Iron Triangle Neighborhood Legacy Project
MINI-GRANTS INITIATIVE
Spring-Summer, 2010
East Bay Center for the Performing Arts Iron Triangle Legacy Project (ITLP) aims to build civic unity in the Iron Triangle community by the telling, and celebrating of stories - by, for, and about Richmond’s Iron Triangle neighborhood.
ITLP mini-grants range from $500 to $2,500 and will be provided to individuals, groups, and organizations seeking to explore the story, issues and meaning of the Iron Triangle’s evolving history and culture, and to support participation in East Bay Center’s Legacy Project activities. Recipients of mini-grants may apply for follow-up awards based on the progress and scale of the project.
East Bay Center would like to especially encourage all residents of the greater Iron Triangle Neighborhood to apply for these funds. In this program, the Center will continue the work initiated over the past five years by the SF Foundation supported KOSHLAND Committee.
IRON TRIANGLE LEGACY PROJECT GUIDELINES
What?
Mini-grants from $500 to $2,500.
What is a mini-grant?
What is a mini-grant? Mini-grants are for local projects that tell and or explore the story of the Iron Triangle. Mini-grants will be awarded to individuals, groups, or organizations that organize projects to tell the “story of the Triangle” with an emphasis on under heard stories, and projects include efforts at improving the lives of children, youth and families in the Iron Triangle. We expect to make at least three or four rounds of grants in the next 18th months with 7-10 grants per round.
Who May Apply?
Any individual, neighborhood group, or organization engaged with, or serving the Iron Triangle is encouraged to submit their idea for a project that speaks to their interests or experience in the history and legacy of the Iron Triangle. Priority will be given to residents who live in the Iron Triangle. We recommend that organizations limit themselves to one proposal per organization per year.
Purpose?
The purpose of East Bay Center’s Iron Triangle Legacy Project Mini-grant is to encourage and build civic unity in the greater Iron Triangle neighborhood, to reclaim history and to illuminate under heard stories of the Triangle. Furthermore, we wish to stimulate community-building activities and to recognize individuals and groups already involved in making Richmond’s Iron Triangle neighborhood a better place to live.
What and How?
Projects can involve anything that touches on the culture, history, or outlook of the Iron Triangle neighborhood. Subjects can include but are not limited to architecture, buildings, and places of the Iron Triangle; the diverse people or families; historical events; themes of work; World War II history; housing; migration; social justice; changing neighborhoods; environment; seniors, children, or teen life; or visions of what you want the Triangle to be like in twenty years.
Projects can include a wide variety of activities, such as photo exhibits, essays, short videos, interviews with long time residents of the neighborhood, poetry readings, poetry slams, musical performances, web site creation, paintings, sculptures, art installations, public education forums, lectures, public office candidate nights, civic engagement efforts/community organizing projects and social improvement projects linked to cultural practice or Iron Triangle history. East Bay Center encourages interested parties to let their imagination guide their proposals.
Conditions of receiving a mini-grant?
All grantees will be required to participate in an awards ceremony, a Project Development workshop, and a culminating event open to the public at the end of the project’s completion as set forth in the grant agreement. Grantees must also provide a list of ten Iron Triangle neighborhood residents who will be invited to attend the public exhibits. Attribution of the East Bay Center for the Performing Arts and granting of permission to use grantee materials in Center publications is also required.
When?
Applications must be postmarked or hand delivered to East Bay Center by May 17, 2010 and applicants will be notified by June 8, 2010. The grant period is from July 1, 2010 through November 1, 2010
How Do I Apply?
Fill out the attached application and return it by the deadline date of May 17, 2010, by mail, by hand, or by e-mail to:
Jay Moss
EBCPA
339 11th Street
Richmond, CA. 94801
Cell: (510) 205-5089
production@eastbaycenter.org
Download the Application Form here.
Applications must be complete to be considered.
ASSISTANCE AVAILABLE:
We want to make the application process as easy as possible for you. Please contact Charlene Smith at the East Bay Center for the Performing Arts (Charlene@eastbaycenter.org or 510-234-5624 ext *819) or Jay Moss, (production@eastbaycenter.org or 510 234 5624 *822) if you would like to verify your eligibility, discuss your ideas, or get help in completing the application form.
- This application form is the first step in our process.
- It may be followed up by a phone call or site visit for more information
- Applications must be postmarked or e-mailed by May 17, 2010
- Applicants will be notified by June 8, 2010.
- Third round projects must begin by July 1, 2010 and be completed by November 1, 2010.
About East Bay Center for the Performing Arts
The East Bay Center for the Performing Arts is a community-based arts training and producing institution. The mission of the Center focuses on creating opportunities for artistic excellence, personal growth, and open communication for youth from diverse backgrounds, and nurturing culturally distinctive performing arts as tools for civic engagement, social justice, and change. In our work, we improve the chances for underserved youth and young adults to live a life as practicing artists. Behind our work lie two central beliefs: 1) Music, Dance, Theater and Performing Arts change the lives of children and youth in a way that no other activity can; and, 2) The ability to traverse artistic, cultural and discipline boundaries with respect and skill provides individuals with unique advantages in contemporary society. These core values — providing arts training access and engaging the arts as a vehicle for social reconciliation and change — form the heart of the Center’s organizational mission. We have remained dedicated to these values in every program we have created since our founding in 1968. At the same time, we have constantly experimented and evolved our understanding of how best to translate these values into action.
A central question driving East Bay Center’s practice for decades has been “what does it take to nurture excellent and engaged young performing artists?” Closely related questions in our journey include: How can a community-based arts institution best organize and build its resources to provide a shared and vibrant home to multiple ethnic, cultural, and economic class constituencies? How do we address the burning issues of our community through art?
In asking these questions, and in striving to define the potential of an urban cultural Center serving a complex community, we join with others sister insitutions around the country who conciously explore and celebrate the importance of place, and the rights of work & self determination.