Grants | Acton Family Giving

1947 Partition Archive

An oral history project that documents, archives, and shares stories of the 1947 partition of India. It is committed to preserving a collective history with the goal of inspiring a less divided future. In addition to the publicly accessible digital story repository, it also coaches citizen historians worldwide to collect stories from all ethnic, religious, and economic communities impacted by the partition.

Amount	Year	Purpose	Giving Areas
$12,500	2018	general support	First-Person Storytelling
$25,000	2017	general support	First-Person Storytelling
$25,000	2016	general support	First-Person Storytelling

826 National

A national network of chapters that amplify youth voices through writing. The largest youth writing network in the country, it serves 65,000 students annually in its centers and online. In addition to free writing programs, it publishes the narratives and perspectives of young writers and creates a space for volunteers and stakeholders to listen to and learn from local students. In addition to chapters across the country, its 826 Digital platform provides free access to timely and topical writing curricula alongside real samples of student writing.

Amount	Year	Purpose	Giving Areas
$75,000	2019	general support, $75,000 per year for two years (payment two of two, total grant amount $150,000)	First-Person Storytelling
$75,000	2018	general support, $75,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $150,000)	First-Person Storytelling

826 Valencia

A writing center in San Francisco's Tenderloin. Through programming that strengthens students' writing skills, it empowers youth to share their stories. Its free programs and community partnerships support students in expressing themselves in their own voices. Stories are compiled into print publications and podcasts to share with the broader community.

Amount	Year	Purpose	Giving Areas
$25,000	2018	general support	First-Person Storytelling
$50,000	2017	general support	First-Person Storytelling
$50,000	2016	general support	First-Person Storytelling

American Documentary

A national media arts organization that strives to make essential documentaries accessible as a catalyst for public discourse. AmDoc goes “beyond the broadcast” by partnering with television and radio stations, community groups and local, and national organizations to spark conversation about the issues presented in point-of-view films.

Amount	Year	Purpose	Giving Areas
$75,000	2019	general support	First-Person Storytelling

Black Public Media

A public media organization that creates a pathway of support for Black story development and dissemination. It supports diverse voices by investing in the professional development of Black content creators and by funding, developing, producing, and distributing innovative media about the Black global experience. It actively curates audience engagement activities in select communities where the content can be used as a tool for generating public dialogue beyond the big screen.

Amount	Year	Purpose	Giving Areas
$100,000	2019	general support, $100,000 per year for two years (payment two of two, total grant amount $200,000)	First-Person Storytelling
$100,000	2018	general support, $100,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $200,000)	First-Person Storytelling

Capital Public Radio

A Sacramento-based public radio service. Its series "The View From Here" features first-person stories and multimedia documentaries about California communities. Its digital stories around a given topic inspire listeners to learn, understand, and respond. Creating space for first-person perspectives, it aims to build stronger communities through relevant storytelling that connects us to each other's experiences, challenges, and dreams.

Amount	Year	Purpose	Giving Areas
$50,000	2019	general support	First-Person Storytelling
$50,000	2018	support for "The View From Here"	First-Person Storytelling
$50,000	2017	support for "The View From Here"	First-Person Storytelling
$50,000	2016	support for "The View From Here"	First-Person Storytelling

Center for Asian American Media

An organization that supports Asian American narratives by producing, distributing, and exhibiting media works. It counters the scarcity of Asian/Asian American images, corrects distorted portrayals, and supports Asian American artists. It exposes audiences nationwide to new voices and marginalized communities within the Asian diaspora, emphasizing storytelling by / about Muslim, LGBTQ, and Southeast Asian populations.

Amount	Year	Purpose	Giving Areas
$100,000	2019	general support, $100,000 per year for two years (payment two of two, total grant amount $200,000)	First-Person Storytelling
$100,000	2018	general support, $100,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $200,000)	First-Person Storytelling
$100,000	2017	general support	First-Person Storytelling
$100,000	2016	general support	First-Person Storytelling

City Lore

A center for urban folk culture in New York City. It weaves the city's folklore, history, traditions, and grassroots arts into a living legacy. Through collaborations with and support for storytellers, it works towards a vision of cultural democracy that allows varied traditions to co-exist on equal footing and encourages active participation in cultural life.

