Apply for the next Dandelion Re-Generation Cohort by September 15, 2025!
UPDATE (Sept 25, 2025): The Dandelion Team is currently reviewing the significant number of applications received! Our timeline for announcing interviews and finalists may need to be pushed back. We appreciate everyone's patience!
The Dandelion Arts Finance Training Program is seeking Bay Area artists, media-makers, cultural workers, culture bearers, community-rooted creatives who are ready to re-imagine the role of money in their lives and movements.
Dandelion Re-Generation is an 8-month Bay Area cohort where we come together to transform our relationship with money. Rooted in ancestral knowledge, peer-led learning, and solidarity, the program focuses on demystifying finance, reframing labor and worth, and building tools for equitable, liberated futures.
This is not a traditional financial literacy program. Participants engage in critical unlearning, spiritual reckoning, and community-based experimentation — centering systems of resource sharing, value recognition, and financial self-determination. We believe money is not the enemy; when grounded in equity and intention, it can be a force for healing, safety, creative risk-taking, and systemic change.
Over six months, you’ll explore and release fears and insecurities around money in an intimate, supportive environment with your peers. You will design a project grounded in your values and approach to money, share it with the community, and leave feeling empowered, connected, and resourced.
The Dandelion Re-Generation Cohort seeks 4 participants from the Bay Area arts community for the 2025-2026 Cohort. We especially welcome women, POC, immigrants, LGBTQ+, and other marginalized creatives committed to building abundance mindsets, community-centered practices, and cultural rerooting to dismantle capitalist trauma.
The Dandelion Re-Generation Cohort will be facilitated by Josie Santiago of Akili Well and Cohort Alumni Sabereh Kashi and Mason J.
Participants who complete the Re-Generation Cohort will also be invited to join the Dandelion Community Advisory Board.
Learn more about the Dandelion Arts Finance Training Program's history below!
Eligibility Criteria:
* Resident of the San Francisco Bay Area (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, and Solano counties)
* Self-identify as an artist, media-maker, cultural worker, culture bearer, and/or community-rooted creative
How to Apply:
DEADLINE: September 15, 2025
All project proposals must be submitted using this ONLINE FORM.
Please contact the Dandelion team if you need assistance or have questions at dandelion@artsandmedia.net.
WATCH THE INFORMATION SESSION
Proposal Requirements:
Applicants must propose a project aligned with the themes above, which will then be developed throughout your Cohort participation.
Possible formats include (but are not limited to):
- A workshop
- An interactive presentation
- A somatic or spiritual offering
- Other creative formats — we encourage experimentation!
Cohort Timeline & Details:
TIMELINE: October 2025 to May 2026
Mandatory Orientation: Monday, October 13, 2025, from 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM on Zoom
Monthly Cohort Meetings (6 total from 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM on Zoom)
- Friday October 31st
- Monday, November 17th
- Friday, December 5th
- Friday, January 16th
- Friday, February 20th
- Friday, March 13th
Additional Commitments:
- Participate in three one-on-one sessions with Cohort Facilitator Josie Santiago and Cohort alumni Sabereh Kashi and Mason J.
- Attend the project presentations of your fellow Cohort participants;
- Participate in two additional Dandelion workshops (topics: ethical budgeting and compensation, feminine labor, community advisory models)
DELIVERABLES:
- Two public presentations of your project
- Develop documentation about your project for the Dandelion online resource library and toolkit archive (coming soon!)
Cohort Stipend:
Each Cohort member will be paid a total stipend of $3,000 during their participation in the program.
- $1,000 in early December 2025 (after attending the mandatory orientation and two cohort meetings
- $1,000 in early February 2026 (after attending two additional cohort meetings)
- $1,000 in April 2026 (after completing all cohort meetings, the 1:1 sessions, and two presentations of your final project)