Surdna Foundation
2016 Year in Review
Surdna Foundation
Seattle, WA - $325,000
To support Main Street Alliance's work to: educate and engage small business owners in public debates and policy campaigns aimed at improving economy-boosting job quality standards; engage small business owners in the development and implementation of a policy agenda that prioritizes equitable, local economic development policies; and develop innovative outreach and engagement strategies to increase the Main Street Alliance's ability to connect with business owners. (3 years)
Category: Job Quality and Career Pathways
Washington, DC - $125,000
To support The American Prospect's Writing Fellows Program and for general operating support. (1 year)
Category: Equitable Economic Development
Washington, DC - $350,000
Support for the American Sustainable Business Council to identify policies that create favorable conditions for businesses to adopt high road employment practices and partner with Businesses for Fair Minimum Wage (BFMW) to support higher minimum wages. (2 years)
Category: Business Development and Accelerations
Baltimore, MD - $127,000
To support the Baltimore Integration Partnership, which connects low-income Baltimore City residents, who are predominately African American, to economic opportunity by leveraging resources and the purchasing power of anchor institutions. (1 year)
Category: Equitable Economic Developments
Washington, DC - $50,000
To strengthen the infrastructure for emerging Black leaders transforming community-based organizing for healthy and sustainable communities. (1 year)
Category: Job Quality and Career Pathwayss
Washington, DC - $600,000
To support the Metro Program, which seeks to help cities and metropolitan areas adopt economic development and infrastructure investment strategies that generate good jobs, rising incomes, greater access, and better opportunities for all workers and families. (2 years)
Category: Equitable Economic Developments
Bellingham, WA - $250,000
To support BALLE's Local Economy Fellowship to build the capacity and connectivity of those who have effectively organized for economic justice with those who have been focused on business models that decentralize business ownership and build collaborations to solve social and economic issues. (2 years)
Category: Business Development and Accelerations
Washington, DC - $50,000
To advance national messaging on improving labor standards for low-wage workers to advance policy solutions that reduce poverty, mitigate inequality and build stronger local economies. (1 year)
Category: Job Quality and Career Pathwayss
Brooklyn, NY - $45,000
To support the Center for Family Life's next phase of work, to develop an innovative model for scaling, inspired by the traditional franchising model in the for-profit sector, and by innovative replication strategies used at the Arizmendi Bakery in the Bay Area. (1 year)
Category: Business Development and Acceleration
New Brunswick, New Jersey - $80,000
To support the Center for Innovation in Worker Organization's efforts to expand two programs (the co-enforcement project, and the Building the Bench leadership initiative) designed to build the organizational infrastructure of worker organizations producing job quality measures. (1 year)
Category: Job Quality and Career Pathwayss
Cincinnati, OH - $150,000
To enable the Cincinnati US Regional Chamber Minority Business Accelerator to provide capacity growth management services to high potential African American and Hispanic firms in Cincinnati to accelerate the growth and increased employment of those firms. (1 year)
Category: Business Development and Accelerations
Oakland, CA - $30,000
To build critical capacity for Workers to Owners, a national collaborative to spur businesses converting to worker cooperatives, with significant potential to increase job quality for low-wage workers of color. (1 year)
Category: Business Development and Accelerations
Oakland, California - $750,000
To develop the Workers to Owners program that will spur more businesses to convert to worker cooperatives and Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs), with significant potential to increase job quality for low-wage workers of color. (3 years)
Category: Business Development and Accelerations
Takoma Park, MD - $60,000
To support a one-day conference in New York City on January 29, 2016, to showcase mayors and economic development leaders leading the way in building community wealth. (1 year)
Category: Equitable Economic Developments
Detroit, MI - $80,000
To establish the Detroit African American Business Leadership Council and develop an equity dashboard to build linkages, encourage collaboration, and launch new enterprises for African Americans in Detroit. (1 year)
Category: Equitable Economic Developments
New York, NY - $100,000
To provide program support to the BIG Accelerator program, a 12-week accelerator program for Black and Latina women technology entrepreneurs located in downtown Atlanta. (1 year)
Category: Business Development and Accelerations
Oakland, CA - $350,000
To strengthen the East Bay Community Foundation's capacity and leadership in advancing equitable economic development work in the East Bay and ultimately in the Bay Area region by promoting collaboration and consensus among stakeholders for policy change and promising approaches, and by increasing the level of resources and investment from philanthropic, public and corporate donors for this regional work. (2 years)
Category: Equitable Economic Developments
