One of the greatest challenges our region faces is that alongside economic instability and injustice, too many people do not feel they are included in the Bay Area’s brighter future. We are living within a crisis of belonging. The newly announced Social Well-being program joins the profound legacies of the Fund’s Arts, Jewish Life, and Racial Justice grantmaking to address community fragmentation. The program recognizes that while the racial and gender wealth gap is often framed as an economic problem, its implications extend deeply into social cohesion.
The Social Well-being program aims to cultivate and sustain belonging by fostering connection, creativity, and culture. The program recognizes that we need each other to imagine and build a better future together.
Our hope is that investments in the Social Well-being program will address the roots of social disrepair, uplift cultural identity and stories, and support collaborative and community-led action for our collective joy.
One of the greatest challenges our region faces is that alongside economic instability and injustice, too many people do not feel they are included in the Bay Area’s brighter future. We are living within a crisis of belonging. The newly announced Social Well-being program joins the profound legacies of the Fund’s Arts, Jewish Life, and Racial Justice grantmaking to address community fragmentation. The program recognizes that while the racial and gender wealth gap is often framed as an economic problem, its implications extend deeply into social cohesion.
The Social Well-being program aims to cultivate and sustain belonging by fostering connection, creativity, and culture. The program recognizes that we need each other to imagine and build a better future together.
Our hope is that investments in the Social Well-being program will address the roots of social disrepair, uplift cultural identity and stories, and support collaborative and community-led action for our collective joy.
WE Initiative
The WE Initiative supports organizations that celebrate culture and bring people together in solidarity to work towards positive community change. Named as a tribute to Walter and Elise Haas while evoking the spirit of togetherness, the WE Initiative expresses the belief that the antidote for othering is belonging, and that healing and joy are at the center of bridging divides and cultivating a diverse, broad, and meaningful “we.”
Our 2025 grantees
For grantseekers
The open call for WE Initiative letters of inquiry is taking place through June 27, 2025. Click here to read the guidelines and eligibility requirements.
Creative Power Awards
Creative Power Awards are founded on the belief that art and culture is essential to a connected Bay Area, where the community can imagine a better, more expansive future. Creative Power Awards recognize the leadership and contribution of individual artists working in the arts ecosystem with arts nonprofits for both the preservation of culture and positive community transformation.
For Grantseekers
Creative Power Awards will be announcing its work in the fall of 2025. Click here to subscribe to updates on this program.
Check out some of our inspiring grantees
I’m grateful for this long-term, game-changing support. Systems change is difficult work. [This kind of initiative is] what leaders like myself have been calling for in the sector, pushing trustees, and the folks who provide the funding for nonprofits, to shift how they approach grantmaking.Zoe Polk, Executive Director of East Bay Community Law Center
This commitment to longer-term funding is really going to impact how organizations are able to move.Abigail Richards and Julia Arroyo, Co-Executive Directors of Young Women’s Freedom Center
