Community Arts Stabilization Trust (CAST) is a nonprofit social enterprise, which focuses on creating affordable, long-term/permanent workspace for the arts in San Francisco and Oakland in order to facilitate equitable urban development. CAST does so by acquiring properties, leasing to sustain below-market rents for those not poised to buy, building the capacity of cultural organizations to lease and own property, and developing complementary initiatives to keep the arts in our communities. CAST has purchased and opened three arts buildings in central San Francisco, attracted exceptional support from the philanthropic, private and public sector, launched a city-wide mapping of cultural spaces through its online tool Culture Compass (culturecompass.org), and been cited as a creative placekeeping model in publications by the World Cities Culture Forum, LISC and Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco. For more information please visit: cast-sf.org Follow us: Twitter & Instagram @CASTSF | facebook.com/SFCAST CAST's work would not be possible without the help of our sponsors: Kenneth Rainin Foundation: The Foundation believes that people trying to affect change need an early champion for their ideas. Like its founder, the Foundation listens to and invests in innovative and collaborative projects that can achieve real breakthroughs and make life better for us all. KRFoundation.org Community Vision: Community Vision (formerly the Northern California Community Loan Fund) is proud to assist with the formation of CAST and developing the model to stabilize community arts organizations in a rapidly escalating real estate market. communityvisionca.org San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development: OEWD supports the City’s ongoing economic vitality by strengthening its neighborhoods, businesses, commercial corridors and workforce. Its goal is to ensure that the City will always be one of the best places on the planet to live, work and play. OEWD.org