RYSE Center
For The Media, Arts, + Culture Program
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Amount$240,000
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Program
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Date Awarded9/23/2021
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Term36.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Program
Strategies
Overview
RYSE Center is a resource and program hub serving youth aged 13 to 21 in Richmond, CA, and West Contra Costa County. The Media, Arts, + Culture program at RYSE provides daily free out-of-school programs in music, video, visual, and performing arts. These classes, workshops, internships, projects, and productions engage more than 500 youth each year, and reach more than 2,000 audience members annually. Arts activities are frequently and meaningfully embedded together with the organization’s other program areas, which focus on education and justice, youth leadership and advocacy, and community health. Support of the Media, Arts, + Culture program at RYSE contributes to the Performing Arts Program’s Youth strategy.
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.
