East Bay Center for the Performing Arts
For General Operating Support
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Amount$390,000
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Program
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Date Awarded3/17/2014
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Term36.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Organization
Strategies
Overview
East Bay Center for the Performing Arts is the primary artistic and cultural resource for the low-income, ethnically-diverse community of Richmond. The organization provides conservatory level training programs, arts education opportunities, artful community health programs, and public performances for more than 33,000 people each year. Its rigorous programs reflect an array of art forms that are most significant to the populations it serves, 75 percent of whom are under the age of eighteen. Renewed funding would support the Center’s goals to achieve modest and sustainable growth in order to meet continued demand for its programs since returning to the historic Winters Building following a $16 million capital renovation in 2011.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.eastbaycenter.org
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
East Bay Center for the Performing Arts an arts education provider located in Richmond’s Iron Triangle neighborhood. It offers year-round curriculum for youth ages three to 18, including 65 weekly group courses, private instruction, recitals, social and emotional support services for students and families, and an intensive young artist diploma program. Its in-school and after-school education programs reach 4,000 students in West Contra Costa Unified School District. Each year, the organization also reaches another 15,000 people through community events and public performances that reflect a broad array of art forms, and often feature the stories of local students, families, and communities. Support for East Bay Center for the Performing Arts advances the Performing Arts Program’s Youth strategy through the Program Delivery substrategy.
