ABOUT

Creative Visions Foundation is inspired by the life of Dan Eldon, an artist, adventurer and activist killed in Somalia in 1993 while covering the conflict as a photojournalist for Reuters News Agency.

Launched in 1998 by his mother, Kathy Eldon and sister, Amy Eldon Turteltaub, Creative Visions Foundation, a publicly supported 501 (c) 3 organization, supports Creative Activists who seek innovative solutions to local and global issues and use arts and media to ignite positive change.

In 2004, CVF started the Creative Activist Program (CAP) to provide hands-on assistance to filmmakers, artists, musicians, writers, environmentalists, humanitarians and leaders of social movements; individuals of all ages who use their creativity to tackle challenges in their neighborhoods and communities. Over the past eight years, the foundation has incubated more than 90 projects and productions on 5 continents by providing fiscal sponsorship, information, inspiration, mentorship, connectivity and step-by-step toolkits for launching projects. To date, these projects have touched more than 30 million people and raised more than 11.2 million dollars.

Our Creative Activists have sought solutions for local challenges and shared stories that have ignited positive change. Our members have focused on a variety of social, humanitarian and environmental issues, including campaigning for school fees and homes for over 150 Kenyan children and raising funds to build a school for 50 orphans in a rural village in Kenya, California-based activists have funded a DJ studio arts program for teenagers recovering from substance abuse and offered health and wellness yoga classes for over 300 homeless people. Our activists have raised awareness about the rights of indigenous peoples through international art exhibits, rebuilt communities after natural disasters and created new technologies to encourage a global community.

Always on the cutting edge, our activists have piloted  innovative arts education, launched creative activism curriculum in schools across the states, produced award-winning films advocating awareness of environmental issues and inspired important discussions about the nature of happiness. They have advocated for peace, helped change governmental policies, provided jobs, and given voice to underprivileged people and communities around the globe. They have fed thousands of hungry stomachs and provided care and shelter to the homeless. They ignite movements. They move us.

Our CVF team is proud to have helped these Creative Activists produce a rich variety of projects, including documentaries, exhibitions, plays, short films and grassroots organizations, several of which have grown into their own 501 (c) 3 organizations. We are the activists behind these activists- and we urgently need your support. When you give to Creative Visions, you are helping individuals share stories that ignite action!

For more information on what the impact our creative activists have had in the world, visit Success Stories.

WHAT IS A CREATIVE ACTIVIST? 

Creative Activists are ordinary people who ask brave questions about challenges they see in their neighborhoods, communities and the world around us. They seek solutions, using Teddy Roosevelt’s advice to “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are!”

Often armed with little more than a seemingly endless capacity to care and create, Creative Activists develop their ideas into sustainable projects and productions that focus attention on what’s wrong and ignite action  to help make things right.

Creative Activists understand the power of media and the arts to focus attention on important issues and ideas embracing both traditional forms of communication as well as new forms of social media to spread their messages to the widest possible audience.

Creative Activists, while diverse in race, religion and culture, are collaborative, like-minded individuals who celebrate creativity in all its forms and help mold and nurture ideas, no matter how big or small.  They are seekers, thinkers, visionaries, and doers who love to provoke conversations and challenge old paradigms.

In short, Creative Activists create impact with the common goal of changing the world for the better.

Every person has a creative spark within.

Download our Creative Activist Toolkit and pick up where Dan Eldon left off – embracing the creative activist’s philosophy of “Safari as a Way of Life.”

Find your spark– and join our Creative Activist Community!