Koret Spring Update: Celebrating Bay Area Arts and Culture

Quarterly Update | Mar 2023

Koret Spring Update: Celebrating Bay Area Arts and Culture

Quarterly Update | Mar 2023

Photo: Cory Weaver/San Francisco Opera

We believe that a lively cultural landscape enriches a community, making it a more vibrant place to live and visit. The Bay Area is blessed with many world-class arts and cultural institutions. Appreciating the power of the arts to inspire, educate, and strengthen the social fabric, Koret has announced $6M in new grants to support local arts and cultural organizations over the next three years. More than 40 such institutions will benefit from Koret’s investment in the next generation of artists, audiences, and patrons. With an emphasis on arts education, the grants will supplement public schools’ arts curriculum, as well as fund programs that increase access to and participation in the arts for all.

The past few years of closures demonstrated how important these institutions are to the vibrancy of our region. While most venues have fully reopened their doors and stages, the disruptions of the pandemic created new challenges and exacerbated existing ones. The bottom line: philanthropic support is even more necessary not just to maintain these community pillars, but also to expand their reach and capabilities so they can connect with new, younger, and more diverse audiences for years to come.


Inspired by Our Grantees
San Francisco Opera: Welcoming new stories, new voices, and new audiences

San Francisco Opera celebrates a century of delighting audiences with mesmerizing performances and world-class talent. On this momentous anniversary, Koret sat down with Matthew Shilvock, SF Opera’s Tad and Dianne Taube General Director, to hear him reflect on the new works being created, the timeless appeal of big stories, and innovations and inspirations to come in the 2023–24 season and beyond.

Read the full conversation here.


Hillel at 100: Meeting students at different points along their Jewish journeys

The Hillel movement has provided enriching Jewish experiences to college and university students on campuses around the world for 100 years. The Bay Area is home to eight Hillels, collectively serving thousands of Jewish students. Hillel staff and the student leadership develop programming to nurture a sense of community: deepening students’ sense of Jewish identity as well as making personal connections and having fun.

Read here how the programming at each Hillel is shaped by student interests, the campus setting, and the broader community.