{"id":408822,"date":"2026-09-24T01:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T01:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/408822\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T01:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T01:20:12","slug":"orlando-philharmonic-and-ballet-win-leadership-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/408822\/","title":{"rendered":"Orlando Philharmonic and ballet win leadership awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Two Central Florida arts organizations are receiving major grants as part of the 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/drphillips.org\/dr-phillips-charities-impact-awards-2026\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/drphillips.org\/dr-phillips-charities-impact-awards-2026\/\">Dr. Phillips Charities Impact Awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">Dr. Phillips Charities announced Wednesday that the Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra and Orlando Ballet are this year\u2019s recipients of the Dr. Phillips Leadership Award.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">The organization said each will receive $125,000 in recognition of their contributions to Central Florida\u2019s arts community and efforts to expand access to the arts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">Dr. Phillips Charities said another 15 Central Florida nonprofits will each receive $5,000 microgrants, bringing the total awarded through this year\u2019s Impact Awards to $325,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\">The organization said all 17 recipients will be recognized during an awards ceremony Oct. 15 at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790212812_159_APP DOWNLOAD LOCAL_1541693885678.jpg_13622062_ver1.0.jpg\" width=\"100%\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM WFTV CHANNEL 9<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 eJzHXc body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Two Central Florida arts organizations are receiving major grants as part of the 2026&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408823,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[147,145,55397,28,8638,160428,139,3206,141,140,32467,144,146],"class_list":["post-408822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-orlando","tag-central-florida","tag-channel-9","tag-dr-phillips-charities","tag-florida","tag-impact-awards","tag-leadership-award","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-ballet","tag-orlando-headlines","tag-orlando-news","tag-orlando-philharmonic-orchestra","tag-wftv","tag-wftv-channel-9"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}