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 FORTY-NINE (49) OAKLAND-
BASED NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS PROVIDING ARTS AND
CULTURAL SERVICES IN OAKLAND FOR FISCAL YEAR 202 2-23
(ROUND ONE), IN A T OTAL AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED ONE
MILLION ONE HUNDRED EIGHTY -FIVE THOUSAND THREE
HUNDRED FIFTY DOLLARS ($1,185,350)
WHEREAS, in 1985, the City Council adopted the first arts funding policies and procedures for the City of Oakland (City), establishing a panel system of evaluating funding proposals and distributing City funds to the arts; and
WHEREAS, the Cultural Fundin g Program , housed in the Economic and Workforce 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 Cult ural 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 2022-23, including supporting festival culture in Oa kland’s neighborhoods and providing organizational assistance (year-two) to arts-focused organizations during its first round of funding (Round One); and
WHEREAS, during September 2021 and September 2022, the Cultural Funding Program convened two review panels and forwarded to the City of Oakland Funding Advisory Committee (FAC) recommendations to award grants to the specified grantees proposing to provide arts and cultural programming in the citizens of Oakland; and
WHEREAS, on September 7, 2022, staff presented their recommendations to the FAC for commentary, and the FAC unanimously supported staff’s recommendation to City Council that these Round One grants for F iscal Year 2022-23 Cultural Funding be awarded in the amounts listed in the below table; and
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WHEREAS, Fiscal Year 2022-23 funds for the Cultural Funding Program are available as follows: $1,185,350 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, as set forth in the below table:
ORGANIZATION NAMES Recommended
Total Not to Exceed
Grant Amount
(Funding Source)
General Fund-City
Promotions 53311
Oakland Parks and Recreation
Foundation for Afrocentric Oakland
$20,000.00 $20,000.00
Brava! For Women in the Arts for Afro-
Peruvian Fest
$10,000.00 $10,000.00
Alkebulan Fiscal Sponsors $20,000.00 $20,000.00
American Indian Child Resource Center $10,000.00 $10,000.00 API Cultural Center, Inc. $20,000.00 $20,000.00
Art & Soul Oakland $20,000.00 $20,000.00
ARTogether $20,000.00 $20,000.00
Asian Pacific Environmental Network for
AYPAL: Building API Community Power
$20,000.00 $20,000.00
Black Arts Movement and Business
District Community Development
Corporation of Oakland
$10,000.00 $10,000.00
Black Cultural Zone Community
Development Corporation
$20,000.00 $20,000.00
Black Joy Parade $20,000.00 $20,000.00
Intersection for BoomShake Music $20,000.00 $20,000.00 The Center for Independent Living, Inc. $10,000.00 $10,000.00 Chapter 510 INK $10,000.00 $10,000.00
Philanthropic Ventures Foundation for
Civic Design Studio
$20,000.00 $20,000.00
Communities United for Restorative
Youth Justice
$20,000.00 $20,000.00
Creative Growth Art Center, Inc. $20,000.00 $20,000.00 3 3206667v2/MJM
East Bay Asian Local Development
Corporation
$20,000.00 $20,000.00
Independent Arts & Media for East Bay
Queer Healing Arts Center
$10,350.00 $10,350.00
First Presbyterian Church of Oakland $20,000.00 $20,000.00 Laurel District Association $20,000.00 $20,000.00
Oakland Communities United for Equity
and Justice
$5,000.00 $5,000.00
Oakland Technology & Education Center $20,000.00 $20,000.00 Peacemakers, Inc. for OaklandVR $10,000.00 $10,000.00
Intersection for School of the Getdown $20,000.00 $20,000.00 Spanish Speaking Unity Council of
Alameda County, Inc.
$20,000.00 $20,000.00
API Cultural Center, Inc. $30,000.00 $30,000.00
Attitudinal Healing Connection, Inc. $40,000.00 $40,000.00 Chapter 510 INK $40,000.00 $40,000.00
DANCE ELIXIR $20,000.00 $20,000.00
Destiny Arts Center $40,000.00 $40,000.00
Diamano Coura West African Dance
Company
$25,000.00 $25,000.00
Dimensions Dance Theater $35,000.00 $35,000.00
East Bay Performing Arts $40,000.00 $40,000.00
EastSide Arts Alliance $40,000.00 $40,000.00
Friends of Peralta Hacienda Historical
Park
$40,000.00 $40,000.00
HipHopforChange, Inc. $35,000.00 $35,000.00
Independent Arts & Media for The
Crucible
$40,000.00 $40,000.00
Kitka, Inc. $30,000.00 $30,000.00
Living Jazz $35,000.00 $35,000.00
Music is Extraordinary, Inc. $30,000.00 $30,000.00
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Oakland Ballet Company $35,000.00 $35,000.00
Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir, Inc. $35,000.00 $35,000.00 Oaktown Jazz Workshops $20,000.00 $20,000.00
Prescott Circus Theatre $30,000.00 $30,000.00
Project Bandaloop $40,000.00 $40,000.00
Purple Silk Music Education Foundation,
Inc.
$20,000.00 $20,000.00
Sarah Webster Fabio Center for Social
Justice
$20,000.00 $20,000.00
Ubuntu Theater Project, Inc. $30,000.00 $30,000.00
TOTAL $1,185,350.00 $1,185,350.00
; 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 2022-2023, not to exceed the amounts detailed therein, in a total amount not to exceed one million one hundred eighty -five thousand three hundred fifty dollars ($1,185,350); 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.
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