Surdna Foundation
2017 Year in Review
Surdna Foundation
Washington, DC - $125,000
General operating support, which includes support for The American Prospect's Writing Fellows Program. (1 year)
Category: Equitable Economic Development
Category: Job Quality and Career Pathways
Washington, DC - $100,000
To support the Aspen Institute Forum on Latino Business Growth, a 3-day gathering that will bring together 28 leaders and practitioners from across sectors and disciplines to grapple with and generate ideas for high-impact interventions that will help stakeholders overcome obstacles to scaling Latino owned businesses. (1 year)
Category: Business Development and Acceleration
Baltimore, MD - $150,000
To support the creation of economic opportunities for Baltimore City residents through anchor institution economic inclusion strategies. (1 year)
Category: Equitable Economic Development
Wayne. PA - $250,000
To support the Best for NYC, a free, online tool to help business owners compare their business's impact on NYC workers, communities, and the environment against 8,000+ businesses and provides free resources to improve impact and rollout of Best for campaigns nationally; and the Future of Work Initiative. (2 years)
Category: Business Development and Acceleration
New Orleans, LA - $75,000
To launch a pilot cohort that will focus on developing entrepreneurs in New Orleans to create more good jobs, particularly for women of color. (1 year)
Category: Business Development and Acceleration
New Brunswick, NJ - $200,000
To support the Center for Innovation in Worker Organization's Co-Enforcement and Building the Bench projects. (2 years)
Category: Job Quality and Career Pathways
Chicago, IL - $250,000
To continue to build the momentum of Chicago United's Five Forward Initiative by accelerating the growth of selected minority businesses, strengthening the local economy and creating quality jobs. (2 years)
Category: Business Development and Acceleration
Cincinnati, OH - $300,000
To support the Minority Business Accelerator (MBA)'s vision of becoming a national leader in Minority Business Enterprise (MBE) development by optimizing the growth of its portfolio companies; building a high-growth MBE pipeline; and advancing a national replication strategy. (2 years)
Category: Business Development and Acceleration
Memphis, TN - $550,000
To support the continuation of the Neighborhood Economic Opportunities initiative, which connects resource-poor Memphis neighborhoods to policy, incentives, and capital for equitable business development and acceleration and the Slim's Front Loan pilot program. (3 years)
Category: Business Development and Acceleration
New York, NY - $75,000
To support Neighborhood Leadership - a public/private partnership with the New York City Department of Small Business Services - that develops the skills and networks of leaders who are improving New York City's commercial corridors and Business Improvement Districts with a focus on low- and moderate-income communities. (1 year)
Category: Equitable Economic Development
Cleveland, OH - $450,000
To build community wealth by expanding employee ownership, creating a learning/collaboration network of health system anchor institutions, and launching a decade-long multi-prong agenda to create a next system rooted in democratic ownership. (3 years)
Category: Business Development and Acceleration
Atlanta, GA - $150,000
Program support to the BIG Accelerator program, a 26-week incubator program for black and Latina women tech entrepreneurs located in downtown Atlanta. (1 year)
Category: Business Development and Acceleration
Watertown, MA - $75,000
To support the post-production and communications campaign for Councilwoman, a documentary feature film about a Dominican hotel housekeeper who sits on the City Council in Providence, RI and advocates for low-income workers. (1 year)
Category: Equitable Economic Development
Seattle, WA - $60,000
To establish a co-enforcement model of labor standards enforcement in Seattle, WA by bringing together stakeholders from government, worker organizations and business interests to build a culture of compliance with labor standards. (1 year)
Category: Job Quality and Career Pathways
Washington, DC - $600,000
General operating support as Good Jobs First continues to advance equitable economic development policies and practices across the country. (3 years)
Category: Equitable Economic Development
Washington, DC - $75,000
To support the augmentation of Good Jobs First's Violation Tracker database with workplace fairness and employment discrimination data. Violation Tracker, unveiled in October 2015, is the first national search engine on corporate misconduct. (1 year)
Category: Equitable Economic Development
New Orleans LA - $180,000
To assist Good Work Network in its development of strategic, market-driven technical assistance and policy-based advocacy. The goal is to increase the stability and growth of diverse small businesses and promote creation of higher-profit minority businesses. This grant also supports Good Work Network's efforts to develop a mini management program for artists and to strengthen the ecosystem of support for artists/art based businesses. (18 months)
Category: Business Development and Acceleration
Oakland, CA - $100,000
To advance diverse business growth and the creation of quality jobs for people of color by pursuing a multi-sector supplier diversity strategy. (1 year)
