Summary of grants made

In 1983, we awarded three cash grants of $3,000 each to three film makers and videographers, each of whom was additionally given $25,000 worth of rented video equipment, as well as editing and related services.

In 1985, we awarded three cash grants of $3,000 each to three photographers , and mounted an exhibition of the work produced in the James Prestini Gallery then located at 2324 Blake Street.

In 1986 and 1987, we helped to finance, by a cash grant of $2,000 each year, a summer arts program offered by the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland to children from low-income families who would otherwise not have an opportunity to study art.

In 1989 and 1990, we awarded three cash grants of $700 each administered by Camera Works, an organization of professional photographers. CEF, in collaboration with Camera Works, selected high school-age photographers as recipients of Camera Works intern program grants.

In 1992, we made two awards: one, for $2,000, to help create a monument on the University of California Berkeley campus to memorialize the Free Speech Movement, and a second grant of $4,500 to a homeless artist of outstanding talent whose medium was etched glass. Our grant enabled him to rent a studio and purchase necessary equipment.

In 1993, to encourage a number of homeless people in Sonoma County to practice the art of photography, we provided them with photographic equipment and financed, with a cash grant of $1,000, the mounting and framing of their photos, which were then exhibited in the Copperfield Bookstore gallery.

In 1995, we awarded a grant of $2,000 to an architecture scholar to produce a tape archive of a four-year dialogue with Jesse Reichek about issues of architectural education, practice, and the role of art.

In 1999, we awarded $2,700 to the Museum of Children's Art in Oakland (M.O.C.H.A.) to pay for six scholarships to M.O.C.H.A.'s summer art camp, where children would study sculpture, architecture, and photography.

In 2000, we awarded five grants:

• $1,000 to M.O.C.H.A. to finance a catalogue for a photography exhibit at the opening of the new M.O.C.H.A. headquarters in Oakland. Photographs of prominent Oaklanders were taken by school-age children in the M.O.C.H.A program.
• $4,000 to the Creative Growth Art Center, a studio, learning program and gallery for disabled artists in Oakland., to finance urgently-needed renovations.
• $4,000 to the Center for Art and Public Life at California College of Arts and Crafts to finance an exhibition of works produced by Oakland schoolchildren working with C.C.A.C. art students in an Arts Mentorship program at the College.
• $4,000 to Sin Fronteras, a grassroots arts organization in Oakland's San Antonio neighborhood, to pay for a mural project on a local street. The mural project is part of a program to improve neighborhood relations among local teens.
• $3,000 to Christopher Bon Fatti, a local artist, for framing and shipping his paintings to an East coast gallery for a one-man show.