Our 2012 Arts and Culture Grantees

Open Cycle Grantees
Bay Area Documentary Fund Grantees
Leveraging Social Media Grantees
National Arts Marketing Project Implementation Fund Grantees

Open Cycle Grantees

110 grants totaling $1,239,500

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

Objectives:

  1. Invest in the development and presentation of high quality and diverse artistic practices reflective of the myriad communities in the region.
  2. Support arts education programs that foster creativity, self-expression, cross-cultural exchange, and civic participation for children and young adults.
  3. Increase opportunities for all to participate in diverse cultural and artistic experiences.
  4. Support art making and cultural participation in building communities.
  5. Contribute to efforts to engage, expand, and diversify audiences for artistic and cultural presentations.
Organization Purpose Amount Grantee Location
3rd I South Asian Independent Film To support artistically excellent films that reflect South Asian lives and experiences. $10,000 San Francisco
Abada Capoeira San Francisco Brazilian Cultural Center To nurture positive development and long-term success of youth served through the organization’s in-school, after-school, weekend, and summer programs. $15,000 San Francisco
African & African-American Performing Arts Coalition To support artistic and technical consultant fees associated with the “Black Choreographers Festival: Here & Now” in 2013. $5,000 San Francisco
AfroSolo Theatre Company To support 19th Annual AfroSolo Arts Festival, titled “RACE.” $8,000 San Francisco
Alameda County Office of Education, Alliance for Arts To support arts learning at the core of the highest quality public education. $10,000 Hayward
Alonzo King’s LINES Ballet To support the creation and production of dance works and education programs that cultivate strong, exceptionally-trained artists who value artistic risk-taking and independent thinking. $10,000 San Francisco
Alternative Theater Ensemble To support the organization’s expanded new works program, with a playwright residency supporting three to five writers each year. $7,500 San Rafael
API Cultural Center, Inc. To support building vibrant communities through Asian and Pacific Islander American (APIA) arts and culture programs that foster intergenerational and cross-cultural dialogue, cultural identity, collaborations, and social justice. $15,000 Oakland
ArtsChange To support free after school visual art workshops and public exhibitions for Richmond youth ages 14-21. $10,000 Richmond
Asian Art Museum Foundation To support year-round arts education and public programs. $10,000 San Francisco
Asociacion Mayab To sustain and expand the activities of the traditional Maya dance troupe Mayab to continue to provide dance lessons and to support public presentations of this traditional art form before diverse audiences in the Bay Area. $5,000 San Francisco
Au Co Vietnamese Cultural Center To support the initiatives of the Tenderloin Southeast Asian Arts and Culture Coalition, including the Mid-Autumn and the Southeast Asian Arts Expo. $8,000 San Francisco
AXIS Dance Company To support the creation and performance of contemporary dance developed through collaboration between dancers with and without disabilities. $15,000 Oakland
Bay Area Video Coalition To support the sharing of diverse stories that inspire social change through art, education, and technology. $10,000 San Francisco
BAY-Peace: Better Alternatives for Youth To develop an interactive “Theatre of the Oppressed” performance and workshop. $5,000 Oakland
Bayview Hunters Point Center for the Arts and Technology To support underserved youth and young adults to produce digital media that tells their unique stories and engages them to positively transform themselves, their communities, and the world. $15,000 San Francisco
Bayview Opera House, Inc. To support Dare to Dream, a year round arts enrichment programs benefiting the residents of the Bayview Hunters Point community. $12,500 San Francisco
Berkeley Repertory Theatre To bring arts enrichment opportunities to children, young adults, and students of all ages throughout the Bay Area. $10,000 Berkeley
Blue Bear School of Music To expand and deepen the Rock Band Ensemble program at James Lick Middle School. $10,000 San Francisco
California Lawyers for the Arts To support artist surveys, artist training, and at least three demonstration projects in Bay Area county jails, juvenile halls, and state prisons. $25,000 San Francisco
Californians for the Arts To support public awareness of the importance of the arts, ensuring that the arts are an ongoing part of the public dialogue, and encouraging Californians to care about the arts as a critical component of their lives. $10,000 San Francisco
Campo Santo To support the development and presentation of new plays and nurture new audiences for theatre. $10,000 San Francisco
Cantare Con Vivo To support fostering a diverse community of compassion and understanding across generational, cultural, and economic boundaries through the beauty and power of choral music $15,000 Oakland
Center for Asian American Media To support the presentation of stories that convey the richness and diversity of Asian American experiences to the broadest audience possible by funding, producing, distributing, and exhibiting works in film, television, and digital media. $10,000 San Francisco