Category: Business Development and Acceleration
Oakland, CA - $300,000
General operating support to advance the creation and retention of good jobs by helping entrepreneurs to become good employers and investing in the capacity of ICA Fund Good Jobs to scale impact beyond the Bay Area. (2 years)
Category: Business Development and Acceleration
Boston, MA - $250,000
To further develop Interise's StreetWise 'MBA' curriculum elements focused on anchor procurement and to develop and scale Interise's Capacity, Contracts and Capital Collaborative (C3). (2 years)
Category: Business Development and Acceleration
Memphis, TN - $200,000
To support MLK50, a series of events and projects commemorating the 50th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s assassination and to support the Justice through Journalism project. (1 year)
Category: Equitable Economic Development
Baruch College, New York, NY - $100,000
To produce a series of policy briefings on issues of employment, labor markets and community economic development; small- and medium-sized local business infrastructure; and trends in income, poverty and inequality by race\ethnicity\national origin in New York City. (1 year)
Category: Equitable Economic Development
San Antonio, TX -$525,000
To support the ongoing performance of an innovative consortium of non-profit small business lenders and to disseminate best practices, research and policy proposals for opening access to capital for low- and moderate-income Latino and immigrant business owners. (3 years)
Category: Business Development and Acceleration
Raleigh, NC - $50,000
To support the Working While Black (WWB) campaign, a 12-month strategic communications and organizing campaign designed to articulate, capture and communicate the experiences, challenges, aspirations and achievements of Black workers. (1 year)
Category: Job Quality and Career Pathways
St. Paul, MN - $150,000
To support the 4th cohort of the Twin Cities Boards and Commissions Leadership Institute (BCLI), further strengthen BCLI's alumni network and develop a sustainability plan for the program. (1 year)
Category: Equitable Economic Development
New York, NY - $170,000
To provide state and local elected officials with leadership training, skills building, and networking opportunities. The grant will also support the completion of a documentary film on a trailblazing legislator and related impact campaign. (1 year)
Category: Equitable Economic Development
New Orleans, LA - $150,000
To aid in the development of the New Orleans Black Mardi Gras Indian Co-Op to create opportunities for the Black masking Indians to monetize their trade through the sale of their suits and other items produced by co-op members. (1 year)
Category: Business Development and Acceleration
New York, NY - $150,000
To support the New York City Fund for Girls and Young Women of Color. (2 years)
Category: Job Quality and Career Pathways
Philadelphia, PA - $750,000
To support a journalism fellowship for writers of color and general operations for Next City's editorial team. The grant will allow Next City to continue offering its Equitable Cities Fellowship and publish reporting on community-engaged design and infrastructure. (3 years)
Category: Equitable Economic Development
New Orleans, LA - $125,000
To develop a new Equity Index to specifically inform public dialogue around the history and future of New Orleans as it relates to race and equity, examining the current and historic drivers of inequity. (16 months)
Category: Equitable Economic Development
Oakland, CA - $100,000
General operating support to help strengthen PolicyLink's capacity and build financial reserves through the Reserve and Growth fund which will also help PolicyLink weather funding fluctuations and respond rapidly to urgent issues. (1 year)
Category: Equitable Economic Development
Chicago, IL - $150,000
General operating support for education, training, and advocacy to improve job quality for Chicago's low-wage workers, addressing on wage theft, racial unity "Know Your Rights" training, and anti-retaliation advocacy. (1 year)
Category: Job Quality and Career Pathways
Jersey City, NJ - $100,000
To advance the work of creating an anchor table in Jersey City, NJ and supporting a more developed anchor table in Newark, NJ as part of a broader collective impact initiative to build more inclusive, resilient and healthy local economies in the communities where Rising Tide Entrepreneurs live and work. (1 year)
Category: Business Development and Acceleration
Oakland, CA - $125,000
To provide capacity building for three of Surdna's Strong Local Economies grantee partners, as well as provide crisis response training to Surdna grantees. (1 year)
Category: Job Quality and Career Pathways
New Orleans, LA - $75,000
To provide impact accelerator and racial equity training to help build an equitable business ecosystem in New Orleans. (1 year)
Category: Business Development and Acceleration
Brooklyn, NY - $250,000
To advance research, thought-leadership and coalition-building on manufacturing policy and its relationship to the equity imperative under the auspices of Urban Manufacturing Alliance's new Equity Community of Practice. (2 years)
Category: Equitable Economic Development
Chicago, IL - $150,000
