California Creative Corps (CCC) is a new workforce development opportunity for artists and cultural practitioners, arts and social service sector organizations. This grant program aims to employ artists to create awareness around public health; water and energy conservation, climate mitigation, emergency preparedness relief, and recovery; civic engagement; and social justice. 

The 2021-22 State Budget included a $60 million one-time General Fund allocation for the California Arts Council to implement the CCC pilot program, a media, outreach, and engagement campaign designed to increase awareness related to issues such as public health, water and energy conservation, climate mitigation, and emergency preparedness, relief, and recovery. 

California Arts Council has selected fourteen organizations to administer the California Creative Corps across nine regions. The Sacramento Office of Arts and Culture (OAC) has been awarded $4.7M to regrant to regional arts and social service organizations, as well as individual artists and culture workers. As part of the Capitol Region, El Dorado County artist collectives and organizations are eligible to apply for grant monies. 

California Arts Council sees the CCC program primarily as a job creation and human infrastructure development opportunity. The hope is that, region by region, the program will increase the ways in which artists are engaged in public work, so that they can continue build upon intersectional public interest goals beyond the program’s pilot funding timeline.