Submission Deadline: June 19, 2017 Budget: $10,000 Civic Practice is a project that investigates artist-led projects in the community, commissioned by City government. The project is led by the City of Philadelphia’s Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy (OACCE). The Mayor’s Fund for Philadelphia (the Fund) will serve as the fiscal administrator andContinue Reading »
Deadline for Proposal Submission: May 15, 2017 by 5:00pm EST. A .pdf version of the proposal must be emailed to mayorsfund@phila.gov. Questions about this RFP should be submitted to via email to the mayorsfund@phila.gov by May 8, 2017. The Mayor’s Fund for Philadelphia and the Department of Planning and Development seek a qualified professional consultantContinue Reading »
Deadline for Proposal Submission: May 5, 2017 by 3:00pm EST. Questions about this RFP may be submitted by April 7, 2017 by 5:00pm EST. The Mayor’s Fund for Philadelphia, the Managing Director’s Office of Philadelphia, the Mount Moriah Cemetery Preservation Corporation, and the Friends of Mount Moriah Cemetery, Inc., seek competitive proposals from experienced organizationalContinue Reading »
The Mayor’s Fund for Philadelphia has announced the release of its Grant Guidelines for 2017. The Mayor’s Fund for Philadelphia is a City-related 501(c)(3) that advances the Mayor’s policy pillars through the facilitation of public-private partnerships. The Mayor’s Fund devotes a portion of the funds raised by Special Events to further City projects which align withContinue Reading »
Deadline for Qualifications Submission January 13, 2017, 5:00 PM EST. The Mayor’s Fund for Philadelphia seeks qualifications from experienced local artisans, architects, designers, and makers who are interested in the design and fabrication of a modular, multi-purpose outdoor furniture element to be used in City Hall Courtyard, beginning in June 2017. The feature will beContinue Reading »
Issued by The Mayor's Fund for Philadelphia on behalf of the City of Philadelphia, Office of the Mayor The Mayors Fund for Philadelphia (the
Issued by The Mayor's Fund for Philadelphia on behalf of the City of Philadelphia, Office of Transportation and Infrastructure Systems The Mayors Fund for Philadelphia (the
Issued by The Mayor's Fund for Philadelphia on behalf of the City of Philadelphia, Parks and Recreation Deadline to submit questions is Monday, June 27. Responses must be received no later than 3:00 p.m. EST, on Friday, July 1, 2016. All proposals and questions should be submitted to The Mayor’s Fund at mayorsfund@phila.gov Mail hardContinue Reading »
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Philadelphia announces plans to enliven City Hall Courtyard courtesy of Southwest Airlines Southwest Airlines Awards Heart of the Community Grant helps Philadelphia City partners to work together to make Philadelphia's City Hall Courtyard the community's next great public space PHILADELPHIA (April 12, 2016)
In Jacksonville, Florida, Mayor Lenny Curry is hiring for a novel new position within his administration—a chief philanthropy officer for the city. The idea is not an entirely novel one; the state of Michigan created an Office of Foundation Liaison (OFL) in 2003 in what the state called a
An update on the awardees of The Catalyst Fund, intended to support ideas and initiatives in their early stages. Sometimes change is an absolute necessity. The Barra Foundation's Catalyst Fund is designed to fund projects where risk-taking is a necessity: when challenges to old assumptions need to be made and organizations work to create newContinue Reading »
Philadelphia, February 13, 2015
Ever since Washington, D.C., launched the nation's first publicly funded bike share program in 2008, some 70 cities have followed suit, from Savannah to Seattle. And while some systems have floundered financially—even D.C.'s original SmartBike system shut down in 2011 before its current Capital Bikeshare took off—bike sharing in the U.S. is clearly on aContinue Reading »
Philadelphia, February 27, 2015