The Crucible

The Crucible’s mission is to foster collaboration between arts, industry, and community. To that end, it serves 10,000 students, artists, and audience members each year through collaborative performances that bring fire-based music, dance, and theater to its 56,000-square-foot studio in West Oakland. The Crucible’s industrial arts education programs include glass-blowing and blacksmithing, and provide 400 classes and workshops annually, offering hands-on learning opportunities for students of all ages and skill levels. With an experienced new executive director at the helm, a renewal grant would assist in the organization in stabilizing financially, evaluating its programs, and renewing its relevance within the local community. In late 2013, Crucible received an OE grant for $50,000 to convert its databases to new software (SalesForce). However, with leadership transitions, the project experienced delays and needed further development beyond the original grant. Therefore a second grant is recommended to supplement the original grant (#2013-9602) that was closed earlier this year

The Crucible serves 10,000 students, artists and audience members each year through collaborative performances that bring music, dance and theater to a unique West Oakland venue, as well as through industrial arts education programs, such as glass-blowing, blacksmithing, and fire dancing, that provide hands-on learning opportunities for students of all ages and skill levels. Support for database conversion will enable the organization to integrate its class registration, marketing, fundraising and client data in a single, more efficient customer relationship management system.

At its unique West Oakland venue, Crucible serves 10,000 students, artists, and audience members each year through collaborative performances of music, dance, and theater and through hands-on industrial arts programs (such as glass-blowing, blacksmithing, and fire dancing) for students of all ages and skill levels.