ARTS CULTURE & THE HUMANITIES

Grants for Capacity Building, Management & Technical Assistance
Lincy—CALIFORNIA
1039. New Schools Fund, New Schools Venture Fund, San Francisco, CA.
$2,500,000, 2007. 2-year grant. To expand charter management
organizations in Central Valley of California.
1040. Oakland Museum of California Foundation, Oakland, CA. $75,000,
2007. 2-year grant. To strengthen executive, board and senior
management leadership to support major institutional transformation
and growth.
1041. Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA. $50,000, 2007.
1.25-year grant. For comprehensive strategic planning process.
1042. Pasadena Playhouse State Theater of California, Pasadena, CA.
$125,000, 2007. For theatrical productions and for work to strengthen
institutional capacity.
1043. Playwrights Project, San Diego, CA. $80,000, 2007. 2-year grant. For
staff restructuring, long-range organizational planning, and leadership
transition.
1044. Public Policy Institute of California, San Francisco, CA. $100,000,
2007. 1.50-year grant. For organizational development and evaluation
activities.
1045. Public/Private Ventures, Philadelphia, PA. $110,000, 2007. For
organizational and business planning to expand delivery of intermediary
and evaluation services in California.
1046. Resource Area for Teachers, RAFT, San Jose, CA. $25,000, 2007. For
core operating support.
1047. Roseville Arts, Roseville, CA. $40,000, 2007. 2-year grant. For
comprehensive marketing campaign to broaden and diversify current and
new audiences in Central Valley region.
1048. Sacramento Ballet Association, Sacramento, CA. $325,000, 2007.
3-year grant. To improve organizational financial stability, management,
governance and growth capacity.
1049. Sacramento Opera Association, Sacramento, CA. $250,000, 2007.
3-year grant. To improve organizational financial stability, management,
governance and growth capacity.
1050. Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra Association, Sacramento, CA.
$325,000, 2007. 3-year grant. To improve organizational financial
stability, management, governance and growth capacity.
1051. SAJE, Los Angeles, CA. $200,000, 2007. 2-year grant. To foster
participation of low-income residents in local government policymaking
related to housing and community planning.
1052. San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA. $50,000, 2007. For
comprehensive strategic planning process.
1053. San Diego Repertory Theater, San Diego, CA. $110,000, 2007. For
strategic and financial planning process with related marketing and
development assistance.
1054. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA. $600,000,
2007. 2-year grant. To develop, implement, and evaluate innovative
hybrid of contemporary art, technology, and public programs.
1055. San Joaquin Pioneer and Historical Society, Haggin Museum, Stockton,
CA. $275,000, 2007. 3-year grant. To improve organizational financial
stability, management, governance and growth capacity.
1056. Santa Rosa Symphony Association, Santa Rosa, CA. $150,000, 2007.
3-year grant. For audience development initiative to engage broader and
more diverse audiences in work of orchestra.
1057. Shakespeare Festival of Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA. $35,000, 2007.
To develop business plan and related market research.
1058. Sierra Repertory Theater, Sonora, CA. $275,000, 2007. 3-year grant.
To improve organizational financial stability, management, governance
and growth capacity.
1059. Southern California Grantmakers, Los Angeles, CA. $150,000, 2007.
3-year grant. For core support and organizational capacity building
activities.
1060. Southern California Leadership Network, Los Angeles, CA. $125,000,
2007. To expand core programs and upgrade organizational
infrastructure to serve diverse network of Southern California leaders.
1061. Southwest Chamber Music Society, Pasadena, CA. $55,000, 2007.
2-year grant. To strengthen executive leadership, build management
capacity, and launch board development to enable organizational growth,
as part of Fund for Leadership Advancement.
1062. Stockton Symphony Association, Stockton, CA. $300,000, 2007.
3-year grant. To improve organizational financial stability, management,
governance and growth capacity.
