How You Can Help

We believe all children should have creative, hands-on art experiences from professional, community-based artists. You can commit to helping us reach more children where they live, learn and play with meaningful arts experiences. Together, we can help children…

Experience: A strong case can be made for learning through firsthand arts experiences demonstrated by professional artists
Understand: Thought-provoking artist residencies, workshops, and performances evoke a deep understanding of the art form and its history and culture
Create: Creativity transforms the way young people think, expanding their thought process and deepening their engagement
Connect: Teaching artists skillfully connect arts learning to other areas of study, and to kids’ lives and world, demonstrating the importance of collaboration and community

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Young Audiences of Northern Califronia is a nonprofit 501(c)3 and all charitible donations are tax deductable as per current current tax standards.

How Your Gift Impacts Students

A gift of any level has a huge impact – consider the opportunities your gift could bring to the kids we engage with tomorrow.

$5 per month ($60) will help one child understand science concepts through stop-animation;
$50 per month ($600) will help an entire classroom learn about diversity, inclusion, and geometry through a 4-week workshop on West African fabric block prints;
$75 can supply oil pastels, drawing paper, graphite and watercolor tablets to an entire classroom for a visual arts residency using insects as muse, inspiring kids to create hybrid creatures on paper
$100 per month ($1,200) will help an entire grade level engage deeply with geography, international culture, and their own and their classmates’ heritage through an entire year of world dance;
$250 can support one artist residency session for 2 classrooms, introducing students to oral storytelling traditions from around the world
$2,000 will help marginalized and under-represented students and their peers experience performances that promote representation and inclusion, such as Nasrudin's Magnificent Journey to Samarkand (an Arab Folktale) and Perspectives of Pride, a new work focused on the life experiences of LGBTQ+ youth.

Curated Residencies in Action

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Creativity & Innovation

Residencies in Action

Other Ways To Donate

Employer Matching

Many companies provide matching support for charitable gifts made by their employees. Check with your Human Resources Office to see if your company has a program and what the process is. This is an easy way to maximize the impact of your gift, often times doubling your support.

Donor Advised Funds

A donor-advised fund (DAF) is a centralized charitable account. It allows charitably-inclined individual, families and businesses to make tax-deductible charitable donations of cash, publicly-traded stock and in some case, certain illiquid assets, to a public charity that sponsors a DAF program.

Legacy Giving

Including Young Audiences of Northern California in your legacy plans enables us to provide arts education to positively impact a child’s life. Legacy giving also allows you to plan your estate and charitable giving in ways that benefit your family...

Transfer Stock

Donating appreciated securities often allows you to make a bigger philanthropic impact and to receive greater tax advantages than donating cash or selling the stock and donating the proceeds. By donating appreciated securities, you bypass capital gains tax and may deduct the fair market value of your gift...

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Young Audiences of Northern California
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