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Belonging in Oakland: A Just City Cultural Fund Announces New Grantees

For the fund’s first time, three projects were awarded three-year grants of $100,000 per year for collaborations across Oakland-based cultural and social change organizations led by Black, Indigenous, and people of color.

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East Bay Fund for Artists Announces 2023 Awardees

East Bay Community Foundation (EBCF) announced the 2023 awardees of the East Bay Fund for Artists (EBFA), which will provide $285,500 to 15 individual artists and nine to organizations.

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Funding the Connective Tissue of Communities

Tommy Wong, founder of Civic Design Studio, is a testament to the unique benefit of unrestricted grants for art that drives narrative and social change.

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Belonging in Oakland: A Just City Cultural Fund Announces $300,000 Funding Opportunity 

The new initaitve invites artists and cultural practitioners to collaborate with community organizers and social change organizations. The Fund will award three three-year grants.

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East Bay Fund for Artists Announces 2022 Awardees

Collectively, the awards from the East Bay Fund for Artists support artists whose work celebrates, preserves, and promotes the pride and identity of Black, Indigenous, and people of color and LGBTQ+ communities.

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Belonging In Oakland: A Just City Cultural Fund Announces Second Round Of Awards

8 Projects Chosen for Sparking Radical Imagination and Action for Oakland  OAKLAND, CALIF., October 14, 2021 The East Bay Community Foundation, Akonadi Foundation, and the …

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East Bay Community Foundation Receives $1 million grant from MacKenzie Scott and Dan Jewett to Support East Bay Artists

The East Bay Community Foundation announced today that it has received a $1 million grant from MacKenzie Scott and Dan …

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18 East Bay Artists Funded in Competitive East Bay Fund for Artists Award

East Bay Community Foundation announces $165,000 in awards for artists, proposed works focus on racial justice and culturally affirming multi-disciplinary …

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Announcing First Year Awards of Belonging in Oakland: A Just City Cultural Fund

12 Cultural Practitioners of Color in Oakland Receive Grants for Community Centered Projects that Radically Imagine a Racially Just City …

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23 Grants Awarded from the East Bay Fund for Artists

The East Bay Community Foundation is proud to announce that it has awarded 23 grants, totaling over $130K, from the …

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Public Art Enhances Daily Life

From 2000 to 2015, eight pieces of public art featured here were commissioned by EBCF and The Open Circle Foundation.

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