Building the Pop Culture for Social Change Field
The Pop Culture Collaborative supports building a robust pop culture change field that is anchored by a diverse network of leading creatives, practitioners, and strategists within the entertainment, social justice and philanthropic fields. Together, they will have the knowledge, connections, skills and infrastructure to move in alignment and create transformative narrative change in our society.
5050by2020 (2018 Grant)
As a strategic initiative of the recently launched Time’s Up, 5050by2020 is galvanizing influencers and artists to interrogate structural systems, challenge leadership, and infuse social justice values into the content they create.
Accelerate Impact
Convening artists and cultural strategists to build a rapid response narrative infrastructure
ARRAY Alliance (2018 Grant)
Founded by Oscar-nominated director, writer, and activist Ava DuVernay, ARRAY Alliance amplifies stories of underrepresented communities by providing women filmmakers and people of color with the resources they need to ensure their diverse perspectives have a platform, while also cultivating audiences among communities starved of inclusive images on screen.
Barcid Foundation
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 industry, Barcid offers Native writers the training, resources, and access necessary to forge relationships and pursue a career in the entertainment industry.
Barcid Foundation
Creating talent pipelines, learning and skill-building programs, and access to employment for Native film and television artists
Beautiful Ventures Foundation
Accelerating the work of Black creatives to become social entrepreneurs for narrative and community impact.
BlackStar
Hosting an inaugural Music in Cinema Fellow to design programs that support bringing a diversity of musicians into the cinematic space
BLD Power
Activating entertainment industry leaders and influencers in support of Hollywood 4 Black Lives campaign.
BoomGen Studios
Building an accelerator for mid-career culture change artists in entertainment
Break the Room Media
Developing a talent pipeline for live action and animated film and television writers from immigrant, refugee, Muslim, Indigenous and LGBTQIA communities.
Brooklyn Historical Society
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. Recently, BHS launched “Muslims in Brooklyn,” a multi-year public history and arts project designed to amplify Brooklyn’s Muslim communities through traditional oral history and experimental mass audience storytelling.
Color Creative
ColorCreative’s mission is to raise awareness for emerging women and minority writers, and provide a springboard for their careers by producing and selling their work to digital, network and cable platforms.
ColorCreative
Launching the Find Your People Program, a new pipeline initiative that will organize communities of BIPOC artists and crew members inside the entertainment industry.
Crip Camp Impact Campaign
Developing a creative and learning guide based the impact campaign designed around the award winning documentary Crip Camp
CultureStrike
Since 2011, CultureStrike has established itself as a leading force in the growing arts for social change field. Led by women of color and a 7-person team including undocumented, immigrant, and LGBTQ artists, and guided by the vision of its co-founder, visual artist Favianna Rodriguez, the organization has created groundbreaking artistic interventions and cultural strategy in the migrant, climate, and racial justice movements with a network of over 200 artist activists. CultureStrike launched the “Migration Is Beautiful” butterfly iconography that has spread around the world, becoming a unifying symbol of the immigrant rights movement.
Dear Hollywood (Harness)
Advancing Latinx equity and inclusion in Hollywood through the Dear Hollywood (Demanding Equal Access and Representation in Hollywood) initiative.
Fandom Forward
Working to activate an intra-fandom network-weaving project in partnership with Black Girls Create
Gender Justice & Entertainment Hub
Supporting a new community of entertainment and BIPOC gender justice leaders to support new collaborations and narrative change opportunities.
Gender Justice and Entertainment Collective
Investigating how to mobilize entertainment leaders on gender justice issues
Gender Justice Entertainment Hub
Organizing an expanding community of entertainment and BIPOC gender justice leaders to support new collaborations and narrative change opportunities
Harness
Co-founded by America Ferrera, Wilmer Valderrama, and Ryan Piers Williams, Harness seeks to amplify the work of social justice leaders to create a profound culture shift where historically marginalized communities define their own narratives, as well as equip people with the knowledge and tools to take action to support of the rights of every human being.
Harness
Organizing artists, activists and entertainment leaders to use the power of storytelling to imagine and co-create a more equitable and just world.
Harness
Organizing artists, activists and entertainment leaders to use the power of storytelling to imagine and co-create a more equitable and just world.
