William Penn Foundation is accepting applications for its Teaching Artist Training Programs to support projects and programs that connect more teaching artists in the Philadelphia region to high-quality professional development, network-building, and learning experiences.
Donor Name: William Penn Foundation
State: Pennsylvania
County: Bucks County (PA), Chester County (PA), Delaware County (PA), Montgomery County (PA)
City:Camden and Philadelphia
Type of Grant: Program
Deadline: 01/31/2025
Size of the Grant: $100,000 to $500,000
Grant Duration: 2 Years
Details:
In particular, they are most interested in prioritizing projects that build a community of practice around the goal of ensuring hands-on arts learning is made accessible to youth using supportive and inclusive practices. Training and skill development should be focused on behaviors that can be applied broadly to develop trauma-informed teaching practices that advance creative, social, and developmental outcomes.
Proposals must include activities that do the following:
- Provide free or low-cost professional development and training opportunities that support ongoing skills development that can be put into practice in existing or upcoming (next six months) teaching opportunities.
- Build networks of practitioners that allow teaching artists to be part of an ongoing learning cohort to share resources and expertise with other teaching artists.
Funding Information
WPF has a total of $1 million available to advance this objective at this time. There is no minimum or maximum amount of funding that projects may request but the most competitive proposals will likely be those with total grant requests under $200,000 over two years.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must be recognized by the Internal Revenue Service as 501(c)3 public charities or operate under a public charity fiduciary (fiscal sponsor). Arts and culture organizations, arts education organizations, community-based organizations, schools and educational institutions, and other types of public-serving groups are eligible to apply, if they have a track record of having designed and implemented trainings that have been taken by teaching artists.
- The majority of our funding will be awarded to projects in the City of Philadelphia. However, projects in Bucks, Chester, Delaware, and Montgomery counties, and the City of Camden, NJ will also be considered.
- Please note, under this RFP, the Foundation will not consider a proposal to support the following:
- Fully asynchronous virtual training without any individualized instruction or opportunities to engage with and ask questions of instructors.
- Training that focuses only on building skills for a specific tool or technology (e.g., a class on Adobe products or editing software).
- Training that happens during a single session.
- Training/programs for individuals other than active teaching artists with a history of employment as teaching artists.
- Training offered by an arts education program to only its teaching artists and/or skill building and training that is only applicable to a single arts education program and its model.
For more information, visit WPF.