Center for Cultural Innovation To support professional development and peer learning opportunities for Bay Area artists and arts administrators through the Creative Capacity Fund. $20,000 Los Angeles
Chhandam Chitresh Das Dance Company To support the implementation of the Marketing and Communications Plan $10,000 San Francisco
Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco To support the promotion and influence of Chinese art and culture. $15,000 San Francisco
Chinese Historical Society of America To support the 2012 Symposium entitled “At Liberty’s Door” exploring the history and lessons learned from the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act experience and its applications to issues of US immigration today. $10,000 San Francisco
Community Music Center To support high quality music accessible to all people, regardless of their financial status. $10,000 San Francisco
CounterPULSE To support a forum for the open exchange of art and ideas and the creation of socially relevant, community-based art and culture. $15,000 San Francisco
Creative Growth Inc. To support a creative and supportive environment for artistic exploration, gallery promotion, and personal growth for adult and young adult artists with developmental, physical, emotional, and mental disabilities. $10,000 Oakland
Creativity Explored of San Francisco To support artists with developmental disabilities by giving them the means to create, exhibit, and sell their art in their studios and gallery, and around the world. $10,000 San Francisco
Crowded Fire Theater Company To support The Matchbox: Commissioning and Developing New Works program that champions the voices of a diverse body of playwrights. $10,000 San Francisco
CubaCaribe To support the 8th Annual CubaCaribe Festival in April 2012 in San Francisco and Oakland. $8,000 San Francisco
Cultural Odyssey To support the artistic work and vision of Rhodessa Jones and Idris Ackamoor, as well as an ancillary group of emerging and established performing artists. $15,000 San Francisco
Dance Brigade To support the creation and performance of dance-theater that addresses the complex problems of contemporary American women. $10,000 San Francisco
Dance USA To support the 2012 Dance/USA Conference in San Francisco. $10,000 Washington
Dancers’ Group To support the visibility and viability of dance in the San Francisco Bay Area. $10,000 San Francisco
Del Sol Performing Arts Organization To deepen and expand creative engagement in the community. $15,000 San Francisco
Destiny Arts Center To support art as a means to end isolation, prejudice and violence in the lives of young people. $15,000 Oakland
Dimensions Dance Theater To support dance that reflects the historical experiences and contemporary lives of African Americans. $15,000 Oakland
Each One Reach One To fund the “A Dream and a Plan for Tomorrow” (ADAPT) program that use arts and education to reduce recidivism by shifting an incarcerated youth’s focus to a future beyond prison. $15,000 South San Francisco
East Bay Center for the Performing Arts To support youth and young adults in imagining and creating new worlds for themselves and new visions for their communities through the inspiration and discipline of rigorous training in world performance traditions. $15,000 Richmond
East Bay Performing Arts To sustain Oakland East Bay Symphony’s concert season, commissioning projects, community outreach and MUSE, its educational initiative. $10,000 Oakland
EastSide Arts Alliance To support community empowerment and cultural development of disenfranchised, racially and ethnically divided East Bay communities through the unification of art and activism. $15,000 Oakland
Education Through Music Bay Area To improve the quality of education in Alameda, West Contra Costa, and San Francisco counties by providing music instruction to every child enrolled at our six partner schools during the 2012-2013 school year. $15,000 San Francisco
Ethiopian Community and Cultural Center To support cultural programs, including the 9th Annual Ethiopian New Year Celebration and Cultural Festival. $5,000 Oakland
First Voice, Inc. To support the creation and presentation of contemporary American art by adapting non-Western theatrical, musical, and spoken word traditions. $10,000 San Francisco
foolsFURY Theater Company To support the revitalization of American theater through vital, thought-provoking theater and theater training that inspire audiences and artists to reconsider and reconnect with the world around them. $10,000 San Francisco
Frameline To support “Frameline at the Center,” a series of free monthly screenings of feature length and short subject films of interest to the LGBT community in the San Francisco Bay Area. $10,000 San Francisco
Fresh Meat Productions To support the 11th Annual Fresh Meat Festival in June 2012 and Sean Dorsey Dance’s new season concert in March 2013. $10,000 San Francisco
Friends of Peralta Hacienda Historical Park To create and implement a business plan. $10,000 Oakland
Galeria/Studio 24 To support public awareness and appreciation of Chicano/Latino art. $15,000 San Francisco
Gamelan Sekar Jaya To support the project “Saling Tulungin: Helping One Another,” which exposes a broad community to Balinese arts, culture & philosophy. $10,000 Berkeley
Grantmakers in the Arts To support the organization’s work on federal policies through the Arts Education Funders Coalition. $10,000 Seattle
