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.
CEO Ken Ikeda reflects on CAST's last decade of lessons learned, following the latest report by WolfBrown commissioned by the Kenneth Rainin Foundation.
The Urban Land Institute San Francisco's (ULI SF) Bay Area Developers of Color Cohort offers mid-to-senior level professionals monthly sessions aimed to deepen their understanding of housing development and consider community-based development throughout the Bay Area.
A wave of arts nonprofits are turning to new financial and organizational models to survive the pressure of high real estate prices.
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.
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.
