The Cultural Space Agency is a mission-driven cultural real estate development company. It partners with community-based cultural organizations to help build, preserve, and own cultural space.

We are not a funding organization, but rather an educational and skill resource center. We assist in the development of a project through connections to resources, education, and access to our skilled and knowledgeable Constituency members.

The organization maintains a “pipeline” of projects and partnerships that it is considering. This questionnaire is designed to help us create an overview and briefing for our internal review committee, which is called the Property Investment and Programming Partnerships Committee, or the P.I.P.P. They will assess each project for its mission alignment, feasibility, and readiness. Please review our Vision, Mission, and Values before applying to see if our organization is a good fit.

Take a look and fill out anything that’s appropriate, skip anything that isn’t, and add anything to the end that we haven’t asked about. This is not a grant application so please don't feel pressure to answer everything or add every detail. We are looking to initiate an understanding and there will be more opportunity to tell us more via our interview process.

If you have any questions, you can reach out to info@culturalspace.agency

Vision of the Cultural Space Agency



"A world where arts and culture spaces are abundant and accessible."

Our Mission:

The Mission of the Cultural Space Agency is to foster community held spaces in which arts and culture can thrive.

We focus on reparative investment by prioritizing Black and Indigenous partnerships.

We buy buildings; we build capacity; we promote (promote, cultivate, empower) agency and access to wealth-building opportunities

We support our collaborators' self-determination through education programs, partnership, and resource-building.

Our Values:

Keep Race in the Room: Center the needs of communities of color.

Build Community Wealth: Create structures that support literal property ownership by community members and organizations.

Who Decides Who Decides?: Create transparent decision-making pathways where power flows from community to organizational leadership.

Assets are not Always Financial: Find ways to value intergenerational knowledge, sweat equity, cultural traditions, social networks, and other non-financial assets found in the community.

Always be Learning: Question dominant cultural assumptions and be inquisitive.

Tell us about your organization. If you have Mission, Visions, and Values please add them here. If not briefly explain the overarching goals or work, how and for whom.

*Clarity is more important than professionalism* You can use any formatting to respond. Please don’t try to impress anyone with these answers, just share the basics of what we need to know in order to work well with you.

Are you currently in a space? If YES answer next few questions.

Do you have a space in mind or is it different from your current space? If YES answer next few questions.

The Cultural Space Agency is rooted in a community created and nuanced list of values and mission-driven priorities. Part of how we evaluate potential projects or partnerships is the degree to which we have “values alignment”

We’re trying to tell a story to our PIPP committee, and to potential funders and partners, and images are an important part of storytelling about cultural space projects.

Please share a 5-7 images that help tell this story.

Images of your programing in action, of the specific property, of the type of space you’re imagining, Anything else from an “inspiration board” that helps folks see what you’re seeing

Please email images to info@culturalspace.agency.

If it's easier you could also simply provide a link (at the project description section) to online imagery.