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<\/p>\nThe new Literary Arts Fund will award a total of $7.7 million to 40 nonprofits across the United States.<\/p>\n
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Materials at the May 14, 2026 kickoff event celebrating the Center for the Art of Translation’s new permanent home in downtown San Francisco, set to open in 2027.\u00a0(Tommy Lau)<\/p>\n
Three Bay Area nonprofits will receive grants from the newly created Literary Arts Fund<\/a> as part of a national effort to champion literary culture. Berkeley-based Transit Books<\/a> and San Francisco-based Small Press Traffic<\/a> and the Center for the Art of Translation<\/a> will share $7.7 million with 37 other organization across the country.<\/p>\n The inaugural grant recipients include publishers, residency programs, book festivals and workshop organizers. The fund acknowledges that the literary arts are \u201cthe most underfunded artistic discipline in the nation.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe grant includes a five-year funding commitment toward general operating expenses for Transit Books,\u201d publishers Adam Z. Levy and Ashley Nelson Levy told KQED via email. \u201cTo have financial support to run Transit Books as well as a fixed, multi-year commitment is the best resource we can possibly ask for right now, particularly in a time of federal funding cuts that have affected so many arts organizations.\u201d<\/p>\n The Literary Arts Fund<\/a> (LAF) was created in October 2025 in response to the Trump administration\u2019s cuts to the National Endowment for the Humanities<\/a> and the National Endowment for the Arts<\/a>. Last May, more than a dozen Bay Area arts nonprofits received notices that their NEA grants had been canceled. Though many organizations were eventually able to restore those awards, the funding landscape was thrown into disarray.<\/p>\n The LAF was established by seven philanthropic institutions: the Ford Foundation, the Hawthornden Foundation, the Lannan Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, the Poetry Foundation, and one anonymous foundation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The new Literary Arts Fund will award a total of $7.7 million to 40 nonprofits across the United…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346597,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[143,145,144],"class_list":["post-346596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346596","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346596\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}