Funds will be used to engage consultants and experts in nonprofit property development, refine strategic priorities, and determine a long-term revenue plan to create this physical film hub.
To preserve the only black box theater in Oakland and allow the space to continue to serve a very diverse performing arts community.
Supports dancers, choreographers, teachers, and administrators whose work is based in the exploration and expression of the African diaspora in the San Francisco Bay Area. In its first round, the relief fund supported a total of 26 Black/African American/African-descended artists.
This is a one-year pilot of a funder collaborative intended to invest in communities of color with the values outlined in its North Star Statement: We commit to amplifying the voices, power, arts, and cultures of people of color and other vulnerable communities in the Bay Area, particularly those living at or near poverty, to […]
Funds will be used to support activities by Vital Arts and the Northern California Land Trust to secure seed funding and investment for launching operations, enlisting important community leaders as advisors, and developing communications to spread awareness of the program and its benefits for artists and property owners.
MediaMaker Fellowship Program for emerging social issue documentary filmmakers. Bay Area Video Coalition inspires social change by empowering media makers to develop and share diverse stories through art, education and technology.
An initiative to preserve the murals and protest/demonstration art from across Oakland. By providing administrative assistance for deinstallation, registration and storage.
Californians for the Arts is the only comprehensive, multidisciplinary organization focused on advancing and building public awareness of the value and impact of arts, culture and creativity across the state.
An initiative that acts as an experimental arm of the philanthropic sector. AmbitioUS is a set of activities to enact a new, values-based economic ecosystem; to afford ownership among those who have been excluded by conventional systems of for-profit and nonprofit support; to center on artists and cultural work that root enabling financial systems; and […]
To support 20% of the position cost for the Director of Art Spaces at the City of Oakland Office of Economic and Workforce Development.
