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• Real Estate Solutions

Bloomberg CityLab: One Strategy for the Arts to Beat Gentrification: Buy the Building

A wave of arts nonprofits are turning to new financial and organizational models to survive the pressure of high real estate prices.

Open Spaces Program 2024

The Kenneth Rainin Foundation's Open Spaces Program is a grant that funds artist-driven temporary, place-based public art that engages communities in San Francisco and Oakland around issues relevant to them.

• Community Engagement

Kreative Growth Program 2024

Kreative Growth is a program led by Balay Kreative that offers seven Filipinx artists stipends ranging from $2,000 to $5,000 to BIPOC artists and allies in the Bay Area, in order to launch new works of art and culture in the Filipino Cultural District in San Francisco this year.

• Real Estate Solutions

City of Oakland Approves Development Agreements for Black Cultural Zone’s Liberation Park Project

The City of Oakland has announced the completion of the Disposition and Development Agreement (DDA) and Lease Disposition and Development...

• Activation & Rentals

Art, Community, and Liberation: A Recap of the Creative Container Residency

CAST's Creative Container exhibition opening highlighted the spirit of community, innovation, and social transformation that is alive and well in the Bay Area

• Community Engagement

Community Arts Stabilization Trust Announces New CEO, Ken Ikeda

Ken Ikeda to start full-time as CEO of CAST December 1, 2023 For Immediate Release: November 15, 2023San Francisco, California...