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Pa. and N.J. Arts Groups Awarded Stimulus Money
Philadelphia Inquirer
Stephan Salisbury
(July 11, 2009) - The National Endowment for the Arts has awarded $1.47 million in federal stimulus grants to 32 arts and cultural groups in Pennsylvania. An additional $600,000 will go to 14 organizations in New Jersey.
The arts agency received about $50 million for distribution nationally as part of the federal economic recovery effort. In Philadelphia, 21 organizations will receive a total of about $1 million, according to a spokesman for the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance. That includes $250,000 for the alliance, which will pass it along in grants to arts organizations.
The funds distributed to the Cultural Alliance, which teamed up with the city's Office of Arts and Culture to secure the money, will go to support jobs "threatened or already eliminated" or to maintain artistic contracts, the alliance said.
