BETTI ONO FOUNDATION
EIN 86-3301756 · Arts & Culture (A20)
What they do
"THE BETTI ONO FOUNDATION DESIGNS and PRODUCES HIGH-IMPACT ARTS, COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT & CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES THAT LEVERAGE CULTURAL PRODUCTS and NETWORKS for GOOD. THE BETTI ONO FOUNDATION OPERATIONS ARE HEADQUARTERED IN OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA, and OUR WORK is PRODUCED LOCALLY and NATIONALLY IN OTHER GEOGRAPHIES IN CULTURAL SPACES, THE PUBLIC SPHERE, and ONLINE. THE MISSION of BETTI ONO FOUNDATION is to BUILD POWER THROUGH CULTURE. OUR VISION and CREATIVE PRACTICE EMBODY THE BOLD, CURIOUS and UNAPOLOGETIC SPIRIT of OUR NAMESAKES: BETTI MABRY DAVIS and YOKO ONO. WE VALUE ART-MAKING AS A FUNCTION of ACTIVISM, COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION, and CULTURAL RESILIENCE. AS A BLACK WOMEN-LED and OPERATED ORGANIZATION, WE ARE DEDICATED to AMPLIFYING THE LIVES and WORK of ARTISTS and COMMUNITIES WHO ARE BLACK, BROWN, IMMIGRANT, INDIGENOUS, and LGBTQ+."
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About this charity
- Recognized since
- January 2022
- Location
- PO BOX 99256, EMERYVILLE, CA 94662-9256
- County
- Alameda
- In care of
- ANYKA HOWARD