Center for Cultural Innovation

This grant is for legal technical assistance to help increase understanding of the current landscape as grantees engage in DEIJ-related charitable activities.

The Center for Cultural Innovation is a California-based arts service organization that promotes knowledge sharing and skill building. With offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco, the organization provides monetary grants, technical assistance, and research capacity for innovative projects that improve the practices, policies, and systems of support for artists and the arts sector. The goal of the Vallejo Arts Fund is to support arts and culture in the city of Vallejo by addressing systemic and economic inequities impacting local artists and culture bearers. In its initial round of grantmaking, the fund supported 60 Vallejo artists and organizations across five grant categories; the grant design, outreach, proposal, and review processes were all led by local community members. Support for the Vallejo Arts Fund advances the Performing Arts Program’s Communities strategy.

The Center for Cultural Innovation, a California-based arts service organization with offices in Los Angeles and San Francisco, provides monetary grants, technical assistance, and research capacity for innovative projects that improve the practices, policies, and systems of support for artists and the arts sector. The goal of the Vallejo Arts Fund is to support arts and culture in the city of Vallejo by addressing systemic and economic inequities impacting local artists and culture bearers. This supplemental grant will enable the Vallejo Arts Fund to expand its activities to include capacity-building workshops and coaching responsive to the needs of Vallejo’s arts and culture ecosystem, and documentation of funded activities. Support for the Vallejo Arts Fund advances the Performing Arts Program’s Communities strategy.