• 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.

• 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

• 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.