APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY
________________________
CITY ATTORNEY’S OFFICE
OAKLAND CITY COUNCIL
RESOLUTION NO. ______________ C.M.S.
RESOLUTION AWARDING GRANTS TO SIXTY (60) OAKLAND-
BASED NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS PROVIDING ARTS AND
CULTURAL SERVICES IN OAKLAND FOR FISCAL YEAR 202 3-24, IN
A TOTAL AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED ONE MILLION THREE
HUNDRED TWENTY-SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS ($1,327,000)
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 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 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 two grant making categories for Cultural Organizational Assistance, and Neighborhood Voices for Festivals; and
WHEREAS, in October 2023 , the Cultural Funding Program convened community review panels to evaluate submitted applications for Neighborhood Voices for Festivals and Cultural Organization Assistance grant programs . The highest scoring applications were reviewed by staff who have recommended to City Council that these grants for Fiscal Year 2023- 24 Cultural Funding be awarded in the amounts listed in the below table; and
WHEREAS, Fiscal Year 2023-24 funds for the Cultural Funding Program are available as follows: $947,000 in General Purpose Fund (1010), Cultural Arts & Marketing Org (85511), Cultural Arts Grant Fund Project (1000166); $380,000 from the Transient Occupancy Tax surcharge, which will be reserved for arts grants in the Measure C: Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT) Surcharge Fund (2419), Cultural Arts & Marketing Org (85511), TOT Surcharge:
Cultural Grants Project (1000458); and
WHEREAS, staff recommends that the City Council award grants to specific nonprofit organizations, as set forth in the below table:
2 ORGANIZATION NAMES
Recommended Total Not
to Exceed Grant Amount
(Funding
Source) General
Fund-City
Promotions
53311
(Funding Source)
Transient
Occupancy Tax
API Cultural Center, Inc. $35,000.00 $35,000.00
ARTogether $30,000.00 $30,000.00
Attitudinal Healing
Connection, Inc. $35,000.00 $35,000.00
Cantare Con Vivo $35,000.00 $35,000.00
Chapter 510 INK $35,000.00 $35,000.00
Creative Growth Art
Center, Inc. $35,000.00 $35,000.00
DANCE ELIXIR $15,000.00 $15,000.00
Destiny Arts Center $35,000.00 $35,000.00
Diamano Coura West
African Dance Company $25,000.00 $25,000.00
Dimensions Dance Theater,
Incorporated. $25,000.00 $25,000.00
East Bay Performing Arts $35,000.00 $35,000.00
EastSide Arts Alliance, Inc. $35,000.00 $35,000.00
Friends of Peralta Hacienda
Historical Park $35,000.00 $35,000.00
Kitka, Inc. $30,000.00 $30,000.00
Living Jazz $35,000.00 $35,000.00
Museum of Children's Art $35,000.00 $35,000.00
Music Is Extraordinary, Inc. $25,000.00 $25,000.00
Oakland Ballet Company $35,000.00 $35,000.00
Oakland Interfaith Gospel
Choir, Inc. $35,000.00 $35,000.00
Oaktown Jazz Workshops $15,000.00 $15,000.00
Prescott Circus Theatre $25,000.00 $25,000.00
3 Project Bandaloop $35,000.00 $35,000.00
Purple Silk Music Education
Foundation, Inc. $15,000.00 $15,000.00
Sarah Webster Fabio Center
for Social Justice $15,000.00 $15,000.00
The Crucible $35,000.00 $35,000.00
Ubuntu Theater Project, Inc.
DBA Oakland Theater
Project $30,000.00 $30,000.00
Youth Radio DBA YR
Media $35,000.00 $35,000.00
Oakland Parks and
Recreation Foundation for
AfroCentric Oakland $20,000.00 $20,000.00
Alkebulan Fiscal Sponsors $20,000.00 $20,000.00
American Indian Child
Resource Center $7,500.00 $7,500.00
ART & SOUL OAKLAND $20,000.00 $20,000.00
B-H Brilliant Minds Project
Inc. $13,000.00 $13,000
Black Cultural Zone
Community Development
Corporation $10,000.00 $10,000.00
Black Joy Parade $20,000.00 $20,000.00
Black Music Entrepreneur
Incubator $20,000.00 $20,000.00
Building Opportunities for
Self-Sufficiency $7,500.00 $7,500.00
Center for Empowering
Refugees and Immigrants,
Inc. (CERI) $20,000.00 $9,000.00 $11,000.00
Philanthropic Ventures
Foundation for Civic Design
Studio $10,000.00 $10,000.00
Dancers' Group for Grown
Women Dance Collective $20,000.00 $20,000.00
Dimond Improvement
Association $13,000.00 $13,000.00
SPM Fund for Disability
Brilliance for Disability
Justice Culture Club $20,000.00 $20,000.00
4 Digital Organizing, Power-
Building and Engagement
Labs (DOPE LABs) for e4e
Arts $20,000.00 $20,000.00
Lao Family Community
Development, Inc. for East
Bay Refugee and Immigrant
Forum $20,000.00 $20,000.00
Entitled Futures $20,000.00 $20,000.00
Floreciendo DBA Oakland
Bloom $20,000.00 $20,000.00
One East Palo Alto
Neighborhood Improvement
Initiative for Fua Dia Congo $13,000.00 $13,000.00
Koreatown Oakland $20,000.00 $20,000.00
Lao Iu Mien Culture
Association, Inc. $8,000.00 $8,000.00
Laurel District Association $20,000.00 $20,000.00
Native American Health
Center, Inc. $13,000.00 $13,000.00
The Oakland Chinatown
Chamber Foundation for
Oakland Chinatown
Chamber of Commerce $20,000.00 $20,000.00
Oakland Chinatown
Improvement Council $13,000.00 $13,000.00
Oakland Communities
United for Equity & Justice $10,000.00 $10,000.00
Oaklash $10,000.00 $10,000.00
Omnira Institute $6,000.00 $6,000.00
SAMBAFUNK, INC. $20,000.00 $20,000.00
Intersection for School of the
Getdown $13,000.00 $13,000.00
Spanish Speaking Unity
Council of Alameda County,
Inc. $20,000.00 $20,000.00
Walk Oakland Bike
Oakland $20,000.00 $20,000.00
5 World Trust Education
Services Inc. $10,000.00 $10,000.00
TOTALS $1,327,000.00 $947,000.00 $380,000.00
; 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 2023-2024, not to exceed the amounts detailed therein, in a total amount not to exceed one million three hundred twenty-seven thousand dollars ($1,327,000); 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, 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
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