Grants

Community Partnerships Grants

Sachs Program Community Partnerships Grants are intended to support collaborations between Penn programs, departments and centers, and community arts and civic organizations and organizers: to cultivate meaningful partnerships between Penn and its surrounding communities and to encourage non-hierarchical artistic and intellectual exchange.

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2025 Grantees

• CAPA + KWH: A Writing Partnership
  • Kelly Writers House and Philadelphia High School for the Creative and Performing Arts
  • Kelly Writers House
  • 2025
  • Presenting Art Grant
• Bridging Dyke and Trans Feminisms: An Intergenerational Exhibition and Salon Series
  • Heather Love and Juno Rosenhaus (Founder, Dyke+ ArtHaus) with support from M.C. Overholt (Weitzman) and S.E. Eisterer (GSWS/FQT)
  • Department of English, Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, School of Arts & Sciences, The Center for Research in Feminist, Queer, and Transgender Studies, Weitzman School of Design
  • 2025
  • Presenting Art Grant
• Migrating Lives: Celebrating Communities Through Participatory Murals
  • Asian American Studies (ASAM), Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies (CLALS), Shira Walinsky, the Centro de Cultura, Arte, Trabajo y Educación (CCATE), and the Karen Community Association of Philadelphia (KCAP)
  • Asian American Studies Program (ASAM), Center for Latin American and Latinx Studies (CLALS), School of Arts & Sciences
  • 2025
  • Presenting Art Grant
• Lex Street Garden Stewardship Project
  • Dyan Castro (Project Manager, Penn Praxis) and Dante Leonard (Executive Director, Smart Futures CDC)
  • PennPraxis, Weitzman School of Design
  • 2025
  • Presenting Art Grant

2024 Grantees

• Urban Film Youth Mentorship Project
  • Dr. Matthew Kenyatta, The Philadelphia Film Factory (Philm Factory), and We Embrace Fatherhood
  • City and Regional Planning, Weitzman School of Design
  • 2024
  • Presenting Art Grant
• The West Philadelphia String Music & Mentorship Program (WPSMMP)
  • The West Philadelphia String Music & Mentorship Program Collective
  • African American Resource Center, College Houses & Academic Services (CHAS), Graduate School of Education
  • 2024
  • Presenting Art Grant
• Counter-Cartographies: Spaces of Belonging for the Unhoused in Philadelphia
  • Center for Social Norms and Behavioral Dynamics and the Bethesda Project
  • Center for Social Norms and Behavioral Dynamics
  • 2024
  • Presenting Art Grant
• Versus: Conflict Resolution through Acting and Roleplay
  • Barbara & Edward Netter Center for Community Partnerships and Acting Up Acting Out Drama School
  • The Netter Center
  • 2024
  • Presenting Art Grant

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