Thriving Cultures Grants Descriptions
Cornerstone Theater Company
Los Angeles, CA | $75,000
To support The California Bridge Tour, a touring production and community engagement project with ten underserved communities across California.
Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change
D-Rev
San Francisco, CA | $75,000 (18 months)
To improve D-Rev's internal tools to capture real-time feedback about social impact design processes, outcome assessments, and product iteration.
Category: Community Engaged Design
Detroit Creative Corridor Center
Detroit, MI | $225,000 (36 months)
To support the Creative Ventures Business Accelerator and the launch of two new trade organizations: Artifact Makers Society and Creative.co, to support graduates of the accelerator program. Additional funding for this grant comes from Surdna's Strong Local Economies Program.
Category: Artists & Economic Development
Downtown Community Television Center
New York, NY | $120,000 (24 months)
To support PRO-TV, DCTV's professional media arts training program for New York City youth, ages 14-21.
Category: Teens' Artistic & Cultural Advancement
Eastside Arts Alliance
Oakland, CA | $75,000
Continued support for EastSide Arts Alliance (ESAA) to provide resources to local artists as they create and perform new work that addresses the concerns and issues of the San Antonio community of East Oakland.
Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change
Efforts of Grace, Inc.
New Orleans, LA | $300,000 (36 months)
To support the creative, cultural, education and community programming of Efforts of Grace/Ashé Cultural Arts Center, as it continues to emerge its leadership and influence in a shifting and transforming inner-city community.
Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change
Enterprise Community Partners
Columbia, MD | $500,000 (36 months)
To amplify the voice of low-income communities in processes that impact the built environment by; creating design resources, developing designers' leadership skills and increasing practitioner diversity in the community engaged design field.
Category: Community Engaged Design
Everett Dance Theatre
Providence, RI | $35,000
To support Everett's Freedom Project, an exploration of mass incarceration in America.
Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change
Fiji Theater Company
New York, NY | $75,000
To support a series of community-specific social justice theater works, featuring the voices of real people (not professional actors) on stage.
Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change
Firelight Media
New York, NY | $300,000 (36 months)
To support the Producers' Lab, which nurtures and finances documentary filmmakers of color in order to strengthen the career pipeline for the field.
Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change