Intersection for the Arts
For Organizational Assessment
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Amount$20,000
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Program
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Date Awarded9/16/2015
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Term12.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Overview
Emerging Arts Professionals/San Francisco Bay Area (EAP) is a fiscally sponsored project of Intersection for the Arts. EAP is a peer network run by and for arts and cultural workers under the age of 40. Each year it provides more than 1,000 people with networking events, professional development programs, and opportunities to gain practical leadership experience. EAP is one of four emerging arts leadership networks located in California that the Program supports in order to help young people develop meaningful careers to the arts and ensure the arts field is able to leverage the assets of multiple generations so that is remains relevant and reflective of today’s rapidly changing community tastes and expectations.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.theintersection.org
Address
1446 Market Street, San Francisco, CA, 94102, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for the Arts Education Alliance of the Bay Area
The Arts Education Alliance of the Bay Area is a fiscally sponsored project of Intersection for the Arts. It connects and catalyzes groups of arts education providers, educators, and advocates to help ensure youth located throughout the San Francisco Bay Area receive a comprehensive and quality arts education. Its services include regranting; event sponsorships; training and facilitation; and field leadership, in part, through its role as regional hub for five local arts education networks. This grant to Intersection for the Arts for the Arts Education Alliance of the Bay Area will support a conference in 2023 for arts education organizations to learn about Proposition 28 implementation. This grant advances the Performing Arts Program’s Youth strategy through the Policy and Advocacy substrategy.
for Zoo Labs
Zoo Labs, a fiscally sponsored project of Intersection for the Arts, supports and empowers Bay Area-based musicians and other artists to own and amplify their creative projects. Its work includes the curricular development and delivery of arts business training, public panel discussions with industry leaders, mentorship pairing, and other services in support of arts entrepreneurs and small business owners. In its first two years, the new Zoo Labs LEARN platform has served over 500 individual artists. This grant, in alignment with the Performing Arts Program’s Artists strategy, will enable Zoo Labs to continue and evolve its artist support programs.
for the Arts Education Alliance of the Bay Area
The Arts Education Alliance of the Bay Area is a fiscally sponsored project of Intersection for the Arts. It connects and catalyzes groups of arts education providers, educators, and advocates to help ensure youth located throughout the San Francisco Bay Area receive a comprehensive and quality arts education. It provides services including regranting, event sponsorships, training and facilitation, and field leadership; serves as the regional hub for five local networks of arts education alliances; and aligns its work with statewide and national arts education efforts. Support for the Arts Education Alliance of the Bay Area advances the Performing Arts Program’s Youth strategy through the Policy and Advocacy substrategy.
