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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
