Larkin Street Youth Services
For Strategic Planning
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Amount$50,000
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Program
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Date Awarded2/19/2019
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Term12.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
Larkin Street Youth Services provides a robust continuum of services to help homeless youth, including housing, education, employment, and wellness services. A trusted service provider, the organization has worked with vulnerable youth populations for over thirty years. Located in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District, Larkin Street Youth Services' arts programs offer therapeutic and career-based opportunities for youth to explore their creativity through performing and visual arts. The organization offers career-track art programs in music production, media design, and fine arts, connecting youth to the organization’s education and employment services.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.larkinstreetyouth.org
Address
134 Golden Gate Avenue, San Francisco, CA, 94102, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for the Art Program
Larkin Street Youth Services provides an array of health, housing, employment, and education services for San Francisco youth experiencing homelessness. Each year, the organization reaches over 1,600 youth. Its multidisciplinary arts programs cultivate self-expression, wellness, and career development, and are among its most popular offerings. Guided by arts educators, youth engage in performing arts, music, creative writing, videography, and visual arts workshops, and participate in internships at partner organizations. This grant for Larkin Street Youth Services’ Art Program advances the Performing Arts Program’s Youth strategy and Program Delivery substrategy.
for the planning of a new Larkin Street Institute
Larkin Street Youth Services provides an array of health, housing, employment, and education services for San Francisco youth experiencing homelessness. Each year, the organization reaches over 1,600 youth. Its multidisciplinary arts programs cultivate self-expression, wellness, and career development, and are among the organization's most popular offerings. Guided by arts educators, youth engage in performing arts, music, creative writing, videography, and visual arts workshops, as well as participate in internships at partner organizations. This organizational effectiveness grant will support the organization's exploration of a potential new area of earned income, that seeks to provide consulting services to peer organizations. This grant advances the Performing Arts Program’s Youth strategy and Program Delivery substrategy.
for the Art Program
Larkin Street Youth Services provides an array of health, housing, employment, and education services for San Francisco youth experiencing homelessness. Each year, the organization reaches over 1,600 youth. Its multidisciplinary arts programs cultivate self-expression, wellness, and career development, and are among its most popular offerings. Guided by arts educators, youth engage in performing arts, music, creative writing, videography, and visual arts workshops, and participate in internships at partner organizations. This grant for Larkin Street Youth Services’ Art Program advances the Performing Arts Program’s Youth strategy and Program Delivery substrategy.
