The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
The Philadelphia Cultural Management Initiative
Philadelphia Cultural Management Initiative 2010 Guidelines are now available. Click here to go to the download page, or here to see a summary of what’s new.
Please note that the Philadelphia Cultural Management Initiative 2010 grant application deadline has now passed.
The Philadelphia Cultural Management Initiative (PCMI) seeks to strengthen the management capacity of cultural organizations in Greater Philadelphia in ways that propel programmatic excellence and help organizations engage audiences. It was launched by The Pew Charitable Trusts in 2001 to address the management challenges of a wide range of arts and cultural organizations.
As a program of The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage (Center), PCMI does not see organizational development as an end in itself, but rather as a set of activities that propel and support continuous improvement in an organization’s programming and ability to effectively engage audiences. It works in concert with the Artistic Initiatives of the Center to focus its support on organizations that have demonstrated a history of programmatic excellence, and will help them build administrative and adaptive capacity to meet the challenges of a changing economy, ever-shifting audiences, and an increasingly competitive cultural sector.
PCMI, together with the Center and its Artistic Initiatives, is funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts and administered by the University of the Arts.
Photo at top: Nichole Canuso Dance Company. Wandering Alice. Photo: Cylla von Tiedemann