To enable Chicago Anchors for a Strong Economy (CASE), a program of World Business Chicago, to increase its supplier matchmaking and support offered to anchor partners. (1 year)
Category: Equitable Economic Development
Minneapolis, MN - $150,000
To support the Blue Green Alliance Foundation's joint work with Jobs to Move America (JMA) to advance the implementation of the U.S. Employment Plan to enhance quality job creation and environmental outcomes in the next generation of transit infrastructure. (2 years)
Category: Transportation Networks and Equitable Development Patterns
Chicago, IL - $525,000
To support the next phase of RainReady Program, a multi-year approach for developing and scaling-up cost effective green infrastructure and property retrofit strategies that alleviate urban flooding. (2 years)
Category: Urban Water Management
Brooklyn, NY - $200,000
To support Local Progress, the national network of progressive municipal elected officials, as it builds organizational capacity around: campaigns, communications, research, training, and fundraising. (1 year)
Category: Integrated Infrastructure
Madison, WI - $300,000
To provide project support to the Center on Wisconsin Strategy to coordinate and implement the Mayors Innovation Project. (2 years)
Category: Integrated Infrastructure
MA - $75,000
To support the use of capital to finance green infrastructure through the creation of a credible bond market for green projects and by leveraging influence with institutional investors, capital markets and water utilities. (1 year)
Category: Integrated Infrastructure
Montpelier, VT - $200,000
To support the Resilient Power Project which creates a market for clean, reliable, distributed energy systems in low-wealth communities by developing new tools and ownership models for communities. (2 years)
Category: Just Energy: Shifting Power to People
Washington, DC - $500,000
To support the refinement of Climate Interactive's Green Infrastructure Decision Support (GIDS) tool and replicate its application in Atlanta, GA. (2 years)
Category: Urban Water Management
To support the Climate Justice Alliance to demand bold government and industry action that responds to frontline grassroots organizing around environmental and economic needs and confronts the root causes of climate change. (3 years)
Category: Just Energy: Shifting Power to People
Portland, OR - $195,000
General operating support to continue EcoDistricts' acceleration of neighborhood-scale sustainability and community resiliency in coordination with city level infrastructure investment, community development and asset building ($145,000), and for regranting to five EcoDistricts ($50,000). (1 year)
Category: Integrated Infrastructure
Washington, DC - $300,000
To support Emerald Cities Collaborative (ECC) high road implementation tools in six cities with a focus on building community-based energy and water infrastructure projects in key markets. (18 months)
Category: Just Energy: Shifting Power to People
Washington, DC - $35,000
To support efforts for low- and moderate-income homeowners to access energy efficiency loan products without undue financial burden. (1 year)
Category: Just Energy: Shifting Power to People
Washington, DC - $150,000
General operating support to enable the Eno Center for Transportation to provide research, policy development and technical assistance expertise to the public and private sector at the state and city levels, in service of sustaining transformative equitable and sustainable transportation policies. (2 years)
Category: Transportation Networks and Equitable Development Patterns
Ann Arbor, MI - $150,000
To build the capacity of Fair Food Network's Fair Food Fund program to provide financing and business assistance to food entrepreneurs growing a sustainable, regional food system in the Northeastern United States. (2 years)
Category: Regional Food Supply
Baton Rouge, LA - $150,000
To support the Foundation for Louisiana and its partners to develop a community led process to co-design and inform the resilience strategies for Louisiana's coastal parishes. (2 years)
Category: Urban Water Management
Coral Gables, FL - $400,000
To support seven areas of work: PLACES fellowship program; Stormwater Funders' Group; GREEN! Funder Working Group; Anchor Institutions Funders' Group; Restoring Prosperity in Older Industrial Cities Funder Working Group; 2017 Annual Conference; and federal transition efforts to ensure that federal programs and policies result in more just, sustainable, and inclusive communities and economies. (2 years)
Category: Integrated Infrastructure
Chicago, IL - $1,000
,000To support enhanced learning, collaboration and action among local governments to accelerate advancements in urban sustainability and social equity. (3 years)
Category: Integrated Infrastructure
North Miami, FL - $225,000
General operating support. (3 years)
Category: Just Energy: Shifting Power to People
Philadelphia, PA - $200,000
To support ongoing activities of the Green Infrastructure Leadership Exchange, a city-to-city practitioner network and information center that seeks to accelerate research, innovation and implementation around green stormwater infrastructure. (2 years)
Category: Urban Water Management
St. Paul, MN - $225,000
To support ISAIAH and Neighborhoods Organizing for Change (NOC) to build a Midwestern regional strategy grounded in state-based power building organizations for a fair economy, sustainable environmental policies, and racial equity. (1 year)
