ATTACHMENT B
Fiscal Year (FY) 2021‐22 Cultural Funding Program (CFP) GRANT CATEGORY DESCRIPTIONS
Round One: November 2021
Organizational Assistance (Two Year Grant)
Provides general operating support to established, primary arts organizations. To be eligible, an organization must have received CFP funding in two of the past four consecutive funding cycles.
Neighborhood Voices (VOICES)
A grant program seeking to bring Oaklanders together to create and support a sense of belonging within a community, foster social connections that lift our spirits, feed our community’s well‐being and offer visions for our collective future. It affirms the voices of Oakland by supporting the expression, recognition and understanding of the array of diverse communities that make Oakland unique, vibrant and resilient.
Neighborhood Voices – Individual Artists
Supports project offerings by Oakland‐based individual artists that support arts‐based civic engagement in communities. Examples include murals, creative placemaking, creative place keeping, and creative place knowing.
Neighborhood Voices – Organizations
Supports project offerings by Oakland‐based non‐profit organizations that support artist‐based civic engagement in communities. Examples include parades, murals, creative placemaking, and arts‐based civic engagement projects.
Round Two: April 2022
Neighborhood Voices – Festivals
Neighborhood Voices (VOICES‐FEST) builds belonging within the dynamic neighborhoods of the City of Oakland by supporting culturally‐engaging efforts to bring our city's community members together through festival culture. Festivals to be supported may include, but are not limited to: performances in poetry, dance, music or theater, visual art and public arts exhibitions/events, and literary presentations, that are rooted in a sense of place.