NCCLF: Grants

Grants

NCCLF’s Grant Programs offers limited grants to help nonprofits acquire or expand existing program and office space.

NSCF Operates Two Grant Programs

The San Francisco/Alameda County Program provides planning and capital grants to San Francisco and Alameda County-based nonprofits seeking to establish new, permanently affordable nonprofit program and office space through capital expansion projects or the acquisition or long-term leasing of real estate.

All funds from the initial capitalization of the San Francisco/Alameda County Grant Program have been successfully disbursed. Please check back for information about subsequent rounds of funding.

The Performing Arts Program provides grants to performing arts organizations that are looking to acquire and/or renovate mid-size, live performing arts facilities.

All funds from the initial capitalization of The Performing Arts Program Grant Program have been successfully disbursed. Please check back for information about subsequent rounds of funding.

NCCLF created the Nonprofit Space Capital Fund
in 2002 with grants from:

The City and County of San Francisco
The Evelyn & Walter Haas Jr. Fund
Northern California Grantmakers
The Partnership for Affordable Nonprofit Space Coalition
The Seligman Family Foundation

Subsequently, NCCLF received grants from:
The Walter And Elise Haas Fund
The San Francisco Foundation
CDFI Fund of the United States Department of Treasury
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation (for the Performing Arts Program)
The Evelyn & Walter Haas Jr. Fund

In addition to grants received for the NSCF, NCCLF has received low-interest financing from Wells Fargo Bank and access to a $4 million loan guarantee pool at The San Francisco Foundation.

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The Crucible

	The Crucible was established in 1999 as a nonprofit educational organization to foster a collaboration of arts, industry and community. The Crucible offers affordable, accessible classes and workshops in fine and industrial arts, enrolling approximately 3,000 people annually. Their curriculum includes blacksmithing, ceramics, neon and light, machine shop, kinetics and sound sculpture, glass, moldmaking and foundry, drawing, painting, jewelry, stonecarving, woodworking and welding. The organization serves an additional 4,000 people a year through its free youth programs, guest artist lecture series, public art shows and other community events. The Crucible was awarded a $75,000 grant from our San Francisco/Alameda Program (September 2003) to support the construction of an 8,200 square foot mezzanine level above the primary metal-working studio areas along the western part of their existing facility, and the build-out of six large shop areas. Visit the Crucible’s website: http://thecrucible.org/.