Golden Gate Performing Arts
For General Operating Support
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Amount$165,000
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Program
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Date Awarded3/17/2014
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Term36 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Organization
Strategies
Overview
Golden Gate Performing Arts, better known as the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, comprises 300 volunteer singers who appear at major concert halls and community events an average of thirty times each year. Since 2008, the size of the chorus has increased by 33 percent, and its budget has grown by 200 percent. It now performs for 16,500 people annually. With renewed general operating support, the organization would assess its internal infrastructure and build capacity to sustain its growth. This would include developing its board and increasing contributed income. Renewed funding would also support the organization’s efforts to expand its performance schedule regionally.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.sfgmc.org
Address
170 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA, 94103, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for the Chan National Queer Arts Center
Golden Gate Performing Arts, doing business as the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, is a choir comprising more than 300 active volunteer singers. The group performs at major concert halls and community events an average of 20 times each year. It frequently commissions new work, serves Bay Area youth through its RHYTHM (Reaching Youth Through Music) program, and tours nationally. The chorus and its subset ensembles perform for more than 25,000 people each year. In addition, it recently established the Chan National Queer Arts Center, based in its historic four-story facility in San Francisco, to provide a hub for LGBTQ+ arts activity and related advocacy. Support for the Chan National Queer Arts Center advances the Performing Arts Program’s Communities strategy.
for general operating support
Golden Gate Performing Arts, better known as the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, is a choir comprising more than 300 active volunteer singers. The group performs at major concert halls and community events an average of 20 times each year. It frequently commissions new work, serves Bay Area youth through its music program for grades 6 through 12, and tours nationally. The chorus and its subset ensembles perform for more than 25,000 people each year. In addition, it operates the National LGBTQ Center for the Arts, a historic four-story facility in San Francisco for LGBTQ arts and related advocacy activity. Support for Golden Gate Performing Arts advances the Performing Arts Program’s Communities strategy.
for general operating support
Golden Gate Performing Arts, better known as the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus, comprises 300 volunteer singers who appear at major concert halls and community events an average of 30 times each year. The chorus and its four ensembles, each with its own conductor, perform for more than 25,000 people each year. With renewed general operating support, the organization will continue to incrementally grow its staff, pilot an education program, and mark its 40th anniversary in 2017, as it undertakes a tour of six southern states that have major discriminatory laws aimed at the LGBTQ community.
