Through a $1.5 million grant agreement with the Center for Cultural Innovation, the Oakland CARES Fund for Artists and Arts Nonprofits provided grants to support individual artists and arts nonprofit organizations that have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Grants of up to $20,000 for arts nonprofits, and up to $3,000 for individual artists, helped prevent displacement among artists and closures of arts nonprofits. Artists and public-benefiting arts organizations are the backbone of the City’s diversity and vibrancy of cultural identity and expression.
51 nonprofit organizations and 349 individual artists received grants through the program.