Destiny Arts Center
For Coaching And Board Training
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Amount$10,000
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Program
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Date Awarded2/1/2019
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Term9.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
Destiny Arts Center exists to inspire and ignite social change. Each year, Destiny offers free and low-cost dance, theater, martial arts, violence prevention, and youth leadership classes to more than 3,000 young people aged three to 18 at its facility in North Oakland, and at Title I schools and community centers throughout the East Bay. Its youth performing companies offer young people intensive performing arts training and produce one full-length, youth-created original theater production per year. Supplemental project support will help Destiny navigate its recent executive transition through executive coaching and board training.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.destinyarts.org
Address
970 Grace Avenue, Oakland, CA, 94608, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for legal technical assistance
This grant is for legal technical assistance to help increase understanding of the current landscape as grantees engage in DEIJ-related charitable activities.
for organizational adaptation
Destiny Arts Center seeks to inspire and ignite social change through movement arts. The center’s professional teaching artists also work with more than 3,000 primarily low-income youth and youth of color, aged three to 18, both at the organization’s home campus in Oakland, and at 24 schools and community centers throughout the East Bay. Each year, Destiny Arts Center’s two youth performing companies collaborate to produce an original piece of musical theater for more than 20,000 audience members. This grant to Destiny Arts Center aligns with the Performing Arts Program’s Youth strategy, and will advance the organization’s adaptation planning and implementation.
