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 SEVENTEEN (17) OAKLAND -
BASED NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS PROVIDING ARTS AND
CULTURAL SERVICES IN OAKLAND FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022 -2023 THROUGH “THE C REATIVE ECONOMIES OF BELONGING: JOBS,
NETWORK, AND CATALYSTS” GRANT OPPORTUNITY, IN A TOTAL
AMOUNT NOT T O EXCEED FOUR HUNDRED FIFTY THOUSAND
FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS ($450,500)
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 Funding Progra m, housed in the Cultural Affairs Division of 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, through a competitive application process, the National Endowment for the Arts awarded American Rescue Plan funds in the amount of $500,000 to the City of Oakland Cultural Affairs Division due to its status as a Local Arts Agency and its ability to sub -grant these funds to organizations in Oakland’s cultural sector; and
WHEREAS, on March 15, 2022 , Oakland City Council passed Resolution No. 89068 C.M.S., which accepted and appropriated these grants funds from the National Endowment for the Arts to support “The C reative Economies of Belonging: Jobs, Network and Catalysts” grant opportunity for Oakland cultural organizations, and authorized the City Administrator to enter into an agreement with the National Endowment For The Arts to receive said funds; and
WHEREAS, on November 17, 2022 , the Cultural Funding Program convened a public review panel and forwarded to the City of Oakland Funding Advisory Committee (FAC) recommendations regarding grants to the specified g rantees employing teaching artists and providing arts education programming to the citizens of Oakland; and
WHEAREAS, on December 7, 2022, staff presented their recommendations to the FAC for commentary, and the FAC unanimously supported staff’s recommendation to City Council that these Creative Economies of Belonging grants for Fiscal 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 Fundi ng Program ’s Creative Economies of Belonging grant opportunity are available as follows: $450,500 in Miscellaneous Grants Fund (2999), Cultural Arts and Marketing Organization (85511), Cultural Funding Program (CE02), NEA Cultural Economies Project (1006372); 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)
Miscellaneous
Grants Fund (2999)
51Oakland $26,500 $26,500
ARTogether $26,500 $26,500
Cantare Con Vivo $26,500 $26,500
Chapter 510 INK $26,500 $26,500
Destiny Arts Center $26,500 $26,500
Diamano Coura West African Dance
Company $26,500 $26,500
HipHopForChange, Inc. $26,500 $26,500
Living Jazz $26,500 $26,500
Museum of Children's Art $26,500 $26,500
Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir $26,500 $26,500
Oaktown Jazz Workshops $26,500 $26,500
Prescott Circus Theatre $26,500 $26,500
Project Bandaloop $26,500 $26,500
Stagebridge $26,500 $26,500
The Junior Center of Art and Science $26,500 $26,500
People's Conservatory $26,500 $26,500
Thingamajigs $26,500 $26,500
TOTAL $450,500 $450,500
; 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 exceed four hundred fifty thousand Five Hundred dollars ($450,500); and be it 3 3234342v1/MJM
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, JENKINS, KALB, KAPLAN, RAMACHANDRAN, REID, AND
PRESIDENT FORTUNATO BAS
NOES –
ABSENT –
ABSTENTION –
ATTEST:
ASHA REED
City Clerk and Clerk of the Council of the
City of Oakland, California