Washington, DC - $450,000
General support for the Economic Policy Institute's work to produce data, research, and policy prescriptions to improve economic conditions for low-and middle-income workers. (3 years)
Category: Job Quality and Career Pathwayss
Milwaukee, WI - $575,000
For general operating support to build the national movement for earned sick days and family and medical leave insurance, and to support the upcoming Working Women's Power Summit in September 2016, led by a partnership of organizations, including Family Values at Work. (3 years)
Category: Job Quality and Career Pathwayss
Raleigh, NC - $47,000
To support the planning process necessary to develop and launch a "Forth Sector" institute and continue to build out an ecosystem for this alternative business form. (1 year)
Category: Business Development and Accelerations
Oakland, CA - $150,000
To advance the creation and retention of Good Jobs by building a portfolio of strong and sustainable employers, and codifying a service model that can be shared with communities beyond the Bay Area. (1 year)
Category: Business Development and Accelerations
Washington, DC - $50,000
To support the development of a message research project aimed at understanding how best to inform and engage the public so that they understand collective bargaining and collective action as a way to build and assert the economic and political power of working people. (1 year)
Category: Job Quality and Career Pathwayss
Brooklyn, NY - $50,000
To support Make the Road New York's efforts to organize and educate the mainland Puerto Rican Diaspora on the local impacts of the Island's economic crisis. (1 year)
Category: Equitable Economic Developments
Minneapolis, Minnesota - $450,000
To enable MEDA to build a coherent and integrated ecosystem of business development/support services that will allow businesses to grow and thrive within the Twin Cities and Minnesota region. (3 years)
Category: Business Development and Accelerations
Brooklyn, NY - $200,000
To connect a national Women's Economic Agenda (WEA), as well as support formation of WEAs in three states across the South, including continued work in Mississippi; increase access to quality jobs and entrepreneurship opportunities for women; and explore gender equity-based impact investing to advance women's economic justice and
security. (2 years)
Category: Job Quality and Career Pathwayss
Oakland, CA - $190,000
To help the National Black Worker Center Project plan its work in two areas: 1) a national campaign to change the narrative concerning the causes and solutions of the Black job crisis; and 2) the expansion of the network from its current set of three affiliates to ten affiliates by the end of 2017. (2 years)
Category: Job Quality and Career Pathwayss
New York, NY - $675,000
To improve job quality in the domestic work and care industry, through the development of a career lattice framework and credentialing platform, raising standards in the fast-growing online domestic work and care marketplace. (3 years)
Category: Job Quality and Career Pathwayss
Washington, DC - $700,000
To host the Equitable Economic Fellowship with PolicyLink and the Urban Land Institute. (2 years)
Category: Equitable Economic Developments
Oakland, CA - $25,000
To support Project Phoenix, which aims to build a diverse learning community of funders as a way for philanthropy to support just transitions to the new economy that engage low income and people of color communities. (1 year)
Category: Business Development and Accelerations
Minneapolis, MN - $450,000
To support Neighborhoods Organizing for Change as part of a statewide coalition - Minnesotans for a Fair Economy (MFE) - to advance a state workers' rights agenda. (3 years)
Category: Job Quality and Career Pathwayss
New Orleans, LA - $375,000
To create a dedicated Small Business Ecosystem Development work-stream within NOLABA to create more accessible on-ramps to economic opportunity for all New Orleanians. (3 Years)
Category: Business Development and Accelerations
New Orleans, LA - $45,000
To support PowerMoves@Miami launch at Black Tech Week in Miami. (1 year)
Category: Business Development and Accelerations
New York, NY - $50,000
To: 1) increase philanthropic investments that expand economic opportunities for young women of color; 2) strengthen community organizations and leadership of young women of color; and 3) promote policy and systems change. (1 year)
Category: Job Quality and Career Pathwayss
Washington, DC - $100,000
To support the Rhode Island TechHire Learning Lab with the goal of accelerating the acquisition of higher wage jobs by underserved/underrepresented populations in struggling communities. (1 year)
Category: Job Quality and Career Pathwayss
Oakland, CA - $600,000
To launch and implement PolicyLink's All-In Cities initiative to advance an equitable growth policy agenda in partnership with cities across the nation. The grant will also support the National Equity Summit. (3 years)
Category: Equitable Economic Developments
Bainbridge Island, WA - $375,000
To support YES! Magazine's efforts to diversify its pool of journalists and permanent staff (including annual fellowships for writers of color). (3 years)
Category: Equitable Economic Developments
New York, NY - $100,000
To support three specific projects: 1) Facing Race Conference Sponsorship at the level of $25,000; 2) Colorlines at the level of $25,000; and 3) Distribution of the Title VII Report at the level of $50,000. (1 year)