Amount	Year	Purpose	Giving Areas
$85,000	2019	general support, $85,000 per year for two years (payment two of two, total grant amount $170,000)	First-Person Storytelling
$85,000	2018	general support, $85,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $170,000)	First-Person Storytelling
$75,000	2017	general support	First-Person Storytelling
$75,000	2016	general support	First-Person Storytelling

Contra Tiempo

A multilingual urban Latin dance theater company based in Los Angeles. Recognizing the links between community engagement and artistic production, its performances take inspiration from its communities' experiences, cultural creations, and stories. It intentionally engages diverse audiences and features stories not traditionally heard on the stage.

Amount	Year	Purpose	Giving Areas
$60,000	2018	general support, $60,000 per year for two years (payment two of two, total grant amount $120,000)	First-Person Storytelling
$60,000	2017	general support, $60,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $120,000)	First-Person Storytelling
$50,000	2016	general support	First-Person Storytelling

Creative Capital

A nonprofit that supports innovative and adventurous artists across the country through funding, counsel, gatherings, and career development services. It seeks to amplify voices and catalyze connections, helping artists to realize their visions, build thriving practices, and bring their projects to audiences around the world.

Amount	Year	Purpose	Giving Areas
$50,000	2019	general support	First-Person Storytelling

CultureStrike

A socially engaged arts organization based in Oakland. Recognizing the role of artists in inciting conversations and inventing new ways of thinking, it invests in creative work that highlights the complexity, nuance, and beauty of communities too often rendered criminal or invisible. It works toward a just world rooted in a sense of shared humanity.

Amount	Year	Purpose	Giving Areas
$200,000	2019	for growth campaign	Capital/Capacity
$75,000	2019	support for CultureStrike, $75,000 per year for two years (payment two of two, total grant amount $150,000)	First-Person Storytelling
$75,000	2018	support for CultureStrike, $75,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $150,000)	First-Person Storytelling
$75,000	2017	general support	First-Person Storytelling
$75,000	2016	general support	First-Person Storytelling

Define American

A national media and culture organization using the power of story to transcend politics and shift conversations about immigrants, identity, and citizenship in a changing America. It runs campaigns that challenge media narratives; develops films that connect immigration, women's rights, and racial and economic justice; and curates a digital platform for people to tell and share stories.

Amount	Year	Purpose	Giving Areas
$100,000	2019	general support, $100,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $200,000)	First-Person Storytelling
$150,000	2018	general support	First-Person Storytelling
$150,000	2017	general support	First-Person Storytelling
$150,000	2016	general support	First-Person Storytelling

Detroit Narrative Agency

A storytelling organization working to advance the narrative of a Detroit built on justice. Through seed grants, technical support, skill development, and mentorship, complemented by community mapping and local engagement, it creates narrative-shifting moving image projects that support and connect the community.

Amount	Year	Purpose	Giving Areas
$50,000	2019	support for Detroit Narrative Agency, $50,000 per year for two years (payment two of two, total grant amount $100,000)	First-Person Storytelling
$50,000	2018	support for Detroit Narrative Agency, $50,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $100,000)	First-Person Storytelling
$50,000	2017	support for Detroit Narrative Agency	First-Person Storytelling
$50,000	2016	support for Detroit Narrative Agency	First-Person Storytelling

Double Shift Podcast

A reported, narrative podcast about a new generation of working mothers. The goal of the podcast is not just high quality journalism, but to use storytelling to fundamentally transform how society sees mothers and how mothers see themselves in order to achieve greater parity for women in all aspects of society.

Amount	Year	Purpose	Giving Areas
$10,000	2019	Double Shift Productions	First-Person Storytelling

First Peoples Fund

A Rapid City-based organization that honors and supports the Collective Spirit of First Peoples artists and culture bearers. Its "Dances with Words" program is a youth spoken word initiative on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. It connects youth to Native American oral traditions and amplifies young voices in the community through facilitating and mentoring the creation of literature, poetry, spoken word, and music. It is among the organizations that make up the Youth Speaks Brave New Voices Network.

Amount	Year	Purpose	Giving Areas
$7,500	2018	support for Dances With Words	First-Person Storytelling
$15,000	2017	support for Dances With Words	First-Person Storytelling
$15,000	2016	support for Dances With Words	First-Person Storytelling

Games For Change

A social impact gaming nonprofit. Harnessing the narrative power of games to inspire action and connect with audiences beyond traditional media, it facilitates the creation and distribution of digital games to further humanitarian and educational efforts; convenes a community of practice; and empowers game creators to drive real-world impact.