Heyday Institute To support widespread awareness and celebration of California’s many cultures, landscapes, and boundary-breaking ideas through well-crafted books, public events, and innovative outreach programs. $10,000 Berkeley
Imagine Bus Project To support Youth Studio, a year-round arts education program for incarcerated youth at the San Francisco Juvenile Justice Center. $15,000 San Francisco
Intersection for the Arts To support the development, production, and presentation of experimental work in the performing, literary, visual and interdisciplinary arts as well as Bay Area artists through residencies, fiscal sponsorship, incubation, networking, and consulting programs. $10,000 San Francisco
Kearny Street Workshop To support the production, presentation and promotion of art that empowers Asian American artists and communities. $10,000 San Francisco
Kulintang Arts, Inc. To support the development and implementation of a comprehensive communications and branding strategy. $10,000 San Francisco
La Peña Cultural Center To support social justice and cultural understanding through the arts, education, and community action. $15,000 Berkeley
LEAP…Imagination in Learning To support arts education residency programs in Bay Area K-8 schools. $15,000 San Francisco
Loco Bloco Drum and Dance Ensemble To support youth development through engagement in the creation and performance of music, dance, and theater traditions reflecting the cultural diversity of the Americas. $15,000 San Francisco
Lorraine Hansberry Theatre To support the presentation of plays by African-American and multicultural playwrights, the employment and theatrical career-building opportunities, and youth development and education. $15,500 San Francisco
Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center To support the instruction, performance, and production of Mexican-American arts in the San Francisco Bay Area. $15,000 San Pablo
Magic Theatre To support the cultivation of innovative plays, playwrights, and audiences. $10,000 San Francisco
Marin Theatre Company To support the production of world-class theatre for the Marin County and Bay Area communities. $10,000 Mill Valley
Media Enterprise Alliance To support high school students in the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) with the opportunity to study media arts with a focus on video production. $10,000 Oakland
Mural Music & Arts Project To support the education, empowerment, and inspiration of youth through participation in the arts. $10,000 East Palo Alto
National Institute of Art and Disabilities To support an art program for people with disabilities that promotes creative expression, independence, dignity, and community integration. $10,000 Richmond
National Japanese American Historical Society To preserve, interpret and share the story of Japanese Americans in World War II, including the evacuation from West Coast communities and incarceration in US concentration camps, and the experience of the veterans. $10,000 San Francisco
Ninth Street Media Consortium To provide support for Teaching Intermedia Literacy Tools (TILT), which serves primarily underserved youth with dynamic media literacy and production training that motivates learning through hands-on skill building. $10,000 San Francisco
Northern California Music & Art Culture Center To support the annual Fillmore Drum Dance. $10,000 San Francisco
Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir To support Black gospel music that expresses the power of spirit and that brings a message of faith, hope, love, and joy through interfaith, multiracial, and multi-cultural principles of equality, justice, peace, unity and cooperation. $10,000 Oakland
Oasis for Girls To support the Springboard Series, a multimodal, arts based curriculum of life skills, expressive arts, vocational, technological, and leadership training for high need, low-income girls of color, aged 14 – 17 in San Francisco. $15,000 San Francisco
ODC Theater To diversify the 2012 performance roster through the co-presentation of three School global dance faculty. $10,000 San Francisco
Ohlone Profiles Project To support Ohlone ceremonies at four sacred sites in San Francisco. $5,000 San Francisco
Out of Site: Center for Arts Education To support free after school and summer programming in visual and performing arts to public high school students in San Francisco. $15,000 San Francisco
Performing Arts Workshop To support the development of young people through critical thinking, creative expression, and basic learning skills through the arts. $10,000 San Francisco
PlayGround To support the New Play Incubator Programs, which will support the commission and development of seven new full-length plays and the world premiere co-production of three previous commissions by some of the Bay Area’s most promising new playwrights. $10,000 San Francisco
Playwrights Foundation To support a full range of programs that provide multiple points of entry for a diverse range of playwrights. $10,000 San Francisco
Purple Silk Music Education Foundation To support instruction in tradtional Chinese instruments that instills in young people an appreciation of music from all cultures. $10,000 Oakland
Push Dance Company To engage 3rd St Youth Center & Clinic in a creative outlet of expression with its final production culminating in 2013. $5,000 San Francisco