Category: Business Development and Acceleration
Chicago, IL - $100,000
General operating support for education, training, and advocacy work to improve job quality for Chicago's low-wage workers, as well as exploration of partnership between worker centers and members of the Chicago Workforce Funders Alliance. (1 year)
Category: Job Quality and Career Pathways
New York, NY - $300,000
General operating support to engage restaurateurs in an alternative restaurant association, Restaurants Advancing Industry Standards in Employment (RAISE), to improve wages and working conditions for restaurant professionals in the low-wage workforce. (3 years)
Category: Job Quality and Career Pathways
Jersey City, NJ - $45,000
The purpose of the grant is to support Rising Tide Capital in leveraging a unique visibility and fundraising opportunity through the newly announced relationship with the Joy Mangano Foundation, and the 20th Century Fox film, "Joy", that will support the growth of its existing network of entrepreneurs. (1 year)
Category: Business Development and Acceleration
Oakland, CA - $175,000
To support the refinement of Transform Finance's strategy, build out its staff, and increase its reach and impact in bridging finance and social justice. (2 years)
Category: Business Development and Acceleration
Brooklyn, NY - $60,000
To strengthen the principal tool used to reconnect young people - job creation. The grant will be used to help subsidize developing businesses and salaries of youth and capacity building of the business with professional assistance. (1 year)
Category: Job Quality and Career Pathways
Milwaukee, WI - $10,000
To 1) explore future investment opportunities for the Strong Local Economies program in Milwaukee; and 2) support WJN's executive leadership and direction, as she emerges as a prominent voice in the national fight for job quality. (1 year)
Category: Equitable Economic Development
Chicago, IL - $250,000
To promote equitable access to capital for women, people of color, and Low- and Moderate- Income (LMI) owned small businesses (SBs) and SBs in LMI areas through national research, advocacy for strong Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) SB rules, SB leadership, and best practices. (2 years)
Category: Business Development and Acceleration
Chicago, IL - $150,000
To support Chicago Anchors for a Strong Economy (CASE), a network of Chicago's leading anchor institutions - hospitals, universities, cultural institutions, corporations, and others committed to using their purchasing power to accelerate economic growth. (1 year)
Category: Equitable Economic Development
New York, NY - $100,000
To support the NY Renews coalition (statewide) to advocate for policy changes that simultaneously reduce New York State (NYS) greenhouse gas emissions, create living wage jobs and strengthen front-line and impacted communities. (18 months)
Category: Energy Efficiency in the Built Environment
Los Angeles, CA - $75,000
To create and implement a collaborative, comprehensive framework for urban infrastructure decision-making in Los Angeles that is socially just, engages low-income communities of color, and improves community resilience. (1 year)
Category: Urban Water Management
Boston, MA - $80,000
To provide general operating funds to support organizing among labor, community and grassroots groups to advance policies that promote clean energy, transit infrastructure and quality job creation. (1 year)
Category: Energy Efficiency in the Built Environment
Oakland, CA - $350,000
To support Green For All's efforts around the Clean Power Plan, organizing 1,000 Black churches and advocating for a 100% clean energy future. (2 years)
Category: Energy Efficiency in the Built Environment
Washington, DC - $75,000
To support engagement with the federal government, key state and local stakeholders to support community-led transitions to clean energy systems and thriving economies. The Clean Power Plan (CPP) and coal-impacted communities will be the focus of this work. (1 year)
Category: Energy Efficiency in the Built Environment
Philadelphia, PA - $50,000
General operating support to allow Fair Food to evaluate its core programs and address organizational capacity need. (1 year)
Category: Regional Food Supply
Pawtucket, RI - $150,000
To assist Farm Fresh in developing its capacity and infrastructure to get locally grown products into large-scale kitchens in Rhode Island and Massachusetts. (2 years)
Category: Regional Food Supply
New York, NY - $150,000
To support the development of a set of actionable financing solutions that can help ensure affordable, equitable, and sustainable access to water and to ensure that water stays under public control. (2 years)
Category: Urban Water Management
Coral Gables, FL - $150,000
To engage funders in opportunities to create more sustainable and prosperous regions and communities by supporting funder working groups: Federal Reserve-Philanthropy Initiative, GREEN; Stormwater Funders' Group; Restoring Prosperity in Older Industrial Cities; and the PLACES fellowship program. (1 year)
Category: Integrated Infrastructure
New Orleans, LA - $275,000
To support the Greater New Orleans Foundation to build on its momentum from the Urban Water Series and strengthen the green infrastructure solutions movement in the City of New Orleans. (2 years)
Category: Urban Water Management
Philadelphia, PA - $100,000
To support the development of the Green Cities Clean Water Exchange (GCCWX), a network for municipal and regional water authorities, to build connections and sharing among the field of practitioners to scale green stormwater infrastructure. (1 year)
