Grantees All Years

Cold Sweat

Nyoka, Wi-Moto

Year Grant Awarded: 2019

A chilling coming-of-age anthology about making it to high school in one piece. Read More

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 Read More

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. Read More

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. 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

The Planet Earth Farewell Concert

Oppenheim, Jonas

Year Grant Awarded: 2023

"The Planet Earth Farewell Concert" is a climate-crisis show that combines political satire, immersive theater, cabaret, and variety, to take a multifaceted, absurdist look at where we’re at, where we’re going, and what we can do. Read More

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. 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

Rear view

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Dorothea Osborn explored the history of whiteness in her own family going back to her first paternal settler in 1637 Each of the 6 panels in Osborn's fabric installation, Rear View, represents a different generation and their economic/social status of the artist's family. Read More