The Center for Cultural Power
For General Operating Support
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Amount$400,000
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Program
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Date Awarded11/22/2021
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Term30.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Organization
Strategies
Overview
The Center for Cultural Power supports artists who seek to engage in social movements as powerful agents for cultural change. The organization’s strategies include Artistic Leadership, Intersectional Storytelling, and Field Building. These strategic pathways center the artists’ role in society, their creative experience and their work, while positioning them to shift narratives including on climate change. The Center for Cultural Power is a shared grantee of Hewlett’s Environment and Performing Arts programs. (Substrategy: U.S. Climate Policy)
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.culturalpower.org
Address
360 Grand Avenue, #146, Oakland, CA, 94610, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for legal technical assistance
This grant is for legal technical assistance to help increase understanding of the current landscape as grantees engage in DEIJ-related charitable activities.
for general operating support
The Center for Cultural Power is dedicated to supporting artists and culture makers who engage in social movements as powerful agents for social change. Each year it provides learning opportunities to approximately 100 artists in the form of fellowships, workshops, cohort experiences, and the publishing of curricula and tools. The organization also provides financial and production resources to artists and organizational partners who work to shift narratives around issues such as migration, climate, gender, and racial justice. Support of the Center for Cultural Power aligns with the Advocacy component of the Performing Arts Program’s strategic framework.
for an equity, inclusion, and diversity capacity-building project
The Center for Cultural Power is dedicated to supporting artists and culture-makers who seek to engage in social movements as powerful agents for social change. It provides learning opportunities to approximately 100 artists annually in the form of fellowships, workshops, cohort experiences, and curricula and tools. 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 Center for Cultural Power advances the Performing Arts Program’s strategic framework through its advocacy tool.
