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- EIN 94-3402512
- (415) 749-6300
- 1100 California St San Francisco CA 94108-2206 USA
- www.gracecathedral.org/ghiberti
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Arts & Culture, Historical Organizations
Mission: The ghiberti foundation is the arts and culture foundation at grace cathedral. It is the foundation's purpose to inspire and enrich diverse communities through the arts, education, and public conversation in collaboration with other cultural, educational, and civic organizations. Grace cathedral is a significant mediating and unifying institution in the bay area, and the ghiberti foundation was organized to build on this role without reference to any denominational identity. The cathedral board of trustees realizes that a secular foundation rather than the cathedral itself, comprising of individuals who represent the bay area's diverse cultures, could best coordinate the non-religious programs at grace cathedral. Artist in residence:the ghiberti foundation is committed to new arts initiatives, as embodied by its artist in resident program. The ghiberti foundation provides world class artists with opportunities to create new works, allowing artists both a venue and a paid opportunity to cr
Programs: Music at grace cathedral:the ghiberti foundation supports music at grace cathedral through high-quality music at grace cathedral:the ghiberti foundation supports music at grace cathedral through high-quality series of musical and theatrical performances with the goal of bringing performers representing various cultures and musical disciplines to grace cathedral. Also, the cathedral is a glorious space both for self-produced collaborative concerts and as a rental space for other organizations, both local and international. Performances produced by the ghiberti foundation include free organ recitals, and performances of the grace cathedral choir of men and boys, as well as collaborations with select groups. In recent years, the ghiberti foundation has co-produced concerts with the vienna boys choir, the cantebury cathedral choir and san francisco's finest brass ensemble, the bay brass, and sf jazz. Education:the ghiberti foundation provides support to the community preschool, grace cathedral, which serves low-income families by offering one-third of its enrollment a full scholarship to the families in the tenderloin neighborhood of san francisco and sliding scale tuition to another third of its students. The ghiberti foundation also provides education opportunities for bay area schools and their students. The foundation helps bridge gaps in academic curriculum. A visitor to the cathedral will often find local art students with their sketch pads trying to capture the magnificent architectural details of grace cathedral. Public conversation:the forum at grace cathedral, supported by the ghiberti foundation, is a central plank of the cathedrals expansive education program and its commitment to hosting public discussions and civic conversations for the city of san francisco and wider bay area community. The forum promotes the open discussion of ideas about faith and ethics in relation to the issues of our day. It hosts interviews with leading public figures and panel discussions with politicians, artists, writers, scientists, musicians, theologians and many others. And it collaborates with the leading cultural institutions and universities of the bay area to bring the most innovative and interesting thinking to our public space.