Arts Initiatives
The Conrad Prebys Foundation is excited to announce new initiatives as part of our Arts Strategy! Through these, the foundation will fund organizations located in and serving San Diego County that align with our vision and goals in this focus area.
Frequently Asked Questions
For more about each initiative and application:
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Jump to Art Bridging Communities
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Communities of Belonging
Through Communities of Belonging, we seek to ensure community arts organizations and artists can elevate their voices, work, and communities. We will specifically support efforts to:
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Improve capacity, which can be internal (ex. staffing, operating site, organizational model) or external (audience reach, performance/exhibition location)
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Build greater sustainability, through increased donations, audiences, and staffing resources
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Partner/collaborate
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This initiative will provide two-year General Operating or Project/Program funds ranging from $10K-$100K per year ($20K-$200K total).
Communities of Belonging FAQs
These grants are meant to help organizations become more sustainable and highlight San Diego’s vibrant arts scene.
Anchoring the Arts
The goal of this initiative is to invest in organizations’ ability to connect with diverse communities and organizations and provide a platform for diverse artists. The foundation seeks to help organizations:
Reach and build new audiences through:
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Mutually beneficial partnerships and collaboration with small, community-based organizations that lack the facilities, time, or personnel to move outside their locale and reach new audiences
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Providing a platform for diverse individual artists, and their voices and perspectives
Unlock future philanthropic capital through:
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“Matching” or “catalytic” grants
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Unique capacity building opportunities such as mergers or shared services projects
This initiative will provide programmatic grants. One-year grants will range $100K-$500K and two-year grants will range $50K-$250K per year ($100K-$500K total).
Anchoring the Arts FAQs
Anchor institutions are rooted in the local community through their missions, invested capital, and relationships, and are vital to stimulating economic development and opportunity. They have a powerful ability to connect with diverse communities and organizations and provide a platform for diverse artists. The foundation aims to support cross-pollination, creativity, and vibrancy in the arts sector so it can rebuild audiences, drive new audience engagement, and ensure long-term sustainability.
Art Bridging Communities
Art is a powerful vehicle to bridge and connect across difference and communities. We will support the creation, production, or presentation of dynamic art that:
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Brings people of different communities and backgrounds together
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Builds empathy and reveals shared values
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Generates learning and dialogue
This initiative will provide one-year grants ranging $25K-$250K. Funds will be paid in 2023 and may be used over a grant term of up to 24 months.
Art Bridging Communities FAQs
San Diego is home to innovative organizations and artists leveraging the arts to bring people together around unique experiences, increase our collective empathy, and build shared understanding. The Conrad Prebys Foundation hopes to identify and fund exciting projects that will have deep impact and lead to innovative bridging work.