Pulse Arts
Building creative learning opportunities for youth
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
With decreased funding for arts education in public schools, students rarely have opportunities to move past rudimentary exposure to the arts. Arts organizations and agencies are helping fill the gap with teaching artist-in-residence programs, but many organizations focus on art-making and could use support in educational program development and teacher training. Additionally schools often don't have the resources to identify and coordinate sustainable partnerships with arts organizations.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Get AMPed!
20 WEEKS OF CUSTOMIZED TRAINING
- Arts Media Entertainment Intro (Intro to Digital Media - 5 weeks)
- Arts Intensive/Mentorship (Applied Work-Based Learning - 20 weeks)
INDUSTRY-CONNECTED PROJECT-BASED LEARNING
STUDENTS WILL BE MATCHED WITH A MENTOR THROUGH AN INTEREST INVENTORY. FROM MARKETING TO AUDIO ENGINEERING, AMPED PROJECTS PREPARE STUDENTS FOR A VARIETY OF CAREERS IN CREATIVE INDUSTRY.
Where we work
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Numbered of staff who are satisfied to be an employee of the institution
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Input - describing resources we use
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Total number of volunteer hours contributed to the organization
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Input - describing resources we use
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
Average number of volunteer hours based on board member service requirements.
Our Sustainable Development Goals
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Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Pulse Arts aims to develop arts education programs in partnership with professional creatives, facilitating equitable access to quality programs for youth.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
We will be writing project-specific grants for artist in residence programs and doing outreach to arts organizations and school districts in the Sacramento to offer support and services. We hope to be able to offer consulting services at a subsidized rate and are in the process of generating a strategic plan for the organization.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
We are currently seeking support with development and sustainability. The organization is activated when there are grants available or when we are hired for program development or curriculum writing. We are collaborating with other organizations and public schools. We activate our staff when there is a project or work. We have extended capability to develop and execute programs, but as a new organization do not have full time staff unless funding comes in for a project.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
We implemented a 1.7 million dollar grant, trained over 75 teachers, developed and implemented a dance integration program that expanded to 25 classrooms, hosted 3 public arts events in the community, issued $20,000 in teacher mini-grants for arts integrations, and written a Tk-4th grade ELD arts integration theater curriculum for Transcendence Theater
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We take steps to get feedback from marginalized or under-represented people, We aim to collect feedback from as many people we serve as possible, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We look for patterns in feedback based on demographics (e.g., race, age, gender, etc.), We look for patterns in feedback based on people’s interactions with us (e.g., site, frequency of service, etc.), We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response, We act on the feedback we receive, We share the feedback we received with the people we serve, We tell the people who gave us feedback how we acted on their feedback, We ask the people who gave us feedback how well they think we responded
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
We don't have any major challenges to collecting feedback
Financials
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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Pulse Arts
Board of directorsas of 09/16/2023
Pia Williams
Pulse Arts
Term: 2022 -
Trane Hunter, Esq
The Children's Law Center
Crystal Jones
Medtronic, Inc
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes
Organizational demographics
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Leadership
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Disability
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Equity strategies
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- We review compensation data across the organization (and by staff levels) to identify disparities by race.
- We ask team members to identify racial disparities in their programs and / or portfolios.
- We employ non-traditional ways of gathering feedback on programs and trainings, which may include interviews, roundtables, and external reviews with/by community stakeholders.
- We use a vetting process to identify vendors and partners that share our commitment to race equity.
- We have a promotion process that anticipates and mitigates implicit and explicit biases about people of color serving in leadership positions.
- We seek individuals from various race backgrounds for board and executive director/CEO positions within our organization.
- We help senior leadership understand how to be inclusive leaders with learning approaches that emphasize reflection, iteration, and adaptability.
- We engage everyone, from the board to staff levels of the organization, in race equity work and ensure that individuals understand their roles in creating culture such that one’s race identity has no influence on how they fare within the organization.