At the moment, we’re focused on supporting Bay Area artist communities and organizations experiencing challenges in space affordability or displacement.
To better assess your needs, please fill out our intake form first, and learn more about our services by attending a CAST info session. Our Community Engagement team look forward to meeting you!
The intake form gives us a snapshot of who you are and how you align with CAST’s values and mission. It’s about understanding the priorities and needs of the artists or nonprofits who need our support, assessing what is needed financially, and then developing a solution that fits where they’re at, organizationally.
Please see below for our basic eligibility requirements and priorities for partnership.
Basic Eligibility: CAST serves San Francisco Bay Area individual artists, culture bearers, and arts & culture organizations and projects that have been actively practicing and/or programming for 1 or more years.
We prioritize arts & culture nonprofits and fiscally-sponsored projects that serve artists & cultural workers in San Francisco and Oakland with demonstrated programming over the past 3 or more years.
Equity & Inclusion Priorities:
- BIPOC and/or LGBTQ+ Leadership: BIPOC or LGBTQ+-led and BIPOC or LGBTQ+-serving: Building equitable access to real estate resources, especially for communities of color and disadvantaged communities.
- Displacement Risk & Impacts: Honoring legacy communities and acknowledging current and historical impacts.
- Community Impact: Creating access to the creation, production, and presentation of arts and culture for systemically under-resourced or under-recognized groups, such as Black/African-American, Hispanic/Latinx, and Indigenous communities.
- Place-keeping: Recognizing and serving your immediate, hyper-local neighbors, prioritizing neighborhoods CAST is actively working in.
- Arts & Culture Ecosystem Position: Acknowledging impacts and opportunities of place and location in the Bay Area, and how projects impact the ecosystem.