Golden Gate Performing Arts
For General Operating Support
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Amount$140,000
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Program
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Date Awarded2/24/2021
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Term24 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, is a choir comprised of 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 launched the National LGBTQ Center for the Arts, based in its historic four-story facility in San Francisco, to provide a hub for LGBTQ arts activity and related advocacy. Support for Golden Gate Performing Arts advances the Performing Arts Program’s Communities strategy.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.sfgmc.org
Address
170 Valencia Street, San Francisco, CA, 94103, United States
Grants to this Grantee
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.
for general operating support
Golden Gate Performing Arts, better known as the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus (SFGMC), comprises 250 volunteer singers aged eighteen to eighty who perform at major concert halls and community events ranging from Davies Symphony Hall to the Pride Celebration’s Mainstage. During the proposed grant period, SFGMC will engage more young people and more people of color in the group’s work, increase earned revenue, grow its endowment, and deepen its music education programming in San Francisco public schools.
