A three-year grant to support the Resident Playwrights Program, a comprehensive suite of year-round, integrated services and activities for distinguished early-career Bay Area playwrights.
Oakland Futures Project sims to harness the ideas and influence of Oakland’s high-profile arts leaders such as W. Kamau Bell, Chinaka Hodge and Ryan Coogler to design a path forward for Oakland to remain a thriving, inclusive and safe arts community that can grow its influence and respond to next generation creatives.
A research project supporting the stabilization of Ragged Wing Ensemble (RWE). RWE produces theater and operates The Flight Deck, an accessible venue open to community arts organizations, and collaborative development of the Oakland Cultural Space Collaborative.
A program which will build cross-sector relationships, invest in changemakers, deploy capital in field-informing ways, and disseminate learning and knowledge at the intersection of building alternative economies and developing support systems for artists’ financial self-determination.
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.
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.
