RYSE Center
For The Media, Arts And Culture Program
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Amount$75,000
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Program
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Date Awarded11/12/2012
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Term36.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Program
Strategies
Overview
A youth center grounded in social justice and leadership, RYSE is a safe space in a troubled neighborhood, created as a community response to the December 2000 murder of four Richmond high school students. Now serving 1,500 students annually, the Media, Arts and Culture program helps Richmond and West Contra Costa County youth respond to pressing community needs through engagement, active participation, and advocacy. Although its original partner, Hewlett Foundation grantee Youth Movement Records, closed its doors earlier this year, RYSE continues to deliver after-school and evening visual arts, music, and video production programs that support young artists with high-quality, industry-standard training and education. First-time support for this organization would enable it to further strengthen its arts programming.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.rysecenter.org
Address
3939 Bissell Avenue, Richmond, CA, 94805, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
The RYSE Center is a youth-serving community-based organization located in Richmond, California, that works to create youth-led spaces grounded in social justice and community. The organization works to ensure young people have the emotional, physical, social, and political safety to acquire tools, skills, and resources to understand and change institutional and systemic inequities in their communities. (Substrategy: Student and Community Voice)
for the Media, Arts, + Culture Program
RYSE Center is a youth development center that create safe spaces, resources, and programs for youth aged 13 to 21 in the city of Richmond and West Contra Costa County. The organization’s Media, Arts, + Culture program provides daily free out-of-school programs in music, video, visual, and performing arts. These classes, workshops, internships, projects, and productions engage more than 700 youth each year, and are frequently embedded with the organization’s other program areas, which focus on health, education and economic justice, youth justice, and youth power building. Support for the Media, Arts, + Culture program at RYSE Center contributes to the Performing Arts Program’s Youth strategy through the Program Delivery substrategy.
for an equity, inclusion, and diversity capacity-building project
RYSE Center is a creative youth development organization and hub for developing the voice and power of youth ages 13 to 21. 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 organization’s 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 RYSE Center advances the Performing Arts Program’s Youth strategy through the Program Delivery substrategy.
