Arts and Culture Grants 2008

Goal: Nurture creativity, support arts education, and broaden cultural participation in order to enrich, develop, and celebrate communities.

176 grants totaling $2,262,588

Objective: Increase opportunities for access by all to participation in diverse cultural and artistic experiences. Total: $164,000

ArtsChange
To support artistic programming in Richmond and Oakland community venues including health centers, schools, and social service agencies.
Richmond
$7,500

Creative Growth Inc.
To support arts instruction and exhibitions for adults and young people with disabilities.
Oakland
$12,000

Crucible
To support the youth and community programs.
Oakland
$10,000

DrawBridge
To provide core operating support.
San Rafael
$10,000

League of Volunteers, Inc.
To provide arts programming for students in Fremont, Newark, and Union City schools.
Newark
$10,000

Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired
To support the organization, artist participation, and outreach for Insights, an exhibition of work by blind and visually impaired artists.
San Francisco
$10,000

New America Media
To support arts and culture programming for Roaddawgz Homeless Youth Drop-In.
San Francisco
$7,500

Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir
To support the Community Engagement Program.
Oakland
$10,000

Opera Piccola
To provide core operating support.
Oakland
$12,000

Pro Arts
To support programming and organizational development.
Oakland
$20,000>

SFJAZZ
To support facility planning, infrastructure, artistic, and education programs for this jazz-based arts organization.
San Francisco
$30,000>

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
To support multidisciplinary artistic, educational, and administrative programs.
San Francisco
$15,000

Zeum
To support weekend art workshops for youth and families.
San Francisco
$10,000

Objective: Support arts programs that foster creativity, self-expression, cross-cultural exchange, and civic participation for children and young adults. Total: $669,000

Ali Akbar College of Music
To provide 20 performances, lecture demonstrations, and classroom demonstrations of classical North Indian music for K-12 students throughout the Bay Area.
San Rafael
$12,000

American Conservatory Theatre
To expose diverse students to live theater and educational workshops.
San Francisco
$20,000

Art in Action
To expand K-8 programs and teacher training to 50 new classrooms in Bay Area schools.
Menlo Park
$10,000

Asian Art Museum Foundation
To support youth education programs.
San Francisco
$15,000

Bayview Hunters Point Center for the Arts and Technology
To support on-site programming at Bayview Hunters Point and Southeast San Francisco high schools, middle schools, and community centers.
San Francisco
$10,000

Berkeley Symphony Orchestra
To expand the orchestra's educational programs serving East Bay elementary schools.
Berkeley
$12,000

Black Repertory Group
To support the TACE (Tutorial Academic Cultural Empowerment) program of year-round youth programs.
Berkeley
$7,500

Boys and Girls Clubs of Oakland
To support music and visual arts programs for Oakland children and youth.
Oakland
$7,500

California Shakespeare Theater
To provide theater residencies in Oakland schools.
Berkeley
$12,000

Cantare Con Vivo
To support music education programs in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties.
Oakland
$10,000

Carnales Unidos Reformando Adictos, Inc.
To develop and refine the curriculum of the Recovery Through the Arts and Humanities program.
Fremont
$7,500

Cartoon Art Museum
To support the Comic Book Project, a comic-based literacy and arts program.
San Francisco
$24,000>

Center for the Art of Translation
To support the expansion of the Poetry Inside Out creative writing program.
San Francisco
$10,000

Chabot Space and Science Center
To provide low-cost or free arts education trainings to Oakland Unified School District teachers.
Oakland
$10,000

Community Music Center
To support additional services for low-income youth and for financial aid to assist talented young artists.
San Francisco
$40,000>

Contemporary Jewish Museum
To launch the teen docent and job training program.
San Francisco
$15,000

Cypress Performing Arts Association
To support Call and Response music program in schools.
San Francisco
$7,500

Del Sol Performing Arts Organization
To support the arts education project Composing Together.
San Francisco
$10,000

Destiny Arts Center
To support on-site and outreach programs during an executive director transition.
Oakland
$10,000

East Side Arts Alliance
To provide core operating support.
Oakland
$12,000

Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
To support the art education program Get Smart with Art.
San Francisco
$15,000

Friends of the San Francisco Public Library
To support One City One Book: San Francisco Reads.
San Francisco
$10,000

Golden Thread Productions
To support the salary of a director for the Education Program.
San Francisco
$10,000

