Our Committment
The impetus behind the founding of EastHUB was the recognition that the Eastside is a remarkably unique place peopled by a combination of various races, cultures, and ethnic traditions. This uniqueness cannot be adequately contained inside of any one building or represented by any single group of leadership stakeholders.
A Cultural Organization from the Ground Up
We are currently witnessing the rise of a long-overdue reexamination of the role that arts and culture has played in our country’s long road to becoming a truly antiracist, equitable, diverse, and inclusive society in which the brilliant diversity that has been the engine of our growth as a nation is both genuinely acknowledged and righteously celebrated.
We recognize the opportunity presented by the current boom of construction and growth on the Eastside, that led to our innovative and collaborative strategy to partner with regional governments, real estate developers, the tech industry, philanthropists, and local arts and culture organizations to build a comprehensive arts infrastructure that would serve the Eastside’s needs for arts and cultural spaces.
We also recognized an entirely new opportunity; not only to build cultural spaces in an innovative manner but also to build a cultural organization from the ground up with that same spirit of innovation.
The result is a responsive organization with a genuinely antiracist institutional structure as its founding organizational culture that will better serve our community.
EastHUB is committed to making multicultural and multiracial choices and to being antiracist in all aspects of our organizational practices.
Our Foundational Steps
Taken in collaboration with the Eastside’s multiracial, ethnically diverse, and multicultural community, we are guided by these principles:
- Building shared spaces, resources, and services for the Eastside arts and culture community will be an act of love by EastHUB for communities that have been marginalized.
- The traditional nonprofit arts model will be reexamined with an antiracist and inclusive lens.
- Our leadership (board and staff) will center antiracism, inclusivity, and multiculturalism.
- Every operational policy, procedure, and practice will be reexamined from an antiracist and anti-oppression lens before we adopt it.
Looking Outward
As we move forward, EastHUB continues to look outward toward the broader goal of increasing the quality of life on the Eastside by understanding and working on issues affecting access, diversity, and representation by:
Inclusiveness
Developing meaningful and long-lasting relationships with patrons, supporters, and other key stakeholders with the aim of providing inclusive community programming like Culture Creates Community events.
Partnership
Partnering and building strategic alliances with a diverse list of organizations to identify projects that elevate and highlight the programming of groups that have been historically marginalized on the basis of race, ethnicity, ability, sexual or gender orientation, immigrant status, religion, and other demographic attributes.
Shared Future
Generating meaningful connections among a broad spectrum of arts, cultural, heritage organizations, schools, and patrons to understand their needs and desires, and create a clear, collective pathway for equitable access and diversified programming, shared services, shared resources and shared spaces.
