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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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2023 Grantees

• Palestine Writes Literature Festival: Indigenous Stories of a Fabled Homeland
  • Huda Fakhreddine and Palestine Writes
  • Department of Cinema and Media Studies, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations (NELC), Kelly Writers House, Middle East Center, School of Arts & Sciences, Wolf Humanities Center
  • 2023
  • Presenting Art Grant
• We Express Us Through Arts Program
  • Akhenaton S. Mikell, MS, Penn Community Scholar, Imani Star Development, and Research & Equity in Academic Community Partnerships for Health (REACH)
  • Center for Public Health Initiatives (CPHI), Research & Equity in Academic Community Partnerships for Health (REACH)
  • 2023
  • Presenting Art Grant
• Your Food Story: Storytelling through the Photography of Community Landscapes
  • Penn Museum, The Barbara and Edward Netter Center for Community Partnerships, and Sayre High School
  • Agatston Urban Nutrition Initiative (AUNI), Center for the Analysis of Archaeological Material (CAAM), Penn Museum, The Netter Center
  • 2023
  • Presenting Art Grant

2022 Grantees

• Youth Docent Training Program at the Paul Robeson House & Museum
  • The Barbara & Edward Netter Center for Community Partnerships with The Paul Robeson House & Museum
  • The Netter Center
  • 2022
  • Presenting Art Grant
• Trans and Nonbinary Vocal Workshops
  • The Rotunda and LGBT Center with Trust Your Moves Chorus (Emily Bate) and Inner Rhythms Music Therapy (Julie Lipson)
  • The LGBT Center, The Rotunda
  • 2022
  • Presenting Art Grant
• Philadelphia Jazz Oral History Project
  • Jay I. Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts with Philadelphia Jazz Project, Ars Nova Workshop, PhillyCAM, Philadelphia Jazz Musicians
  • Penn Libraries
  • 2022
  • Presenting Art Grant
• Free Blue Stoop writing classes for West Philadelphia writers
  • Kelly Writers House with Blue Stoop
  • Kelly Writers House
  • 2022
  • Presenting Art Grant
• Community Programming for The Dido Problem
  • Middle East Center with Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture and Past Present Projects
  • Middle East Center, School of Arts & Sciences
  • 2022
  • Presenting Art Grant

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