Category: Integrated Infrastructure
London, KY - $300,000
To support the New Energy and Transition (NET) program, an ambitious set of strategies and campaigns designed to shape and speed a just transition to a new economy, powered by clean energy. (2 years)
Category: Just Energy: Shifting Power to People
Los Angeles, CA - $300,000
To support the Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy's research of Los Angeles County's watershed management needs and advocate for green water infrastructure solutions that promote drought adaption, quality jobs and environmental and community benefits. (3 years)
Category: Urban Water Management
Dillon, CO - $50,000
To enable AGree to: support education and advocacy for local/regional food systems and urban agriculture programs and investments; and positively influence immigration policy for the food and agriculture sector. (1 year)
Category: Regional Food Supply
Oakland, CA - $300,000
To support the Movement Strategy Center (MSC) to build its national Transitions Initiative which provides technical assistance, coaching investments and capacity building tools to local organizations while informing MSC's field building efforts to support Just Transition strategies across the US. (3 years)
Category: Just Energy: Shifting Power to People
Brooklyn, NY - $200,000
To formalize New York Energy Democracy Alliance's organizational infrastructure and support its efforts to advance a just and participatory transition to a resilient, localized, and democratically controlled clean energy economy in New York State. (2 years)
Category: Just Energy: Shifting Power to People
Brooklyn, NY - $75,000
To support the New York Energy Democracy Alliance's CoShare working group. CoShare working group members will raise funding to build community owned or controlled solar projects that are accessible to low-income communities and communities of color. (1 year)
Category: Just Energy: Shifting Power to People
Seattle, WA - $50,000
To build, in partnership with a core set of cross-sector allies, a long-term power-building strategy in Washington State grounded in a commitment to long-term organizing. (1 year)
Category: Integrated Infrastructure
Oakland, CA - $170,000
To provide support to build the internal capacity of In the Public Interests, a program of the Partnership for Working Families, to educate advocates and policy makers of the implications of infrastructure policy and project proposals and advocate for and secure economic, community and environmental outcomes in major infrastructure investments. (2 years)
Category: Integrated Infrastructure
Chicago, IL - $300,000
To support People's Action Institute's Climate Justice program; deepening organizing activities and running climate justice campaigns that center around the interest of working class people and communities of color. (3 years)
Category: Just Energy: Shifting Power to People
Bronx, NY - $300,000
To support The POINT's continued implementation of the South Bronx Community Resiliency Agenda (SBCRA). The SBCRA seeks to build power among residents, stakeholders, business owners and decision-makers while advancing a comprehensive community-led environmental and social resiliency plan. (3 years)
Category: Just Energy: Shifting Power to People
Philadelphia, PA - $20,000
To support local and national dissemination of the report, The Supply Chain Matrix: A Prospective Study of The Spatial and Economic Connections within New England's Meat Industry. (1 year)
Category: Regional Food Supply
New York, NY - $75,000
To support the Just Transition Fund (JTF), a philanthropic pooled fund initiative housed at the Rockefeller Family Fund. The JTF supports frontline coalfield and power plant communities as they make a just transition away from coal. (1 year)
Category: Just Energy: Shifting Power to People
San Francisco, CA - $100,000
Category: Regional Food Supply
Oakland, CA - $450,000
To support the Solutions Project's continued efforts to strengthen the ecosystem of clean energy advocates and to provide direct, rapid response grants to frontline leaders in key movement moments through the Fighter Fund. (3 years)
Category: Just Energy: Shifting Power to People
Sonoma, CA - $125,000
To support the general capacity building and organizational infrastructure necessary to grow the production capacity of the Southeast African American Farmers' Organic Network and to provide training that enhances the knowledge of individual members. (2 years)
Category: Regional Food Supply
Albany, GA - $225,000
To improve the capacity of under-served farmers to strengthen value chain linkages by providing training, education and increasing opportunities. (3 years)
Category: Regional Food Supply
Portland, OR - $75,000
To support the STAR Communities' national sustainability rating system that improves sustainability conditions in U.S. cities and counties. (1 year)
Category: Integrated Infrastructure
Lawrenceville, NJ - $280,000
To support Sustainable Jersey (SJ) to build sustainable and equitable communities by deploying data tracking systems that measure impacts to guide the development of emergent best practices. (2 years)
Category: Integrated Infrastructure
Washington, DC - $10,000
To support scholarships for grassroots organizations to attend the Transportation for America biennial state transportation Capital Ideas II conference in Sacramento, CA. (1 year)
