CIVIC ENGAGEMENT AND SOCIAL CHANGE THROUGH ARTS AND CULTURE
Latino Community Foundation invests $2 million into 28 organizations to fuel civic leadership and support the creative economy.
Click here to read more about this announcement and view the full list of phenomenal organizations.
Click here to read our PoderArte Press Release.
PODERARTE GRANTEES:
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At the Latino Community Foundation (LCF) we understand the power of art, music, and culture to shape and advance social change. Art works as a powerful catalyst to move hearts and minds and to ultimately shift public policy. Culture inspires, heals, and challenges us to act.
In times of despair, our communities hold on to hope, joy, and creativity. With each poem, short film, and hip-hop routine—we turn our pain into purpose. Our culture bearers help us expand our collective imagination, helping us to see a future full of possibilities.
We are thrilled to launch PoderArte to amplify the importance of arts and culture and to channel vital resources to our artists—the culture bearers, keepers, and teachers who help us dream up a better world.
PoderArte is made possible thanks to a grant from the California Arts Council to implement the California Creative Corps pilot program, a media, outreach, and engagement campaign designed to increase: (1) public health awareness messages to stop the spread of COVID-19; (2) public awareness related to water and energy conservation, climate mitigation, and emergency preparedness, relief, and recovery; (3) civic engagement, including election participation; and (4) social justice and community engagement.
Are you an artist?
What has been on your heart and mind lately? Do you have a creative idea that is ready to be unleashed? Are you ready to tap into your creative genius to heal and inspire our community? If those questions resonate with you, you are invited to apply. Now is the time to make your creative dreams a reality. We want to invest in your vision with a PoderArte grant.
We invite you, nonprofits and creative collectives (composed of artists and/or culture bearers) to apply for a one-time PoderArte grant! We are excited to see how you will use art and culture to increase public awareness, civic engagement and social justice.
Who decides?
At the Latino Community Foundation, we are rooted in values of trust and change, not charity. We will create a Participatory Grantmaking Committee composed of community leaders, artists, and community organizers from across the state to guide the decision-making process around the selection of grant awards.
PoderArte grants will fund programs and projects that utilize arts and culture to increase public awareness, civic engagement, social justice, and community engagement. Selected projects will be strongly aligned with one of the Grant Themes:
- Narrative Change: strength-based narratives that amplify community voice, center cultural strengths and identity, and/or reframe how a community is presented.
- Community Educational Campaign: raise public awareness and access to information around local issues that impact community well-being.
- Civic Engagement: spark individual and/or collective civic action that addresses shifts in local, state, and national systems and/or policy, including election participation.
The Latino Community Foundation is an administering organization of the groundbreaking Creative Corps Pilot Program. This initiative is funded in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency. Learn more at www.arts.ca.gov
