Arts for Oakland Kids - Approved
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Porgram to advance arts justice by ensuring that all students in under-resourced Oakland public schools receive a comprehensive arts education in order to improve learning and promote achievement.
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Mrinalini Narayan
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11-09-2020
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01-25-2021
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How To Contact
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Arts for Oakland Kids
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3871 Piedmont Avenue #11
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Oakland
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CA
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More Information
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11-09-2020
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free
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Arts for Oakland Kids
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94611
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Helpful Links
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Detailed Information
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Numerous national studies show that consistent participation in the arts has such a powerful impact on social, emotional, and intellectual development that it can significantly narrow or eliminate the achievement gap. Yet 80% of Oakland’s students—98% of whom are students of color—are denied the advantage of an arts education based on their access to generational wealth. Wealth disparities in communities of color are directly tied to institutionalized oppression. Denying students of color the profound advantage of an arts education based on their generational wealth is structural racism.
Access to arts education is a social justice issue, and Arts for Oakland Kids is an Arts Justice Fund. For 24 years, Arts for Oakland Kids has been working to remedy this injustice by providing grants to arts organizations and independent artists to provide hands-on arts education in Oakland’s financially-oppressed schools, but we can’t do it without you. Your contributions to Arts for Oakland Kids (AOK) will ensure that Oakland’s students of color receive the exemplary arts education they deserve.
Mini-Grants Offered:
To be considered, programs must:
- Provide hands-on arts education programs in which children participate in the direct experience of creating art.
- Be supported by the school principal with active participation of a school liaison (for example, a classroom teacher, after-school director, administrator, etc.) to ensure the program’s success.
- Be conducted at a school (or schools) or at an off-site location in conjunction with a school.
- Serve students that attend under-resourced OUSD-run public schools. A full list of OUSD-run schools can be found here.
- Arts for Oakland Kids does NOT require that grant funds be paid through a 501(c)3 non-profit or fiscal sponsor.
- What we fund:
- AOK only funds programs in which each child actively participates in creating art.
- No minimum number of students is required. We evaluate programs individually based on general merit.
- Programs must serve students enrolled in under-resourced OUSD-run public schools.
- AOK does fund programs located at a site other than a public school (such as a community center) provided that the program primarily serves the target population of K-12 students enrolled in under-served Oakland public schools.
- AOK funds program expenses that directly benefit the students involved in the arts education program, including: art supplies, teaching artist’s salary, costume materials, supplementary educational materials, etc.
- What we do not fund:
- OUSD teacher or administrator pay
- Transportation costs
- Field trips
- Food
- Non-program-related supplies
- Program Restrictions:
- Programs are only eligible for funding once per school year.
- AOK may fund the same program at the same school for three consecutive years, at the end of which a one-school-year break may be imposed before the program can re-apply for funding.
- Once funding has been awarded, applicants will be sent a Grant Agreement and Media Opt-Out form. Grantees MUST submit an AOK Media Opt-Out form in order to receive their funding. Funding will not be released without receipt of the Media Opt-Out form.
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Eligibility Information
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- CA
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- Alameda County
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- Oakland, CA
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- Elementary School
- 8-12 years old
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