Category: Transportation Networks and Equitable Development Patterns
Washington, DC - $250,000
To enhance Transportation for America's efforts to build capacity at the local level to advance more sustainable and equitable transportation policies and to drive policy change at the local, state, and federal levels. (1 year)
Category: Transportation Networks and Equitable Development Patterns
Washington, DC - $200,000
To provide grassroots and frontline members with the resources to engage in relationship building and priority-setting aspects of the US Climate Action Network's new strategic plan. (2 years)
Category: Just Energy: Shifting Power to People
Little Rock, AR - $150,000
To support the Wallace Center's creation of equitable, economically viable community-based food systems through a Community of Practice in concert with USDA's Food LINC Initiative, and to raise awareness of this work among stakeholders. (1 year)
Category: Regional Food Supply
New York, NY - $75,000
To support a partnership between The Working World and Cooperative Energy Futures to design a new mechanism for funding cooperatively-run, community-owned solar power. (1 year)
Category: Just Energy: Shifting Power to People
New Orleans, LA - $225,000
To support The Albert Jr. and Tina Small Center for Collaborative Design so that it can continue to positively impact the people and places of New Orleans through its award winning public interest design programs. (3 years)
Category: Community Engaged Design
Fresno, CA - $200,000
To support Alliance for California Traditional Arts' Living Cultures Grants Program, which provides grants to small and mid-sized organizations to sustain communities that foster traditional arts transmission, engagement, and sustainability in California. (2 years)
Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change
Detroit, MI - $75,000
To support the production of a collection of essays that look deeply at Detroit as a way to also look at the current national landscape. (1 year)
Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change
San Francisco, CA - $75,000
To provide scholarship assistance to low-income students of color in LINES Ballet Summer Program. (1 year)
Category: Teens' Artistic and Cultural Advancement
New York, NY - $100,000
To support (is)land / in-land PROMESA's - a project by artist Miguel Luciano that addresses the social, political and economic crisis in Puerto Rico and its impact on mainland Puerto Rican communities in the U.S. (2 years)
Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change
Boston, MA - $50,000
To support Community Curators, a program that engages Boston curators to envision and produce events in ArtsEmerson's downtown spaces. (2 years)
Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change
New York, NY - $200,000
To support three projects to incubate excellent artists of Asian American, immigrant, and Muslim descent and to engage communities of color with aesthetically rigorous cultural practice: 1) an online magazine, The Margins, and the Margins Fellowship; 2) an online editorial initiative, Open City, and the Open City Fellowships for immigrants and Muslim writers; and 3) a new prize in which Asian American Writers' Workshop and Simon & Schuster will publish the first novel by an Asian American writer anywhere in the U.S. (2 years)
Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change
Norfolk, VA - $150,000
To support the research on racial justice and social equity in community-engaged design practice, with the goal of building the capacity of design professionals to use their work to fight systemic racism and refine practices in designing for equitable outcomes in the built environment. (2 years)
Category: Community Engaged Design
Oakland, CA - $150,000
General operating support for AXIS Dance Company's artistic, engagement, and advocacy programming that will increase visibility, inclusion, and equity for people with disabilities in dance. (2 years)
Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change
Brooklyn, NY - $100,000
To support Dancing While Black (DWB), a program which will offer a fellowship for 14 artists, create a journal, and convene a series of dialogues, all of which will fortify the field of Black contemporary dance. (2 years)
Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change
Dallas, TX - $25,000
To support the Association for Community Design's 40th annual conference and the affiliated Racial Justice + Design Summit. (6 months)
Category: Community Engaged Design
Dallas, TX - $225,000
General operating support. (3 years)
Category: Community Engaged Design
Los Angeles, CA - $100,000
To support the Center for Cultural Innovation as it develops strategies to advance the recommendations of its 2016 report, Creativity Connects: Trends and Conditions Affecting U.S. Artists. (1 year)
Category: Artists and Economic Development
Yonkers, NY - $40,000
To support the Highland Hill Project, a community planning/design and organizing initiative aimed at creating opportunity, and empowering community members. (1 year)
Category: Community Engaged Design
Clinton, MS - $80,000
To support programming and design processes to inform the development of the Mississippi Center for Cultural Production, a cultural center that celebrates the agricultural and cultural products of Mississippi. (1 year)
