Provides quick turnaround loans to arts organizations.
$2,775,000 over three years for the SFFILM Rainin Filmmaking program to support narrative films that highlight important issues facing our society. This program includes screenwriting, development and post-production grants, as well as a six-month residency at FilmHouse, where recipients benefit from SFFILM’s comprehensive and dynamic artist development programs.
The Rainin Foundation provided planning grants to the following organizations to develop proposals for network of services models and pilots serving individual artists and artist-led organizations. These research and design grants are part of the Foundation’s ongoing work to explore alternative pathways for artist support systems that unleash creativity, address systemic inequities and reduce administrative […]
An ongoing monthly column that will pair 16 artists, writers, critics, curators and other arts practitioners who intersect with diverse artistic practices in an exchange of “letters.
A grant program dedicated to investing in bold ideas by individuals at California nonprofit or fiscally sponsored arts organizations that have the potential to reshape the future of the arts sector.
The Director for Arts Spaces is charged with implementing specific initiatives and interventions to help stem the displacement of artists and arts organizations from Oakland.
To create affordable, long-term space for artists and small and mid-sized arts organizations in San Francisco, Oakland and other urban locations.
A series of videos featuring site-specific dances, performed in cinematic urban and natural world settings, that tell intimate, personal stories of artists’ journeys, as well as universal stories about their city or community.
Invests early in diverse emerging filmmaker teams to serve as a catalyst for the filmmakers’ future films and long-term career development.
For a 9-month project to activate and enliven the “Block by Block” installation and its adjoining public space on San Francisco’s Market Street.
