Amsterdam, Peggy

Peggy Amsterdam is President of the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance. The Cultural Alliance is the region’s leading non-profit organization dedicated to advancing the cultural sector, serving as a vital resource to its 298 non-profit member organizations and the broader cultural community. Under her direction, the Cultural Alliance has launched major marketing and grant making initiatives while moving to the forefront of the sectors advocacy efforts. Amsterdam is a member of the Board of Managers of the Philadelphia Foundation; Executive Committee, Greater Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau; and Forum of Executive Women, International Women’s Forum. She is a frequent panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, and has served on the steering committee of the Arts Education Partnership. Amsterdam formerly served as Governor Tom Carper’s Director of the Delaware Division of the Arts from 1993- 2000 and was a founding member of the Delaware Arts Stabilization Fund, which now serves as a national model for private, public, and corporate collaboration for sustaining arts organizations.