Category: Artists and Economic Development
Savannah, GA - $50,000
To support Deep Center's River Writes project within the Block by Block program to engage community, artists, and adult and youth writers in documenting, celebrating, and advocating for Savannah's long-oppressed and rapidly disappearing Gullah-Geechee coastal communities. (1 year)
Category: Community Engaged Design
Oakland, CA - $300,000
To support the Concept Development Fund at Designing Justice Designing Spaces (DJDS), which will provide research and development capital to support the design of new processes, building types, tools, spaces, and financial models that are of high impact to DJDS's restorative justice/economics partners and clients. (3 years)
Category: Community Engaged Design
New Orleans, LA - $450,000
To support Efforts of Grace and the Ashé Cultural Arts Center's work to improve the quality of life, the economic standing, and the widening of opportunities for residents of New Orleans, specifically along the O.C. Haley Boulevard Cultural Corridor of Central City, where the organization is a pivotal actor in the efforts to rebuild and rebrand the neighborhood as a place distinguished by Community, Culture and Commerce. (3 years)
Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change
Philadelphia, PA - $200,000
To support the Enterprise Center's Philly Foods Innovation Marketplace efforts to create $1M in opportunities and contracts for culinary artists and small business owners in Philadelphia's food industry. (1 year)
Category: Artists and Economic Development
Columbia, MD - $250,000
To deepen diversity and equity as a core consideration of the programs led by Enterprise's National Design Initiatives, including through curriculum, events, tools, and the Rose Fellowship Program. (3 years)
Category: Community Engaged Design
Rapid City, SD - $600,000
To support capacity-building of Native community development financial institutions, their partners and community-based Native artists to establish and play leadership roles in building local creative economies through a number of arts endeavors. First Peoples Fund (FPF) will also build its own capacity, systems, tools and resources to more effectively work with these organizations and Native artists toward a common goal of increasing economic opportunity at the individual and community levels. (3 years)
Category: Artists and Economic Development
Burlington, VT - $160,000
To support three areas: animating conversations with artists and community catalysts; community engagement and access; and professional development on inclusion and diversity with multiple internal constituencies. (2 years)
Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change
Baton Rouge, LA - $200,000
To support Phase I of the Claiborne Corridor Cultural Innovation District in New Orleans, a project that seeks to reclaim underutilized space for community economic development, cultural preservation, and recreation uses along a corridor that has shouldered the effects of disinvestment and inequitable development practices. (1 year)
Category: Artists and Economic Development
Baton Rouge, LA - $200,000
To support loan loss reserves for the Creative Placemaking Fund and general operating expenses related to arts and culture in Louisiana. (2 years)
Category: Artists and Economic Development
Seattle, WA - $25,000
To support of the 2017 Grantmakers in the Arts conference in Detroit, MI. (10 months)
Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change
Los Angeles, CA - $500,000
To support the Heart of Los Angeles Youth (HOLA)'s Visual Arts Department in its efforts to provide quality arts education to youth with the fewest resources, while supporting HOLA's mission of increasing its overall community impact. (3 years)
Category: Teens' Artistic and Cultural Advancement
Brooklyn, NY - $300,000
To support the Youth Ensemble and the Rights of Passage programs for youth of African descent. (3 years)
Category: Teens' Artistic and Cultural Advancement
New Orleans, LA - $150,000
To support Junebug Productions' focus on producing projects/events and deepening relationships in the Treme neighborhood as Junebug Productions transitions to new space at the Bell School ArtSpace; and for restructuring the staffing of the organization. (2 years)
Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change
Minneapolis, MN - $550,000
To support the development of JXTALab which employs low income youth, connects them to college & careers and helps them implement business plans. (3 years)
Category: Teens' Artistic and Cultural Advancement
San Francisco, CA - $100,000
To continue Kiva's work in connecting and supporting traditionally underserved small business owners in the arts and culture sector with Kiva's crowdfunded, 0%-interest capital, made available on its web-based platform, Kiva.org. (1 year)
Category: Artists and Economic Development
Los Angeles, CA - $350,000
General operating support. (3 years)
Category: Community Engaged Design
New York, NY - $150,000
General operating support. (2 years)
Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change
Minneapolis, MN - $75,000
To support the Loft Literary Center's artists' programs. (2 years)
Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change
San Pablo, CA - $150,000
To support hands-on cultural arts immersion training for Latino teens built on role modeling and mentorship. (3 years)
