so many who have invested in providing online music programming, shown great flexibility and innovation, and explored collaborations and other strategic relationships to supplement resources and expertise and expand audiences. Eighty-six organizations of a great variety of scale and purpose will receive funding and we are honored to help sustain and nurture these organizations that are essential to the communities and audiences they serve.”
Advancement of Music Grants: (in alphabetical order)
- Academy of Vocal Arts
- Allentown Symphony Association
- American Composers Forum
- Anna Crusis Women’s Choir
- Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
- Ars Nova Workshop
- Art Sphere, Inc.
- Artistas y Musicos Latino Americanos (AMLA)
- ArtSmart
- Astral Artists
- Bay Atlantic Symphony, Inc.
- Bowerbird
- Chamber Music Society of Bethlehem
- Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia
- Chester Children’s Chorus
- Choir School of Delaware
- Choral Arts Philadelphia
- Commonwealth Youthchoirs
- Community Conservatory
- Community Music School Lehigh Valley
- Community Music School of Collegeville
- Community Youth Orchestra of Bucks County
- Darlington Arts Center
- Delaware County Youth Orchestra
- Delaware Symphony Orchestra
- Dolce Suono Ensemble
- Encore Series Inc./The Philly POPS
- Esperanza
- Friends of the Wanamaker Organ
- Garden State Philharmonic Orchestra
- Harrisburg Symphony Association
- Intercultural Journeys
- Kimmel Center
- Lancaster Symphony Orchestra
- LiveConnections DBA World Cafe Live
- Lyra Society
- Lyric Fest
- Marian Anderson Historical Society & Museum
- Market Square Concerts
- Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia
- Music at Bunker Hill, a Nj nonprofit corporation
- Music at Gretna, Inc.
- Music for Everyone
- Musicopia
- Network for New Music
- Ocean County College Foundation – The Jay and Linda Grunin Center for the Arts
- Opera Philadelphia
- OperaDelaware
- Orchestra 2001
- Philadelphia Boys Choir & Chorale
- Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
- Philadelphia Clef Club of Jazz & Performing Arts
- Philadelphia Gay Men’s Chorus
- Philadelphia Sinfonia Association
- Philadelphia Youth Orchestra Music Institute
- Piffaro, The Renaissance Band
- Play On, Philly! (POP)
- Princeton Symphony Orchestra
- PRISM Quartet, Inc.
- Project 440
- Reading Symphony Orchestra
- Riverside Symphonia
- Rock to the Future
- Settlement Music School
- Singing City
- Singing Hearts Choir Inc.
- State Theatre Regional Arts Center At New Brunswick Inc
- Symphony in C
- Tempesta di Mare, Inc.
- Temple University Music Preparatory Division
- The Allentown Band
- The Bach Choir of Bethlehem
- The Crossing
- The Friends of Chamber Music of Reading, Inc.
- The Georgia E. Gregory Interdenominational School of Music
- The Mann Center for the Performing Arts
- The Music School of Delaware
- The Philadelphia Orchestra
- The Princeton Festival
- Trenton Children’s Chorus, Inc.
- Trenton Music Makers
- Tri-County Concerts Association, Inc.
- Wilmington Children’s Chorus
- Wilmington Concert Opera
- Youth Orchestra of Central Jersey
- Zoellner Arts Center
