Silicon Valley Creates
For General Operating Support
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Amount$400,000
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Program
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Date Awarded3/20/2013
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Term24.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Organization
Strategies
Overview
Arts Council Silicon Valley is the largest nonprofit arts council in California, providing a comprehensive suite of funding, technical assistance, and marketing services to Santa Clara County’s artists and more than 600 arts and cultural organizations. Following a three-year period of transition in leadership and programming, the organization has ambitious plans to develop a larger arts funding pool; test and launch community philanthropy tools to increase support for the arts; and build an online arts education directory. Replacing the Foundation’s project support for regranting programs and the arts event database Live:SV (formerly Artsopolis), a grant for general operating support would assist the organization as it works to redefine how an arts council can effectively serve its community.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
svcreates.org
Address
310 South First Street, San Jose, CA, 95113, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
Silicon Valley Creates, better known as SVCreates, is a regional arts service organization whose mission is to uplift and empower the creative culture of Silicon Valley. Focused on the creative sector of the South Bay, including San Mateo and Santa Clara counties, it builds capacity, raises value and visibility, and increases access to arts and creativity. Its grantmaking supports scores of creative enterprises through a variety of awards for arts organizations and projects. SVCreates also provides customized support and coaching for a portfolio of approximately 100 small and mid-sized multicultural nonprofit organizations, artists, and creative professionals, year-round professional development workshops, advocacy for the region’s arts and culture sector, and increased visibility for the arts through publishing and events. Support of SVCreates advances the Performing Arts Program’s Communities strategy.
