SANTA ANA BUSINESS COUNCIL INC, &
CALLE CUATRO DTSA
Calle Cuatro DTSA and the Santa Ana Business Council (SABC) representS over 796 businesses in the downtown commercial district of the capitol city Santa Ana, California. In addition to rehabilitating, redeveloping, and reinvigorating Fourth Street and the Downtown Commercial District, We (along with other Business Improvement District Groups in DTSA) are positioned as the County's preeminent leaders of commerce and services. This includes all the amenities of urban community life: social services, community facilities, and programs in education, recreation, and the arts.
Board of Directors
Raul Yanez Bethany Schermer
Kim Tapfer Mario Reyes
Claudia Arellanes Alfredo Amezcua
Loni Paniagua Arturo Lomeli
Won Cha Veronica Alvarez
Mike Husain Bobby Rooker
Kim Tapfer Mario Reyes
Claudia Arellanes Alfredo Amezcua
Loni Paniagua Arturo Lomeli
Won Cha Veronica Alvarez
Mike Husain Bobby Rooker
Organization's Mission Statement and Purpose
- We actively serve our community by stimulating positive social interaction in a diverse urban setting through innovative and socially motivated community engagement. We seek a stronger vibrant community by exploring and investing in our shared public spaces and population of all ages through socially engaged arts outreach and cultural programming. All of our programs, activities and events are free and accessible to the community. Our outreach provides the much needed opportunities for our underserved citizens and the community at large.
- Our many Arts and Culture events, programs & activities include: K thru 12 and adult arts education, (arts in the schools and at off site venues ), Art Exhibitions, Multi- arts workshops and festivals (ie. art, music, dance, writing, music, literature etc.). We also engage in Place making & the Environmental Arts (public space development; sustainable creative urban spaces & gardens, greenways).
- We are committed to reinvigorating our District’s position as the County's preeminent leader of commerce and services introducing all the amenities of urban community life, including social services and facilities and programs in education, recreation, and the multi-arts and culture. Over the past years we have provided a wide variety of annual free arts and culture programming to our underserved communities and our general population of all ages.
SABC Racial Equity Statement
SABC believes that all must strive to end systemic racism and injustice, and that through the collective achievement of racial equity, we can help create a world that truly reflects and embraces diversity, inclusion and justice for all.
The Santa Ana Business Council is intentional about equity and inclusion. We have made it our duty to take a strong stance on issues of equity, race relations, inclusion and accessibility. We work consistently to bridge and unify otherwise fractured and fragmented groups in our region, and work together to build a more vibrant community around creative Placemaking in our Downtown Arts District.
We welcome all races, religions, countries of origin, sexual orientations, genders, and abilities to participate in and facilitate our programs and stakeholders to help create a shared vision for our community.
Through our programs and community engagement, we consciously cultivate an environment that promotes, procures, and supports diversity, inclusion and accessibility. We support artists and multi arts outreach programs that nourish and transform our shared public spaces and stimulate social engagement, creative expression and community empowerment.
Santa Ana Business Council Supports Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), (LGBTQIA) and woman, we also work with individuals who are documented and undocumented, housed and unhoused. Our Boca de Oro Festival of Literary Arts and Culture, is the first free and annual Literature and Arts Festival in Orange County that specifically features authors and visual and performing arts of BIPOC artists.
Our board members and staff reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. We are predominately POC with an equal number of males to females from myriad diverse ethnicities including Latino, Asian, African American and Caucasian races. Our board does not discriminate against any person on the basis of Gender, Race, Religion, Age, Class, Ethnicity, Sexuality, Origin, Disability, and Education.
The Santa Ana Business Council is intentional about equity and inclusion. We have made it our duty to take a strong stance on issues of equity, race relations, inclusion and accessibility. We work consistently to bridge and unify otherwise fractured and fragmented groups in our region, and work together to build a more vibrant community around creative Placemaking in our Downtown Arts District.
We welcome all races, religions, countries of origin, sexual orientations, genders, and abilities to participate in and facilitate our programs and stakeholders to help create a shared vision for our community.
Through our programs and community engagement, we consciously cultivate an environment that promotes, procures, and supports diversity, inclusion and accessibility. We support artists and multi arts outreach programs that nourish and transform our shared public spaces and stimulate social engagement, creative expression and community empowerment.
Santa Ana Business Council Supports Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC), (LGBTQIA) and woman, we also work with individuals who are documented and undocumented, housed and unhoused. Our Boca de Oro Festival of Literary Arts and Culture, is the first free and annual Literature and Arts Festival in Orange County that specifically features authors and visual and performing arts of BIPOC artists.
Our board members and staff reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. We are predominately POC with an equal number of males to females from myriad diverse ethnicities including Latino, Asian, African American and Caucasian races. Our board does not discriminate against any person on the basis of Gender, Race, Religion, Age, Class, Ethnicity, Sexuality, Origin, Disability, and Education.