Spring 2019 Grantees

We are excited to welcome the current cohort of grantee partners into the Pop Culture Collaborative community.  These grantee partners are imagining, creating, and collaborating to change our culture and we are proud to work with them as we seek to build a just and pluralist society. Scroll down and click ‘Read More’ to learn more about each grantee and their funded work.

To support more in-depth connection to the Collaborative community, current grantee partners can be viewed and sorted across five grantmaking categories and by additional strategy tags. Click the boxes below and the strategy tags within each grantee description to see how grantees connect to each other and the pop culture for social change field.

All current and past grantee partners can be also be viewed and sorted by grantee cohort, grantmaking category and strategy tags.  We hope this opportunity makes for a rich discovery experience.


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Cultivating and organizing transmasculine and disabled artists’ voices
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Accelerate Impact

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

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ARRAY Alliance
Finding, cultivating and marketing diverse below-the-line talent
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BoomGen Studios

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BoomGen
Building an accelerator for mid-career culture change artists in entertainment
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Break the Room Media

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Break the Room
Centering historically excluded communities in TV writers rooms
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Cast Iron Company

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Cast Iron Company
A new artist-in-residence pilot to support artists of color to tell their own stories
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Center for Cultural Power

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Center for Cultural Power
Overcoming barriers for undocumented artists in entertainment
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Color of Change

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Building the narrative power of black people
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Define American

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Define American
Redefining America’s story about immigrants, identity, and citizenship
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Department of the Future

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Department of the Future
Organizing the #EmpathyTech field to understand how to advance a pluralist culture
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For Freedoms

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for Freedoms
Using art to deepen public discussions on civic issues and core American values
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IllumiNative

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IllumiNative
Reshaping Native narratives in pop culture
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One Day at a Time

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Testing targeted activation of LatinX and LGBTQ+ audiences
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Paola Mendoza: Artist-Led Rapid Response

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Paola Mendoza
Advancing Artist-led rapid responses on immigration and gender justice
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Pillars Fund

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Pillars Fund
Organizing stakeholders to design a long-term narrative strategy for the American Muslim community
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Senior Fellow Emanuel Brown

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Emanuel Brown
Convening a culture change network across trans communities of color.
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Senior Fellow Storm Smith

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Storm Smith
Testing innovative storytelling technologies for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing community
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sparks & honey

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

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Storyline Partners
Advancing authentic, accurate, and equitable narratives in television and film
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The League

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The League
Centering women of color leadership in 2020 and beyond
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The Light Alliance

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

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Bringing together creative minds for social change
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The Soze Foundation

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Soze Foundation
Convening artists and cultural strategists to build a rapid response narrative infrastructure
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Think Tank for Inclusion and Equity

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Think Tank for Inclusion and Equity
Creating a culture of equity and inclusion in tv writers rooms
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TransLash

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Bringing the story of Black trans women to mass audiences
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Unleashing Giants

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Unleashing Giants
Creating a talent pipelines for formerly incarcerated storytellers
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Yes, And…Laughter Lab

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The Yes And Lab
Connecting comedy artists to social justice movements
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