Bay Area Creative Corps Program

Bay Area Creative Corps Program

San Francisco Foundation launched the Bay Area Creative Corps Program (BACC), in partnership with the California Arts Council’s statewide pilot initiative, the California Creative Corps (CCC), established by a one-time $60 million investment from the State of California General Fund. SFF is one of 14 partners with the CAC across the state that are designing programs unique to the strengths and needs of their particular region.

The primary goal of the CCC is to lift up the essential role of artists and cultural practitioners as a workforce that is essential to advancing equity and well-being across California through creative and culturally-relevant problem-solving in key sectors. The work of the BACC will be focused on communities that are facing some of the highest barriers to environmental safety, civic participation, access to healthcare, and other social goods needed to build equitable opportunities for all. (The CAC defines the priority communities as those ranking the lowest 25 percent of the California Healthy Places Index within the issue areas named above.)

BACC supports organizations eager to collaborate with artist activists, cultural strategists, and resilient culture keepers to create and/or deepen community-informed solutions in the areas of Civic Engagement, Environmental Sustainability & Resilience, Housing/Immigrant/Workers Rights, and Public Health. Activities take place in priority communities in eight counties of the Bay Area region— that is, Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, and Sonoma counties.

See our full announcement of the 29 Bay Area Creative Corps Program Grantees.

For questions about the program, see Frequently Asked Questions below.

Bay Area Creative Corps Program Grantees

1. 67 Sueños
2. A. Philip Randolph Institute San Francisco
3. Attitudinal Healing Connection
4. California Lawyers for the Arts
5. Chinese for Affirmative Action
6. City of San Jose Office of Cultural Affairs
7. Civic Design Studio
8. Creativity Explored
9. Cultural Odyssey
10. East Bay Center for the Performing Arts
11. EPACENTER
12. Grown Women Dance Collective
13. Indigenous Healing Center
14. Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity
15. Monument Impact
16. Mosaic America
17. Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana
18. Nimbus Arts
19. North Bay Jobs with Justice
20. North Bay Organizing Project
21. Oakland Fund for Public Innovation
22. Oakland Rising
23. Puertas Abiertas Community Resource Center
24. Raizes Collective
25. Sarah Webster Fabio Center for Social Justice
26. School of Arts and Culture at MHP
27. Somos Mayfair
28. Suscol Intertribal Council
29. Youth vs Apocalypse

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Frequently Asked Questions