Category: Urban Water Management
Seattle, WA - $75,000
General operating support for Grist's expanded coverage of next generation infrastructure. (1 year)
Category: Other
Yonkers, NY - $200,000
To develop community-based social enterprises that provide green stormwater infrastructure services and enable low-income communities to build wealth as well as secure environmental benefits of retrofitting the landscape. (2 years)
Category: Urban Water Management
Tamworth, NH - $150,000
To support the creation and strategy development of City Scale which will provide high-touch consulting support to municipalities advancing sustainable infrastructure goals. (2 years)
Category: Urban Water Management
Los Angeles, CA - $750,000
To expand the Jobs to Move America (JMA) policy into new regions, strengthen it where it has been used, support building the federal infrastructure that supports the policy, and grow the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy's national communications program to support the JMA agenda. (3 years)
Category: Transportation Networks and Equitable Development Patterns
London, KY - $100,000
General operating support for the Empower Kentucky campaign to create a statewide energy plan through a participatory process that will help shape and speed a just transition to a sustainable, clean energy economy for Kentucky. (1 year)
Category: Energy Efficiency in the Built Environment
Los Angeles, CA - $50,000
To explore and map ways for the Los Angeles region to adapt to and mitigate the severe drought by investing in water infrastructure projects that leverage community benefits to ensure sustainability and quality employment standards are applied during implementation. (1 year)
Category: Urban Water Management
Detroit, MI - $35,000
To assess existing pro-transit groups across the country and develop a comprehensive report to define strategies for national groups to collaborate efforts to drive transportation reform. (1 year)
Category: Transportation Networks and Equitable Development Patterns
Oakland, CA - $150,000
To support the Senior Fellowship for a Just Community Energy Transition position. (2 years)
Category: Energy Efficiency in the Built Environment
Trenton, NJ - $280,000
To support two municipalities to develop water infrastructure solutions that address combined sewer overflow (CSO) problems and provide broader community benefits; and, to provide communication, technical assistance and share learning to help city and regional sewer utilities build successful water infrastructure campaigns. (2 years)
Category: Urban Water Management
Brooklyn, NY - $50,000
To support to The New York City Environmental Justice Alliance's Climate Justice Agenda - a policy framework, recommendations and advocacy campaign designed by low wealth communities and communities of color to create long term meaningful engagement and accountability with NYC public policy. (1 year)
Category: Integrated Infrastructure
Atlanta, GA - $25,000
To support a strategic planning process for the Advancing Equity and Opportunity (AEO) Collaborative, which was formed in 2014 to work towards equitable and transformational energy initiatives across the American South. (6 months)
Category: Energy Efficiency in the Built Environment
Atlanta, GA - $100,000
To support Partnership for Southern Equity to provide capacity building to local and regional government agencies to develop and apply an equity analysis to investment decisions. (2 years)
Category: Transportation Networks and Equitable Development Patterns
Pittsburgh, PA - $250,000
To continue supporting green infrastructure education, advocacy and engagement efforts to maximize environmental, social and economic benefits, especially for underrepresented communities. (2 years)
Category: Urban Water Management
Bronx, NY - $20,000
To support the leadership transition at THE POINT CDC and support the organizational health of the institution. (1 year)
Category: Integrated Infrastructure
Berkeley, CA - $100,000
To support a research project that will examine how the collaborations around HUD's Sustainable Communities Initiative emerge, evolve, and sustain themselves, with the idea of uncovering and documenting best practices. (2 years)
Category: Integrated Infrastructure
Philadelphia, PA - $50,000
To allow The Reinvestment Fund to amend the Supply Chain Matrix (SCM) model to address stakeholder feedback from the pilot project and test the viability of the model in a new geographic region. (1 year)
Category: Regional Food Supply
New Brunswick, NJ - $470,000
Support to expand Rutgers Cooperative Extension Water Resources Program that assists New Jersey communities in implementing green infrastructure solutions to stormwater challenges, targeting communities with combined sewer overflow systems. (3 years)
Category: Urban Water Management
Washington, DC - $550,000
To support SGA's programs that promote the transition to next generation infrastructure within the United States. (2 years
)Category: Transportation Networks and Equitable Development Patterns
Oakland, CA - $65,000
To support equitable, clean energy transition by facilitating conversations among communities and organizations and resourcing project efforts. (1 year)
Category: Energy Efficiency in the Built Environment
Atlanta, GA - $370,000
