Grantee tags poverty

Brownsville

Gerhardt, Robert

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

A year long photo essay about life in Brownsville, Brooklyn. The series will look into issues including poverty, policing, education, food access, pollution, and crime from both the perspective of both the causes as well as those working to fix those issues. Read More

EHRP-Puffin Reporting Fellowships

Economic Hardship Reporting Project

Year Grant Awarded: 2019

Founded by Barbara Ehrenreich in 2012, the Economic Hardship Reporting Project commissions award-winning multimedia journalism about inequality in America. We provide financial and editorial support to independent journalists, many of whom are low-income or disabled. Read More

NYC: Struggles and Survival Strategies

Rubenstein, Judith

Year Grant Awarded: 2019

This booklet is to introduce New Yorkers to each other.  My political hope is that if we see each other as compatriots in the struggle, we will join in addressing the real powers that keep us all down. I narrate my rambling around NYC, describing, in words and prints, struggling New Yorkers. Read More

I Am, I Will, I’m Afraid (Wellsville)

Molloy, Traci

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

I Am, I Will, I’m Afraid (Wellsville) is a collaborative print made with 14 rural, disenfranchised youth utilizing photographic and digital processes. The figure does not exist - it’s a constructed composite made by layering individual portraits. Read More

Tenderloin Art Lending Library

Tenderloin Art Lending Library

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

TALL, the Tenderloin Art Lending Library, is a neighborhood-based, queer-artist - run-project, that loans original artwork, much of it by Tenderloin artists, to poor Tenderloin residents and others free-of-charge. Modeled on social practice, TALL cre Read More