Queer Cultural Center To support the artists’ commissioning fees within the DIY (do-it-yourself) career development program that provides emerging artists the tools to create, finance, market and produce original work exploring social justice issues. $15,000 San Francisco
Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project To support the creation, exhibition, and distribution of new films and videos that address vital social justice issues that concern queer women of color and their communities, reflect their life stories, and build community through art and activism. $15,000 San Francisco
Radar Productions To support the promotion of an equitable, just, and sustainable society by linking LGBT audiences to LGBT writers whose work authentically reflects the community’s diverse experiences. $10,000 San Francisco
Red Poppy Art House To support integral performance experiences that empower and transform society through engaging communities in cultural and artistic initiatives. $10,000 San Francisco
RYSE Youth Center To support the Media, Arts, and Culture Program, designed to promote a comprehensive and integrative approach to music, media and youth development as a means to positive community change and transformation. $10,000 Richmond
San Francisco Ballet To support the Center for Dance Education programs, Dance in Schools and Communities and Ballet in Schools and Communities. $10,000 San Francisco
San Francisco Camerawork To support First Exposures, a mentoring program for underserved youth. $10,000 San Francisco
San Francisco Chamber Orchestra To support fully professional, admission-free classical music concerts and educational programs that are accessible to audiences of all ages and backgrounds across the Bay Area. $10,000 San Francisco
San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music To support the Musical Grant Program, a re-granting program that offers awards to Greater Bay Area musicians and presenters for projects in the three categories: Artistic (including Commissioning), Organizational and Career Development, and Education/Community Engagement. $10,000 San Francisco
San Francisco Hip Hop Dancefest To support the14th annual festival in November 2012 at the Palace of Fine Arts Theatre, with master classes at The Annex (in the SOMA district). $10,000 San Francisco
San Francisco Mime Troupe To support the creation, production, and performance of high-quality, socially-relevant theater. $15,000 San Francisco
San Francisco Opera Association To support the Opera ARIA: Arts Resources in Action program. $10,000 San Francisco
San Francisco Playhouse To support the Sandbox Season, which will develop and produce two world premieres by emerging playwrights. $10,000 San Francisco
San Geronimo Valley Community Center To co-develop arts and cultural heritage programming with and for the Mexican immigrant community in West Marin. $10,000 San Geronimo
SFJAZZ To support the expansion of educational and community engagement opportunities by engaging with under-resourced public schools, confronting gender equality in the jazz field, and strengthening community relationships. $10,000 San Francisco
ShadowLight Productions To achieve organizational stability for the future. $10,000 San Francisco
Sixth Street Photography Workshop To support a photography workshop series for veterans that produces works expressing a central theme of recovery. $5,000 San Francisco
SomArts Cultural Center To support the promotion of art on the community level and to foster an appreciation of and respect for all cultures. $20,000 San Francisco
StageWrite To expand and strengthen the “Building Literacy through Theatre” program in San Francisco elementary schools. $10,000 San Francisco
The Shotgun Players To support a company of artists in their creation of bold, relevant, and affordable theater. $15,000 Berkeley
The Alliance for California Traditional Arts To support advocacy, resources, and connections for folk and traditional artists in the five county Bay Area. $10,000 Fresno
The ArtCouncil, Inc. To provide a diverse group of Bay Area artists financial support, peer exchange, regional and national visibility through an Artadia award and professional services program. $15,000 New York
The Cutting Ball Theater To support the production of TENDERLOIN, a documentary play about the people who live and work in the San Francisco neighborhood. $10,000 San Francisco
Theatre Bay Area To support the organization’s mission to unite, strengthen, promote, and advance the theatre community, with the conviction that the performing arts are an essential public good, critical to a healthy and truly democratic society, and invaluable as a source of personal enrichment and growth. $10,000 San Francisco
Yerba Buena Arts & Events (YBAE) To support the vitality and quality of life in the open spaces of Yerba Buena Gardens, through the curated presentation of admission-free artistic, community, and cultural programs. $10,000 San Francisco
Youth Radio To support young people’s intellectual, creative, and professional growth through media training and access to media production. $10,000 Oakland
Youth Speaks To support the empowerment of the next generation of leaders, self-defined artists, and visionary activists through written and oral literacies that challenge them to discover, develop, publicly present, and apply their voices as creators of social change. $10,000 San Francisco