General operating support for the growth of the Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance's Energy Equity working group and capacity to increase engagement with equity-focused advocacy groups in energy planning processes, and efforts in state, utility and regulatory energy efficiency policy. (2 years)
Category: Energy Efficiency in the Built Environment
Albany, GA - $56,000
To support a series of capacity building efforts to prepare the organization for operating a food hub and deepening its impact within the Southeast regional food economy. (1 year)
Category: Regional Food Supply
DC - $175,000
To support STAR Communities' efforts to strategically increase U.S. cities participation in and application of the rating system; and develop new standards and tools to improve access to data collection. (1.5 years)
Category: Integrated Infrastructure
Los Angeles, CA - $150,000
To support state level campaigns developed by the Miyako Network coordinated by long-standing Surdna grantees, Public Advocates and Urban Habitat to ensure equity is integrated into public policy. (2 years)
Category: Transportation Networks and Equitable Development Patterns
Philadelphia, PA - $300,000
To support the Sustainable Business Network's ongoing efforts to bolster the local economy in the Philadelphia region with a Green Stormwater Industry focus. (2 years)
Category: Urban Water Management
Seattle, WA - $525,000
To continue to support a statewide coalition in Washington to integrate equity and project performance metrics into transportation infrastructure decisions. (3 years)
Category: Transportation Networks and Equitable Development Patterns
San Francisco, CA - $400,000
To provide project support for the Climate-Smart Cities program. The program works with cities to integrate new green infrastructure tools that apply an equity lens to improve city decision-making processes and create a clear pathway for greater community leadership on stormwater issues. Work will primarily take place in New Orleans, LA and Richmond, CA and will inform how the Trust for Public Land's other 18 cities across the country could use the tool. (2 years)
Category: Urban Water Management
Little Rock, AR - $375,000
To support the Wallace Center's expansion of the National Good Food Network and build upon it through the development of a regional food economies working group, fellows program and strategic communications that expands the national dialogue to emphasize economic impact. (2 years)
Category: Regional Food Supply
Little Rock, AR - $150,000
For the Wallace Center to create a Community of Practice among the Food LINC Value Chain Coordinators (VCC), with a focus on developing a metrics collection program to determine the potential impact VCC can have on the viability of small food enterprises, including women and minority owned enterprises. (1 year)
Category: Regional Food Supply
Detroit, MI - $25,000
To engage a cohort of Detroit youth fellows to lead participatory action research into the state of Detroit Schools, with the goal of bringing marginalized youth voices into debates about the future of education. (1 year)
Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change
Atlanta, GA - $300,000
For general operating support to enable ROOTS to offer artists direct support through its Artistic Assistance programs; host its annual ROOTS Week meeting and artists' retreat for almost 250 artists; and host a series of regional gatherings, mini-retreats with workshops, performances and learning exchanges. (3 years)
Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change
Anchorage, AK - $150,000
To support living artists through offering contextual environments, providing artists with access to remote environments and giving voice to contemporary artists engaging in the Arctic at a time of great environmental and cultural change. (3 years)
Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change
Tempe, AZ - $250,000
To support CultureHub Phoenix, a prototype for a comprehensive strategy to cultivate, facilitate, measure and visualize new intersections between the arts, ASU, the city of Tempe, and the larger community. (2 years)
Category: Artists and Economic Development
Philadelphia, PA - $225,000
Support for its public programming that provides an inclusive gathering place for open conversation, and a platform for action and community change, as well as their civic initiatives such as the Social Practice Lab artists-in-residence and the Pearl Street Project. (3 years)
Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change
Los Angeles, CA - $100,000
To support field engagement and dissemination activities related to Expanding Investments in Creatives, a 12-month study of contemporary support systems and the creative ecosystem for American artists. (1 year)
Category: Artists and Economic Development
Brooklyn, NY - $225,000
To support CUP's core mission of collaborating on projects that demystify the urban policy issues that impact our communities, so that more individuals can participate in shaping them; and will allow CUP to create new partnerships outside NYC to reach new audiences and increase impact. (3 years)
Category: Community Engaged Design
Columbia, SC - $10,000
To support Indie Grits 2017: Visiones, a four-day festival of film, visual art, music, and more that will explore how Latino and Latin American film, culture, and arts are transforming the American South. (1 year)
Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change
Austin, TX - $50,000
To support Design Futures' long-term planning efforts as it expands to fully support its robust network of thought leaders and to maximize the impact of Design Futures on race and equity issues in the field. (1 year)