Imagine Bus Project
To support art programs for youth incarcerated in San Francisco's Youth Guidance Center.
San Francisco
$10,000

Marin Shakespeare Company
To support the Play Power program, providing standards-based performing arts instruction in schools.
San Rafael
$10,000

MMG Foundation
To support the Visual Thinking Strategies program in five schools.
San Francisco
$10,000

Moving Arts Dance
To support dance education, workshops, and performances.
Concord
$10,000

Museum of Children's Art
To support the Little Studio Program.
Oakland
$12,000

New Century Chamber Orchestra
To support music education programs in Marin City and San Rafael's Canal District.
San Francisco
$10,000

Northern California Music and Art Culture Center
To support the salary of the full-time youth art director position.
San Francisco
$7,500

Oakland Youth Chorus
To support hiring a part-time director of marketing and individual fundraising.
Oakland
$10,000

Oakland Youth Orchestra
To support the music lesson scholarship program.
Oakland
$10,000

Oaktown Jazz Workshops
To support year-round instructional workshops, school lecture demonstrations, and public performances.
Oakland
$10,000

Precita Eyes Muralists Association Inc. Center
To support the salaries of the business and program directors.
San Francisco
$10,000

Prescott-Joseph Center for Community Enhancement, Inc.
To support arts programs and general operations.
Oakland
$30,000

Purple Silk Music Education Foundation
To support artistic and administrative costs.
Oakland
$7,500

Rhythmix Cultural Works
To support afterschool and summertime youth arts education.
Alameda
$7,500

River of Words
To support the salary of an office manager.
Berkeley
$10,000

Rock Paper Scissors Collective
To support new art works, exhibitions, and programming.
Oakland
$7,500

San Francisco Art Institute
To strengthen the City Studio youth arts programming.
San Francisco
$25,000>

San Francisco Ballet
To support the company's dance education programs.
San Francisco
$15,000

San Francisco Performances
To provide core operating support.
San Francisco
$30,000>

San Francisco Symphony
To support the Adventures in Music and Take Note programs.
San Francisco
$15,000

Sixth Street Photography Workshop
To support photography workshops for low-income adults who have experienced homelessness, exploitation, addiction, and abuse.
San Francisco
$10,000

Small Press Distribution, Inc.
To support classes, events, and publications serving Bay Area high school and college students, creative writing instructors, and high school English teachers.
Berkeley
$10,000

Stagebridge
To support the creation and development of a performing arts training institute for older artists.
Oakland
$10,000

Stanford Lively Arts
To support performing arts education and community engagement programs for young people in San Mateo County.
Stanford
$10,000

Stern Grove Festival Association
To support education and outreach programs.
San Francisco
$15,000

TheatreWorks
To support the Arts-in-Education program in San Mateo County.
Palo Alto
$10,000

University of California Regents, Cal Performances
To support AileyCamp and Cal Performances in the classrooms.
Berkeley
$15,000

Visual Arts/Language Arts
To bring artists and writers to more elementary schools in Richmond and San Pablo.
Berkeley
$7,500

Young Audiences of Northern California
To support arts education programming.
San Francisco
$10,000

Young Musicians Program
To support the Scaling Up youth music training program.
Berkeley
$10,000

Youth Movement Records
To expand the depth and scope of music and media literacy programs.
Oakland
$7,500

Objective: Support efforts to deepen, expand, and diversify audiences for artistic and cultural presentations. Total: $57,000

Accion Latina
To increase program offerings promoting and celebrating Latino cultural arts and traditions.
San Francisco
$7,500

Ashkenaz Music and Dance Community Center
To strengthen cultural outreach to immigrant and younger adult audiences.
Berkeley
$12,000

Chhandam Chitresh Das Dance Company
To expand audiences and deepen their participation, particularly in South Asian communities, through marketing, branding, and outreach initiatives.
San Francisco
$10,000

Heyday Institute
To establish a marketing plan for publications on African American literature, art, history, and culture.
Berkeley
$10,000

Randall Museum Friends
To support outreach and membership materials.
San Francisco
$10,000

San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
To support audience outreach and diversification efforts.
San Francisco
$7,500

Objective: Support the use of art and cultural participation in building communities. Total: $150,000

Angel Island Immigration Station Foundation
To provide core operating support.
San Francisco
$15,000

