The East Bay Fund for Artists is committed to the diversity of artistic practices and organizations as well as providing opportunities for Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) communities to experience art that represents their culture and history in addition to building their own individual donor base to sustain their work.
Donor Name: East Bay Community Foundation
State: California
County: Alameda County (CA) and Contra Costa County (CA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/15/2023
Size of the Grant: $5,000-$25,000
Details:
East Bay Community Foundation (EBCF) has been a long time proponent of the arts as is demonstrated through the partnerships with the donors and fellow foundations that work to support the arts across Alameda and Contra Costa counties. They recognize the power of the arts to inspire and bring them together.
Storytelling, arts, and cultural practices have always been important tools for survival, healing, and resistance. These creative expressions build community resilience and power, and they give voice, agency, and visibility to communities most harmed by oppression. They turn to the visionaries, artist activists, and resilient culture-keepers to help us imagine new landscapes, rewrite narratives, liberate unrealized potential, recover old wisdoms, and spark radical hope.
This Fund is currently supported by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, MacKenzie Scott and Dan Jewett, and the generous donors of East Bay Community Foundation.
EBCF’s overall goals for this work:
- Support for the creation of new works by local artists and for East Bay organizations, specifically work with a lens towards social justice
- Support for composers, playwrights, choreographers, visual, media, traditional and interdisciplinary artists in the Bay Area
- Support for a diversity of artistic practices and organizations
- Provide opportunities for communities of color to experience art that represents their culture and history
Funding Information
The East Bay Fund for Artists at East Bay Community Foundation (EBCF) Initiative awards grants of $5,000-$25,000 for the commissioning of new works by Bay Area artists. Awardees must hold a public presentation of their work within a year of receiving the grant award.
The East Bay Fund for Artists funds up to 75 percent of the total project budget. (For example, up to $7,500 of a $10,000 project).
Eligibility Requirements
- For Artists
- Individuals applying must not have been an East Bay Fund for Artists awardee during the previous calendar year.
- You must live in Alameda or Contra Costa County.
- Commission must support a new work or a new interpretation of a traditional form
- Artist(s) must have a 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor. You must submit a signed fiscal sponsorship agreement with your application.
- Funding must be allocated to lead artists’ fees only.
- They require an East Bay presentation of your work.
- Attend an East Bay Fund Artists presentation or view a webinar, if a new applicant.
- Artists from all artistic disciplines are welcome to apply (filmmakers must have budgets under $50,000 or show other significant support for the project).
- For Organizations
- Organizations applying must not have been an East Bay Fund for Artists awardee during the previous calendar year
- Organizations must have a budget under $2,000,000
- You must be an organization located in Alameda or Contra Costa County
- Commission must be for new works
- 50% of funding must be allocated to lead artists’ fees only
- Commissioned artist(s) must be a Bay Area resident
- They require an East Bay presentation of your work
- Attend an East Bay Fund for Artists presentation or view a webinar, if a new applicant
- Organizations must be a 501(c)(3) or have a fiscal sponsor
- Exhibition spaces, performance presenters, media and arts organizations may apply.
For more information, visit EBCF.