Harness (Spring 2017)
As an emerging powerhouse in both entertainment and social movements, Harness will design an organizational and programmatic strategy to ensure a long-term transformative impact on pop culture stories.
Into Action Lab
Exploring how to seed new narratives on social justice issues within digital-based cultural communities
Moore + Associates
Moore + Associates is a creative agency that believes that cultural and narrative change is critical to political change. Neither an advertising agency nor PR firm, its work exists in the growing space in between, providing clients and artists with new ways to succeed at the intersection of public policy, popular culture and new media.
Norman Lear Center-USC
Developing a field-wide impact learning system for the pop culture for social change field
Offsides Productions
Creating bold, cinematic content that sparks the radical imagination for social change.
Opportunity Agenda
Assisting Creative Change Community members who have been financially affected by the coronavirus pandemic
OTV | Open Television
Open Television is a non-profit platform for intersectional television.
OTV | Open Television
Open Television is a non-profit platform for intersectional television.
PEN America
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.
Pillars Fund
Organizing content creators and cultural strategists to work togethr as in developing entertainment projects that defy stereotypical Muslim tropes.
Propper Daley
A social impact agency based in Hollywood, Propper Daley helps its clients leverage their unique assets to create positive change in the world. Propper Daley works with influencers, brands and causes, providing both strategic and creative solutions to move the needle on the issues they care most about. Its approach, rooted in behavioral science, moves beyond foundational “awareness raising” to those strategies and ideas that shift the attitudes and perceptions that lead to behavior change.
Revolutionary Love Project
Producing educational tools, training courses, artwork, films, music, and mass mobilizations that center the voices of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) communities.
Starfish Accelerator
Supporting the development and activation of an accelerator for mid-career culture change artists in entertainment
STARFISH Accelerator
Launching a second cohort of six mid-career BIPOC artists to develop, produce and disseminate their own creative IP
Storyline Partners
Advancing authentic, accurate, and equitable narratives in television and film
Storyline Partners
Advancing authentic, accurate, and equitable narratives in television and film.
Storyline Partners (2018 Grant)
Storyline Partners collaborates with the entertainment industry, particularly TV writers rooms, to seed new narratives and support inclusive and nuanced storytelling that represents the authenticity and depth of communities who need a stronger voice in pop culture. Storyline Partners provides content creators with with credible rapid-response resources about communities of color, people of color, Muslims, immigrants and refugees from prominent advocacy and social impact media groups.
The Center for Cultural Power
Assisting pop culture artists who have been deeply financially affected by the coronavirus pandemic and support for Disruptors Fellowship
The League
Developing a network of Black, Indigenous, Women of Color (BIWOC) leaders from within media, brands, and entertainment
The Opportunity Agenda
Launching the Creative Change Innovation Fellowship for leading-edge storytellers to develop culture change projects.
The Opportunity Agenda
Bringing together artists, entertainers, influencers, advocates, activists, and funders to develop an aspirational vision for a just and abundant future.
The Opportunity Agenda (2017 Grant)
The Opportunity Agenda is an innovative social justice communication lab founded in 2006, dedicated to the idea that our nation can and should be a place where everyone enjoys full opportunity. The Opportunity Agenda collaborates with leaders around the country to move hearts and minds, driving lasting policy and culture change through a combination of communication expertise and creative engagement.
The Soze Foundation
Convening artists and cultural strategists to build a rapid response narrative infrastructure
The Soze Foundation
Assisting artists and activists who have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic
Think Tank for Inclusion & Equity
Empowering underrepresented television writers to transform the industry into one in which all writers and all stories can thrive.
Think Tank for Inclusion and Equity
Empowering underrepresented television writers to transform the industry into one in which all writers and all stories can thrive
Think Tank for Inclusion and Equity/Women in Film
Empowering underrepresented television writers to transform the industry into one in which all writers and all stories can thrive.
Unleashing Giants Studios (2018 Grant)
Unleashing Giants is a company dedicated to the empowerment of others. Its purpose is to inspire and nurture new voices – and old. They present human stories that break racial and economic boundaries, creating a mouthpiece for those who are not traditionally heard. ¬
Yes, And…Laughter Lab
Lifting up diverse comedy writers and performers through a competitive incubation lab and pitch program.