Arab Cultural Center
To support performances and art exhibitions celebrating Arab and Arab American culture.
San Francisco
$10,000

Asian Improv Arts
To support a strategic planning process for the organization and its affiliates.
San Francisco
$10,000

Bindlestiff Studio
To support the Stories High Program.
San Francisco
$7,500

Frameline
To support the Generations Film Workshop: Youth and Elders Making Movies Together.
San Francisco
$10,000

Fresh Meat Productions
To support the artistic director's salary.
San Francisco
$7,500

Independent Arts and Media
To support hiring a part-time program manager to strengthen and extend volunteer-run, year-round education, connection, and dialogue services.
San Francisco
$7,500

La Pena Cultural Center
To support cross-cultural, multidisciplinary artistic programming.
Berkeley
$15,000

Libros, Arte y Cultura
To support arts education and cultural programming.
Oakland
$7,500

Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center
To support the first year of a three-year capacity building initiative.
San Pablo
$15,000

Mayor's Working Group on American Indian Issues, San Francisco
To support the American Indian Working Group project to map the needs of American Indian artists.
San Francisco
$5,000<

Mission Neighborhood Centers
To support the school-based Cultural Arts Education Program of the Mission Neighborhood Centers' Carnaval San Francisco.
San Francisco
$10,000

Pew Charitable Trusts
To support the California Cultural Data Project.
Phildelphia
$15,000>

Red Poppy Art House
To support multi-generational community outreach.
San Francisco
$7,500

Red Poppy Art House
To support project POCO and the Family Art Project.
San Francisco
$7,500

Objective: Invest in the development and the presentation of diverse artistic practices reflective of the myriad communities in the region. Total: $702,238

3rd I South Asian Independent Film
To support organizational, financial, and programmatic development by expanding the artistic director position to 3/4 time.
San Francisco
$7,500

African and African-American Performing Arts Coalition
To support artistic and technical staff fees for the Black Choreographers festival.
San Francisco
$7,500

Alliance for California Traditional Arts
To provide core operating support.
San Francisco
$30,000>

Alonzo King's LINES Ballet
To support salaries and health benefits.
San Francisco
$24,000>

AXIS Dance Company
To support artistic, educational, and administrative programs.
Oakland
$10,000

Bay Area Video Coalition
To support the Frameworks program.
San Francisco
$15,000

Brava! for Women in the Arts/Brava Theater Center
To provide core operating support.
San Francisco
$12,000

California Lawyers for the Arts
To expand Bay Area educational programs for artists and arts organizations.
San Francisco
$14,000>

Campo Santo
To support artistic, educational, and outreach programs.
San Francisco
$20,000>

Chinese Cultural Productions
To partially underwrite the artistic director's salary for the 20th anniversary season.
San Francisco
$10,000

Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco
To support exhibitions and related programs.
San Francisco
$10,000

CounterPULSE
To provide core operating support.
San Francisco
$28,750>

Cultural Odyssey
To provide core operating support.
San Francisco
$24,000>

Dance Brigade
To support and develop year-round dance and education activities.
San Francisco
$28,750>

Dance USA
To support the participation of Bay Area artists, managers, and presenters in the 2008 Internationale Tanzmesse.
Washington
$10,000

Dancers' Group
To support artistic and educational programming.
San Francisco
$12,000

Dimensions Dance Theater
To support artistic, educational, and administrative operations.
Oakland
$15,000>

East Bay Center for the Performing Arts
To support renovations and sustain core programs.
Richmond
$30,000>

Epiphany Productions Sonic Dance Theater
To support capacity building for the organization to mount its own productions and Trolley Dances, strengthen and expand educational activities, and diversify audiences.
San Francisco
$15,000>

First Voice, Inc.
To support the artistic directors' salaries.
San Francisco
$10,000

foolsFURY Theater
To support artist stipends and educational programs for the 2009 festival of ensemble theater.
San Francisco
$10,000

Galeria/Studio 24
To support arts, education, and community programs.
San Francisco
$10,000

Illuminated Corridor
To support community convenings, artist commissioning, and production expenses for a public art project that will bring film, music, and sound art to the Port of Oakland's Middle Harbor Shoreline Park.
Oakland
$7,500

Intersection for the Arts
To support artist professional development workshops, the Hybrid Project for multidisciplinary art development, and the three literary awards.
San Francisco
$38,200

Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
To support multicultural programming and the Shenson Concert Music Series.
San Francisco
$20,000

