Projects tagged
Organization
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Projeto Axé
Read more: Projeto Axé“Children and youngsters who are invisible to society are made visible through Art” Projeto Axé is a not-for-profit organisation founded in 1990 in Salvador, Bahia (Brazil), by Cesare de Florio La Rocca, a lawyer and educator from Florence. Its goal…
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Immigrant Movement International
Read more: Immigrant Movement InternationalTania Bruguera, in partnership with the Queens Museum of Art, began a long term art project in form of an artist initiated socio-political movement. Immigrant Movement International is an organization headquartered in the multinational neighborhood of Corona, Queens. The organization…
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Project Impact
Read more: Project ImpactBy Lauren Hersh, with Katie Cappiello, Artistic Director, The Arts Effect. It’s dark outside, 20 degrees, and we’ve taken to Super Bowl Boulevard in NYC with a team of teen girls who are passionate about ending modern day slavery. They’ve…
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Silent River Film Festival
Read more: Silent River Film FestivalCinema is a popular medium for people to escape the real world. It provides comedy, drama, and endless entertainment. But Kalpna Singh-Chitnis saw an even greater potential for film. She believed that this art form could be utilized as a…
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Project Impact
Read more: Project ImpactProject IMPACT is an 8-week leadership-through-storytelling workshop for teen survivors of commercial sexual exploitation. The goal of Project IMPACT is to introduce survivors to the idea that sharing their stories is a powerful advocacy tool that can impact the legislative…
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Free University New York City
Read more: Free University New York CityIf you headed into the West 4th St. Subway Station on March 9, 2014, you may have seen a group of people writing on cardboard, taping it to the walls, and seemingly holding a small class in the underground space.…
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Detroit Black Community Food Security Network
Read more: Detroit Black Community Food Security NetworkFrom the site’s “About Us:” The Detroit Black Community Food Security Network (DBCFSN) was formed in February 2006 to address food insecurity in Detroit’s Black community, and to organize members of that community to play a more active leadership role…
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Center Portion
Read more: Center PortionSpace to Play by Rick Kogan Performance spaces come in all shapes and sizes and purposes, from the shabby basement blues bar to, well, the Auditorium Theater. This is a city that, in spite of shortsighted politicians and greedy developers,…
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World Comics Network
Read more: World Comics NetworkWith World Comics India, the organization he started, Sharad has pioneered a cheap and easy medium for poor people to communicate meaningfully on issues that are neglected by the conventional media. While the urban elite dominates public media, the grinding…
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Rolling Jubilee
Read more: Rolling JubileeAcross the United States, 2,693 people have received a letter in the last few months, which identified a debt and read: “You are no longer under any obligation to settle this account with the original creditor, the bill collector, or…