1063. Teatro Vision, San Jose, CA. $275,000, 2007. 3-year grant. To
implement new marketing and audience-development plan.
1064. Theater and Arts Foundation of San Diego County, La Jolla Playhouse,
La Jolla, CA. $75,000, 2007. 1.50-year grant. To strengthen executive
leadership and improve board governance, as part of Fund for Leadership
Advancement.
1065. Tomas Rivera Policy Institute, New York, NY. $50,000, 2007. To
develop comprehensive fundraising plan and internal fundraising
capacity to support plans for institutional growth.
1066. Townsend Opera Players, Modesto, CA. $36,000, 2007. 2-year grant.
For audience development and outreach strategy to broaden and
diversify participation in Central Valley.
1067. Valley Vision, Sacramento, CA. $35,000, 2007. To identify unified
vision, funding strategy and implementation plan to support region-wide
civic amenities.
1068. Warnors Center for the Performing Arts, Fresno, CA. $25,000, 2007.
For marketing study to position organization to recognize and respond to
needs of audiences and arts groups in Fresno Cultural Arts district.
1069. Williams Group, Grand Rapids, MI. $150,000, 2007. 2.25-year grant.
To design, develop, and maintain strategic Web sites for nine emerging
community foundations as part of Community Foundations Initiative II.
1070. Williams Group, Grand Rapids, MI. $129,000, 2007. To document and
disseminate lessons and resources generated through Communities
Advancing Arts initiative.
1071. Working Partnerships USA, San Jose, CA. $400,000, 2007. 2-year
grant. To include low-income communities in Santa Clara County in
policymaking on transit, housing, and other issues.
1072. Youth Speaks, San Francisco, CA. $300,000, 2007. 3-year grant. To
commission and present new work through Living Word Project, and for
organizational capacity building.
The Kimball Foundation
(formerly Sara H. and William R. Kimball Foundation)
Limitations: Giving primarily in San Francisco, San Mateo, Sonoma, and Marin
counties, CA. No support for medical research organizations. No grants
to individuals or for endowment drives, events, annual appeals, videos,
medical research, religious organizations, or the environment.
1073. San Francisco School Alliance, San Francisco, CA. $45,000, 2007. For
Leadership Initiative, training next generation of San Francisco public
school principals.
Koret Foundation
Limitations: Giving limited to the Bay Area counties of San Francisco, Alameda,
Contra Costa, Marin, Santa Clara, and San Mateo, CA; giving also in
Israel and on a national basis for Jewish funding requests. No support
for private foundations, or veterans’, fraternal, military, religious, or
sectarian organizations whose principal activity is for the benefit of their
own membership. No grants to individuals (except for the Koret Prize), or
for general fundraising campaigns, scholarships, endowment funds,
equipment funds, deficit financing, or emergency funds; no loans.
1074. CIF of the San Francisco Foundation, San Francisco, CA. $10,000,
2006. For general operating support.
1075. Hearing and Speech Center of Northern California, San Francisco, CA.
$20,000, 2006. For capacity building.
1076. Jewish Retreat Center of Northern California, San Francisco, CA.
$100,000, 2006. For planning grant.
1077. KIPP Foundation, San Francisco, CA. $50,000, 2006. For general
operating support.
1078. Resources for Indispensable Schools and Educators, San Francisco,
CA. $20,000, 2006. For capacity building.
1079. Stanford University, Stanford, CA. $49,979, 2006. To evaluate and
maintain ecosystem services.
1080. Teach for America, San Francisco, CA. $125,000, 2006. For Bay Area
recruitment, leadership development, and Koret Educational
Entrepreneurship Award.
1081. Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA. $15,000, 2006.
For audience development and capacity building.
The Lincy Foundation
Limitations: Giving in the U.S., primarily in CA, NV, and in Armenia. No grants
to individuals or endowments.
1082. Armenia, Government of, Yerevan, Armenia. $590,428, 2007. For
administration.
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