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Nonprofit Resources from Community Vision
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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.
Resources for Artists
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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
Artist Residencies at 447 Minna
Launched in December 2022, these residencies at 447 Minna aim to provide San Francisco Bay Area artists the critical space, time, and resources to investigate new avenues in their work and create shared knowledge with the communities in the SoMa neighborhood.
Resources & Opportunities from the Community
- Real Estate Solutions
2023 Equitable Development Initiative
The Equitable Development Initiative combines local knowledge, strategic partnerships, and program design expertise to support developers of color in advancing their careers and making a positive impact on communities.
- Community Engagement
Creative Corps Initiative 2023-2024
With the California Arts Council’s Creative Corps program, YBCA will be piloting a community co-design process with select communities within the Bay Area, providing artists with a living wage as they work with nonprofit institutions in their communities within one of the four key issue areas to create a project of their choice. These issue areas include civic engagement, climate justice, community health and wellness, and social justice.
- Activation & Rentals
Vacant to Vibrant
Vacant to Vibrant is a program helping small businesses collaborate with local property owners to create engaging pop-up experiences and community spaces in 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
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.
World Cities Culture Forum
Making Space For Culture
This report is a collection of proposals, illustrating how cities can respond to the threat this issue poses to the cultural vitality and character of cities with twelve in-depth case studies from World Cities Culture Forum member cities including San Francisco, Hong Kong, and Madrid, chart a variety of approaches to creating facilities, activating spaces, and raising awareness for cultural infrastructure.
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…
