Over the past three months more than 500 Bay Area artists and arts workers have participated in arts advocacy efforts by sharing their needs and priorities with the Arts Budget Coalition. Grantmakers, arts leaders and community organizers from other sectors advised on how to create a framework for advocacy wherein many people could have a voice.

Following Mayor Ed Lee’s unveiling of a budget proposal on June 1 we requested information from the San Francisco Arts Commission and Grants for the Arts about what impact the increases would have on the amount and number of organizations funded. A summary of their responses to our questions is below.

This just in from the Press Room of San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee:

San Francisco, CA— Mayor Edwin M. Lee today announced that over the next two years the City will contribute and invest $7 million in programs supporting the arts. This represents 14 percent growth over previous budgets and includes a $2 million enhancement (a 50 percent increase) to the City’s groundbreaking Cultural Equity Endowment Fund and $1 million to Grants for the Arts to support small and mid-sized arts nonprofits, individual artists and historically underserved communities through grants and capacity building. Mayor Lee’s Shared Prosperity for the Arts Package includes a $3.8 million capital investment over the next two years in the City’s Civic Art Collection and Cultural Centers and an additional funding for arts education.