ANNUAL REPORT 2019-2020 www.youthinarts.org
OUR JOURNEY
2019
Youth in Arts achieves our mission in three distinct ways: through direct arts education, through support for educators, and through advocacy for equitable arts education access throughout the state and nation. The 2019-2020 school year found us as always, delivering high quality arts education to students throughout the Bay Area, and in mid-March of 2020 schools closed and everything changed.
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OUR RESPONSE
When schools closed we immediately responded with #YIACre8tes: free 8-minute visual art and dance lessons livestreamed on social media, to help keep kids creative and engaged. The response was incredible! We instantly saw a significant jump in our number of followers, helping us share our story and reach over 1,000 students daily.
We had to move all of our in-classroom programs to a digitally distant learning model. Amazingly, we maintained all of our partnerships with different remote learning solutions and delivered access to creativity to nearly 10,000 students.
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#YIACre8tes - Dance
Brian Dyer
Our award-winning teen A Cappella group, ‘Til Dawn continued to rehearse on Zoom, which was a challenge given the limitations of harmonizing online. They quickly adapted the way they work to focus on songwriting and social emotional development. ‘Til Dawn released online performances and launched virtual showcases organized and produced by the group themselves.
With the YIA Gallery closed to the public, we innovated to create online art exhibitions that included bilingual at-home art activities such as story time, and a downloadable coloring book of children’s art. We continue to develop engaging ways to make our art shows accessible from home!
We created a board matched Covid Relief Fund to help pay our teaching artists as they shifted their programs online, help provide sanitary art supply kits for our students most impacted by the Covid crisis, and to sustain our work while we transitioned to virtual learning. Our community showed up like never before and we exceeded our fundraising goal by 30%!
We livestreamed #YIACre8tes on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube all 60 days schools were closed in the 2019-2020 school year, reaching thousands of students learning at home throughout the country.
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Til Dawn Continues
Virtual Art Exhibitions
#YIACre8tes - Visual Art
Covid Relief Fund
Youth in Arts believes access to creativity enables young people to ask difficult questions of themselves and of the world. Equity is at the center of our work. We began providing free livestreamed #YIACre8tes Conversations to spark dialogue between children and their families on topics of race, identity, and racism.
Partnerships are vital to our work. This spring, we partnered with the Marin County Office of Education to create a bilingual and mutlidisciplinary video series exploring observing nature through art. The series was broadcast on local cable for students without access to wifi. Youth in Arts continues to partner with MCOE to support students and teachers across the county.
Thanks to our valued donors, our first virtual fundraiser auction, the Sip & Bid was a big success. The event raised over $30,000 to support the creation of our new online learning platform, YIArts.COR.
SIP &BID
Our family is growing and we could not be more thankful. In 2019-2020 we received the most individual donations in over a decade. To thank our donors for their outstanding support, we created a virtual donor ‘Thank You’ puzzle to be displayed on the homepage of the YIArts.COR.
to Benefit
OUR COMMUNITY 7/23/20 6/10/20 7/31/20 7/6/20 #YIACre8tes Conversations
Partnership with MCOE
Donor Puzzle
FUTURE
Our next chapter...
Take a tour through the YIArts.COR, our new Creative Online Resource offering direct access to digital courses taught by professional teaching artists designed to inspire, spur curiosity and keep students engaged in virtual or hybrid learning.
We are already reaching over 4,000 students throughout the Bay Area with quality visual arts, music and dance programming housed on the YIArts.COR.
Partnering with HeadsUp Public Education Foundation and San Rafael City Schools, we are reaching every K-5th grade student in our local school district, enabling us to make critical progress in addressing the equity gap in our community, for the first time in our 50 years.
As schools attempt to navigate the new world of virtual and hybrid learning art is often being excluded from remote learning or hybrid re-entry plans - this is where Youth in Arts comes in.
We need you! Your support will help us reach students of all abilities through virtual arts learning in this incredibly challenging time for students, educators, parents and communties. We can make a difference in the lives of our young people by amplifying their creative voices!
