Grantees All Genres

The Women of Terrell Homes

Green Diebboll, Isaac

Year Grant Awarded: 2023

A feature length non-fiction film about a multi-generational matriarchy who has been fighting for 12 years to protect their home, a 275 unit public housing complex in the Ironbound Neighborhood of Newark, NJ, which has been slated for demolition.

The Future Within Us

Arts & Climate Initiative

Year Grant Awarded: 2023

An evening of short plays about the climate crisis.

An Everlasting Experience

Tully , Graciela

Year Grant Awarded: 2023

An Everlasting Experience was a live-streaming play with artists from Argentina, Chile, and the US to raise money and awareness for a poverty-stricken indigenous community, Los Wichis, in Argentina.

“Journey of the Invader Spirit”

Morrison , Mandy

Year Grant Awarded: 2023

"Journey of the Invader Spirit" is a fictive narrative that weaves dark humor and fantasy, with the dilemma of post-consumer waste. The link is a 5-min excerpt. Total running time is 15:47

Exiles and Emigres in Hollywood

Ensemble for These Times

Year Grant Awarded: 2024

A recording of music by émigré composers who fled the Third Reich for Hollywood and changed movie music as we know it.

Green Map’s Local Food Icons

Green Map System

Year Grant Awarded: 2024

We share mapmaking and engagement tools used to produce perspectives on local progress towards wellbeing and sustainability. With local food as a gateway to participation, with this grant, we completed an open source iconography that celebrates food enterprise, specialties, growing and dining.

the beautiful

Rasmussen, Elise

Year Grant Awarded: 2024

“the beautiful” explores the role of photography in contributing to mythologies and ideologies surrounding notions of American West, addressing the grief embedded within the medium as depictions of the landscape are more prescient and problematic than ever in this time of climate change.

Exceptional Trees

Friends of Fremont Troll's Knoll

Year Grant Awarded: 2024

"Exceptional Trees" tiles were installed at The Troll's Knoll in Seattle WA. The tiles highlighted trees that had been deemed exceptional by The City of Seattle.

Strings

Donnet Johnson, Mary

Year Grant Awarded: 2024

A captivating vision of three generations of Vermont women whose relationship to our planet is a love letter to the little things. This deceptively simple story aims to powerfully inspire its audiences to honor the earth and perform even small acts of rescue that could reap big benefits.

From Trash to Treasure: Bagaceira Workshops in Miami

Steketee, Julia

Year Grant Awarded: 2024

With Puffin’s support, Bagaceira brought its mission to Miami: transforming sugarcane waste into sustainable design. Through hands-on workshops, Julia Steketee and Igor Barboza created space for participants to explore circular economy concepts and experiment with bio-based materials.