Performing Arts Workshop
For Capacity Building
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Amount$150,000
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Program
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Date Awarded12/10/2007
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Term24.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.performingartsworkshop.org
Address
768 Delano Avenue, San Francisco, CA, 94112, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for an equity, inclusion, and diversity capacity-building project
Performing Arts Workshop uses arts education to develop the critical thinking, creative expression, and learning skills of youth between the ages of 3 and 18. This organizational effectiveness grant supports internal capacity building to deepen the organization’s awareness, knowledge, skill, policies and practices around equity, inclusion, and diversity. Strengthening an organizations’ equity-focused competencies supports its practices and outcomes and contributes to a Bay Area arts ecosystem that has examined and reflects an understanding of equity in the arts. Support for Performing Arts Workshop advances the Performing Arts Program’s Youth strategy and Program Delivery substrategy.
for general operating support
Performing Arts Workshop uses arts education to develop the critical thinking, creative expression, and learning skills of youth between the ages of three and 18. The organization works in schools, transitional housing facilities, community spaces, juvenile detention facilities, and at its own facility in San Francisco. Each year, Performing Arts Workshop serves over 1,900 students with instruction and presentation opportunities in music, dance, creative writing, theater, spoken word, visual arts, and media arts. Support for Performing Arts Workshop aligns with the Performing Arts Program’s Youth strategy and Program Delivery substrategy.