APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY
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CITY ATTORNEY’S OFFICE
OAKLAND CITY COUNCIL
RESOLUTION NO. _______________ C.M.S.
RESOLUTION AWARDING GRANTS TO NINETEEN ( 19) OAKLAND-
BASED NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS PROVIDING ARTS AND
CULTURAL SERVICES IN OAKLAND FOR FISCAL YEAR 2021 -22
(ROUND TWO), IN A TOTAL AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED THREE
HUNDRED SIXTEEN THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED FIFTY ($316,250)
WHEREAS, in 1985, the City Council ado pted the first arts funding policies and procedures for the City of Oakland, establishing a panel system of evaluating funding proposals and distributing City funds to the arts; and
WHEREAS, the Cultural Funding Program , housed in the Economic and Workfor ce Development Department, is the City’s funding mechanism to support Oakland -based nonprofit organizations and artists providing arts and cultural activities to the public; and
WHEREAS, the mission of the Cultural Funding Program is to fund Oakland -based art and cultural activities that reflect the diversity of the City for citizens of and visitors to Oakland, focusing on the key areas of General Support, Neighborhood Arts, and Arts Education, through four grant making categories for Individual Artist Projects, Organization Project, Organizational Assistance, and Festivals; and
WHEREAS, the Cultural Funding Program will award two rounds of grant funding in FY 2021-22, including supporting Festival culture in Oakland’s neighborhoods during its second round of funding; and
WHEREAS, on February 23, 2022, the Cultural Funding Program convene d public review panels and formed recommendations to award grants to the specified grantees proposing to provide Festival arts and cultural programming for the citizens of Oakland; and
WHEREAS, on March 2, 2022 , staff presented their recommendations to the City of Oakland’s Funding Advisory Committee ( FAC) for commentary, and the FAC unanimously supported staff’s recommendation to City Council that these “Round Two” grants for FY 2021-22 Cultural Funding be awarded in the amounts listed in the below table; and
2 WHEREAS, Fiscal Year 2021-22 funds for the Cultural Funding Program ’s Round Two grantmaking for Festival programs are budgeted as follows: $316,250 in General Purpose Fund (1010), Cultural Arts & Marketing Org (85511), Cultural Arts Grant Fund Project (1000166); and
WHEREAS, staff recommends that the City Council award grants to specific nonprofit organizations and individual artists, as set forth in the below table:
ORGANIZATION
Recommended Total
Not to Exceed Grant
Amount
(Funding Source)
General Fund-City
Promotions 53311
EastSide Arts Alliance $20,000.00 $20,000.00
Oakland Parks and Recreation
Foundation for Friends of
Lincoln Square Park
$5,000.00 $5,000.00
Black Cultural Zone Community
Development Corporation $20,000.00 $20,000.00
Friends of Peralta Hacienda
Historical Park $20,000.00 $20,000.00
ARTogether for Oakland
Vietnamese Chamber of
Commerce
$20,000.00 $20,000.00
Communities United for
Restorative Youth Justice $20,000.00 $20,000.00
American Indian Child Resource
Center $8,750.00 $8,750.00
Koreatown Oakland $20,000.00 $20,000.00
West Oakland Mural Project $20,000.00 $20,000.00
Attitudinal Healing Connection $20,000.00 $20,000.00
Oaklash $20,000.00 $20,000.00
B-H BRILLIANT MINDS
PROJECT, INC. $20,000.00 $20,000.00
Oakland Communities United
for Equity and Justice $10,000.00 $10,000.00
Oakland Black Pride $20,000.00 $20,000.00
The Asian Pacific
Environmental Network for
AYPAL: Building API
Community Power
$10,000.00 $10,000.00
HipHopForChange, Inc. $12,500.00 $12,500.00
3 Eastside Arts Alliance for School
of The Getdown $20,000.00 $20,000.00
Chapter 510 INK $10,000.00 $10,000.00
Social Good Fund, Inc. for BAY-
Peace $20,000.00 $20,000.00
TOTAL $316,250.00 $316,250.00
; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED: That the Oakland City Council hereby awards a grant to each organization listed in the above table for Fiscal Year 2021 -22, not to exceed the amounts detailed therein; and be it
FURTHER RESOLVED: That in the event any of the above grants are not encumbered, those funds shall revert to the Cultural Funding Program for use in other categories of support.
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IN COUNCIL, OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA,
PASSED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:
AYES - FIFE, GALLO, KALB, KAPLAN, REID, TAYLOR, THAO AND
PRESIDENT FORTUNATO BAS
NOES –
ABSENT –
ABSTENTION –
ATTEST:
ASHA REED
City Clerk and Clerk of the Council of the
City of Oakland, California