Amount	Year	Purpose	Giving Areas
$75,000	2019	general support, $75,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $150,000)	First-Person Storytelling
$75,000	2018	general support, $75,000 per year for two years (payment two of two, total grant amount $150,000)	First-Person Storytelling
$75,000	2017	general support, $75,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $150,000)	First-Person Storytelling
$50,000	2016	general support	First-Person Storytelling

Ghetto Film School

A multimedia storytelling and production training organization for Los Angeles and New York City students. Its free programming aims to educate and celebrate the next generation of great American storytellers. Programs promote the idea that stories inspire global connections and therefore filming occurs around the world and films are translated into local languages.

Amount	Year	Purpose	Giving Areas
$12,500	2018	general support	First-Person Storytelling
$25,000	2017	general support	First-Person Storytelling
$25,000	2016	general support	First-Person Storytelling

Global Action Project

A New York City-based media-arts organization focused on youth from low-income, new immigrant, and TLGBQ communities. It partners youth with professional artists and educators to develop narrative, non-fiction, and new media works that amplify diverse stories and then use them to educate about and advocate for their communities nationwide.

Amount	Year	Purpose	Giving Areas
$25,000	2018	general support	First-Person Storytelling
$25,000	2017	general support	First-Person Storytelling
$25,000	2016	general support	First-Person Storytelling

Houses on the Moon

A New York City theater company helping communities come together by making meaningful connections through the public sharing of untold stories. One project, De Novo, crafted entirely from immigration court transcripts, interviews, and letters, tells the true story of a teenaged boy from Guatemala who faced deportation after fleeing to the U.S. to escape the gang MS-13. He travels over 3,000 miles across the borders of three countries in search of his mother and a better life in the United States.

Amount	Year	Purpose	Giving Areas
$50,000	2019	general support	First-Person Storytelling
$60,000	2018	general support	First-Person Storytelling
$60,000	2017	support for De Novo	First-Person Storytelling
$50,000	2016	support for gUN COUNTRY	First-Person Storytelling

International Storytelling Center

An educational and cultural institution based in Jonesborough, TN. It advocates for the value of storytelling nationwide by providing the knowledge, experience, and tools to help individuals, organizations, and communities tap into the power of their own voices. In conjunction with Harvard Graduate School of Education, it is developing research on the value of storytelling in building communities, furthering education, and resolving conflict.

Amount	Year	Purpose	Giving Areas
$75,000	2019	general support, $75,000 per year for three years (payment two of three, total grant amount $225,000)	First-Person Storytelling
$75,000	2018	general support, $75,000 per year for three years (payment one of three total grant amount $225,000)	First-Person Storytelling
$75,000	2017	general support	First-Person Storytelling
$75,000	2016	general support	First-Person Storytelling

ITVS

An incubator and presenter of independent films. It partners with filmmakers to bring untold stories to public television and communities around the world. It encourages independent artists to take creative risks and tell complex, character-driven stories that uplift underrepresented voices in order to kindle empathy, combat negative stereotyping, and promote understanding and positive social change.

Amount	Year	Purpose	Giving Areas
$500,000	2019	general support, $500,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $1,000,000)	First-Person Storytelling
$500,000	2018	general support, $500,000 per year for two years (payment two of two, total grant amount $1,000,000)	First-Person Storytelling
$500,000	2017	general support, $500,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $1,000,000)	First-Person Storytelling
$250,000	2016	general support	First-Person Storytelling

KQED

A Northern California public media organization. Its television, radio, digital media, and educational services convene community dialogue and take people of all ages on journeys of exploration — exposing them to new people, places and ideas. Its podcast "The Leap" shares stories of people who start out in one place in life and end up somewhere else — or as someone else — entirely.

Amount	Year	Purpose	Giving Areas
$10,000	2019	general support	Family Giving
$87,500	2018	general support	First-Person Storytelling
$75,000	2017	support for "The Leap"	First-Person Storytelling
$100,000	2017	general support	First-Person Storytelling
$75,000	2016	support for "The Leap" and "Truth Be Told"	First-Person Storytelling
$100,000	2016	general support	First-Person Storytelling

Latino Public Broadcasting

A developer, producer, and distributor of non-commercial educational and cultural media that is representative of Latino people or addresses issues of particular interest to Latino Americans. By acting as a minority consortium, it provides a voice to the diverse Latino community on public media throughout the United States.

