The Center for Cultural Power
For Support Of Presente's Environmental Justice Program
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Amount$150,000
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Program
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Date Awarded5/29/2015
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Term12.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Program
Overview
Presente.org, the largest online Latino advocacy organization in the nation, will use cutting-edge online, social media, and new media tools and techniques to activate Latino support for clean energy and climate action in California and other southwestern states. Presente will mobilize support from California Latinos for meeting the state's ambitious new global warming emission reduction targets for 2030 and beyond.They will also help publicize, through story-telling, how cap and trade revenues are being invested in and benefiting low-income communities of color in California.
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.
