Arts Education Funding
Learn about local funders for arts education and explore funding strategies for arts education in schools.
- Funding Opportunities
- Creative Sonoma Grants
Funding Opportunities
- Create CA What is the Local Control Accountability Plan?
- Create CA Video Playlists to Understand Local Control Funding Formula
OVERVIEW: Learn more about this important funding stream.
For parents and community:
- Discussion of legislative priorities of Create CA
- Create CA: One-pager for Parents | Un buscapersonas para padres
- Creative Sonoma One-pager English | Una Hoja espanol
- Create CA “What We Know So Far”
- Legislation SB 549 Out of State Teacher Credentialing
- Legislation AB 238 CA Student Teacher Support Grant Program
For schools:
- Credentialing Dance Teachers
- Thanks to Prop 28 School Districts Need Arts Teachers
- Estimates of Prop 28 Funding for Schools and Districts
- Send a blank email to join Prop 28 ListServ join-prop28@mlist.cde.ca.gov
- Stanislaus County Office of Education Parent & Family Engagement Presentation
- Stanislaus County Office of Education Survey Examples
- CA County Superintendents Module 12: Leadership in Arts Education
- Create CA Strategic Planning Guide
- School Services of CA “A Case for Slowing Down”
- Arts Education Alliance “Questions and Responses” from School VAPA Leaders Meetup 4/5/23
- Cal. Ed. Code § 8820
- Email contact: Prop28@cde.ca.gov
- San Francisco Unified School District One-pager for site admin and teachers
- San Francisco Unified School District Slide deck overview
- CA County Superintendents Talking Points for Fielding Questions from Local Education Agencies
- Approved Credentialing Institutions
- Windsor Unified School District Questions and Discussions – Prop 28 and Your School District
- CA Department of Education Expanded Learning Opportunities Program
- National Endowment for the Arts
- Alliance for California Traditional Arts
- California Arts Council
- Community Foundation Sonoma County
- Sonoma County Vintners Foundation Community Grants Program
- Stuart Foundation
- The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
- California Department of Education
- California County Superintendents
This Creative Sonoma grant program, made possible by funding from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, provides funding to Sonoma County Public School Districts to develop, enhance or implement their strategic arts plans. Districts my request up to $7,500. Learn more, register for June 12 or August 25 workshops, and apply HERE. CURRENTLY CLOSED.
Grant program for nonprofit arts and culturally specific organizations to support arts programs that have either county-wide, neighborhood, or youth impact. Learn more, register for workshops, and apply HERE. CURRENTLY CLOSED
From Spring 2018 through December 2019, Creative Sonoma offered free teaching artist residencies to Sonoma County K-12 public schools in response to the October 2017 Wildfires. The residencies were based on best practices of trauma-informed arts instruction to build resilience and encourage empathy. To read more about the program, click HERE.
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