Amount	Year	Purpose	Giving Areas
$75,000	2019	for LPB Transformation Project	Capital/Capacity
$100,000	2019	general support, $100,000 per year for two years (payment two of two, total grant amount $200,000)	First-Person Storytelling
$100,000	2018	general support, $100,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $200,000)	First-Person Storytelling
$100,000	2017	general support	First-Person Storytelling

Magnum Foundation

A documentary photography organization in New York City. Grounded in the premise that stories transform how we see the world, it supports a global network of social justice and human rights focused photographers, fostering diverse visual storytelling projects as a means to raise awareness, awaken empathy, mobilize action, and strengthen society.

Amount	Year	Purpose	Giving Areas
$75,000	2019	general support, $75,000 per year for three years (payment two of three, total grant amount $225,000)	First-Person Storytelling
$75,000	2018	general support, $75,000 per year for three years (payment one of three total grant amount $225,000)	First-Person Storytelling
$75,000	2017	general support	First-Person Storytelling
$75,000	2016	general support	First-Person Storytelling

Maiden Voyage Productions

A nonprofit that uses Virtual Reality (VR) stories and project-based curricula to introduce young people to different cultures and engage them in global challenges we all face together. VR has the power to transform peer storytelling into immersive experiences that feel like personal interactions. Maiden Voyage's programs leverage this connection by encouraging the discovery of commonalities through first-person stories and innovative opportunities for learning, cross-cultural exchange and community action.

Amount	Year	Purpose	Giving Areas
$30,000	2019	general support	First-Person Storytelling

National Public Radio

A national multimedia news organization and radio program producer. Its "Embedded" podcast uses storytelling to offer listeners a chance to visit places and hear voices that might be unreachable otherwise, giving vulnerable people a chance to tell their stories firsthand. Reporters admit when they are scared or confused, helping listeners grow to understand not just what happened, but what it feels like to the people who are there.

Amount	Year	Purpose	Giving Areas
$200,000	2018	general support	First-Person Storytelling
$100,000	2017	support for "Embedded"	First-Person Storytelling
$200,000	2017	general support	First-Person Storytelling
$100,000	2016	support for "Embedded"	First-Person Storytelling
$200,000	2016	general support	First-Person Storytelling

Native Arts And Cultures Foundation

A Native-led philanthropic organization that promotes the revitalization, appreciation, and perpetuation of Native arts and cultures. It advances Native equity and cultural knowledge, focusing on the power of arts and collaboration to strengthen Native communities and create new paths of progress for American Indian, Native Hawaiian, and Alaska Native peoples in the U.S. The Foundation is continually searching for partnerships and ways to reach communities outside of the Native and indigenous populations and leverage the voices within.

Amount	Year	Purpose	Giving Areas
$15,000	2019	general support	First-Person Storytelling

Pacific Islanders in Communications

A media organization that works to promote a deeper understanding of and appreciation for Pacific Islander themes, culture, and contemporary issues. A member of the National Minority Consortia, it helps Pacific Islander stories reach national audiences through funding support for productions, training and education, broadcast services, and community outreach.

Amount	Year	Purpose	Giving Areas
$75,000	2019	general support	First-Person Storytelling
$50,000	2018	general support	First-Person Storytelling

PEN America

A nationwide champion of writers and of freedom of expression. Recognizing the written word as a tool of great power and great change, it brings together novelists, journalists, essayists, poets, translators, and more to create a network of advocates to inspire change in America and the world. It encourages discourse, diversity, and the spread of ideas with a focus on ensuring that everyone has the freedom to create, express, share, and access literature.

Amount	Year	Purpose	Giving Areas
$125,000	2019	general support, $125,000 per year for three years (payment two of three, total grant amount $375,000)	First-Person Storytelling
$125,000	2018	general support, $125,000 per year for three years (payment one of three total grant amount $375,000)	First-Person Storytelling
$125,000	2017	general support	First-Person Storytelling
$75,000	2016	general support	First-Person Storytelling

Ping Chong + Company

A New York based theater company that brings unheard community voices to the stage that are not often represented in traditional theater settings. It creates works of theater and art that explore the intersections of race, culture, history, and art; it also serves as an artistic incubator for projects and then seeks out producing and presenting partners to extend the range of these projects.

