Racial Equity Screen Office is a Vancouver-based organization that supports the mentorship, training, funding, production, and distribution of content by racialized Canadian filmmakers with diverse stories. This grant supported operational funding, as well as research for a Best Practices Guide and Decision Maker Report.
The Indigenous Visual Culture program at OCAD University combines practice-specific and interdisciplinary studio-based learning, and courses in the visual, cultural, social and political history of Indigenous peoples. This grant supported the Nigig Visiting Artist Residency.
The Tyee is an independent, online news magazine from British Columbia devoted to fact-driven stories, reporting and analysis that informs and enlivens our democratic conversation. This grant supported Spotlight: Child Welfare, a collaborative journalism project that brings together journalists and people with lived experience of the so-called “child welfare” system.
Ontario Nonprofit Network is the independent network for Ontario’s 58,000 nonprofit organizations. The organization engages with members to address issues and to ensure the voices of our communities reach governments, funders, and other stakeholders. This grant supported Nonprofit Driven 2022, an annual public policy conference.
The Indigenous Heritage Circle is an Indigenous-designed and Indigenous-led organization dedicated to the advancement of cultural heritage priorities that are of importance to Métis, Inuit, and First Nations Peoples in Canada. This grant supported supported a Indigenous Heritage Circle (IHC) gathering at National Trust’s Annual Conference to discuss Parks Canada’s new report, Indigenous Heritage, and … Continued
Muslims in Media supports productions and offers professional development opportunities for artists working on nuanced depictions of Muslim life. This grant supported Episodic Muslim Writers Room, a training program for mid-tier Muslim screen-based industry writers in Canada.
