1. Tobi Becerra
Silicon Valley Community Foundation

2. About SVCF
Silicon Valley Community Foundation advances innovative philanthropic solutions to challenging problems.
As the largest community foundation in the world, we engage donors and corporations from Silicon Valley, across the country and around the globe to make our region and world better for all.
Our passion for helping people and organizations achieve their philanthropic dreams has created a global philanthropic enterprise committed to the belief that possibilities start here.

3. The Donor Circle for the Arts at SVCF
About The Donor Circle for the Arts
The Donor Circle for the Arts at SVCF
positively impacts the local arts community serving underserved populations, enhances donor engagement, and deepens learning and giving opportunities for donor circle members passionate about the arts.

4. Silicon Valley and then the World
Philanthropic Trends
Silicon Valley and then the World
If it happens here, it will happen everywhere!
Growth in the philanthropic sector as a whole
Startup philanthropy
Strategic philanthropy
Corps and foundation giving is growing faster than individual giving – though all of philanthropy is growing more rapidly than ever before at a rate of over 5%.
Startups are giving with purpose as a way to engage their workforce, connect with local communities, and contribute to social good.
Philanthropic trends like impact investing and PRIs are encouraging creative partnerships and collaborations. How can the arts take advantage?

5. Define Local Local Arts Organizations
Accelerated globalization has led to a re-definition of “community” to include a broader focus.

6. Silicon Valley and the Arts?
Local Arts Organizations
Silicon Valley and the Arts?
Young
Scrappy
Hungry
5% of SVCF’s grantmaking between by 2016 went to arts and culture, totaling $217 million. As compared to the national average in 2014 of just over 7%.
Art humanizes the experiences of Bay Area residents in ways that are digestible for “non-artists” therefore art here is a function of giving the community a voice in the face of great challenges.
Diversity in experiences via community arts = conversations about equity
Community-based arts orgs are thriving like never before, despite issues of displacement
Shared art space

7. Arts Grantmaking
The arts are fighting to stay relevant in a STEM-focused community.
Why not STEAM?
What can grantmakers do?
Art creates meaning, which results in deeper engagement in whatever the task. In the Bay Area community, the tasks are hyper-focused on STEM without much of a regard for the long-term impact of dropping the A from that equation.
Grantmakers must:
Fund the arts,
Look to support non-institutional arts orgs, and
Adopt an emergent model of funding, different from the traditional model that tries to predict outcomes.

8. Thank You For more information, please contact: TOBI BECERR
Philanthropy Advisor
Silicon Valley Community Foundation
tobi_becerra
siliconvalleycf.org
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