Live From Home Performance Series Fund

San Francisco Jazz Organization

SFJAZZ is a recognized international leader in jazz creation, presentation, and education. SFJAZZ explores the full spectrum of jazz, from the music's origin in the African American community to its diverse present-day expressions around the world. As a nonprofit organization, SFJAZZ works to develop the audience for jazz in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. SFJAZZ celebrates jazz as a living art form built on a constantly evolving tradition.

Raleigh Little Theatre

RLT is a welcoming community using theatre to enrich, educate, entertain and engage volunteers, students, and audiences of all ages.

San Francisco Opera Association

San Francisco Opera believes opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. Our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power. sfopera.com

Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, Inc.

Gray Area is San Francisco's premier cultural hub applying creative action for social transformation - integrating art, science, technology, and the humanities toward positive impact-driven outcomes. Through public events, education, and cultural incubation we bring together diverse cultures and communities to engage with our rapidly changing digital society toward a more equitable and just future for all. From our home in the Mission District's Grand Theater we serve over 100,000 members of the public, 500 artists, and 200 students annually with a cultural regeneration model sustaining San Francisco's vital creativity.

Alonzo King LINES Ballet

Alonzo King LINES Ballet is a renowned contemporary ballet company and center for dance education in the heart of San Francisco. Named as a choreographer with "astonishing originality" by The New York Times, Alonzo King draws inspiration from the Bay Area's diverse cultures, global mindset, and natural beauty to reimagine ballet as an inclusive, expansive, and wildly creative artform. LINES premieres new ballets each fall and spring and provides year-round dance training for all levels, including free arts education in public schools. The organization impacts 50,000 global audience members and 10,000 students ages 3-99 each year. All programs advance LINES' 38-year legacy of shaping a more engaged, healthy, and connected community through dance.

San Jose Jazz

Founded in 1986, San Jose Jazz (SJZ) is a public benefit organization celebrating jazz as a dynamic, evolving art form and is producer of the annual San Jose Jazz Summer Fest and Winter Fest. With its singular music programming and innovative educational offerings, San Jose Jazz preserves the jazz tradition while actively supporting the next generation of performers within the genre and beyond. SJZ benefits thousands of children per year through its year-round, high quality, youth education programs including Progressions, a music in the schools program providing instrument training, nutritious snacks, homework assistance and mentorship to students in grades 1-8 in Title 1 schools in San Jose.

Blue Bear School of Music

Blue Bear School of American Music was founded by a rock band in the early '70's. Why not teach Rock instead of Bach, the Blues instead of Beethoven? Including solid music theory courses along with professional mentoring, electric Band Workshops and Songwriting courses, Blue Bear continues to offer high quality popular music education at affordable prices to music lovers of all ages. Scholarships are awarded annually to promising talent ages 12-22, funded by contributions from individuals, music industry professionals and businesses. Blue Bear has an active outreach programs serving at-risk kids in the Bayview and Tenderloin districts and runs after-school music programs at over 15 sites in San Francisco. Our mission statement is: Empowering people to play the music they love!