- 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.

The WE Initiative will select 25 nonprofit organizations to receive $100,000 annually as general operating funds over a five-year period.
Black Cultural Zone is creating a space that combines cultural, economic, and environmental resilience in East Oakland through the Extreme Heat and Community Resilience Program.
Through the Creative Cities Fund, we can reimagine entire commercial corridors and reshape city blocks left vacant and underutilized.
The Anchoring Artists Fund is one of three new tools under this initiative that we've created to make timely, affordable capital available for individual artists, for-profit culture makers, and informal collectives looking to acquire space.
Betti Ono Foundation's partnership with CAST and the ongoing fight for equitable access to resources for Black cultural workers in Oakland.
The California for the Arts Grassroots Artists Advocacy Program (GAAP) is a cohort-based fellowship program that supports diverse artists, culture bearers, and creative workers with an artistic or cultural practice who live or work in Oakland or San Francisco who will directly engage in advocacy and policy development to advance the holistic wellbeing of the field so all artists thrive.