Women's Audio Mission
For General Operating Support
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Amount$150,000
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Program
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Date Awarded10/12/2019
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Term36.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Organization
Strategies
Overview
Women’s Audio Mission provides training and career development in music technology, media production, and recording arts to mostly low-income women and girls in San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose. Nationally, the audio production workforce is less than 5% female. Women’s Audio Mission seeks to reverse this gender imbalance. Annually, 1,500 girls, who are mostly of color, receive free music production training and mentorship. Adults can access instruction, mentorship, job placement assistance, and industry conferences.
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 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.
