Meet our grantee:

Color of Change (2017 Grant)

By consulting writers rooms, showrunners and industry executives, Color Of Change seeks to reshape dominant narratives and shift cultural norms to ensure the entire entertainment industry responds with greater responsibility to the ways in which they represent Black people and other marginalized communities. Their objective is to provide an entry point for new audiences to understand our nation’s complex racial history, our present reality, and how the decisions we make moving forward will shape and reflect who we want to be as a country.

AMOUNT
$200,000 over two years ($100,000 per/year)

PURPOSE
To support the advancement and implementation of their long-term narrative/culture change strategy to shift representation and storytelling of the Black community in pop culture.

Our objective is to provide an entry point for new audiences to understand our nation’s complex racial history, our fraught present reality, and how the decisions we make moving forward will shape and reflect who we want to be as a country.

To learn more about Color of Change, visit their website here.