Circus Center
For General Operating Support
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Amount$100,000
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Program
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Date Awarded11/11/2013
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Term24.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Organization
Strategies
Overview
Circus Center provides training in circus arts from some of the most renowned circus performers in the world to people of all ages and all levels of experience. The organization annually engages more than 7,000 people through classes taught in its San Francisco complex, and reaches an additional 10,000 through performance programs and showcases. After almost closing its doors in 2010, Circus Center has new administrative and board leadership and a vibrant recreational program. With renewed support the organization plans to increase contributed resources, develop an outreach program, and re-institute its professional performance troupe.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.circuscenter.org
Address
755 Frederick Street, San Francisco, CA, 94117-2755, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
Circus Center was founded by the iconic Pickle Family Circus in 1984, and has established itself as a pillar in circus arts training on the West Coast, with instruction from an international roster of teachers in acrobatics, trapeze, aerial arts, clowning, and juggling for professional and pre-professional performers. Circus Center presents free performances throughout the year at its uniquely suited facility—constructed in 1929 as the boy’s gym of Polytechnic High School, across the street from San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park—featuring students, instructors, and community members. Circus Center’s youth camps foster health and discipline through circus arts traditions, and the organization intends to launch a cabaret series to showcase and foster the careers of adult performers. A grant to Circus Center will support its efforts to build operational capacity, increase enrollment, and extend scholarship opportunities for youth.
