Spring-Summer 2021 Grantees
We are excited to welcome the current cohort of grantee partners into the Pop Culture Collaborative community. 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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Creating talent pipelines, learning and skill-building programs, and access to employment for Native film and television artists
Advancing long-term pop culture narrative change strategies that reshape dominant narratives and shift cultural norms for Black communities
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Building the tools, strategy, and technology for the next stage of human existence
Working to activate an intra-fandom network-weaving project in partnership with Black Girls Create
Organizing an expanding community of entertainment and BIPOC gender justice leaders to support new collaborations and narrative change opportunities
Amplifying Native voices, stories and issues using research, narrative and culture change strategies, movement-building and organizing
Exploring how to seed new narratives on social justice issues within digital-based cultural communities
Launching a second cohort of six mid-career BIPOC artists to develop, produce and disseminate their own creative IP
Accelerating the power of immigrant, refugee, disabled, and/or trans emerging television writers through the Artists Disruptors Fellowship Program
Developing a network of Black, Indigenous, Women of Color (BIWOC) leaders from within media, brands, and entertainment
Empowering underrepresented television writers to transform the industry into one in which all writers and all stories can thrive
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