RYSE Center
For The RYSE Commons Capital Project
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Amount$250,000
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Program
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Date Awarded10/24/2017
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Term24.0 Months
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Type of SupportCapital Funds
Strategies
Overview
RYSE Center is a youth development organization that promotes social justice and community transformation by working with young adults ages 13 to 21. It reaches more than 650 people at its drop-in center in Richmond, and more than 2,000 individuals through its off-site programs. The majority of its youth is engaged in the organization’s Media, Arts, and Culture programs, and often report that the arts offerings are what drew them to RYSE. This grant will support the development of RYSE Commons, which will expand and develop its campus to serve as a permanent home for RYSE Center, as well as other youth-centered organizations.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.rysecenter.org
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
The RYSE Center is a youth-serving community-based organization located in Richmond, California, that works to create youth-led spaces grounded in social justice and community. The organization works to ensure young people have the emotional, physical, social, and political safety to acquire tools, skills, and resources to understand and change institutional and systemic inequities in their communities. (Substrategy: Student and Community Voice)
for the Media, Arts, + Culture Program
RYSE Center is a youth development center that create safe spaces, resources, and programs for youth aged 13 to 21 in the city of Richmond and West Contra Costa County. The organization’s Media, Arts, + Culture program provides daily free out-of-school programs in music, video, visual, and performing arts. These classes, workshops, internships, projects, and productions engage more than 700 youth each year, and are frequently embedded with the organization’s other program areas, which focus on health, education and economic justice, youth justice, and youth power building. Support for the Media, Arts, + Culture program at RYSE Center contributes to the Performing Arts Program’s Youth strategy through the Program Delivery substrategy.
