Freight & Salvage
For Equity And Inclusion Capacity Building
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Amount$50,000
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Program
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Date Awarded7/14/2018
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Term12.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Overview
Berkeley Society for the Preservation of Traditional Music, better known as the Freight & Salvage, provides concerts, music instruction, and participatory programs for 88,000 people each year. Specializing in folk, traditional, and world music, it offers classes and concerts nearly every evening at its 440-seat facility in Berkeley. This organizational effectiveness grant will enable the Freight & Salvage to undertake an organizational assessment, and provide training programs for staff, volunteers, and board members, to advance the tenets of diversity, equity and inclusion in the organization’s culture and structure.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.thefreight.org/about.html
Address
2020 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA, 94702, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
Freight & Salvage is a presenter of traditional music, which it defines as “music that is rooted in and expressive of the great variety of regional, ethnic, and social cultures of peoples throughout the world.†Freight & Salvage provides concerts, music instruction, and participatory programs for more than 80,000 people each year at its 440-seat facility in Berkeley, California. It also provides programs at local schools and at community events. Support for Freight & Salvage aligns with the Performing Arts Program’s Communities strategy.
