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For artists and organizations whose mission aligns with ours, our fiscal sponsorship program provides a
way for you or your organization to receive support through donations and grants, enabling you to give
your gift, share your art, and make the world a better place.
APPLY HERE: it’s easy!
Apply now and we will get back to you within the week.
How it works:
When your mission resonates with ours, we can support you to legally receive financial donations and
apply for grants. We charge a 7% fee for this and turn your money around to you within 14 days of receipt.
What you do:
Apply, interview, and if you’re accepted, provide information about what you do to us along with a photo
If approved, you get your own profile and donation button on our website, so your fans, friends, and family can support you financially.
What we do:
Make sure your donations are responsibly and swiftly processed, and money is passed to you promptly
Keep your information current on our website
Provide our 501(c)3 number for the purposes of applying for grants, so you can go after grant funding.
Send your supporters a timely acknowledgment of their gift-immediately if sent online, and within 30 days
if sent via check-and a year-end letter recording their total annual gift for tax purposes.
Do occasional social media features of our fiscal sponsees to help spread awareness of your art
The 418 Project’s fiscal sponsorship program started in 2001. In the past year, our fiscal sponsorship
program raised over $250,000 for artists and organizations, positively impacting more than 5,000 individuals.
Don’t wait, ask us more, we’re here to help.
Apply here and we will get back to you within the week.
Meet and Support
Our
Fiscal Sponsees
Donate to She Rose Show
Brought to you by Marya Stark and Sedona Swan Soulfire ‘The She Rose Show’ emerges as a transmission of beauty, hope and liberation through the tending of community and the awakening of imagination. The show offers an immersive multi-modality experience of sacred song, dance, ritual theater, puppeteering and visuals in celebration of the emergent divine feminine and the possibilities that arise when we collectively choose love and unity as a way forward. The She Rose Show seeks to inspire a reverence for the power of our shared lineages, the sacredness of our bodies, the wisdom of women’s stories and the beauty found in diversity.
Give Now to She Rose Show
Donate to Donate to Te Hau Nui School of Hula & Tahitian Dance
Te Hau Nui shares Hawaiian hula and Polynesian dance, culture and traditions. The art of dance
is a gift to the dancer as well as to the observer; it enriches all! Te Hau Nui provides dancers
of every age the opportunity for character development through dance practice, performance and
to be guided by the principled values of hula traditions.
Our new larger studio space allows for us to continue sharing the sacred and festive dances of
Polynesia with our beloved Santa Cruz community.
Kumu Lorraine will live on through this legacy.
Any donations will be used towards continuing her life’s work and orchestrating a celebration in
her honor, a "Festival of Life” this June. Mahalo nui loa from Te Hau Nui Ohana!
Donate to Dual Demons
Devon and Cass are life partners that have bonded over their many shared interests and ethical values, as well as their deeply intimate bonds. They met on Feeld and, in classic queer fashion, instantly fell in love on the first coffee date. Their relationship has blossomed over the years and what started off as a way to connect on a shared level has developed into what you see here today. Together, the Demons have found the ways that they can share their passions and knowledge with the world and highlight their individual strengths as the Duo. They fundamentally believe in the dichotomy of kink through finding Queer joy and silliness while simultaneously curating an intimate, sadomasochistic experience.
Give Now to Dual Demons
Donate to Rebecca Hernandez
Rebecca Hernandez, PhD, (Mescalero/Warm Springs Apache and Mexican American) is a local consultant who offers workshops and informational presentations about American Indians in the United States. Your support will assist Rebecca in her efforts to educate folks about important topics such as American Indian art, cultural sovereignty and stewardship, land acknowledgments, and how to engage with tribes respectfully.
Give Now to Rebecca Hernandez
Raíces y Cariño | Roots and Love
A Community Collective for Families
Raíces y Cariño is an equitable, inclusive, and safe space for the community to gather and raise their children together. We are a hub connecting diverse families, educators, and organizations to create cross-cultural connections and wellbeing for the whole family.
Give Now to Raíces y Cariño
What's Home?
Creative Listening Across Differences
When those who are most marginalized are given the chance to be seen and to collaborate in the
making of new works of art, all of us are uplifted.
In 2022-2023 artists brought together a housed and unhoused person to create new songs, dances,
and visual art. Audiences found this work moving and inspirational.
Your contribution will help us complete and distribute five new short documentaries!
Whatshome.org
Donate to "Coming to America"
In times like these. The Unknown. The Unusual. The non-conformist. We need ART to sustain us.
Join and support Uche Elueze as he aims to put up his one-man show in the city of Santa Cruz by
the year’s end.
His show called Coming To America; not the movie is a story about his life. Being born in Nigeria
and spending most of his life abroad.
The show will take place outdoors with social distancing as we try to adapt and move forward in
these unusual times.
The show is a one-man solo show centered around self and how different institutions and countries
have shaped his character.
It’s an immersive show with storytelling, monologues performance art, and Improv.
Uchè Elueze has been part of Santa Cruz Shakespeare and he appreciates any and all support.
