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Overview

Rapid Response Fund (RRF)

Purpose: Fill last-minute gaps in arts education by connecting well-established arts education providers to schools where students are receiving no arts education

Geographic Scope: Oakland, California - Oakland Unified School District (OUSD)

Trigger: Uses data from AOK's annual OUSD Arts Education Survey to identify schools with gaps in arts education, typically occurring in final weeks before school starts

Goals:

  • Ensure no student goes a single week without arts education

  • Provide immediate, weekly arts education classes reaching every student
  • Eligible Recipients: Arts education providers who have first applied for and been awarded a Landis Grant

    How It Works: AOK identifies target schools and connects well-established arts education providers to school leadership, then provides RRF funding to the arts provider for immediate implementation

    Contact Info:

  • Phone: (510) 488-3036

  • Email: info@artsforoaklandkids.org

  • Address: 3871 Piedmont Avenue #11, Oakland, CA 94611
  • Note: Rapid Response Funding was used in 2021 to serve 645 kids across 29 classrooms in 5 schools, funded in partnership with the Gerbode Foundation and Pixar Animation Studios.

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    Fields of Work

    artsmusic-educationeducationk-12-schools

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