Category: Community Engaged Design
Oakland, CA - $50,000
To support the community engagement process in East Oakland, CA, to design a hub for restorative justice and community services that will heal and strengthen neighborhoods stressed by crime, disinvestment, and the threat of gentrification. (1 year)
Category: Community Engaged Design
New York, NY - $120,000
To support DCTV's PRO-TV program, which provides free media arts training and professional development to New York City teenagers and young adults. (27 months)
Category: Teens' Artistic and Cultural Advancement
Bronx, NY - $150,000
To support the DreamYard ACTION Project. (3 years)
Category: Teens' Artistic and Cultural Advancement
Roxbury, MA - $235,000
To support Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative (DSNI) and its partners to organize arts-focused community engagement activities for Dudley Cultural Village residents in concert with the development of the City of Boston's five-year strategic plan and related processes. (3 years)
Category: Community Engaged Design
New York, NY - $50,000
To support the Cause Collective's In Search of the Truth (Truth Booth) project to tour the United States in its search for answers to the statement, "The truth is...". (1 year)
Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change
Seattle, WA - $10,000
To support the 2015 Grantmakers in the Arts Annual Conference, particularly the racial equity program track. (1 year)
Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change
Brooklyn, NY - $100,000
To support the capstone Portfolio Development artmaking program for young people interested in creating portfolios of their artwork for college and scholarship applications. (2 years)
Category: Teens' Artistic and Cultural Advancement
Biloxi, MS - $150,000
To increase the resilience and equity of the Gulf Coast in the areas of land use, infrastructure and ecology by advancing the community engagement work of GCCDS. Specifically, Design Studio will: 1) initiate projects in advance of additional grant funding; 2) work on projects with community partners that do not have the financial means to completely cover our staff costs; and 3) share best practices and lessons learned with other communities and organizations information. (2 years)
Category: Community Engaged Design
New York, NY - $375,000
To support the ongoing growth and development of Hester Street Collaborative as a planning, design and development technical assistance and capacity building provider in New York City and nationwide. (3 years)
Category: Community Engaged Design
Los Angeles, CA - $250,000
To support JACCC's general programs and participation in Sustainable Little Tokyo, a community-driven initiative transforming Little Tokyo with a focus on economic, environmental and cultural/historic sustainability. (3 years)
Category: Community Engaged Design
Kyle, SD - $20,000
To support Native artists on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation by providing access to technical assistance, artist specific trainings, and access to capital for working capital, inventory, and equipment. (1 year)
Category: Artists and Economic Development
New York, NY - $40,000
To support the Kelly Street Initiative, an innovative creative community building program that embeds artists and engages cross-generational residents in nurturing, connecting to, and amplifying local creative assets. (1 year)
Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change
New York, NY - $190,000
To develop, synthesize, publish and disseminate knowledge about arts-based community development strategies and results in low-income communities, drawing on the experience of LISC's Creative Placemaking Initiative. (2 years)
Category: Artists and Economic Development
New York, NY - $90,000
To conduct activities that will help LMCC document, evaluate, and share the Arts East River Waterfront initiative with artists, partners, and other key stakeholders involved in building equitable and vibrant communities. (1 year)
Category: Community Engaged Design
Chicago, IL - $200,000
To support Marwen Lab, a year-long program which offers 30 students intensive training in each participant's chosen discipline, as well as regular studio critiques, artist statement workshops and college counseling. (3 years)
Category: Teens' Artistic and Cultural Advancement
Baltimore, MD - $600,000
To support the launch of a 10-year initiative to jumpstart an equitable creative economy in Baltimore and build the city's capacity to support creatives across racial, gender, generational, and disciplinary boundaries. (3 years)
Category: Artists and Economic Development
North Adams, MA - $150,000
To continue testing and developing our Assets for Artists toolkit as a strategy for creative place-making. (3 years)
Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change
Baltimore, MD - $25,000
To support The Contemporary's efforts to organize an Artist Retreat for practitioners in the Baltimore area. The four-day convening will focus on three principal areas: professional development, networking, and community building. (1 year)
Category: Artists and Economic Development
New Orleans, LA - $20,000
To support the Design as Protest workshop at the 2015 NOMA Conference. (1 year)
Category: Community Engaged Design
New Orleans, LA - $50,000
To strengthen the organizational capacity of NPN/VAN by conducting a successful leadership transition. (6 months)
Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change
New York, NY - $450,000
To fund Neighborhoods First Fund to support community engaged planning with grants to community-based organizations and resource allies working in neighborhoods targeted for rezoning or major development by Housing New York. (3 years)
Category: Community Engaged Design
Philadelphia, PA - $75,000
To support Next City's publishing of 18 pieces of in-depth, original reporting on the powerful role the design community and local residents can play in guiding socially impactful urban development. (9 months)
Category: Community Engaged Design
Minneapolis, MN - $225,000
To support three of Pangea World Theater's signature programs: 1) National Institute of Directing and Ensemble Creation, 2) Race, North and South on the Mississippi, and 3) Lake Street Arts!. (3 years)
Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change
Philadelphia, PA - $300,000
To further incorporate art and community design into PECCDC's core programming. Through this work the organization will broaden its use of the arts to advocate for social justice and promote equitable development. Specifically, PECCDC will: 1) host an ongoing artist residency program known as Time Exchange, in which 6 artists per year will each have 3 months of free access, organizational and financial support; and 2) implement several community designs and placemaking projects along the Lancaster Avenue corridor. (3 years)
Category: Community Engaged Design
Queens, NY - $300,000
To support the Queens Museum in providing opportunities for artists and cultural producers to address pressing social issues in our surrounding community and engage a broader public via art making, interpreting socially-engaged art projects, artists' residencies, public programs, and workshops. (3 years)
Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change
Chicago, IL - $225,000
To produce an array of programs for artists and residents to encourage a new narrative of and support fellowship, rejuvenation, and intellectual rigor for Chicago's South Side. (3 years)
Category: Artists and Economic Development
New York, NY - $100,000
To support the planning and development of USArtPartners, a new national collaboration between artists and other partners interested in social change. USArtPartners will make introductions, nurture connections, align systems, and curate a focused portfolio of five projects. (1 year)
Category: Artists and Economic Development
Memphis, TN - $50,000
To support the Stax Music Academy's (SMA) SNAP! Afterschool Senior Academy Program, serving students ages 13-18. (1 year)
Category: Teens' Artistic and Cultural Advancement
Tucson, AZ - $150,000
Funds are requested to strengthen the organizational capacity of Southwest Folklife Alliance to implement a strategic vision for scalable projects that support tradition bearers and build models of civic engagement cemented in heritage practices. (3 years)
Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change
Los Angeles, CA - $300,000
To support Native and Indigenous film storytellers, including emerging and established filmmakers creating feature films, short films, episodic content, and multimedia works. (3 years)
Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change
Porcupine, SD - $300,000
To support the planning and design for second phase of the Thunder Valley CDC Regenerative Community Development. Community input with a focus on the engagement of local artists will inform how the spaces are designed and programmed. (3 years)
Category: Community Engaged Design
Philadelphia, PA - $125,000
To complete the Social Impact of the Arts Project study of Social Wellbeing, Neighborhood Transformation, and the Arts. (16 months)
Category: Artists and Economic Development
New Orleans, LA - $120,000
To support the development of two new program streams identified as part of Tulane City Center's strategic planning process. (1 year)
Category: Community Engaged Design
Chicago, IL - $60,000
For the annual USA Artists Assembly in 2016 & 2017, which provides opportunities for artists to engage with national and local arts leaders and fellow artists in discussions addressing professional issues, innovative ideas, and collaborations. (2 years)
Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change
La Jolla, CA - $150,000
To advance a community design process that will result in a masterplan to further develop the UCSD EarthLab Community Station, a 4-acre outdoor environmental classroom and cultural space in the diverse, underserved neighborhoods of Encanto. (2 years)
Category: Community Engaged Design
Detroit, MI - $225,000
To assist the DCDC to foster community collaborations and participatory community design with urban neighborhoods and communities that are often ignored or left out of the decision-making process. (3 years)
Category: Community Engaged Design
Albuquerque, NM - $100,000
Support for faculty, students and professionals to work with tribes in Indigenous community-engaged design and planning, and to implement a long-range plan for sustained funding. (1 year)
Category: Community Engaged Design
Santa Ana, CA - $240,000
To build artistic services for teens by: 1) adding core dance classes to meet growing demand created by higher retention rates; 2) creating new performance opportunities for teens at venues such as the REDCAT in downtown Los Angeles; 3) developing a master artist in residence program that will connect teens to dance by prominent choreographers as it is being developed; and 4) adding multidisciplinary artistic programs, such as documentary film, to deepen and broaden participants' exploration of personal and cultural identity. (3 years)
