Founding Donors

This significant community redevelopment, cultural restoration, and public-private partnership has received funding from the following donors:

William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
The City of Richmond Community Redevelopment Agency
California Historical and Cultural Endowment
Northern California Community Loan Fund
Walter and Elise Haas Fund
Mechanics Bank
James Irvine Foundation
Board of Directors and Staff of the East Bay Center for the Performing Arts
Many private individuals

We have raised $12.5 million and have launched Phase II to raise $2.8 million in additional gifts in order to complete the project. 

For more information about the East Bay Center for the Performing Arts Capital Project, please call or write:

Charlene E. Smith
Director of Development
Capital Campaign & Institutional Funding

(510) 234-5624, ext. 19
charlene.smith@eastbaycenter.org