Donate to ATIDZE-TANYIGB INTERGENERATIONAL LEARNING AND ART
Under the general umbrella of The Togodoo Educational Network, The Atidze-Tanyigbe Intergenerational Learning and Art is dedicated to enhancing Adult-Child learning and literacy, art, and play in a rural village setting. We encourage elders to learn from the children and at the same time teaching the children how to to play and relate to adults through music, play, storytelling, dancing, and traditions that create value based education.
Give Now to ATIDZE-TANYIGB
Donate to DAM (Dragons, Aliens, and Mermaids) Circus
DAM (Dragons, Aliens, and Mermaids) Circus is a collective of circus adventurers, quest seekers,
and story tellers creating breathtaking productions in The Bay Area and beyond. Our troupe is
entirely made of women and nonbinary humans as well as a diverse mix of race, ethnicity, and body
types. We are proud to have such a wide range of performers and give people from all walks of
life a chance to shine.
As a collective, we aim to create beautiful spectacles that incorporate a variety of movement
arts that help to encompass an overall theme. Our stories tend to lean in the direction of science
fiction and/or fantasy supporting overarching ideas related to identity, community, and sex positivity.
Donate to Circus of the Moon
Circus of the Moon is a theatrical circus performance company based in Santa Cruz, CA. Conceived during the COVID-19 shutdown, Kelsey na Gealai (Executive Director) felt inspired to bring joy, spirit and connection to the Santa Cruz community (and beyond!) through the wonders of circus arts. The artists featured in our productions come from many different backgrounds and trainings, each driven with a passion for performance and the goal to bring communities together through art.
Give Now to Circus of the Moon
Donate to A Table of Our Own
Our goal is to create a documentary about a gathering of Black luminaries working in the psychedelic space.
We’ll gather 35 key members from all around the country in a safe place and give participants the
chance to share their strengths, experiences, hopes, and challenges.
The goal is to highlight those doing great work and to expand the reach of these important ways
of healing to more Black people. We also wish to de-stigmatize these substances so that they’re
no longer seen as “White people stuff” and more as the natural balms and salves to Black people’s
psyches that we’ve been using for millennia.
The documentary will cover the conference and the current state of Black people in the psychedelic space as a whole.
Donate to Tobera Project
Our mission is to preserve and honor the rich Filipino immigrant experience in the Pajaro Valley through cultural arts and education to share with the broader community.
Give Now to Tobera Project
Everyone's Music School
Help support Everyone's Music School provide compassionate Music Instruction to our community. Your donation will go toward our BIPOC scholarship fund, Community Choir, Free weekly music classes and general operating expenses. We truly believe quality music education should be accessible to all walks of life!
Give Now to Everyone's Music School
Donate to Watsonville Yoga
Watsonville Yoga, Dance and Healing Arts is the first dedicated Yoga studio in our town, and also one of the first in the Bay Area to offer bilingual Yoga and dance classes, and holistic health services since opening in 2016. Watsonville Yoga hosts a healing arts clinic, where you can find licensed practitioners of Ayurveda, Massage, Sound Healing, Herbalism, Peruvian shamanism, and other modalities. We have an intense commitment to serving and uniting people of diverse backgrounds from all ages, and aim to transcend the perceived limitations of language barriers, as we build friendships, trust and understanding through movement arts for a stronger community.
Give Now to Watsonville Yoga
Donate to Shiva Yoga Wellness
Shiva Yoga Wellness will be opening its doors soon in San Jose. We are a yoga and wellness space that offers a variety of classes in yoga, meditation, and the healing arts, including body massage.
Give Now to Shiva Yoga Wellness
Donate to Josh Kornbluth
For over three decades, monologuist and filmmaker Josh Kornbluth has been telling stories to try making the world more loving and fair (and also to get people to laugh). In recent years he's been focusing on uplifting the rights and dignity of the elderly and of people with brain disease, as well as those who care for them. He was the first Artist-in-Residence at the Zen Hospice Project in San Francisco, as well as a Fellow at the Global Brain Health Institute, based at UCSF's Memory and Aging Center. His "Citizen Brain" video series (citizenbrain.org), which deals with the connections between brain health and social justice, has been viewed by over half a million people. Among his current projects is a solo show titled The Bottomless Bowl, based on his experiences at the Zen Hospice Project, where he later became a volunteer for several years.
Give Now to Josh Kornbluth
Donate to Liminal Space Collective
Liminal Space Collective's mission is to build connection and facilitate change through
collaborative art, immersive experiences, learning, experimentation and sustainable innovation.
At Liminal Space, we believe in the transformative power of collaborative, interactive art to
build community resilience. We create open and accessible participatory immersive art workshops
and experiences that unite creatives and art lovers from all walks of life. We cultivate a
new kind of third place, one of grounding, healing, and adaptation, where authentic connections
spark meaningful change.
By supporting Liminal Space, you enable artists to collaborate, create, and share their work
with the community. Together, we can foster a vibrant, sustainable creative scene that enriches
our lives, our landscapes, inspires existential optimism, and turns dreams into reality. What's your dream?