Performing Arts Resources for Arts Organizations and Individual Artists

Grantee

Hewlett-funded program

Alliance for California Traditional Arts

http://www.actaonline.org/

The Living Cultures Grants Program is a funding program of the Alliance for California Traditional Arts for California nonprofit organizations to support exemplary projects in the traditional arts. Grant awards are generally limited to $5,000 or less. A small number of grants of up to $7,500 will be awarded to projects that demonstrate significant impact on a particular cultural tradition.

Arts Council Silicon Valley

http://www.artscouncil.org/

Arts Council Silicon Valley supports the Silicon Valley arts community through a number of different grant opportunities and programs, including the Community Arts Fund, which provides project support for arts activities reflective of our multicultural region, with an emphasis on encouraging small, community-based, volunteer-driven organizations. It provides grants to a maximum of $4,000 to organizations with total expenses of $8,000 to $100,000 in the last completed fiscal year. The Regional Arts Fund provides general operating support for the administrative and artistic development of arts organizations, with emphasis on encouraging professional and semi-professional groups; grants range to a maximum of $5,500, $9,000 or $10,000 (depending on the size of the organization).

Center for Cultural Innovation

http://www.cciarts.org/

The Investing in Artists grants program, administered by the Center for Cultural Innovation, is designed to enhance the working lives and creative environment for California artists by funding tools and market strategies that allow them to create their best work more consistently and distribute that work more broadly to new audiences. Grants of up to $15,000 are made to individual artists in California for the acquisition of arts equipment and materials or towards presentation and marketing of their creative work.

Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County

http://www.ccscc.org/

The Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County provides General Support (award amounts to be decided) and Project Support (awards between $1,0000 and $3,000) grants to organizations and artists headquartered and doing the majority of their work within Santa Cruz County in order to support the creation and presentation of artistically excellent, creative, and culturally significant work; to proportionally fund a broad and culturally diverse range of arts organizations and individual artists based in Santa Cruz County; and to fund arts organizations and individual artists based on their artistic excellence, service to the community, and administrative competence.

East Bay Community Foundation

http://www.eastbaycf.org/

Forging an innovative collaborative effort between Bay Area Community Foundations, individual donors, and the Irvine, Hewlett, Surdna, and Ford foundations, the Fund for Artists supports the endeavors of individual artists through commissions, artists' residencies, awards, advocacy, workshops, promotional instruction, and networking support. The San Francisco Foundation and the East Bay Community Foundation, partners in administering the program, strongly believe in the importance and value of our local artists and their work and are dedicated to giving a voice to artists within our community. The Fund for Artists gives awards, ranging in size from $1,500 to $15,000, to outstanding individual composers, choreographers, visual artists, and playwrights.

The Wallace and Alexander Gerbode Foundation

http://foundationcenter.org/grantmaker/gerbode/

Wallace Alexander Gerbode Performing Arts Collaboration Initiative – The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation and The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation award $75,000 grants for the creation and production of major contemporary dance compositions by California choreographers, in collaboration with other artists. These works are to be commissioned and premiered by nonprofit Bay Area arts organizations. Each grant will be divided into three parts: $25,000 will go to a California- based choreographer; $25,000 will go to a second California-based artist (choreographer, composer, playwright, digital media artist, filmmaker, designer, or other) who will be a key collaborator on the project; and the remaining $25,000 will go to the presenting organization for expenses related to the creation and world premiere of new compositions – either a full-length dance work, or a suite of shorter dances.

Horizons Foundation

http://www.horizonsfoundation.org/

Horizons Foundation Community Issues Grants – This program makes Arts and Culture Awards to nonprofit and fiscally sponsored organizations in the following counties: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma. LGBT organizations are strongly urged to apply for general operating support and non-LGBT organizations are welcome to apply for support for a specific project serving LGBT people. The maximum grant award is $10,000.

San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music

http://www.sffcm.org/

The Musical Grant Program is a new initiative designed by the San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music to support outstanding projects of San Francisco Bay Area professional chamber music ensembles, presenters, and individuals with chamber music projects. The program will award grants through a competitive process to creative, well-conceived projects that seek to further the artistic, educational, and administrative goals of this constituency. The program is open to applicants with budgets that do not exceed $100,000, and applicants must reside and/or work in the nine counties of the Greater San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma). Grants will be offered up to $3,000.

Theatre Bay Area

http://www.theatrebayarea.org/

CA$H Grants is a program of Theatre Bay Area, in partnership with Dancers' Group. CA$H is a grants program designed by artists for artists to support professionally oriented theatre and dance artists and small companies with budgets under $100,000. Its purpose is to spark a creative surge throughout Northern California's theatre and dance community by providing grants to artists ($2,500) and small-sized organizations ($5,000). Funding decisions are made by a rotating five-member panel.

Walter and Elise Haas Fund

http://www.haassr.org/

Creative Work Fund supports projects that feature one or more artists collaborating with nonprofit 501(c)(3) organizations. The Fund also encourages the artists and organizations to come together for the sake of this collaboration. The Fund encourages artists to collaborate with nonprofit organizations of all kinds. The principal collaborating artists must live in Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Monterey, Napa, San Francisco, San Joaquin, San Mateo, Santa Cruz, Solano, Sonoma, or Stanislaus County and have lived there for at least two years. Collaborating organizations also must be based in one of the 12 counties.

Zellerbach Family Foundation

http://www.zellerbachfamilyfoundation.org/

Zellerbach Family Foundation Community Arts Grants - Non-profit community arts organizations doing their work in San Francisco, Contra Costa, and Alameda counties, representing the fields of dance, theater, visual arts, music, festivals, poetry, literature, and publications are eligible to apply. The Community Arts program supports mainly performance-oriented requests that represent contemporary, cutting-edge new work.