The Fledgling Fund seeks to improve the lives of vulnerable individuals, families, and communities by supporting innovative media projects that target entrenched social problems.
With approximately $1.5 million in funding disbursed annually, we are interested in making strategic grants and investments that help fledgling projects take flight. We look for opportunities where our funding can play a key role in the life of a creative media project that we think has the potential to ignite social change. Typically, these are grants 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 women's leadership, health, immigration, and systemic poverty, among others. In this way we can select media 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.