Amount	Year	Purpose	Giving Areas
$20,000	2019	general support	First-Person Storytelling

StoryCenter

A digital storytelling center based in Berkeley that believes listening deeply and sharing stories are tools to build a just and healthy world. It supports storytelling projects in vulnerable Bay Area communities and worldwide; runs workshops for telling and listening to emotionally honest stories; and explores the role of participatory media in social justice and beyond.

Amount	Year	Purpose	Giving Areas
$60,000	2019	general support, $60,000 per year for three years (payment two of three, total grant amount $180,000)	First-Person Storytelling
$60,000	2018	general support, $60,000 per year for three years (payment one of three total grant amount $180,000)	First-Person Storytelling
$50,000	2017	general support	First-Person Storytelling
$50,000	2016	general support	First-Person Storytelling

StoryCorps

A national storytelling organization. It preserves and shares humanity’s stories in order to build connections and create a more just and compassionate world. It provides people across the country the opportunity to record interviews about their lives, pass wisdom from one generation to the next, and leave a legacy for future generations in its archive at the Library of Congress. Through "One Small Step," it asks people with different political viewpoints to record interviews with each other to help people get to know each other as human beings and remember our common humanity.

Amount	Year	Purpose	Giving Areas
$500,000	2019	general support, $500,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $1,000,000)	First-Person Storytelling
$500,000	2018	general support, $500,000 per year for two years (payment two of two, total grant amount $1,000,000)	First-Person Storytelling
$500,000	2017	general support, $500,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $1,000,000)	First-Person Storytelling
$500,000	2016	general support	First-Person Storytelling

Success Centers

A playwriting project (Each One Reach One) for youth inside detention facilities in the Bay Area. It pairs incarcerated youth with mentors who work with them to write original plays, using non-human characters as metaphorical masks to tell personal stories. The exploration of stories without judgment and the final staged reading in front of an audience of families and community members empower youth to voice their experiences.

Amount	Year	Purpose	Giving Areas
$20,000	2018	support for Playwriting and TOTO, $20,000 per year for two years (payment two of two, total grant amount $40,000)	First-Person Storytelling
$20,000	2017	support for Playwriting and TOTO, $20,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $40,000)	First-Person Storytelling
$20,000	2016	support for Playwriting and Dance	First-Person Storytelling

Sundance Institute

An institute dedicated to the discovery and development of independent artists and audiences from the United States and around the world. It connects film, television, new media, and theater artists with audiences to present original voices, inspire new ideas, and create community around independent storytelling. Through mentorship, outreach, community-building, and research to investigate barriers and opportunities for diverse artists, it aims to reach the widest possible array of projects for support across its programs.

Amount	Year	Purpose	Giving Areas
$750,000	2019	general support, $750,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $1,500,000)	First-Person Storytelling
$1,000,000	2018	general support, $1,000,000 per year for two years (payment two of two, total grant amount $2,000,000)	First-Person Storytelling
$1,000,000	2017	general support, $1,000,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $2,000,000)	First-Person Storytelling
$1,000,000	2016	general support	First-Person Storytelling

The Identity Project

A creative intervention that uses documentary storytelling to empower marginalized youth with invaluable opportunities to explore selfhood, identity, and personal power of voice. It invests in empathy building practices that catalyze community-driven social change.

Amount	Year	Purpose	Giving Areas
$10,000	2019	The Identity Project	First-Person Storytelling

The Lark

An international theater laboratory based in New York City. It empowers playwrights financially, professionally, and artistically to explore what they choose. It champions voices and perspectives that have been historically misrepresented and under-resourced by the theater field by providing development opportunities, resources, and connections in the theater community.

Amount	Year	Purpose	Giving Areas
$75,000	2019	general support, $75,000 per year for two years (payment two of two, total grant amount $150,000)	First-Person Storytelling
$75,000	2018	general support, $75,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $150,000)	First-Person Storytelling
$75,000	2017	general support	First-Person Storytelling
$75,000	2016	general support	First-Person Storytelling

The Moth

A nonprofit devoted to the art and craft of storytelling. Built on the principle that sharing personal experiences prompts us to see each other's storied complexity, it inspires a worldwide community of courageous storytellers and connects them to compassionate listeners. It uncovers and elevates stories that are often overlooked, reinforcing our shared humanity.

