New! Watch the video of Michael Kaiser, President of The Kennedy Center, address the Sacramento Arts Community
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New! Learn More about the Advancing Sacramento Arts grant recipients
While today's economic climate may bring much anxiety to the arts community, it also challenges arts organizations to be more strategic, to work in partnership with each other, and to be more dedicated and disciplined not just to their art but to their own sustainability as an institution. This will require some form of change by arts organizations themselves to think and behave differently, to reach out to different audiences, to build bridges with new funders and donors, all the while continuing to do what they do best...create art.
Toward that end, the Advancing Sacramento Arts initiative will support small to medium-sized arts organizations over the next two years and work with arts supporters to understand their value in helping to create an arts endowment at the Foundation to advance arts in Sacramento. Our first phase will be to simply make small grants to broaden the art experience throughout the city and county, and packaging those arts experiences to educate the public and arts supporters. Concurrently, we will be launching a capacity development series of workshops aimed at strenghtening arts managers, leaders, and administrators to not just operate their organizations with improvement, but to engage in new thinking, to be exposed to the best practitioners in arts administration, and to form alliances with each other in meaningful ways.
The Foundation encourages the arts community to use our website as a learning tool. We will periodically update the site with news, information, and other resources to build a knowledge network for arts in Sacramento.
Michael Kaiser Addresses Sacramento Arts Community
New! Click here to learn more about Michael Kaiser's visit to Sacramento where he addressed the current economic climate and what it means to arts organization. You will also find pictures from the event and video of the address in its entirety.
Arts Growth Circle
As part of the Advancing Sacramento Arts initiative, the Sacramento Region Community Foundation, in partnership with the Center for Cultural Innovation and the Nonprofit Resource Center, is pleased to announce its next round of art capacity building efforts.
The Arts Growth Circle will take a multi-level approach of engagement by seeking individuals who represent emerging to small arts organizations.
Grant Opportunities
There are no current grant opportunities at this time. Please check back shortly for new opportunities
Helpful Resources
New! The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has launched an Arts in Crisis initiative to offer help for arts organizations during this economic climate. You may ask for technical assistance or sign up to be a mentor.
Americans for the Arts has a practical online toolkit to help arts organization respond to funding cuts. "Arts Funding Response and Readiness Kits," provides practical advocacy, messaging, and strategic advice.
Arts consultant Alan Brown of WolfBrown completed a provoking study of how people experience art in the Inland Empire region. "Cultural Engagement in California's Inland Regions" provides an excellent executive summary that questions our assumptions about the art experience and offers practical questions on how to broaden the art audience.