Category: Teens' Artistic and Cultural Advancement
Boston, MA - $150,000
To support Artward Bound, MassArt's four-year college preparatory program. (2 years)
Category: Teens' Artistic and Cultural Advancement
Cambridge, MA - $225,000
To bring together the planning and design disciplines to create a suite of aesthetic tools to support community organizing and advocacy efforts around displacement and gentrification in Boston and the Bronx. (27 months)
Category: Community Engaged Design
San Antonio, TX - $300,000
To support the Latino arts field through the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture (NALAC) Fund for the Arts, leadership institutes and convenings, and to optimize NALAC's programs and strengthen its infrastructure and future succession planning. (2 years)
Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change
New Orleans, LA - $60,000
To support the second phase of the Spiritual Technologies Project, which seeks to generate, document, and transmit performative practices that unify and shape individuals and groups of people. (2 years)
Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change
New Orleans, LA - $225,000
To create an equitable model for the publishing of collaborative ethnographies that tell the stories of art, music, ritual, and activism in New Orleans. (3 years)
Category: Artists and Economic Development
Minneapolis, MN - $150,000
To provide capital and a support program for 20 arts/community focused nonprofits to strengthen the organizations' financial health, capacity and ability to be effective community leaders and agents of change. (2 years)
Category: Artists and Economic Development
Saint Paul, MN - $300,000
To support the Summer Institute, Penumbra Theatre Company's artistic and leadership training program for teens. (3 years)
Category: Teens' Artistic and Cultural Advancement
Douglas, AK - $50,000
To commission five diverse writers to author plays, with support from dramaturges, directors, and actors, to showcase the value of new voices and the impact of theatre in Alaskan communities. (2 years)
Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change
Houston, TX - $300,000
To support Project Row Houses' (PRH) Public Art program; and the community revitalization and development work of the Emancipation Economic Development Council (EEDC). (2 years)
Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change
Philadelphia, PA - $450,000
To support planning and early implementation for community engagement and capacity building efforts for Rebuilding Community Infrastructure, a $500 million program to revitalize neighborhood parks, recreation centers, and libraries in Philadelphia. (3 years)
Category: Community Engaged Design
Los Angeles, CA - $250,000
To support CODA21, a pilot initiative lead by the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA with participating scientists and designers from campus research centers including Silvalab; Hakwan Lau's Consciousness & Metacognition Lab; and the Design Media Arts Lab. (2 years)
Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change
New Orleans, LA - $150,000
To provide general operating support for Roots of Music to provide free, year-round, after-school music education and mentoring to students from low-income households throughout New Orleans. (3 years)
Category: Teens' Artistic and Cultural Advancement
Memphis, TN - $100,000
To support the Stax Music Academy's SNAP! Afterschool Senior Academy Program, serving students ages 13-18. (2 years)
Category: Teens' Artistic and Cultural Advancement
Saint Paul, MN - $750,000
To develop a new set of programs and tools that increase economic opportunities for artist-run businesses. (3 years)
Category: Artists and Economic Development
Bloomington, IN - $40,000
To enable the Strategic National Arts Alumni Project (SNAAP) to undertake research and strategic planning for its future course, given changing circumstances and increasing spheres of interest in SNAAP's data. (1 year)
Category: Teens' Artistic and Cultural Advancement
Brooklyn, NY - $200,000
General operating support for Urban Bush Women's dance performance, artist development, education and community engagement work. (2 years)
Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change
Albuquerque, NM - $225,000
General operating support for the Indigenous Design and Planning Institute. (3 years)
Category: Community Engaged Design
Charlottesville, VA - $125,000
To develop a social impact study template for housing (re)development that is holistic; grounded in evidence-based research; participatory and equity-focused; and actionable by a variety of key decision makers. (2 years)
Category: Community Engaged Design
New York, NY - $225,000
To support the National Youth Poet Laureate, the only program of its kind that celebrates the intersection of artistic achievement and social justice. Urban Word will expand the program to 50+ cities and enhance the curriculum. (3 years)
Category: Teens' Artistic and Cultural Advancement
Minneapolis, MN - $80,000
To support the Walker Art Center's Teen Programs which facilitate youth arts skills development, self-expression and criticality with respect to the social issues that intersect with art. (1.5 years)
Category: Teens' Artistic and Cultural Advancement
Albuquerque, NM - $100,000
General operating support. (2 years)
