Leslie Payne's Blog Posts

We are in conversations with grantees, working people, and leaders across the state learning about the challenges and opportunities facing Californians today. Again and again Californians’ single-largest expense came up: housing.

In a new evaluation report, The Engagement Revolution: A Study of Strategic Organizational Transformation in 10 California Arts Nonprofits, the Slover Linett team documents progress and lessons generated by the initial cohort of New California Arts Fund grantee-partners over their first three years.

At the recent Zócalo Public Square Conference, three leaders from our cohort of grantee-partners in the New California Arts Fund (NCAF) were part of the robust dialogue and submitted the following thought pieces around arts engagement in California.