Learning
Nonprofit Resources from Community Vision
Access free, on-demand templates from Community Vision to support your nonprofit with navigating its real estate and financial management needs.
Resources
Photo: CAST Director of Community Engagement Tyese Wortham; Art: Cherisse Alcantara
Find a selection of resources, grant opportunities, and reports from the field that inform and motivate the work we do.
Consulting Partners
If we’re unable to take on a project, we do our best to connect you with resources to address your needs and advance your goals.
Here is a list of close partners to help navigate your real estate and financial needs:
Consulting
Community Vision
California Lawyers for the Arts
Equity Community Builders
Ventura Partners
Viscera Studio
Building Code Compliance & Permitting
Resources about Space
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Short & Long-Term Use
Look For Space
Find affordable venues from our arts partners that offer short-term rentals, meeting, and event space in the CAST portfolio. If you’re looking for something more long-term, fill out our intake form so we can better assist you.
Space To Create
Affordable Space Rentals at 447 Minna
Find affordable space for events, exhibitions, and performance space in SoMa at CAST’s building at 447 Minna.
Resources & Opportunities from the Community
- Community Engagement
Vital Arts’ Bay Area Artist Census Fellowship
Vital Arts will select eight Bay Area artists to help shape policy and data collection of the Bay Area Artist Census as part of an 18-month leadership opportunity.
- Community Engagement
Walter & Elise Haas Fund WE Initiative Grant
The WE Initiative will select 25 nonprofit organizations to receive $100,000 annually as general operating funds over a five-year period.
- Community Engagement
The Svane Family Foundation’s Culture Forward Grant Program
Culture Forward is a $5 million grant initiative by The Svane Family Foundation supporting arts and culture projects that attract families, students, and young professionals to Downtown San Francisco.
Culture Compass
Learn about San Francisco’s nonprofit arts and culture sector through our interactive online mapping tool that plots existing and potential spaces for nonprofit arts and culture activities in San Francisco alongside demographics, zoning, transit, and real estate development data.
Research and Reports on the Arts
World Cities Culture Forum
Creative Land Trusts: A Practical Guide
This guide is a practical resource designed to help cities, cultural organizations, and individuals respond to the growing threat to affordable creative workspace. With step-by-step guidance and tools, it offers a roadmap for taking creative spaces off the speculative property market and preserving them as vital parts of a city’s cultural infrastructure.
Dancers Group / Theatre Bay Area / Intersection for the Arts
Working Differently Post-Pandemic: A Report on Bay Area Artist Space Needs in 2021
A survey of nearly 500 Bay Area artists, art administrators, and arts educators to explore reopening during the pandemic, potential to collaborate and share space, increase organizational capacity and resilience, and work differently post-pandemic.
Vital Arts
Survey of Data on Artist Displacement in the San Francisco Bay Area
Vital Arts has concluded a survey to assess the state of data on the number of artists now living in theBay Area and the degree of threat and actual displacement in the counties of San Francisco, Alameda,Marin and Contra Costa.
City of Seattle
Structure for Stability: Recommendations for Developing Affordable Community-Based Cultural Space (April 2019)
This report produced by the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture explores the creation of an intermediary that can exist simultaneously inside and outside of the market to preserve cultural spaces, including CAST’s model.
Upstart Co-Lab
Creative Places & Businesses: Catalyzing Growth in Communities
This report looks at investable opportunities in the Creative Economy with the potential to stabilize threatened communities and benefit regions looking to attract and develop quality jobs, and suggests that impact investment can be used to shape a Creative Economy that is inclusive, equitable and sustainable.
Center for Cultural Innovation / National Endowment for the Arts
Creativity Connects: Trends and Conditions Affecting U.S. Artists (September 2016)
A national study to examine current and evolving conditions for how artists live and the trends affecting their ability to create work and contribute to their communities.
Published by CAST
- Read more about Artist and Arts Group Impact Survey
- Community Engagement
Artist and Arts Group Impact Survey
On July 31, Community Arts Stabilization Trust released the COVID-19 Impact Survey results which collected data on the early economic…
- Read more about CAST Announces Culture Compass Map
- Community Engagement
CAST Announces Culture Compass Map
New Interactive Online Tool Increases Knowledge about San Francisco’s Cultural Assets Video Editing: Matthew McTire / Music: Royalty free music…
