Big We Foundation
Cultivating the vision and leadership of BIPOC girls and womxn to build a culture that is safe and sustainable.
Movement-Led Pop Culture Narrative Strategies
The Pop Culture Collaborative supports organizations and initiatives that are designing, coordinating, and activating long-term narrative change strategies at the pop culture level from within social movements.
Caring Across Generations
An innovative pop culture strategy will enable Caring Across Generations to elevate often-overlooked caregivers as multi-dimensional protagonists in society, transforming how we think about aging, race, gender, and community in the 21st century. ¬ Their stories will illuminate the essential and complex role of caregiving in our everyday lives and expose the critical need for greater public support for all families as we live longer and require more care.
Caring Across Generations
Illuminating the essential and complex role of caregiving in our lives
Caring Across Generations
Advancing pop culture narratives about caregiving and the role of caregivers in our society.
Color of Change (2017 Grant)
By consulting writers room staffs, 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
Color of Change Education Fund
Advancing long-term pop culture narrative change strategies that reshape dominant narratives and shift cultural norms for Black communities
Define American (2017 Grant)
Define American promotes empathy and mutual understanding by sharing America’s whole story in ways that are humanizing.
IllumiNative
Amplifying Native voices, stories and issues using research, narrative and culture change strategies, movement-building and organizing
IllumiNative (Spring 2018)
IllumiNative (launching in Fall 2018), conceived by a visionary group of Native artists, filmmakers, pop culture advocates, and thought leaders, is intended to illuminate the vibrancy of authentic Native experience.
Jolt Initiative
Jolt Initiative is a Texas-based, Latino-focused grassroots organization that increases the civic participation of Latinos to build a stronger Texas and democracy. Jolt was launched after the 2016 election with a mission to increase the civic engagement, power, and leadership of Texas’s Latinx population by building a movement that shifts power to working people and communities of color.
Jolt Initiative (2017 Grant)
Jolt Initiative is a Texas-based, Latino-focused grassroots organization that increases the civic participation of Latinos to build a stronger Texas and democracy. Jolt was launched after the 2016 election with a mission to increase the civic engagement, power, and leadership of Texas’s Latinx population by building a movement that shifts power to working people and communities of color.
Latinx House | Justice for Migrant Women
Creating a hub for Latinx creatives in the entertainment industry.
National Domestic Workers Alliance
The National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) builds power nationally for domestic workers, including nannies, housecleaners, and home healthcare workers. NDWA organizes low-wage workers to improve their living and working conditions; win respect and justice from employers and government; challenge racism and sexism that has led to the persistent devaluing of this labor, so that the dignity of domestic work is honored; end the exclusion of domestic workers from recognition and protection; and fight labor displacement and exploitation created by globalization.
National Domestic Workers Alliance
Implementing a long-term, high-impact pop culture narrative change strategy to support domestic workers.
National Guestworker Alliance
Founded by migrant workers brought to the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, the National Guestworker Alliance organizes across the United States to win collective dignity and fairness in labor and migration policies. Through its new Resilience Corps, NGA will work to popularize a new, culturally recognized hero‚Äîthe “Resilience Worker.”
National Guestworkers Alliance/Resilience Force
Introducing the Resilience Worker: Supporting America’s recovery in times of crisis
People’s Action
Unearthing how and why rural communities have formed their beliefs about immigration
Pillars Fund
Organizing stakeholders to design a long-term narrative strategy for the American Muslim community
Pillars Fund (2018 Grant)
The Pillars Fund invests in opportunities to elevate and amplify the leadership, narratives, and talents of American Muslims in civil society, the media, and public discourse.
RespectAbility
Encouraging diverse, authentic, and accurate portrayals of people with disabilities in entertainment.
Restaurant Opportunities Center United
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 Trade Center, ROC United has grown into a national organization of 130,000 restaurant workers, “high road” restaurant employers, and consumers working together to realize a vision of a food system that includes sustainable wages and working conditions for the people who cook, prepare, and serve our food.
The League (2018 Grant)
The League, an experimental narrative change agency, will explore rapid response strategies and structures that help social change movements and entertainment leaders use popular culture to capitalize on these catalyzing moments and in doing so, accelerate change for the better.
United We Dream
Advancing long-term pop culture narrative change strategy to develop a new understanding of immigrant justice as racial justice, anchored in love, pride, abundance and collective care
United We Dream Network
Creating a new understanding of immigrant justice as racial justice, anchored in love, pride, abundance and collective care.