Kenneth Rainin Foundation

📣GAAP Opening Soon! Announcing a new program for Bay Area Artist Advocates: The Grassroots Artists Advocacy Program (GAAP) is a cohort-based fellowship program that supports artists, culture bearers, and creative workers with an artistic or creative practice to directly engage in advocacy and policy development to advance their wellbeing so that diverse artists thrive. CA for the Arts will select a cohort of five San Francisco and Oakland-based Artist Advocates to engage in a nine-month curriculum that will launch in November 2024. The GAAP application will open on October 1, 2024. Stay tuned for updates. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/g5VHNm8f GAAP is funded by The Kenneth Rainin Foundation. #artists #artsadvocacy #bayareaartists #CAisCreative #InvestCAArts #CreativeEconomy #culturebearers #culturalworkers #creativeworkers #artsworkers

We’re accepting applications through September 30 for our Innovator Awards Program for individual and collaborative Inflammatory Bowel Disease research. Funding prioritizes ideas that have the potential to lead to scientific breakthroughs in predicting, diagnosing, treating and eventually preventing the complex disease. Learn more and apply by September 30.

“While no two arts organizations are alike and each partnership requires tailoring to each individual situation, CAST ultimately seeks to create models that can serve as templates for other organizations to replicate in other neighborhoods, cities, and even countries." Read “Lessons from 10 Years in Cultural Real Estate,” a new report that outlines five key takeaways from Community Arts Stabilization Trust’s first decade of success in securing space for arts and cultural organizations in the Bay Area.

Seeking funding for your dance, theater or multidisciplinary arts project? We’re now accepting applications through September 22 for our New & Experimental Works Program. Learn more and apply for grants of $5K-30K using the Common App for the Arts.

We’re proud to support Keystone Symposia on Molecular & Cellular Biology in providing travel scholarships for students, trainees and underrepresented early career investigators to attend “Fibrosis: Inflammation, Drivers and Therapeutic Resolution” on December 8-11 in Whistler, Canada. Apply by September 10: https://lnkd.in/gZd3S3m3

Early career researchers bring new lines of thinking and introduce new technologies, invigorating the science to find a cure for Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). Read about our two Early Career Catlayst Awardees, Dr. Nicole Belle and Dr. Vivek Rudrapatna. Their research into healing the lining of the intestines and applying artificial intelligence to clinical decision making has the potential to improve patient lives.

“Reexamining Capacity Building: Learnings from the Kenneth Rainin Foundation’s Impact Program” explores the experience of grantees, identifies systemic issues that affect capacity building work and offers recommendations for how similar programs can better support small arts nonprofits. Read the new report written by TDC (Nonprofit Management Consulting), who evaluated the multi-year arts initiative.

We’re accepting applications through September 30 for our Innovator Awards Program. Grants of up to $150K for individuals and up to $300K for teams support research to advance the understanding of Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

Don’t miss our pre-application webinar tomorrow, August 27, from 12-1 PM. Hear more from our Arts Team about the New & Experimental Works Program grants for visionary dance and theater works. We’ll be accepting applications September 9-22 using the Common Application for the Arts.

We’re accepting applications through September 30 for Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) research funding. Grants of up to $150K for individual projects and up to $300K for collaborative ones will support investigators to test innovative ideas that have the potential to enhance quality of life for IBD patients.