Aaron Nigel Smith – One World Chorus
Alejandra Nash & Juliana Penaranda-Loftu – Healing Sounds
Amalia Starr – Autism Independence Project
Amanda Whitis, Kelley Whitis & Summer Harlow – Linda’s Voice
Ann Haggart – Buyayear.org
Charles Tsai – Social Creatives
Chip Hiden & Alexis Irvin – The Dream Share Project
Cynthia Young – Bluegreen Gallery
Dana Gluckstein – Tribes in Transition Education Fund
Daniela Kon – DEEDA Productions
Danielle Beinstein – Plooteau: The Purple World
David Chen – Symosphere, Bringing Humanity Together
Elischia Fludd – EOTO World
Elizabeth Wood Coldicutt – Tao Te Ching – A Photographic Journey
Elshafei Dafalla Mohamed & Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg- The Harbor Project
Erik Oberholtzer & Kristen Irving – Tender Greens Sustainable Life Project
Erin Heidenreich & Bristol Baughan – Uprise
FELLOW: Jessica Mayberry – Video Volunteers
FELLOW: Roko Belic – HAPPY
FELLOW: Slater Jewell-Kemker – An Inconvenient Youth
FELLOW: Soiya Gecaga – We the Change Foundation
FELLOW: Susan Stiffelman – XO Moms
FELLOWS: Anneliese Vandenberg & Austin Peck, PhD – Village Beat
FELLOWS: Chris Temple and Zach Ingrasci – Living on One Dollar a Day
Gene Jimenez – 24 Peaces
Hayden Bixby & Amy Eldon Turteltaub – Cura Orphanage
Jacob Devaney – Culture Collective
Jennifer Arnold – A Small Act & Hilde Back Education Fund
Jennifer Davidson & Chantal Molnar – Bottled UP!
Kyle Ruddick – One Day on Earth
Lacey Uhlemeyer – We Rise
Lara Long – DJ AM Memorial Fund
Marissa Roth – One Person Crying: Women & War
Max Joseph & Carlin Daley – Garden of Eden
Miguel Pinheiro & Pentti Turunen – mim’delo Project
Nancy Durrell McKenna – SafeHands for Mothers
Patricia Maresch & Gustavo Gelmini – Babies from Talavera
Rain Phoenix & A.J. Mason – The Gift Horse Project
Richard Peters & Tony Pigott – Brandaid Project
Saeed Taji Farouky – Tourist with a Typewriter
Sean Strub – HIV Is Not a Crime
Sheila J. Hardy – Limelight Project
Sister J SpiritVoice – The Honeybee Project
Steve Aoki – Steve Aoki Fund
Terry Merkle & Susan Blyth – Theatre for Humans
Wendy Selwyn & Lindsay Price – Sending the Orphans Back: The Haeja Price Story
Wendy Silvers – Million Mamas Movement
Zoe Tryon – One of the Tribe
Creative Activists
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- 2 Cause/Issue
- Addiction/Recovery
- Breastfeeding
- Career
- Change
- Community
- Domestic Abuse
- Edu-Activism
- Education
- Empathy Education
- Empowerment
- Environment
- Female Inequalities
- Free Trade
- Global Awareness
- Health/Well-being
- HIV Criminalization
- Honeybees
- Human Rights
- Humanitarian Crises
- Indigenous Culture
- Indigenous Rights
- Moms
- Motherhood
- Orphans
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- Positive Wealth Redistribution
- Poverty
- Relationships
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Ann Haggart – Buyayear.org
Buyayear.org represents just that – the chance to buy a year of life. The chance for one human being to celebrate a birthday, to feel the rain on their face, to hear music, to see their children grown another year. For an HIV positive individual in Africa, a year of medicine, a year of life, costs $300. Medicine is the [...]
Steve Aoki – Steve Aoki Fund
Label owner, DJ, producer, and fashion executive, Steve Aoki has always made it a point to take a proactive stance when it comes to social and humanitarian issues. Each year a new crisis arises, and there is always a need for humanitarian relief around the world. Steve Aoki will use his global influence to raise money for relief organizations dealing [...]
Wendy Silvers – Million Mamas Movement
Million Mamas Movement is a grass roots global initiative to inform, empower, and engage mothers and others to bring peace to the world through evolutionary conflict resolution programs and inspiring policies that emphasize women’s and children’s rights. The Million Mamas March is the launch of this movement. After almost a decade of teaching compassionate parenting practices, being a mother, hearing [...]
FELLOW: Soiya Gecaga – We the Change Foundation
Soiya Gecaga is producing a documentary to feature the impact of We the Change, her foundation which runs a pre-school for orphans and vulnerable children in Mathare Slum, Kenya. We the Change has created its own innovative holistic intervention which provides the following 5 crucial components to nursery school care in a slum: Nutrition, Healthcare, Education, Counseling, and Play/Yoga. [...]
Danielle Beinstein – Plooteau: The Purple World
Plooteau: The Purple World is an online creative play space and sanctuary that allows for children aged 6-11 to express their creative selves, navigate their emotional landscapes, develop mindfulness and resilience, and deepen their empathy for both themselves and those around them, locally and globally. Danielle Beinstein is a graduate of NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study, where she concentrated [...]
