Congratulations goes out to the Community Music Center in San Francisco which has a branch at the Richmond District Neighborhood Center on 30th Avenue.
The CMC was recently awarded a $300,000 performing arts grant from the Hewlett Foundation. From the press release:
Award highlights include a $300,000 grant to the Community Music Center in San Francisco, which serves 15,500 audience members annually through more than 260 free and low-cost concerts.
The Center offers a comprehensive teaching, ensemble, and performance program from its main location in the Mission district and its Richmond district branch, after-school programs for at-risk youth, and extension programs throughout the city.
Students make music in a variety of traditions, including western classical, jazz, blues, Latin American, Middle Eastern, and Chinese. Tuition assistance on a sliding scale goes to 60 percent of the Center’s nearly 2,300 students, from pre-kindergarten to retirees.
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation has been making grants since 1967 to help solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world. The Foundation concentrates its resources on activities in education, the environment, global development, performing arts, philanthropy, and population, and makes grants to support disadvantaged communities in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Sarah B.