Initiatives
Funding
With a focus on access, inclusion, innovation, and ingenuity, we provide support for the bold initiatives and original programs and projects that help make Asawa SOTA a local and national model for arts education and arts-based learning. If you believe in the power of the arts to transform our lives, our communities, and our world, join us in funding an education revolution.
Support
We help identify and support crucial initiatives and programs that are outside of Asawa SOTA’s budget.
Highlights include helping to identify, seed, and launch modern, accessible arts departments — such as Architecture + Design, Spoken Arts, and World Dance — and partnering with the Black Student Union to bring Black History Month assemblies and curricula to the school.
Image: #3 Wave-stallation, an award-winning submission by Clarissa (Architecture + Design 2022) to the Architectural Foundation of San Francisco 2020 Design Ideas Collective Competition. Four other Asawa SOTA A+D students also won awards in this competition to conceptualize pandemic-era gathering spaces.
Grants
Our application-based grants provide funds for student, teacher, department, alumni, and community projects.
Among them are grants to seniors to help them realize their capstone projects — in-depth explorations with real-world applications that integrate the academic, artistic, cultural, and personal experiences of an arts-based education.
Image: TheLastLetter (Johannesburg, South Africa) at Big Leap Collective's 2021 virtual music festival. Ellie (Musical Theater 2020) founded Big Leap Collective — an outlet for indie musicians and artists — as a capstone project and took it to the real world (and the whole world).
Fiscal Sponsorship
We offer nonprofit status and funds management for mission-aligned projects that need access to grants or tax-deductible donations.
We administer over $30,000 in student grants from the Youth Empowerment Fund — a YMCA leadership program for youth-led change — and host crowdfunding and other fundraising campaigns for department and club projects.
Image: A mentor of One Voice Mentors. Founded by Julia (Vocal 2021) as a capstone project to provide free music lessons to children during the COVID crisis, One Voice Mentors received a $5,000 grant from the Youth Empowerment Fund.
Header image: A still from the video 3 Wayz. The capstone project film was choreographed, danced, and edited by Breslin (World Dance 2021).