2012 Bay Area Documentary Fund Grantees

7 Grants Totaling $125,000

Organization Purpose Amount
Sophie Constantinou, Green Streets Public housing residents come together to create jobs for their community by recycling its trash. $25,000
Connie Field, Martin Luther King in Palestine African American gospel singers in a cultural collaboration with Palestinian actors, bring the ideas of Martin Luther King, Jr. on nonviolence to the West Bank. $15,000
Madeleine Lim, Bernice Bing (1936-1998) The story of a California artist and community activist whose life stood for freedom and equality. $15,000
Dawn Logsdon, Free For All: Inside the Public Library Documents the crucial role of the San Francisco’s Main Public Library and how libraries have transformed American civic life over the past 150 years. $10,000
Amir Soltani and Chihiro Wimbush, Redemption A glimpse into the daily lives of four recyclers reveals the complex history, economy, and fraught political climate of West Oakland. $25,000
Dawn Valadez, TURN IT AROUND Two youth from gang impacted and economically challenged communities face seemingly insurmountable obstacles as they work to earn an education. $10,000 from the James D. Phelan Trust
Debra A. Wilson, Alexander and Timothy The story of a married couple diagnosed with schizophrenia reveals the state of mental health services in the Bay Area and how it impacts African American communities. $25,000

2012 Leveraging Social Media Grantees

31 grants totaling $187,500

Organization Purpose Amount Grantee Location
1stACT Silicon Valley To support the social media transition to a new Silicon Valley arts aggregate site, LiveSV. $2,500 San Jose
Abada Capoeira San Francisco Brazilian To support the development of customized, fully-integrated Facebook and Cultural Center Facebook Causes pages to attract new members and donors to the organization $2,500 San Francisco
Alternative Theater Ensemble To support the incorporation of social media components into the organization’s strategic marketing plan and begin implementation of these components. $2,500 San Rafael
API Cultural Center, Inc. To support social media engagement with current and new audiences through the creation and distribution of videos focusing on the organization’s 2012 Lunar New
Year Festival and facility rentals program.
$2,500 Oakland
AXIS Dance Company To support the implementation of a social media campaign designed to increase the organization’s local community engagement. $10,000 Oakland
Bay Area Children’s Theatre To support the organization’s expansion of its online presence. $10,000 Oakland
Black Rock Arts Foundation To support the further integration of social media within the organization’s developing communications strategy. $2,500 San Francisco
Chhandam Chitresh Das Dance Company To support the formalization and implementation of the organization’s social media strategy. $2,500 San Francisco
City Lights Theater Company To support implementation of social media strategies on two of the organization’s productions. $2,500 San Jose
Creativity Explored of San Francisco To support the online engagement of the organization’s constituents in order to deepen relationships and garner new donors. $10,000 San Francisco
Earplay To support the creation of an integrated social media campaign. $2,500 San Francisco
Golden Gate Performing Arts, Inc. To support the implementation of the organization’s social media plan focused on increasing financial stability and participation of people under 35. $10,000 San Francisco
Jewish Community Center of San To support development and implementation of social media strategies aimed at Francisco expanding audiences for two events with appeal outside of the organization’s current constituents. $2,500 San Francisco
