Grantees All Genres
1918: A House Divided
none
Year Grant Awarded: 2007
1918: A House Divided is a musical drama set in Greenwich Village and Brooklyn against the background of the Great War, a conflict that divided the city, the country and the world. The conservative mood nationwide was in contrast to the mood among New Yorkers involved in the worlds of music and art.
- Website www.barbara-kahn.com
Walking from Rumania
none
Year Grant Awarded: 2009
Walking from Rumania is based on the story of the fusgeyers, Jews who walked to freedom in 1899 when the Rumanian constitution disenfranchised Jews. Five women in a small village prepare to join a larger group, called “Esther’s Daughters,” that is leaving the nearest city in three months’ time.
- Website www.barbara-kahn.com
The Indifference of Wisdom
NURTUREart
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
The Indifference of Wisdom questions our social norms by looking for works that embody transgression. We all seem to follow a pattern everyone is afraid to divert from.
- Website http://www.nurtureart.org
Cold Sweat
Nyoka, Wi-Moto
Year Grant Awarded: 2019
A chilling coming-of-age anthology about making it to high school in one piece.
- Website https://adobe.ly/2x90I8g
Giving One Tenth Community Dinner
Off The Rock, LLC
Year Grant Awarded: 2021
My company Off The Rock, LLC partnered with organizations Giving One Tenth Community Garden, I'm So Yoga and Artillery Creative Cannon to provide a community dinner event for an underserved neighborhood in Newark, NJ
- Website www.TheRocProductions.com
Cat-Fish II — A humanitarian Mission To Haiti
Oil Drum Art
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
A catamaran, using 8 recycled 55-gallon oil drums, was created by Oil Drum Art. It will sail 2,250-miles from CT to Haiti via the Intracoastal Waterways and donated to a fishing village to improve fishing capabilities and better feed its families.
- Website http://oildrumart.org/
Gender.Network
Olson, Sky
Year Grant Awarded: 2022
Gender.Network is a digital archive of flyers, photos, artwork, cartoons, letters, poems, and other media by trans, Two Spirit, non-binary, and gender liberation activists, organizers, and artists.
- Website https://gender.network
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.
- Website http://www.onecommonunity.org
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.
- Website http://www.onecommonunity.org
Independent News Curation Team
OptOut Media Foundation
Year Grant Awarded: 2022
The OptOut Media Foundation has a mission to educate the public about current events and help sustain a diverse media ecosystem by promoting and assisting independent news outlets and, in doing so, advance democracy and social justice.
- Website https://www.optout.news/