A view of Oakland’s Lake Merritt. (Pendarvis Harshaw)
By Sarah Hotchkiss Jun 24, 2020
Oakland’s Cultural Affairs Division, the Akonadi Foundation and the East Bay Community Foundation have launched “Belonging in Oakland: A Just City Cultural Fund,” a new multi-year program that will bestow grants on cultural practitioners of color to “radically imagine a racially just city.”
The grant defines cultural practitioners expansively, including “artists, artist-activists, traditional culture bearers/keepers, griots/storytellers, craftspeople, creative placemakers and -keepers, cultural strategists, community historians/elders, or other visionaries.” Among other requirements, grantees must be based or rooted in Oakland and have either 501(c)3 status or fiscal sponsorship. Read More