YIArts.COR
YIArts.COR - Step: Learning Rhythm & Pitti Pat
YIArts.COR - Intro to Afro-Peruvian Dance
Teacher Perspective
Mentor Artist Perspective
FINANCIALS* Earned Revenue Donations Grants $174,686 $144,971 $213,290 Program Fees: $170,194 Other: $4,492 Individuals: $107,385 Corporate: $27,277 In-Kind: $10,309 Foundations: $69,000 Government: $59,890 CARES Act Funding: $84,400 2019-2020 *Unreviewed
THANKS TO OUR SUPPORTERS
$50,000 & Above
California Arts Council
The Hewlett Foundation
$30,000 - 49,999
The Buck Family Fund
$10,000 - $29,999
Troutman Sanders LLC
Walker Rezaian Memorial Fund
$5,000 - 9,999
County of Marin Dandelion Foundation
EACH Foundation
Marin Charitable Association
Marin Country Mart
[Spirited Marin]
Naomi Tamura & Ali Rezaian Sheila Tuffanelli
Suzanne Reich Gibson
$2,000 - 4,999
Anonymous
Bruce & Linda Hopper
Chevron Humankind Foundation
David Reich & Susan Dessel
Devin Dixon & Todd Schneider
Josh & Angela Rafner
Julie & Tom Ballard
Kathleen & Benjamin Kibbe
Maura & Chris Tokarski
Melissa & Lee Briggs
Phyllis Thelen
Susan Gurbach
Tim Distler
$1,000 - 1,999
Awesome Foundation
Bank of Marin Community Fund
Bio Marin Pharmaceutical Inc.
California Alliance for Arts Education
Catherine Layton
Charles Roth
David & Janine Simerly
David Gurbach & Carol Caldwell Gregg & Dawn Bowman
Kathleen Gaines & Ray Welch
Kylee & David Ortiz
Kris & Ed Grossman
Lynn Brody
Marin Community Foundation
Mars Family Charitable Foundation
Mimi & Kevin Murphy
Mr. & Mrs. Jacques Chardome
Rich Robbins
Sally Mars Carey
Scott Sandell
$500 to 999
A Better Place Foundation AutoDesk
Besse Gardner & Michael Gross Compass/Pacific Union
Cyrus Wadia
David & Carla Crane
George & Cherry Snelling Henry Der
Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation
Janet Mahoney Jenny & Alan Hynes June & Allen Tamura
Kathleen Newsom
Kristen & Paul Jacobson
Lois & Steve Chess
Luis & Nancy Belmonte
Marianne and Albert Figen Foundation
Miko Lee
Morgan & Derek Schauffler Rick & Suzanne Herrero
San Anselmo Arts Commission
Sean Simerly
Shirl Buss & Leslie Stone
Sue & Joe Carlomagno
Terence Chu
The Bronx Fund
$100 - 499
Alan Grumet & Sonia Lee Allan Hulme
Allison Hughes Nygaard Amy & Tom Worth
Andy & Cheryl Mars Anna Sanders & Russell Rieff
Becky Connelly & Bill Briggs Bryn & Mike Monahan
Buck Smith & Linda Sudduth Carol & Paul Slocum Carol & Richard Joyal
Caroyln Jones
Cathy Bowman & Tom Bemis Corine Maggio Cornelia Foster Cynthia McGhee-Moses David & Martha Martin
Debbie Gasparini & Bill Leetham Donna & Tom Rutter
Elizabeth Imholz
Fran Halperin & Eric Christ Francine Feder Gloria Segerquist
Hazel Willacy
Heather Jain
Helen Halpin & Scott Gehlke
Ingrid Purcell
Jane Musser
Jean B. Chan & Kenneth Ross Jennifer Villarina Jenny Welch
John & Dana Marshall
Joy & Jim Phoenix Judith Shapiro
Julia Althoff
Julia Molander & Keith Weed
Justine & Gary Rudman Kathryn Parenti
Kele & George Gasparini
Kirsten Shilakes
Kris Galmarini
Laura Bradley Davis
Laurie Fried
Liza Kramer
Lynn & Ralph Jones
Lynn Sondag
Lynna Allen
Mark and Sheila Kelley
Marlyce Johnson
Mary Jane Burke
Mary Rezaian
Matt & Monica Gurbach
Melanie & Paul Nichols
Melanie & Zac Rempe
Michelle Drake
Molly & Patrick Soong
Molly Noble
Nicholas Casagrande
Nova Antaramian
Nyna & Mickey Koppich
Peter & Wendy Mars
Phillip & Virginia Crumley
Pip & Lee Sanders
Rachel Parsell
Rebecca Hausammann
Richard Falk & Francine Falk-Allen
Rita & Timothy Child
Ruth Kiskaddon & John D. Wright
Sara Pearson & Adam Davis
Shirley & Tony Cooney
Stephanie Mendel
Suzanne Karch
Ted & Tuyen Bonneau
Terry Hare
Tom Ryan
Tori & Kurt Housh
Tracy Thompson
Victor & Dottie Han
Vivienne Leibowich
Wayne & Debbi Yamagishi
Wayne Lechner
William & Lynn Callender
Yasi Farahmand