Category: Teens' Artistic and Cultural Advancement
San Francisco, CA - $150,000
To support CultureBank, a new model for investing capital and returning value to investors, utilizing both financial and non-financial assets to invest in culture-shifting creative entrepreneurs and their enterprises. (1 year)
Category: Artists and Economic Development
Chicago, IL - $225,000
To support Public Workshops, free year-round writing classes at YCA, and Crossing the Street, a youth poetry symposium. (3 years)
Category: Teens' Artistic and Cultural Advancement
Detroit, MI - $150,000
To support Young Nation's community engagement activities related to the design and implementation of its new building, currently under renovation. (3 years)
Category: Community Engaged Design
Washington, DC - $50,000
General operating support. (2 years)
Washington, DC - $50,000
General operating support. (2 years)
Cambridge, MA - $50,000
General operating support. (2 years)
New York, NY - $70,000
General operating support. (2 years)
New York, NY - $50,000
General operating support. (2 years)
Washington, DC - $50,000
General operating support. (2 years)
Washington, DC - $15,000
To provide support for the National Center for Family Philanthropy's upcoming national conference. (1 year)
Category: Capacity and Infrastructure
Washington, DC - $140,000
General operating support. (2 years)
San Francisco, CA - $50,000
To provide core support to advance the development of TechSoup's Cooperative Technology Platform (CTP), which aims to better equip nonprofits in the US and worldwide with technology and other resources to advance their work. (2 years)
Los Angeles, CA - $1,000
For a program acknowledgement to honor Gwen Walden who is receiving the 2016 BCC Humanitarian Award. (1 year)
Category: Presidential Fund
New York, NY - $400,000
To provide general operating support for CSI to build its capacity and regional presence. (2 years)
Category: Flexible Grantmaking Fund
New York, NY - $500
General operating support in lieu of an honorarium for Maya Wiley's participation in Surdna's Learning Lab. (1 year)
Category: Presidential Fund
Dubuque, IA - $65,000
To support Inclusive Dubuque, a network of leaders and community members committed to advancing equity in Dubuque. (1 year)
Category: Other
Washington, DC - $30,000
To support two New Venture Fund projects, the Climate Education Fund and the Inclusive Economy Fund. (1 year)
Category: Other
Baton Rouge, LA - $25,000
To support Fulfilling the Promise: Charting a Path Beyond Katrina at 10, a convening of philanthropic leaders and policymakers to reflect on lessons learned and the role of philanthropy and the public sector in the recovery of the region. (6 months)
Category: New Orleans Fund
New Orleans, LA - $80,000
To support GNOFN, which was created to inspire and support philanthropic investment in the greater New Orleans region, to attract and optimize resources that maximize impact for the future of the community and develop models for communities around the world. (2 years)
Category: New Orleans Fund
Oakland, CA - $50,000
To support The Movement for Black Lives' national convening in July 2015 in Cleveland, OH. (1 year)
Category: Other
Brooklyn, NY - $170,000
To build online technology resources to scale for broader use by community-based organizations. (1 year)
Category: Flexible Grantmaking Fund
New Orleans, LA - $140,000
To support the work of the Power Coalition, a New Orleans focused collaboration to address community engagement and resident power through a network of local NOLA organizations. (18 months)
Category: New Orleans Fund
Cambridge, MA - $20,000
To support the Initiative for Responsible Investment's project and the Trustee Leadership Forum for Retirement Security, which works with labor unions and pension trustees on issues of responsible investment and leadership. (1 year)
Category: Flexible Grantmaking Fund
Chicago, IL - $60,000
To support the production and launch of a multi-media national initiative, Working in America, including a photo exhibition in partnership with American Libraries, a radio series broadcast on NPR, and an online community of narratives. (1 year)
Category: Flexible Grantmaking Fund
Atlanta, GA - $50,000
To support the actions and organizing for Katrina 10 commemorations in New Orleans, Louisiana. (1 year)
Category: New Orleans Fund
New York, NY - $30,000
To support Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisor's Theory of the Foundation Initiative, which is modeled after Peter Drucker's article The Theory of Business. The initiative's purpose is to help foundation leadership think about their organizations as institutions that can help create lasting change by developing self-assessment tools that allow foundations to get smarter about their work. (1 year)
Category: Presidential Fund
Washington, DC - $35,000
To support the initial launch and development of AndACTION, a project aimed at connecting cause organizations (groups working to create social change) to upcoming film and TV storylines that are relevant to their work. (1 year)
Category: Presidential Fund
San Francisco, CA - $150,000
General support for the development and dissemination of sustainability accounting standards to improve disclosure, resulting in better environmental, social and governance outcomes for society. (1 year)
Category: Flexible Grantmaking Fund