Destiny Arts Center
For General Operating Support
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Amount$210,000
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Program
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Date Awarded11/12/2012
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Term36.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Organization
Strategies
Overview
Destiny Arts Center exists to eliminate isolation, violence, and prejudice in the lives of young people aged three to eighteen through free and low-cost dance, theater, martial arts, violence prevention, and youth leadership classes. Taught by professional instructors after school, these classes serve low-income youth and youth of color both at the Center’s main Oakland site and at twenty-four schools and community centers throughout the area. Each year, the program reaches more than 4,000 youth and 20,000 audience members in North Oakland neighborhoods that are rife with crime, poverty, under-performing schools, and drug addiction. Under dynamic new leadership, the organization has launched a new brand identity and web site and is planning a move to a permanent facility in the next year. Renewed support would help the Center continue to build its creative and organizational strengths
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.
