Organizations

Twenty-six organizations have been selected through a competitive grant process. Together in collaboration with artists and arts organizations, they bring forward creative messaging using various arts disciplines that reach the communities most in need with information to increase resiliency in the areas of focus.

  • American River Conservancy

    Ripe Area Narrative

    Promote community engagement through the arts in El Dorado County around water and native habitat.

  • Developmental Disabilities Service Organization

    Climate Changing: What About That!

    Devise simple performance pieces to interpret and deliver preparedness and emergency response information about extreme weather events to the communities identified.

  • YoloSol Collective

    Stories of Land and Water/
    Cuentos de Tierra y Agua

    Invites the community to participate in a series of guided storywalks to learn Wintun perspectives on ecology and environmental stewardship.

  • Wellspring Women's Center

    “The Right to Exist” is a feature-length documentary that explores the homelessness crisis in Sacramento, Ca.

    Create a 40–60-minute documentary into Sacramento homelessness.

  • See The Elephant

    Land & Arts Project

    See The Elephant was created with the intent to use the performing arts as a tool to help amplify voices in our community who don't usually have the chance to be heard.

  • Capital Storytelling

    Story Telling Program

    The Storytelling Program offers free workshops to first and second-generation immigrants who can develop their own personal true stories.

  • NorCal School of the Arts

    Water Conservation Media Program

    Create an interactive and meaningful campaign that energizes and empowers children, families and communities to conserve water.

  • City of Davis, Arts & Cultural Affairs

    Hate Free Together Campaign

    A joint effort between the City of Davis, UC Davis, and Yolo County that provides resources, support and opportunities for actions to condemn hate, create safety and cultivate change.

  • Justice2Jobs Coalition

    Essence of Black Girlhood

    We build community power and healing among Black women and girls through a public education engagement campaigns culminating in an exhibit showcasing multi-media art forms.

  • 3 Point 0 Studio Arts & Entertainment

    LVL UP Program

    Activate 16 community pop ups, Build our youth training and creative services, Podcast, Help 6 - 10 small businesses in lower-income and rural communities with creative services.

  • Center for Land-based Learning

    Farming for Our Future: Sharing Solutions to Climate Change from the Fields

    A series of high-end videos that showcase water conservation, sustainable groundwater use, and climate mitigation practices and philosophies.

  • Hangtown Collective

    Documentary Film

    HANGTOWN is a feature-length documentary and engagement campaign for PBS that explores California’s buried history of racial violence and injustice through the stories of marginalized communities.

  • Arts Benicia, Inc.

    Stewarding Our Water Resources: Solano Artists Create, Collaborate, and Educate

    Engage regional artists, primarily from Solano County, in the creation of a media outreach campaign focused on water conservation and climate mitigation in California.

  • Broad Room Creative Collective

    Imagining Utopia: A Media Outreach Project in Collaboration with Artists Experiencing Homelessness

    For our campaign, we will work with our neighbors in the Camp Resolution homeless encampment to create a billboard and series of posters inspired by WPA National Parks posters to imagine a future for North Sacramento and Del Paso Heights where everyone has a safe, affordable place to live.

  • Community Responsive Education

    The Memory Palace Program

    To address trauma resulting from sexual violence, with a focus on supporting survivors from marginalized communities. Our primary objective is to facilitate healing and empowerment for survivors through storytelling, ancestral healing, and trauma-informed support that is culturally sensitive and understanding of specific community needs.

  • Forest Song

    Art Exploring Biophilia & Solastalgia in Forests

    It provides creative processes for investigating grief, beauty, and interconnection, shares contemporary forest science and wildfire information, and invites action.

  • Sol Collective

    Land & Arts Project

    Art and media are some of the most potent ways of shifting cultural narratives. The narrative we are combatting says that the outdoors and nature are not for BIPOC communities.

  • Vallejo Community Arts Foundation

    Brushstrokes for Earth: Artistic Visions of Environmental Sustainability

    The campaign will use visual art and the spoken word to raise awareness of environmental justice in underserved communities and promote sustainability.

  • Hidden Temple Media

    Essential

    To create a documentary film that sheds light on the struggles faced by Latino immigrants and people of color working in the farms.

  • Latino Center of Art & Culture

    City of Alters

    Multidisciplinary artists to select the emerging artists in their cohorts and will be asked to interpret altar-making in multiple mediums, including visual and performing arts.

  • Sojourner Truth African Heritage Museum

    Tactical Urbanism Art in Placemaking

    The museum will create experiential and educational opportunities focusing on arts and wellness to tackle the healing process of inter-generational trauma and its effect on families in our collective communities—focusing on BIPOC youth 17 – 24 who have been historically underserved and underrepresented.

  • Sugar Skull Art Walk

    Connect people from different cultural & language backgrounds to help reduce segregation & racism in Placerville using Ofrendas - altars.

  • Yours Mine Ours Collective

    Sound Off for Social Justice

    Curated by and for Sacramento community artists, residents, and members - we provide safe spaces, in-person events, and mental health resources & promote media campaigns to engage our community and bring social justice awareness to the Capital region.

  • Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians

    Momím Wadaahá: Water Wellness Campaign

    Create and disseminate of artworks that speak to the fundamental and enduring relationships of Tribal people to the waterways and their role as stewards of the water and its health. 

  • 916 Ink

    Promoting Community Voices

    Multi-modal, full color, illustrated anthology in the style of an oversized coffee table book that showcases the diverse voices of Sacramento.

  • Girls Rock Sacramento

    COME Play - (Creative Outreach through Music and Empowerment)

    G.I.R.L.S. Rock Sacramento is a nonprofit 501 C-3 organization. We promote an environment that fosters self-confidence, creativity and teamwork.