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Backed by the Ford Foundation and others, a recent report from the Safer Storytellers Project outlines the steps funders can take to protect creators from increasing attacks and threats to their safety.
Cofounded and backed by Jeff Sobrato, the Safe Space Pictures Foundation invests in film projects covering topics such as sustainability, reproductive rights and criminal justice reform. Its founders take us behind the scenes.
Fundraisers for filmmaking reported steady revenue thanks to online events, shifts in their donor bases, and in at least one case, a windfall from a certain novelist-turned-donor. Five organizations filled us in on how they’ve evolved.
The Inevitable Foundation launched in 2021 with the goal of boosting the representation of disabled mid-level screenwriters. We check in with its co-founders on its mission, early successes and what’s next.
Today, we’re catching up with the Jerome Foundation, which supports early-career artists in Minnesota and New York City. It was looking at ways to make life easier for grantees well before COVID.
The Ford, Compton and Skoll foundations have partnered to launch a 10-year, $30 million donor collaborative that seeks to strengthen the impact of storytelling through video and related media in the Global South.
Hollywood power couple Will and Jada Pinkett Smith established a family foundation all the way back in 1996, focusing on issues like arts, education and equity. And the couple’s kids are already involved with the foundation.
After publicity-shy billionaire Jerry Perenchio passed away in 2017, his estate sold off a quarter-billion dollars in assets and now his family foundation has made two large higher ed gifts. Is this a sign of more to come?
For 15 years, the Fledgling Fund served as a go-to funding source for independent filmmakers. As the grantmaker takes a new direction, we look back at the lasting impact this small funder made across many social issues.
Celebs have often leveraged their influence and deployed funds during challenging times. Here's a rundown of some of the Hollywood players supporting relief efforts for the COVID-19 crisis, including a few making major donations.
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation has been backing an initiative at Sundance that supports filmmakers who explore scientific themes. If you go to the movies, you may have already seen the impact of this grantmaking.
Despite some recent progress, Hollywood has a long way to go on diversity. An expanded partnership between an L.A.-based art gallery and film school shows that funders aren’t waiting for the industry to take the lead in this area.
Slowly but surely, funders have come around to Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s prescient vision of integrating science with the humanities. We dig into the foundation’s recent moves in the filmmaking space.
Popular culture has tremendous potential as a leverage point for social change. But actually making an impact is tricky. A grantmaking outfit bankrolled by heavy hitters is taking on that challenge.
Some niche funders aren't sitting around waiting for Hollywood to do more to support underrepresented filmmakers, after years of complaints. They're doing it themselves.
Philanthropic support for film remains scarce, and most support goes to documentaries. One major exception is SFFILM, the largest grant-giving body for narrative features in the U.S.
There’s no shortage of money in Hollywood, and yet resources are scarce to help boost diversity in the entertainment industry. What's going on here?
In many cases, returning a disgraced donor's gift is a no-brainer. But what if the gift in question could catalyze an entire funding area like gender equity in the cinematic arts?
LGBTQ artists have traditionally lacked the kind of robust support structures that exist across other segments of the arts world. Queer|Art is working to change that.
A billionaire couple historically focused on health and education causes comes around to the educational and economic value of supporting a film museum's beleaguered capital project.
Amid a growing push to bring more diversity to the film world, we look at what the MacArthur Foundation has been doing lately to support "nonfiction media makers" from diverse backgrounds.
For film fans around the world, Roger Ebert is forever famous for the trademarked phrase “Two thumbs up.” But for many nonprofits in Chicago, the local legend also represents new opportunities.
We rarely see an industry insider start a foundation to bring industry jobs to his respective corner of the country. Then again, there's nothing conventional about George R. R. Martin.
Giving to promote diversity has lately been gaining steam. Recently, the biggest donors in this space, George Lucas and his partner Mellody Hobson, stepped up again.
Founded by Martin Scorsese, the Film Foundation expands its World Cinema Project to locate, restore, and preserve films made on the African continent. Time is of the essence: More than half of all films made before 1950 are irrevocably lost.
Philanthropy continues to transform small college towns into nationally acclaimed arts desinations. We dig into an intriguing set of gifts to endow initiatives within Indiana University's cinema program.
The Oscar nominees are finally more diverse this year. And within the film industry itself, one power couple is taking a stand on diversity, and putting up new funding, too: Will and Jada Smith.
Last year the foundation announced it would cease direct support for documentary filmmakers. A new project suggests MacArthur will embrace a strategy of more projects, but with less individual funding.
Donnelley has been making a splash on the film grantmaking scene in Chicago and the land preservation scene in the South Carolina Low Country. Let's look at how 2016 played out between the two locations.
Given donors' widespread infatuation with "visual storytelling," perhaps it was inevitable that $3 million would flow to an arts high school for work in this area.