Global CitizenThe Abundance Mindset: More is MoreGlobal Citizen, in partnership with producing partner Harness, developed the nationwide television and digital broadcast special "Every Vote Counts—A Celebration of Democracy," which aired on CBS and on a range of streaming platforms on October 29, 2020. The special...

Pluralist Visionaries2020-2021Ai-jen Poo is a labor leader, award-winning organizer, author, and a leading voice in the women’s movement. She is the Executive Director of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, Director of Caring Across Generations, Co-Founder of SuperMajority and a Trustee of the Ford Foundation. Ai-jen...

Developing a creative and learning guide based the impact campaign designed around the award winning documentary Crip Camp...

Offsides ProductionsThe Upstanders Mindset: The Time to Step Into the Fight for Justice is NowReleased for July 4th weekend, starring Hamilton star Daveed Diggs, and in partnership with the Movement for Black Lives, Offsides Production's video provocatively explores the question: What does the Fourth of...

A FASHION VOID FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES… “Today there are more clothing options designed for pets than there are for people with disabilities.” —Disability Fashion Stylist, Stephanie Thomas, Cur8able “I can still be stylish and not look like I just came out of a hospital, because that’s what...

Pop Culture Collaborative Launches Becoming America Fund, supporting artists and activists to build public imagination around our collective future  Initial $3.5 million will support artists, entertainers, and activists in creating change-inspiring pop culture content for this once-in-a-generation moment; first round of grantees announced Press Contact: Prerana Swami prerana@ellecomm.com July 28,...

Our collective survival depends not on making our nation a little bit better, but on building a deep, emotional yearning in millions of people to create something new in America: a just and pluralist society. How can the pop culture for social change field help millions...

Activating the Macro Lodge at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival...

Transforming Patrisse Cullors' best-selling memoir "When They Call You a Terrorist" into a television series...

Developing a field-wide impact learning system for the pop culture for social change field...

Activating the Latinx House at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival...

Building robust social justice partnerships with Emmy-winning "United Shades of America"...

Assisting artists and activists who have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic...

Assisting pop culture artists who have been deeply financially affected by the coronavirus pandemic and support for Disruptors Fellowship...

Assisting Creative Change Community members who have been financially affected by the coronavirus pandemic...

Supporting Middle Eastern artists to control the narratives about their own cultures...

Supporting the development and activation of an accelerator for mid-career culture change artists in entertainment...

Organizing artists, activists and entertainment leaders to use the power of storytelling to imagine and co-create a more equitable and just world....

Assisting writers financially affected by the coronavirus pandemic...

Revolutionizing the way television and the arts are developed through an artist-centered and community-based approach...

Unearthing how and why rural communities have formed their beliefs about immigration...

FOUR NON-PROFITS, WITH SUPPORT OF THE POP CULTURE COLLABORATIVE, RESPOND TO COVID-19 WITH FINANCIAL SUPPORT FOR ARTISTS, ACTIVISTS, ORGANIZERS AND CULTURAL  STRATEGISTS  Press Contact: Prerana Swami prerana@ellecomm.com April 7, 2020 — In response to the COVID-19 pandemic and its financial impact, four non-profits are launching or expanding existing funds, with...

Depicting the grief of separating mother and child on the anniversary of the zero-tolerance family separation policy ...

Organizing stakeholders to design a long-term narrative strategy for the American Muslim community...

Testing targeted activation of LatinX and LGBTQ+ audiences...

Convening artists and cultural strategists to build a rapid response narrative infrastructure...

Testing innovative storytelling technologies for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community...

Studying pop culture fandoms to understand how pluralistic behaviors show up in society...

Convening artists and cultural strategists to build a rapid response narrative infrastructure...

Bringing the story of Black trans women to mass audiences...

Reshaping Native narratives in pop culture...

Advancing authentic, accurate, and equitable narratives in television and film...

Using art to deepen public discussions on civic issues and core American values...

Centering women of color leadership in 2020 and beyond...

Creating a talent pipelines for formerly incarcerated storytellers...

Organizing the #EmpathyTech field to understand how to advance a pluralist culture...

Cultivating and organizing transmasculine and disabled artists’ voices...

Finding, cultivating and marketing diverse below-the-line talent...

Building an accelerator for mid-career culture change artists in entertainment...

Building the narrative power of black people...

Centering historically excluded communities in TV writers rooms...

A new artist-in-residence pilot to support artists of color to tell their own stories...

Redefining America’s story about immigrants, identity, and citizenship...

Rashad Robinson poignantly lays out the challenge of changing norms and attitudes and explains how a multidisciplinary, integrated approach that shapes popular media can bring about racial justice....

Artist and scientist Heidi Boisvert wrestles with the question, “If you can design a tool (to measure the neuroscience of pop culture), but it can be turned into a weapon, should you build it?” as she shares her breakthrough audience data....

Through the telling of her own transformative journey, Bridgit Antoinette Evans demonstrates how culture change strategy uses a multi-layered approach, designed to create profound shifts in the narratives, values, beliefs and behaviors of mass audiences. ...

A Q&A with Luminate’s Felipe Estefan and Unbound Philanthropy’s Adey Fisseha on what they’re watching, what they’re learning about television and social change, and how philanthropy can intentionally play a role in this expanding field....

Television veteran Sameer Gardezi partnered with social change activist Margari Hill to reimagine how a writers rooms is formed, and who is in it. The result? A groundbreaking new show about two American Muslim women, characters rarely seen in pop culture. Gardezi is...

It's a constant fight for diverse artists to gain, and sustain power in the entertainment industry. So what do these show creators need to succeed?...

Peruse some of the latest reports, tool kits and guides critical to helping the social justice field and the television industry understand the gaps, opportunities and needs to advance transformative culture change....

Greg Propper previews A Day of Unreasonable Conversation, set to take place March 25 at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, which will bring together artists, organizers and political figures to discuss the issues impacting our lives....

The Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (ROC United) is dedicated to seeking improved wages and working conditions for restaurant workers nationwide. Founded in New York City after September 11, 2001, to provide support to restaurant workers displaced as a result of the destruction of the World...

PEN America stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect open expression in the United States and worldwide. PEN's mission is to unite writers and their allies to celebrate creative expression and defend the liberties that make it possible....

Founded in 1863, the Brooklyn Historical Society (BHS) is a nationally recognized urban history center with a mission to connect the past to the present and make the vibrant history of Brooklyn tangible, relevant, and meaningful for today's diverse communities, and for generations to come....

The Barcid Foundation is a nonprofit media arts organization founded by writer-producer Ian Skorodin to foster understanding of the culture, traditions, and issues of Native Americans. With the goal of creating a genuine and mutually beneficial relationship between the Native American community and the entertainment...

13Exp is a new experiential social impact entertainment studio, one of the first in a growing field focused on interlocking scaleable, digital and physical content with social impact as a driving force. Experiential narratives tell stories that reflect the reality of what it is to...