We seek to improve the lives of vulnerable individuals, families, and communities by supporting innovative media projects and community-based organizations that target entrenched social problems.
With assets just over $30 million in 2007, we are interested in making strategic grants and investments that help fledgling organizations, individuals and projects take flight. We look for opportunities where our funding can play a key role in the life of a project or an organization that we think has the potential to ignite social change. This could be seed money for a fledgling community-based program or organization with strong potential or a grant at a critical stage of a media project where timely funding could amplify its social impact.
We leverage our resources by funding projects around a cluster of issues that we believe are critical including: girls' empowerment and education, healthy and sustainable communities, immigration, and global health, among others. In this way we can select media and community projects that not only highlight the complexity of these social problems but also offer solutions. When possible we use a three-pronged approach that includes funding for an innovative film or media project, funding for a strategic outreach campaign, as well as financial support for the community- based organizations that are committed to the issues raised in the film.