Grantee Database

COMPASSIONATE ARTISTS

Grant Year

2023-24

Grant Program

General Operating Support

Award Amount

$38,499.00

Project Description

With support from the California Arts Council, COMPASSIONATE ARTISTS will continue its Mission to bring the JOY of Music, Dance, and Art to residential care facilities for financially disadvantaged seniors.

With CAC capacity support, Compassionate Artists will be able to employ one part-time assistant to help improve our outreach and our efficiency in marketing, bring on an additional Arts Therapy consultant to ensure our programs provide maximum necessary health benefits to our seniors, add an additional partner facility for FY 2023-2024, and expand our dance program by hiring additional dance/movement technicians for specialized chair exercise/yoga for seniors.

In particular, the Arts Therapy practitioner will review our materials/protocols, ensuring the activities and projects bring maximum cognitive benefit to our seniors even as they are enjoying social and emotional support through art and music programming.

Organization Summary

We have grown to six facilities in the last year. These include two transitional housing facilities for formally homeless seniors. Our programs include arts and crafts – two art workshops a month at each of our facilities, dance/movement/yoga – a monthly activity to each of our facilities, professional musician recitals – two at each facility per month, our theatre program – once a month per facility – presented our partner nonprofit entities in the performing arts space and our touring jazz group.

We bring special guests, ensembles, and a youth orchestra quite often to each of our facilities. We also have several individual artists who want to share in our mission and perform a few times per year. Our Artists and partner nonprofits combine to make our programming intergenerational.

All of our artists are high-level, skilled professionals, and we pay them accordingly. We take great pride in getting to know the individuals in our audiences.

Organization

Compassionate Artists Inc.

Address

2833 E 1st St

Long Beach

90803-2548

County

Los Angeles

Region

South – Los Angeles & Orange

Phone

(562) 334-5031

Congressional District

California Assembly district 58

State Assembly District

District 58

State Senate District

District 32

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