Save the arts and serve all the people, restore OACCE and PCF budgets, Part 2
Although we understand the City of Philadelphia faces financial challenges from the coronavirus pandemic, Mayor Kenney’s revised FY2021 budget proposal to eliminate the Office of Arts, Culture and the Creative Economy (OACCE), as well as all funding for the Philadelphia Cultural Fund (PCF), which makes annual grants to about 350 non-profit cultural organizations, is disproportionally unfair and short-sighted.