The Pollock Arts Initiative began in 2014 in partnership with the Achieve Foundation.

The Pollock Arts Initiative (formerly known as the Vanessa Pollock Music Initiative) is a fund that helps :

1. Repair/add to the Music Instrument Inventory for the entire SOMA School District.
2. Provide scholarship funds to in-need students, for the rental of band/orchestra instruments.
3. Provide private music instruction and instruments to in-need, prodigious students. Hundreds and hundreds of children are impacted by the Initiative every year through instruments, lessons, encouragement and acknowledgement.  .

In addition, the fund will supplement Achieve Foundation funding of grant requests related to visual and performing arts, and may be used to help maintain the District's inventory of musical instruments and other arts-related equipment and supplies. Through the Initiative, scholarship awards for advanced training may be offered to Columbia High School students who demonstrate exceptional talent and are recommended by SOMSD music and arts department faculty. Awards are tailored to students’ specific needs for private instruction, classes and/or professional quality instruments/art equipment.