Grantees All Genres

The Bearded Lady Project: Challenging the Face of Science
The Bearded Lady Project: Challenging the Face of Science
Year Grant Awarded: 2015
"The Bearded Lady Project" is a documentary film and photographic project celebrating the work of female paleontologists and highlighting the challenges and obstacles they face.

Big Green Theater (2014)
The Bushwick Starr
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
BIG GREEN THEATER (BGT) is an annual eco-playwriting program and green theater festival celebrating environmental education, sustainability in the arts, and community enrichment.

The Caffè Lena History Project
The Caffè Lena History Project
Year Grant Awarded: 2012
Caffè Lena is America’s oldest continually operating folk music coffeehouse. Puffin Foundation support enabled critical initial work on the Caffè Lena Oral History Project and the creation of the Caffè Lena History Project website.
- Email jocelyn@caffelenahistory.org
- Website http://www.caffelenahistory.org

The Orpheus Variations
The Deconstructive Theatre Project
Year Grant Awarded: 2012
The Orpheus Variations is a fractured multimedia exploration of the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice in the Underworld.

Women’s Rights Pioneers Monument
The Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony Statue Fund
Year Grant Awarded: 2018
Monumental Women is creating the first statue of real women in Central Park’s 167-year history. The Women's Rights Pioneers monument, featuring Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner Truth and Susan B. Anthony will be unveiled on August 26th, 2020, the 100th anniversary of women winning the vote.
- Email info@monumentalwomen.org
- Website www.monumentalwomen.org

The J Street Education Fund
The J Street Education Fund
Year Grant Awarded: 2022
J Street works within the American Jewish and broader pro-Israel communities to reshape the course of American foreign policy to advance US, Israeli and Palestinian interests in a manner that aligns with our community’s progressive, Jewish and democratic values.
- Email info@jstreet.org
- Website https://jstreet.org/

The Essential Straight & Narrow
The Mad Ones
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
A lo-fi ode to the Kodachrome 1970s, rock and roll antics, and the mystical American Southwest: The Essential Straight & Narrow recalls a roadside layover in Pinos Altos, New Mexico, where passing the time becomes reliving the past.
- Email themadonesemail@gmail.com
- Website http://themadones.org/

Eco-Heroism
The MY HERO Project
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
MY HERO created a Celebrate ECO-Heroism DVD of inspiring short films about environmental heroes to be used as a companion to the ECO-Heroism Guide PDF. The DVD’s were duplicated and distributed to teachers at education conferences around the world.
- Email myhero@myheroproject.org
- Website http://myhero.com

BAUBO
The Neo-Political Cowgirls
Year Grant Awarded: 2018
BAUBO, an outdoor, under-the-stars dance theater story reimagined the myth of Persephone & Demeter, adding in the oft-forgotten goddess of female laughter and raunch, Baubo. Set across the gorgeous hills of Montauk County Park, BAUBO plays high in the sky on a 20-foot aerial rig.
- Email npcowgirls@gmail.com
- Website www.npcowgirls.org

Orville and Wilbur Did It! (2014)
The New Colony
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
Orville and Wilbur Did It! follows the lives, loves, sadnesses, ecstasies, hopes, fears and egos of five actors and a stage manager in a van doing a non-Equity, 58-city tour across America – as they perform a children’s musical about the Wright Broth
- Email morganmcnaught@gmail.com
- Website http://thenewcolony.org/