Genres Miscellaneous

Paid, art and skill-building internships for teens

ArtWorks for Milwaukee

Year Grant Awarded: 2017

“I developed a stronger sense of responsibility and a more positive outlook on my community.” That’s what one ArtWorks’ high school intern said about their internship. Thirty-four teens not only earned income, but explored their creativity, helped the community, and developed transferable job skil Read More

Campaign Activism and Environment Planning of Bristol Bay, Alaska: An Ecosystem More Valuable than i

Cundy, Fiona

Year Grant Awarded: 2010

As a strategy to mobilize the public to protect Bristol Bay’s economy, environment and social welfare, I have produced images to help strengthen the voices of conservation advocates working to protect the landscape's resources from a mine proposal. Read More

FUNDING THE ARTS

Felice Lesser Dance Theater

Year Grant Awarded: 2010

Felice Lesser’s multi-media (dance/theater/computer animation/video) satire about the lack of funding for the arts in this country. Read More

The Land Memory Bank and Seed Exchange by Monique Verdin

Friends of A Studio in the Woods

Year Grant Awarded: 2017

The Land Memory Bank and Seed Exchange builds structures with community at site-specific locations faced with environmental vulnerabilities across coastal South Louisiana - collecting and sharing community witness, indigenous pollinator and prairie seeds, data and maps. Read More

Education for a Shared Society Between Jews and Arabs in Israel (2014)

Givat Haviva Educational Foundation

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Givat Haviva's comprehensive educational program for Jewish and Arab students that fosters peaceful learning and understanding, while imparting the tools necessary to foster a Shared Society in Israel. Read More

Project Tap Root (2014)

Green Scene Chicago

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Green Scene Chicago’s PROJECT TAPROOT cross-pollinates gardening with arts. This weekly all ages series at Winthrop Harmony Arts Garden provides horticultural lessons followed by free entertainment from youth-based performance groups in Uptown. Read More

Interference Archive exhibition series

Interference Archive

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

Interference Archive is an archive of social movement culture that curates public exhibitions and programs as a way to empower people to understand their histories in relationship to social movements. Read More

Fly By Light (2014)

One Common Unity

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

The Fly By Light Youth Ambassador Program is an innovative youth program that emphasizes leadership, compassionate communication, effective conflict resolution, and self-love as pathways to personal growth, health and wellness. Read More

One Common Unity

One Common Unity

Year Grant Awarded: 2011

One Common Unity's mission is to nurture sustainable, caring communities through innovative peace education services, arts initiatives and media programming. Read More

Early Career Artists

Orion Magazine

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

Deemed by the Boston Globe "America’s finest environmental magazine," Orion has received several Puffin grants. Ad-free and artistically presented, Orion produces print and digital editions that address the most pressing environmental issues. Read More

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