Zoe Tryon – One of the Tribe
Guided by the understanding that we are all connected, part of one human tribe, that our actions impact not only ourselves but all with whom we share this earth, and that we all need to work together to truly flourish, One of the tribe connects indigenous and modern world peoples. By sharing the best of both worlds, all of us [...]
Jennifer Davidson & Chantal Molnar – Bottled UP!
Different from any other breastfeeding film, Bottled UP! showcases the innate wisdom of mothers, the remarkable competence of babies, and validates women’s personal power and authority as mothers. Most people have never seen the images and information we will include in our film. Bottled UP! also exposes the social programming that works against so many American mothers and derails their [...]
Nancy Durrell McKenna – SafeHands for Mothers
SafeHands for Mothers is an international charity, founded in 2003 and dedicated to reducing maternal and infant mortality. SafeHands’ focus is on education through the production of quality films and visual materials to support government and non-governmental training and advocacy programs in developing countries. Fourteen films have been made to date, each tackling a taboo subject such as fistula, child [...]
Sean Strub – HIV Is Not a Crime
HIV Is Not a Crime is a documentary about HIV criminalization, told through the voices and stories of people who have been subject to discriminatory prosecutions or heightened punishments because of their HIV+ status. Filmmaker Sean Strub, a longtime social justice activist and writer who has had HIV for more than 30 years, is the driving force behind HIV [...]
FELLOW: Susan Stiffelman – XO Moms
XO Moms aims to support, inspire, and encourage moms around the world to take action towards making a positive difference in the world. A mom first and foremost, Susan Stiffelman is also the author of a parenting book, the weekly advice columnist for Huffington Post Parents, a family therapist, an intrepid adventurer, and an activist at heart. Moms are [...]
Erin Heidenreich & Bristol Baughan – Uprise
UPRISE is an idea production company that moves people to engage more deeply with themselves and the world by any medium necessary. These include film, television, documentary, interactive online video, theater, stunts, and mediums we are still in the process of inventing. “Ads for Ideas” is our first initiative. We are directing short compelling narrative that sell an idea versus [...]
Terry Merkle & Susan Blyth – Theatre for Humans
This groundbreaking play will offer an in-depth look at the world as seen through the eyes of women and girls from various cultures and countries. The play will highlight the struggles females face and the dedication and determination shown by the United Nations and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) field workers whose efforts go widely unnoticed. The audience will be taken [...]
Elshafei Dafalla Mohamed & Elizabeth Swanson Goldberg- The Harbor Project
The Harbor Project consists of two separate projects – The Art of Darfur’s Displaced Children and Survivors Among Us. “HARBOR: The Art of Darfur’s Displaced Children” will provide drawing, painting, sculpture, and photograpy workshops for children ages 17 and under who are currently living in refugee and IDP camps in Chad, Kenya, and Sudan. In an effort to raise [...]
Aaron Nigel Smith – One World Chorus
One World Chorus, based in Portland, Oregon, serves children ages 8-13 in diverse communities. Through the use of the performing arts, One World Chorus focuses on the support and facilitation of lifelong communities, educational opportunities, and authentic self expression. In addition to providing arts education to the greater Portland area, Aaron and Diedre Smith conduct residencies and workshops throughout the [...]
Lacey Uhlemeyer – We Rise
We Rise supports the empowerment of vulnerable youth throughout the developing world. By collaborating with other non-profit organizations, we believe that world-wide issues require local solutions to create change at the ground level. We Rise serves as a consultative partner to equip community-based organizations to more effectively tackle their missions, maximizing the impact of their reach through specialized marketing and [...]
Gene Jimenez – 24 Peaces
24 Peaces is an artist’s journey to inspire people to create peace through exploring its meaning with twenty-four peacemakers from around the world. With the purpose of igniting our own individual ability to create peace, the artist GENE (Gene Jimenez) is conducting a series of twenty-four conversations with both preeminent peacemakers and a cross section of “every-day people” from [...]
Marissa Roth – One Person Crying: Women & War
“One Person Crying: Women and War” is a 25-year, personal global photo essay that addresses the immediate and lingering effects of war on women. In an endeavor to reflect on war from what I consider to be an under-reported perspective, the project brought me face to face with hundreds of women who endured and survived war and its [...]
Amalia Starr – Autism Independence Project
Every child who has autism and special needs deserves not only the right to live a life of freedom and independence with dignity and respect, but also to be given the opportunity to succeed and reach their full potential. Secret World is a feature-length documentary about a thirty-eight-year-old autistic man who discovers how to live independently, although the professionals [...]
Sister J SpiritVoice – The Honeybee Project
The Honeybee Project is a crossroads of education, science, the arts and technology all in service to children. The sustainability of the world we live in will be determined by what we do now with the young people growing up. If children can understand the importance of the bees and how bees work together, this understanding can potentially deepen their [...]
David Chen – Symosphere, Bringing Humanity Together
Poverty, world hunger, pollution, unsustainable resources, and warfare. Most people would be hard-pressed to believe that such issues could be eliminated within the next 50 years. But what if we could achieve such things within 30 years? Or even – 10 years. Symosphere is a project designed to help people realistically and systematically achieve global-scale changes within time-frames previously thought [...]
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