Women's Audio Mission
For Strategic Planning
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Amount$47,000
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Program
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Date Awarded10/22/2018
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Term12.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
Founded in San Francisco in 2003, Women's Audio Mission annually provides training and career development in music technology, media production and the recording arts to over 1,500 Bay Area girls and young women. Women represent only 5% of the people employed in the creative industries that bring music, sound, and media to our lives. The organization addresses this severe under representation through audio engineering training and development programs. Their recording studio is the only professional recording studio in the world built and run entirely by women. In both their San Francisco headquarters and their Oakland teaching facility, they offer courses in audio production and recording for beginning, intermediate, and advanced students. Women's Audio Mission organized WamCon, a sold-out Boston conference on women in the recording industries. This grant will help the organization hire consultants to develop a five-year strategic plan and a new governance framework to build up and train their board of trustees.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.womensaudiomission.org
Address
542-544 Natoma Street, #C-1, San Francisco, CA, 94103, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for an equity, inclusion, and diversity capacity-building project
Women’s Audio Mission advances girls, women, and gender-diverse people in the fields of music production, music performance, and the recording arts. This organizational effectiveness grant supports internal capacity building to deepen the organization’s awareness, knowledge, skill, policies and practices around equity, inclusion, and diversity. Strengthening an organizations’ equity-focused competencies supports its practices and outcomes and contributes to a Bay Area arts ecosystem that has examined and reflects an understanding of equity in the arts. Support for Women’s Audio Mission advances the Performing Arts Program’s Youth strategy and Program Delivery substrategy.
for general operating support
Women’s Audio Mission advances girls, women, and gender-diverse people in the fields of music production, music performance, and the recording arts. Each year the organization provides more than 4,000 people with classes, workshops, performances, conferences, and career development and placement programs. A majority of the people it works with are girls aged 11 through 18, most of whom are people of color, low-income, and have few opportunities to participate in rigorous creative and digital media production training outside of Women’s Audio Mission. The organization also provides a low-cost, high-quality recording environment for independent artists and classes for adults. Support for Women’s Audio Mission aligns with the Performing Arts Program’s Youth strategy and Program Delivery substrategy.
for a capital project
Women’s Audio Mission (WAM) is dedicated to the advancement of women and girls in music production and the recording arts, a field in which women are chronically invisible and represent fewer than 5% of the sector. Founded in San Francisco in 2003, WAM provides free and low-cost recording-arts training to more than 250 girls and women each year in the world’s only professional recording studio run entirely by women. The organization lost its lease on its facility and recently purchased a new studio. WAM is now engaged in a $2 million capital campaign over two years. With the grant, WAM will surpass 60% of its fundraising goals to establish its first permanent home.
