Rainin Foundation Modifies Its Arts Funding Strategy

The Oakland-based Kenneth Rainin Foundation has announced that after a two-year strategic review of its role in the Bay Area arts sector, it is adapting its strategic framework for the arts to provide artists and arts organizations access with the resources they need to flourish.
Over the next three years, the foundation will work to ensure that artists in the region are thriving by supporting those who push boundaries and by working collaboratively with artists, arts organizations, and other funders to drive systemic change. Among other things, the foundation will increase its funding for contemporary artists working in dance, theater, public space, and film; investigate artists' changing practices as well as organizational models with the potential to improve systems and unleash creativity; leverage its resources through collaboration; and take a "laboratory approach" to new initiatives by testing and sharing what it discovers.