Category: Teens' Artistic and Cultural Advancement
San Francisco, CA - $150,000
To support The Creative Ecosystem, a cultural incubator for community-driven and artist-led change. (2 years)
Category: Artists Engaging in Social Change
San Francisco, CA - $200,000
To support CultureBank, a new model for social impact investing that converts financial and non-financial assets into capital to invest in the enterprises of artists and arts organizations, which have a variety of measurable social returns (ROIs). (2 years)
Category: Artists and Economic Development
San Francisco, CA -$150,000
To support the leadership transition and development of mental health support programs for youth poets. (1 year)
Category: Teens' Artistic and Cultural Advancement
San Francisco, CA - $240,000
To support Zaccho's artmaking and overall organizational capacity in combination with program enrichment that targets teen and pre-teen youth and families in San Francisco's Bayview-Hunters Point. (3 years)
Category: Teens' Artistic and Cultural Advancement
Washington, DC - $100,000
To support Alliance for Justice's general operations, including its Bolder Advocacy and Justice programs. (2 years)
Arlington, VA - $10,000
To support the Council on Foundations' Human Resources Summit: Achieving Equity in the Workplace that will take place in Minneapolis, Minnesota from August 16-17, 2017. (1 year)
Washington, DC - $75,000
General operating support. (1 year)
Washington, DC - $5,000
Sponsorship for the Grants Managers Network 2017 National Conference in Hollywood, CA. (6 months)
Category: Other
CA - $100,000
To support Blackbird's capacity to provide leadership and logistics support, additional communications infrastructure and movement building and policy leadership to the Black Lives ecosystem. (1 year)
Category: Institutional
MA - $150,000
To create a Community Foundation Equity Action Network. (1 year)
Category: Presidential Fund
New York, NY - $25,000
To revive The Great Hall at Cooper Union to its stature as a national center for discourse and debate that will celebrate free speech, promote social justice, and inspire transformative action. (1 year)
Category: Presidential Fund
Baton Rouge, LA - $5,000
General operating support in response to immediate needs of communities impacted by the police shooting death of Alton Sterling and the demonstrations that followed.
Category: Presidential Fund
Minneapolis, MN - $5,000
To support local organizing in Minneapolis being spearheaded by the Black Lives Matter - Minneapolis (BLM-MN) and Neighborhoods Organizing for Change (NOC).
Category: Presidential Fund
New York, NY - $35,000
To provide capacity building and training for journalists of color in the context of the 2016 election. (1 year)
Category: Other
New York, NY - $1,500,000
General operating support for the next round of Living Cities' work. Over the next three years, Living Cities will work with its members, partners, and sites to build an economic opportunity roadmap that city leaders can use as a blueprint for building an inclusive economy. (3 years)
Phoenix, AZ - $40,000
To strengthen Mijente's base-building and technical assistance support to local partners. (1 year)
Category: Other
Oakland, CA - $450,000
General operating support to engage more funders in supporting place-based, community-led efforts that target the root causes of economic and racial inequities and power imbalances in urban, suburban and rural places across the country. (3 years)
Category: Other
Atlanta, GA - $100,000
To organize young black people in the South to participate in leadership development programs and community-led initiatives that address state violence, build economic independence, and increase political participation. (1 year)
Category: Other
Porcupine, SD - $175,000
To support Thunder Valley CDC in gathering resources to continue the actions against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline; support the water protectors; and build the planning and organizing infrastructure for longer-term sustainability in the region. (1 year)
Category: Other
New York, NY - $105,000
To support Vera Institute's Immigrant Representation Network, a network of cities and groups providing legal representation for people facing detention and deportation. (1 year)
Category: Presidential Fund
Cambridge, MA - $61,835
To commission a white paper highlighting perspectives on the opportunities and challenges related to building and maintaining the practices and values required to sustain effective family foundation governance and practice over multiple generations. (6 months)
Washington, DC - $100,000
o celebrate the National Center for Family Philanthropy's 20th Anniversary by implementing a teaching and learning agenda to help family philanthropists transform their values into effective giving. (1 year)
Oakland, CA - $30,000
To develop a comprehensive plan for the Democratizing Development Program that includes a national pooled fund. (6 months)
Oakland, CA - $4,500,000
To help seed a national pooled fund focused on bolstering the ongoing efforts of residents in historically marginalized communities (low-wealth communities and communities of color) to make decisions about the policies, developments and public investments that impact their lives.
The funds will be regranted to community-based projects and technical assistance providers. (4 years)