The Creative Capacity Fund
Monthly
SAN FRANCISCO
The Creative Capacity Fund (CCF) is a collaborative funding initiative of the San Francisco Arts Commission, Grants for the Arts/San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund, The San Francisco Foundation and San José Office of Cultural Affairs that is designed to strengthen the work of artists and arts administrators by providing them with access to a wide range of professional development and peer learning opportunities.
Administered by the Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI), CCF was conceived as a proactive response to the economic downturn, changing demographics, and looming leadership transitions that are placing extraordinary strain on the nonprofit arts system, and the people who work in it. Over the next several years, the Creative Capacity Fund will implement a series of capacity building programs, beginning with a Professional Development Funding Program that enables eligible applicants, including individual artists and arts administrators to attend workshops, conferences and other training opportunities locally and nationally that will build their knowledge and administrative skills.
For more information, including guidelines and application instructions, visit the Creative Capacity Fund’s website.
LOS ANGELES
With support from the California Community Foundation, the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, The Lia Fund, and the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, CCI's CCF also adminsters the Quick Grant Program, a professional development grant program for Los Angeles-based artists and arts administrators. Arts organizations may receive up to $1,000 and individual artists may receive up to $500 in Quick Grant funding. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis on the 15th of each month with a one-month turn around. In order to be considered for funding, arts organizations and individual artists must be ONE of the following:
· Individual artist living and/or working in the City of Los Angeles.
· Nonprofit, tax-exempt arts organization with budget of $500,000 or under located in Los Angeles County.
· California Community Foundation current arts grantee receiving general operating support or current/past recipient of the Fellowships for Visual Artists.
· The Lia Fund current grantee of the arts program.
For more information, including guidelines and applicaiton instructions, visit the Creative Capacity Fund’s website.