New city budget increases funding for the arts
The 2023 fiscal budget, which passed the City Council on Thursday and came into force on July 1, contains mostly good news for the arts and crafts sector. city culture, heavily battered by the pandemic-related decline of the past two years. At the very least, there is no bad news of a drastic reduction in operating subsidies. The Philadelphia Cultural Fund, the main source of support for arts organizations across the city by allocating peer-reviewed competitive grants, has seen its budget increase to $ 3.5 million for fiscal 2023, ‘ away from the first pandemic budget that initially sought toRead News