Amount	Year	Purpose	Giving Areas
$150,000	2019	general support, $150,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $300,000)	First-Person Storytelling
$70,000	2019	for the Pop Up Porch Pilot	First-Person Storytelling
$150,000	2018	general support, $150,000 per year for two years (payment two of two, total grant amount $300,000)	First-Person Storytelling
$150,000	2017	general support, $150,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $300,000)	First-Person Storytelling
$150,000	2016	general support	First-Person Storytelling

The Telling Project

A national performing arts nonprofit that works to deepen understanding of the military and veteran experience. It believes that by building understanding through person-to-person contact in a theater setting, a community can strengthen its connection to its veterans, itself, its place in the nation, and its relationship with the world.

Amount	Year	Purpose	Giving Areas
$50,000	2018	general support	First-Person Storytelling
$50,000	2017	general support	First-Person Storytelling
$50,000	2016	general support and support of Bay Area Expansion if possible	First-Person Storytelling

Urban Bush Women

A New York City organization that approaches dance from a woman-centered perspective and as members of the African Diaspora community. Working to create a more equitable balance of power and representation in the dance world, they use their peformances as the message and the medium to bring together diverse audiences across the country through choreography and collaboration.

Amount	Year	Purpose	Giving Areas
$75,000	2018	general support	First-Person Storytelling
$100,000	2017	general support	First-Person Storytelling
$100,000	2016	general support	First-Person Storytelling

Utah Film Center

A nonprofit that utilizes the power of film to educate, inspire, and engage audiences, transcending Utah's political, geographic, cultural, and religious boundaries to highlight human experiences from around the world. Each of the Film Center’s programs - film programming, media education, and artist support - uses film to facilitate human connections. It collaborates with various community organizations to promote a diversity of ideas, to provide forums for underrepresented groups, and to develop new audiences for film.

Amount	Year	Purpose	Giving Areas
$15,000	2019	general support	First-Person Storytelling

Visionmaker Media

A public media organization devoted to empowering and engaging Native People to tell stories. It helps to create programming, preserves tribal media archives, produces classroom tools, and supports contemporary and historic stories. It works to counteract a history of cultural appropriation and negative portrayals to the outside world. It celebrates Native culture, heritage, wisdom, sacred stories, and the storyteller while promoting diversity in cultures, peoples, and programming across the country.

Amount	Year	Purpose	Giving Areas
$100,000	2019	general support, $100,000 per year for two years (payment two of two, total grant amount $200,000)	First-Person Storytelling
$100,000	2018	general support, $100,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $200,000)	First-Person Storytelling
$100,000	2017	general support	First-Person Storytelling
$100,000	2016	general support	First-Person Storytelling

Voice of Witness

An oral history book series and education program. Believing in the importance of listening to and learning from the firsthand experiences of marginalized communities, it works to advance human rights by amplifying the voices of those impacted by injustice in the United States and globally. Its stories build empathy that fosters critical inquiry into and understanding of seldom-heard stories.

Amount	Year	Purpose	Giving Areas
$100,000	2019	general support, $150,000 in 2019 and $100,000 in 2020 (payment two of two scheduled to be released in 2020, total grant amount $250,000)	First-Person Storytelling
$150,000	2019	general support, $150,000 in 2019 and $100,000 in 2020 (payment one of two, total grant amount $250,000)	First-Person Storytelling
$150,000	2018	general support, $150,000 per year for two years (payment two of two, total grant amount $300,000)	First-Person Storytelling
$150,000	2017	general support, $150,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $300,000)	First-Person Storytelling
$100,000	2016	general support	First-Person Storytelling

Young Storytellers

An arts organization that brings storytelling programming to public schools. Through giving underserved young people in Los Angeles and New York City opportunities to write stories and see them brought to life via performance and film production, it furthers its mission to inspire young people to discover the power of their own voice.

Amount	Year	Purpose	Giving Areas
$12,500	2018	general support	First-Person Storytelling
$25,000	2017	general support	First-Person Storytelling
$25,000	2016	general support	First-Person Storytelling

Youth Speaks

A San Francisco-based youth storytelling and empowerment organization. It creates spaces that challenge youth to find and present their voices through arts education and youth development practices, civic engagement strategies, and artistic presentations. It produces local and national poetry slams, festivals, and readings, alongside a slate of arts-in-education programs.

Amount	Year	Purpose	Giving Areas
$125,000	2019	general support, $125,000 per year for two years (payment two of two, total grant amount $250,000)	First-Person Storytelling
$125,000	2018	general support, $125,000 per year for two years (payment one of two, total grant amount $250,000)	First-Person Storytelling
$100,000	2017	general support	First-Person Storytelling