Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir
For General Operating Support
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Amount$150,000
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Program
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Date Awarded3/1/2018
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Term36 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Organization
Strategies
Overview
Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir shares the power and joy of gospel music with more than 60,000 audience members each year, in the Bay Area and beyond. With a total of 230 member-singers, the organization maintains three ensembles, including the core Gospel Choir, a Youth Choir, and a non-auditioned Community Choir. Looking toward its 35th anniversary in 2020, the organization plans to diversify funding to strengthen its administrative infrastructure, while continuing to produce a vibrant series of local concerts and grow its international reputation as a producer of the second International Interfaith Gospel Music Conference.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.oigc.org
Address
655 Thirteenth Street, Suite 301, Oakland, CA, 94612, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir (OIGC) is a multi-cultural, multi-racial vocal ensemble that performs repertoire from Black Spiritual and Gospel music traditions. Made up of sixty-five volunteer singers, the choir reaches more than 25,000 people each year through nearly forty performances, most of which are free of charge and target disenfranchised or institutionalized individuals, community groups and religious institutions, or benefits and fund-raisers on behalf of other nonprofit organizations. The organization also has a youth services and arts education program called the Youth Gospel Choir, composed of teens from the Oakland community. OIGC plans to continue its core artistic and educational activities, develop its individual donor program, and restructure its staffing with the planned departure of its long-time executive director in 2013.
