World Arts West
For General Operating Support
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Amount$180,000
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Program
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Date Awarded11/15/2011
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Term36.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Organization
Strategies
Overview
World Arts West is dedicated to sustaining culturally specific, traditional, and folk dance communities of Northern California. Acting as both a presenter and a service organization, it produces the annual San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival. A recently completed strategic plan expanded the 2011 festival, a month-long celebration of traditional world dance forms, from thirty-seven performances to fifty and added more participatory activities. In addition, the organization offers technical assistance to the folk and traditional dance community.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.worldartswest.org
Address
Fort Mason Center Landmark Building D, San Francisco, CA, 94123-1382, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for strategic planning
World Arts West is dedicated to sustaining and nurturing the culturally-specific, traditional, and folk dance communities of Northern California. Acting as both a presenter and a service organization, World Arts West produces the annual San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival and its open audition process. The organization offers additional technical assistance services to the folk and traditional dance community. Within the growing ethnic dance field, World Arts West has the deepest and most intimate knowledge of this community and is well positioned to help move the field forward. Support for a strategic planning process will enable the entire staff and board to build on its current strategies while developing a revenue stability plan.
for general operating support
World Arts West is dedicated to sustaining culturally specific, traditional, and folk dance communities of Northern California. Acting as both a presenter and a service organization, it produces the annual San Francisco Ethnic Dance Festival. A recently completed strategic plan expanded the 2011 festival, a month-long celebration of traditional world dance forms, from thirty-seven performances to fifty and added more participatory activities. In addition, the organization offers technical assistance to the folk and traditional dance community.