Joe Goode Performance Group To support the implementation of a comprehensive social media strategy. $10,000 San Francisco
Kala Art Institute To support the creation of a social media plan that focuses on bolstering the organization’s class enrollment. $10,000 Berkeley
Kearny Street Workshop To support the engagement of the organization’s current and potential audiences through Facebook in honor of its 40th anniversary. $2,500 San Francisco
La Peña Cultural Center To support the development of a web 3.0 mobility platform to deliver content to young audiences and new services to artists. $2,500 Berkeley
Osher Marin Jewish Community Center To support a Digital Marketing Workgroup focused on the use of the Kanbar Center for the Performing Arts Facebook page as a marketing tool. $2,500 San Rafael
Playwrights Foundation To support staff training in and implementation of new marketing strategies utilizing social media. $2,500 San Francisco
Queer Cultural Center To support the construction of an integrated social media network of the organization’s artistic, development and communications directors, twenty-five commissioned artists, and an estimated 1,500 Facebook friends. $2,500 San Francisco
San Francisco Architectural Heritage To develop and increase the frequency of the organization’s Facebook features. $2,500 San Francisco
San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music To support implementation of social media activities to increase the visibility of events, promote the work of 69 affiliated ensembles, and reach out and serve the most diverse audiences possible. $2,500 San Francisco
San Francisco Jewish Film Festival To support the implementation of a social media plan to deepen the organization’s relationship with its current audience and expand its audience to a national and
international online community.
$10,000 San Francisco
SomArts Cultural Center To support the use of social media-based video content to build connections across different Bay Area communities by sparking dialogue about how art affects $10,000 San Francisco
Stagebridge To support the creation of an ongoing tutoring program that teaches students how to use Facebook to increase organization’s online community and enhance students’ interactaction with the organization and each other. $2,500 Oakland
Stern Grove Festival Association To support the implementation of a comprehensive social media strategy and the development of a peer-to-peer fundraising pilot project. $10,000 San Francisco
Streetside Stories To support the improvement, integration, and testing of the organization’s social media strategy. $2,500 San Francisco
The Contemporary Jewish Museum To support the creation of a video-based social media experiment with the intention of building the organization’s digital following and creating program-based resources that can be utilized and enjoyed by an online community. $2,500 San Francisco
Theatre Bay Area To enhance online editorial content, podcasting, interactive contests, and video content in order to further the organization’s mission and to oversee consultant services for all Leveraging Social Media Track II grantees. $37,500 San Francisco
World Arts West To support the implementation of the organization’s social media plan and establishment of a baseline for future growth. $10,000 San Francisco
Yerba Buena Arts & Events (YBAE) To support the design and implementation of a social media experiment aimed at creating a vibrant online community of artists and audiences. $2,500 San Francisco

2012 National Arts Marketing Project Implementation Fund

1 grant totaling $5,500

Organization Purpose Amount Grantee Location
San Jose Taiko To support a national marketing plan focused on broadening exposure and knowledge of the organization as a performing ensemble in order to increase annual concert bookings in the United States. $5,500 San Jose