East Bay Center for the Performing Arts

East Bay Center for the Performing Arts is a multidisciplinary arts education organization that provides rigorous training programs for youth and performances and events for local audiences. This organizational effectiveness grant supports internal capacity building to deepen the organization’s awareness, knowledge, skill, policies and practices around equity, inclusion, and diversity. Strengthening an organizations’ equity-focused competencies supports its practices and outcomes and contributes to a Bay Area arts ecosystem that has examined and reflects an understanding of equity in the arts. Support for East Bay Center for the Performing Arts advances the Performing Arts Program’s Youth strategy, through the Program Delivery substrategy.

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.