Youth Arts and Music Center, East Palo Alto

Deborah Frieden has been retained by the John & Marcia Goldman Foundation to lead the planning effort to create a new center for arts and music in East Palo Alto. Deborah will collaborate with the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities at Stanford University to build upon the work the Foundation and Center have done over the last 3 years training a team of youth leaders and undertaking an extensive community outreach effort, needs assessment, and site evaluation. Youth development will continue to be an important aspect of the project’s planning effort and will entail creating opportunities for the youth to continue in a leadership capacity and providing broad stakeholder engagement opportunities.