Artist Toolkit Series: Opportunities for Artists

Presented by: Laura Poppiti, Program Director, Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI)

Wednesday, April 7, 2021
6:00 - 7:30 PM PDT

On April 7th, SF Camerawork hosted the second event in our new Artist Toolkit Series. In this presentation, Laura Poppiti shared an overview of Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI), a California nonprofit grant making intermediary that is focused on supporting individual artists and arts workers. Participants learned about CCI's upcoming workshops, ongoing and future grant opportunities, and special initiatives. Laura also shared grant application tips and tricks and helpful resources.

RESOURCES

AmbitioUS
Arts Workers in California report
California Lawyers for the Arts
CCI
Debt Collective

ABOUT LAURA POPPITI
Laura Poppiti (she/her) is the Program Director at Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI), where she manages all grantmaking programs for California-based artists and arts workers, in addition to overseeing the Bay Area office’s workshops, events, and operations. Prior to CCI, she worked at small to mid-size nonprofit arts and arts education organizations for more than a decade in various fundraising capacities—including capital campaigns, annual fund development, grantwriting, membership programs, and special events. In San Francisco, she has held roles at New Conservatory Theatre Center, The Imagine Bus Project, SF Camerawork, and the Museum of Performance & Design. Laura currently serves on Grantmakers in the Arts' Support for Individual Artists Committee and on the Advisory Circle for Look What She Did!, an L.A.-based nonprofit with the mission of bringing stories of astonishing women, past and present, to the forefront of our culture. She has participated as a grant panelist for the California Arts Council, Creative Sonoma, and San José Office of Cultural Affairs, to name a few. Laura received her B.A. in History from the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. and M.A. in Exhibition & Museum Studies from San Francisco Art Institute.

ABOUT CENTER FOR CULTURAL INNOVATION
The Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI) was founded in 2001 as a California 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation. Its mission is to promote knowledge sharing, networking, and financial independence for individuals in the arts by providing business training, grants, and incubating innovative projects that create new program knowledge, tools and practices for artists in the field, and conditions that contribute to realizing financial self-determination.

CCI operates with a vision that by linking the natural creativity and tolerance for risk of artists and creatives of all types to the latest professional practices and tools, new financial resources, and to one another, CCI helps artists and arts workers realize greater financial self-determination, which unfetters their productivity and social impact. In addition, by acting as a cross-sector incubator with an informed point of view, CCI advances efforts to improve conditions for artists and all those who share artists’ conditions of low wages, high debt, and too-few assets.

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