RYSE Center
For The Media, Arts, + Culture Program
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Amount$50,000
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Program
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Date Awarded3/25/2019
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Term34.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Program
Strategies
Overview
Grounded in the values of youth leadership and social justice, RYSE Center provides programs and services for East Bay young adults, ages 13 to 21. The organization’s Media, Arts, + Culture program provides after-school and evening workshops; field trips; projects; performances; and internships in music and performing arts, video production, healing arts, and visual arts. The program’s suite of activities engages more than 500 youth in approximately 60 projects and 40 events each year; reaches more than 2,000 audience members annually; and is deeply integrated into RYSE Center’s model to promote personal healing, social justice, and community transformation.
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.
