Super stoked to announce that both Sudo Room AND the Public School have each won a $4700 grant from Southern Exposure, an excellent nonprofit supporting the arts in the Bay Area:
Southern Exposure is proud to announce the recipients of grants in
Round 7 of our Alternative Exposure Grant Program. In this round,
Southern Exposure is awarding $70,000 to 16 projects at levels ranging
from $5,000 to $2,400. With major support from the Andy Warhol
Foundation for the Visual Arts, Alternative Exposure supports the
independent and self-organized work of artists and small groups that
plays a critical and significant role in the San Francisco Bay Area
arts community. In the seven years since launching Alternative
Exposure, Southern Exposure has awarded $421,000 in direct funds to 120
Bay Area projects.
(http://soex.org/artistsresources.html)
This is a nice bit of cash that will very nearly provide the 3-month rent buffer we endeavor to have as a foundation, though we still need to build up Rainy Day, maintenance and operations funds. This also gives us significantly more to work with should we choose to move into a larger space in the next couple of months.
It would be great to reinitiate conversations and proposals toward a membership policy and long-term sustainability goals.
Thanks to David Keenan for inspiring a down-to-the-wire grant-writing hackathon and making the process super fun and collaborative, and major props to Marc for excellent feedback and revisions. I'll write a blog post this weekend to publicly thank SOEX.