Marin Theatre Company
To support general operations.
Mill Valley
$12,000

Merola Opera Program
To support the professional development program.
San Francisco
$13,650

Museum of the African Diaspora
To support exhibitions, education, public programs, and development of online content.
San Francisco
$15,000

Oakland Asian Cultural Center
To support the Artist-in-Residence Program.
Oakland
$12,000

Oakland Opera Theater
To support the development and presentation of operatic works.
Oakland
$7,500

Oberlin Dance Collective of California
To support artistic and choreographic development over two years.
San Francisco
$25,000>

Playwrights Foundation
To support artistic and educational programming.
San Francisco
$10,000

Project Bandaloop
To build capacity and expand programming for this Oakland-based dance company.
San Francisco
$10,000

Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project
To support the executive director's salary.
San Francisco
$7,500

Ronn Guidi Foundation for the Performing Arts
To support the marketing of artistic programs at the Paramount Theater.
Oakland
$10,000

San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
To support two annual exhibitions featuring recipients of the Murphy and Cadogan Fellowships in the Fine Arts.
San Francisco
$14,000>

San Francisco Chamber Orchestra
To support artistic and educational programming, including two seasons of free concerts in San Francisco, Berkeley, and San Mateo.
San Francisco
$20,000>

San Francisco Film Society
To support artistic, educational, and administrative programs.
San Francisco
$30,000>

San Francisco Mime Troupe
To support youth education programs and two seasons of free summer shows in local parks.
San Francisco
$21,888>

San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum
To support the Shenson Research Library and general operations.
San Francisco
$20,000

Savage Jazz Dance Company
To expand and strengthen administrative staff.
Oakland
$10,000

Shotgun Players
To support artist fees.
Berkeley
$12,000

Slavonic Cultural Center
To support the executive director's salary.
San Francisco
$10,000

Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center
To expand the Friday Night Reading Series.
San Francisco
$7,500

SomArts Cultural Center
To support exhibitions at this South of Market art space.
San Francisco
$15,000

Koshland Arts Mini Grants

The Arts and Culture program collaborates with the Foundation’s Koshland Civic Unity Program to award small grants to support free cultural events in key Bay Area neighborhoods. Total: $24,350

4 Corners Neighborhood Action Team
To support the 4th Annual Monument Community Pride Celebration.
Concord
$2,000<

Bayview/Anna E. Waden Branch Library
To support the second phase of the Bayview Hunters Point History Preservation Project.
San Francisco
$2,000<

Berkeley Youth Alternatives
To support Rhythm Rocks on the Road partnership with Jazzschool.
Berkeley
$2,000<

Casa de Esperanza
To support Arte Textil Azteca for youth and families in the Iron Triangle.
Richmond
$2,000<

Church Without Walls
To support the West Berkeley Mural project working with low-income teens to create a neighborhood mural.
Berkeley
$2,000<

Contra Costa Child Care Council
To support the 2nd Annual Children's Art and Literacy Festival.
Concord
$2,000<

Danse Lumiere
To support the production of a music, dance, and theatre project bringing together local artists and Bay Area war veterans.
Richmond
$1,500<

Grace Lutheran Church
To support the Grace Lutheran Youth Orchestra.
Richmond
$2,000<

Lao Senior Association, Inc
To support Lao cultural preservation and cultural awareness by promoting the bonds between Lao seniors and teens.
San Pablo
$2,000

Mount Diablo Unified School District
To support artistic residencies and cultural festivals in five schools.
Concord
$2,000<

Terrain, A Dance and Performance Collective
To support Dance-a-Rama, an evening of four performances at Eight Street Artists' Center in West Berkeley.
Berkeley
$850<

Whitney Young Child Development Center
To support the presentations of Seasons of Dreams.
San Francisco
$2,000<

Youth Spirit ArtWorks (YaYa California)
To support Bollards and Benches, a series of four weekend neighborhood art-making workshops.
Berkeley
$2,000<

Shenson Performing Arts Fellowships  

Shenson Performing Arts Fellowships support outstanding pre-professional performing arts students. Total: $25,000

Alonzo King's LINES Ballet
To support dancer David Harvey.
San Francisco
$5,000

American Conservatory Theatre
To support actor Nicholas Pelczar.
San Francisco
$5,000

