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January 15, 2025

Announcing the 2024 Leeway Transformation Awardees

PHILADELPHIA, PA — In December 2024, Leeway Foundation awarded $180,000 in unrestricted support to 12 women, trans*, and/or gender nonconforming...

January 14, 2025

Announcing the 2024 Art and Change Grant Recipients

PHILADELPHIA, PA [NOVEMBER 25, 2024]—Leeway Foundation announces $62,500 in project-based funding to 30 women, trans*, and/or gender nonconforming...

January 14, 2025

Pia Agrawal named incoming Leeway Foundation Executive Director

We, the Leeway Board of Directors, are delighted to announce that Pia Agrawal will join the Leeway Foundation as our new executive director beginning...

November 7, 2024

Announcing the 2024 Media Artist + Activist Residencies

PHILADELPHIA, PA — In the fourth year of the Media Artist + Activist Residency, Leeway Foundation is proud to announce $150,000 in funding to 6 women...

January 12, 2024

Announcing the 2023 Transformation Award (LTA) Recipients

In December 2023, Leeway Foundation awarded 12 artists with the Transformation Award, moving $180,000 of unrestricted support to women, trans*, and...

October 13, 2023

Leeway Podcast: 2015 Art and Change Grant

Produced by Ariel Goodman Hosted by Ariel Goodman In 2015, 48 women and trans artists received the Leeway Foundation Art and Change Grant. The Art and...

October 13, 2023

MamaCita’s One Year Project featured on WHYY’s NewsWorks

By Maleka Fruean for NewsWorks It's up to three hundred and eleven. That's how many homicide victims there have been in Philadelphia this year as of...