La Peña Cultural Center
For Strategic Planning
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Amount$15,000
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Program
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Date Awarded11/8/2011
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Term12.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Overview
The La Peña Cultural Center is a vibrant community cultural center with a national reputation and a global vision that promotes peace, social justice and cultural understanding through the arts, education and social action. As a welcoming gathering place, La Peña provides opportunities for artists to share diverse cultural traditions, to create and perform their work, and to support and interface with diverse social movements. Annually, La Peña presents over 200 events with emerging and established artists, organizes an arts education program, produces new works by local artists, and presents internationally and nationally renowned artists.
This organizational effectiveness grant will support La Peña to bring in outside expertise to revise and focus its recent strategic plan. Specifically, La Peña will work with Helicon Collaborative to engage in the first of two processes – to develop a strategic/decision-making filter that the organization can use to help make strategic and expedient choices at both the programmatic and management level.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.lapena.org
Address
3105 Shattuck Avenue, Berkeley, CA, 947010, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
La Peña Cultural Center is a Berkeley-based community center that promotes peace, social justice, and cultural understanding through arts, education, and social action. Each year, La Peña presents more than 100 events created by emerging and established performers, and produces new works by local, national, and international artists. It reaches approximately 10,000 people annually. The organization also houses a variety of in-school and out-of-school arts education programs, classes, and workshops rooted in Latin American cultural traditions and international social movements. This grant to La Peña Cultural Center advances the Performing Arts Program’s Communities strategy.
for general operating support
La Peña Cultural Center is a vibrant community center with a global vision that promotes peace, social justice, and cultural understanding through the arts, education, and social action. Each year, La Peña puts on more than 200 events created by emerging and established performers and produces new works by local, national, and international artists. Through these activities, the organization annually reaches approximately 10,000 people. La Peña also houses a variety of in-school and out-of-school arts education programs, as well as community-based classes and workshops. With renewed support, La Peña plans to develop and implement a new business/program model that should increase community participation and improve its financial performance.
