Performing Arts Workshop
For Capital Improvements And Relocation To The Historic Geneva Powerhouse Building
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Amount$250,000
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Program
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Date Awarded10/2/2017
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Term24.0 Months
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Type of SupportCapital Funds
Strategies
Overview
Performing Arts Workshop is engaged in a campaign for capital renovations and improvements to relocate to the historic 1901 Geneva Powerhouse in San Francisco’s Excelsior neighborhood. The facility will become the Workshop’s new administrative home, as well as a venue for on-site cultural programming for youth, families, and adults. The City of San Francisco will own the facility, and Performing Arts Workshop will be the master tenant with a long-term below-market lease.
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.