Merola Opera Program
To support vocalist Daveda Karanas.
San Francisco
$5,000

San Francisco Conservatory of Music
To support vocalist Eleazer Rodriguez.
San Francisco
$5,000

Youth Speaks
To support performer Jose Vadi.
San Francisco
$5,000

Fund for Artists

The Fund for Artists supports the endeavors of individual artists through commissions, artists' residencies, awards, advocacy, workshops, promotional instruction, and networking support. This $2 million fund is a collaborative effort between Bay Area Community Foundations and the Irvine, Hewlett, Surdna, and Wattis Foundations, and Leveraging Investments in Creativity. Total: $368,000

American Composers Forum, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter
To support the 21st Century Music for the People program and the Northern California Composers Commissioning Program.
San Francisco
$38,000

Marin Arts Council
To regrant the Hewlett Foundation's award for Phase Two of the community foundations' Fund for Artists collaboration.
San Rafael
$43,500<

Theatre Bay Area
To support general operations, Fund for Artists regranting, and Wallace Foundation partnering on workshops, scholarships, shared mailing lists, and website build-out for SFArts.org.
San Francisco
$256,500>

World Arts West
To support artists fees for the Ethnic Dance Festival and Fund for Artists choreographer commissions.
San Francisco
$30,000>

Fund for Artists Commissioning Grants

To support the development of new work by Bay Area artists and, at the same time, help small to mid-sized arts groups diversify funding by attracting individual donors. These grants had to be matched on a one-to-one basis by contributions from individual donors. Total: $103,000

African-American Shakespeare Company
To support "The Othello Papers" by Robert Henry Johnson.
San Francisco
$5,000

Chhandam Chitresh Das Dance Company
To support "Shabdh" by Pandit Chitresh Das.
San Francisco
$5,000

Chinese Cultural Productions
To support "A Portrait of a Chinese Woman III" by Lily Cai.
San Francisco
$5,000

Cultural Odyssey
To support "The Breach" by Rhodessa Jones.
San Francisco
$5,000

Intersection for the Arts
To support "Most Wanted" by Taraneh Hemami.
San Francisco
$5,000

Kearny Street Workshop
To support "Activist Imagination" by Donna Keiko Ozawa, Christine Wong Yap, and Bob Hsiang.
San Francisco
$5,000

Kid Serve Youth Murals
To support the Urban Portrait Project, two mosaic murals designed by Josef Norris.
San Francisco
$5,000

Melody of China
To support new music by Alan Chan, Eric Myers, Dawei Wang, and Bik Lee.
San Francisco
$5,000

Na Lei Hulu I Ka Weku Hula Halau
To support "Songs of O'ahu" by Patrick Makuakane.
San Francisco
$5,000

New Langton Arts
To support "Interrupted Passage" by Julio Cesar Morales.
San Francisco
$5,000

ODC/San Francisco
To support "RedGoldSky" by Sara Mann.
San Francisco
$5,000

Paul Dresher Ensemble/Musical Traditions
To support a new musical composition by Gyan Riley.
San Francisco
$5,000

Queer Cultural Center
To support "From the Margins" by Juba Kalamka, Katastrophe, Robert Karimi, Sean Dorsey, and Rhodessa Jones.
San Francisco
$5,000

Red Poppy Art House
To support "Nefasha Ayer: The Space of In-Between" by Meklit Hadero, Prasant Radhakrishnan, Sameer Gupta, Eliyahu Sills, Gabriel Teodros, and Todd Brown.
San Francisco
$5,000

Robert Moses' Kin
To support "Redline" by Robert Moses.
San Francisco
$5,000

San Francisco Camerawork
To support "Photo-Performance Karaoke Sessions" by Guillermo Gomez-Pena.
San Francisco
$5,000

San Francisco Electronic Music Festival
To support "Those Were the Times" by Fred Frith and Patrice Scanlon.
San Francisco
$3,000

ShadowLight Productions
To support "Ghost of the River" by Octavio Solis and Larry Reed.
San Francisco
$5,000

Traveling Jewish Theatre
To support "Freedom Summer" by Marcus Gardley.
San Francisco
$5,000

World Arts West
To support "The Lost Sun Dagger" by Edwardo Madril.
San Francisco
$5,000

Youth Speaks
To support "The War at Peace," lead written by Chinaka Hodge.
San Francisco
$5,000

< Denotes grant term is less than 12 months.
> Denotes grant term is more than 12 months.