ATELIER ANAMORPHOSE
The Atelier Anamorphose offers young people from sensitive neighborhood projects to embellish objects or places into works of art. In collaboration with artists, the association accompanies young people aged 15 to 25 with disabilities and/or social difficulties in integration, inclusion and self-revaluation through the widest possible openness to the outside world. The use of “street art” allows young people to discover professional fields with an attractive purpose.
TEATRO METAPHORA
Teatro Metaphora’s purpose is to develop cultural and educational activities for the benefit of community development. Its objectives are to advance the social and personal competencies of children, youth, and adults through non-formal education principles and to give life-changing skills and experiences to people, with fewer opportunities. It is promoting equal opportunities, inclusion, active citizenship, participation, and the creation of various opportunities.
MEDIA LAB
Media Lab’s vision is to become a model of a new type of University by 2030, making the University of Oviedo one of the most innovative in Europe for its learning methodology. They train interdisciplinary students, favoring new mental thinking models, and making them participate in projects that solve the problems of their cities in order to create a positive impact on society.
WATERSPRITE FILM FESTIVAL
Watersprite Film Festival is run by young people for young people and is the largest student film festival in the UK, continuously working to showcase diverse young voices. Their main goal is to make the screen industry more accessible and a more representative and welcoming space for all. They want to empower the next generation by providing opportunities to learn, create and share.
FUNDACIÓN IXCANUL
Fundación Ixcanul aims to contribute to creating positive impact and social transformations through film to encourage critical thinking. It seeks to democratize access to audiovisual content that addresses relevant issues such as memory, identity, inequality, racism, or environmental conflicts in Guatemala.
FIBERS
FIBERS (Fashion Innovative Businesses for the Environment, Reformation, and Sustainability) is a fashion organization that aims to train fashion social entrepreneurs, empowering them to grow and scale their businesses that positively impacts the planet, people, and profit. Their mission is to promote a sustainable and ethical fashion industry that empowers entrepreneurs and artisans to create positive social and environmental impact through innovative and profitable enterprises. FIBERS envisions a fashion industry that prioritizes the planet, people, and profit.
UG DAH TEATAR
Ug Dah Teatar is an independent, professional, contemporary theater troupe and artistic collective that uses modern theater techniques to create engaging art and initiate positive social change locally and globally. Their artistic activities mix theatre, dance, and visual arts to inspire a personal and social transformation.
GIVE SOMETHING BACK TO BERLIN
The organization’s mission is to challenge how integration is perceived and depicted. They imagine a world where migrants, refugees, and locals co-create in a spirit of solidarity as they strongly believe that we are stronger together. GSBTB creates a safe(r) space where new and established Berliners work together to foster individual and collective creativity to form a stronger, more open, inclusive society.
CLEVELAND PUBLIC THEATRE
The mission of Cleveland Public Theatre is to raise consciousness and nurture compassion through groundbreaking performances and life-changing education programs. They envision a vibrant arts-based environment, created by and for local residents, promoting a sense of belonging and civic engagement for participating artists and attendees. CPT is committed to providing opportunities for creation and education, especially for communities that have been historically excluded from participating in the arts.
CULTURE AND ARTS MANAGERS OF THE PHILIPPINES
Culture and Arts envisions a stigma-free Philippines that is a catalyst for personal and societal transformation, psycho-emotional healing, and artistic development. It aims to create projects and programs that promote behavior change and communication that focus on stigma reduction through the use of the arts and to utilize arts and culture as an advocacy tool to support the members of the community and promote it to the general public.
LOCUST PROJECTS
Locust Projects is a non-profit art space based in Florida that aims to create opportunities for visual artists at all career stages, invite risk-taking and experimentation and activate conversations around new art and ideas.
CREATIVE VISIONS FOUNDATION
The mission of the Creative Visions Foundation is to empower creative activists worldwide to raise awareness of critical issues and drive positive change through impact storytelling. They aim to create a more caring, just, and sustainable world through creative activism – the power of media, art, and education to drive positive change and the core values of creativity, honesty, teamwork, transparency, inclusion, and joy.
KRAK
KRAK focuses on engaged discourse while emphasizing the importance of social practice, visual arts, architecture, design, and performance. The framework within which these ideas are achieved is bordered by a strategy of collaboration, social responsibility, and environmental awareness. KRAK wants to position itself as a platform of alternative learning, collaboration, and coexistence with a focus on contemporary art strategies and inventive protocols in the field of contemporary culture.
EN LUGAR DE CREACIÓN
En Lugar de Creación carries out artistic and cultural projects for social development in relation to other fields such as education, science, technology, heritage and the environment. They aim to create a supportive educational space that supports gender equality, public health and gender equality through performative arts and music.
SCUOLA DI HERAT IN ESILIO
Scuola di Herat’s mission is to create a welcoming and safe space for Afghan artists and students in exile and help to maintain their relationship with their country of origin while providing a sanctuary for artistic expression and cultural exchange. They aim to become a landmark for the world’s travelers, exiled, and refugees, where artists, intellectuals, and students from Afghanistan and beyond can find solace, freedom, and inspiration.
THE ACADEMY OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC
The ACM’s core mission statements are ‘do what you love’ and ‘learn by doing.’. They work with a wide array of creative students from the widest catchment of financial, geographic, and ability backgrounds and aim in every case to instill a greater level of artistry, capability, and self-belief in every student under their care.
CONCOMITENTES
Concomitentes is a non-profit association that promotes the creation of artworks that engage with their social context. It invites civil society groups to become the citizen-commissioners of artwork and accompanies them through the ensuing process of negotiation.
PLACE NETWORK
PLACE accelerates and leverages the innovation newcomers bring to Europe, to bring their perspectives and make their contributions to key economic sectors. By unlocking this new talent and matching it with organizations looking for new players in the areas of business, entrepreneurship, public leadership, and media & arts, they are shifting the perspective of migration from a burden to a unique asset for the development and growth of Europe.
REFLEKTOR FOUNDATION
Reflektor Foundation is a mission-driven creative studio based in Sofia that sees art, science, and new media as a way to promote social transformation. The foundation supports marginalized youth against the social injustices they suffer from and advocates for disadvantaged communities’ rights, using creativity as a tool to envision an equal future for all.
ROGUE PACK YOUTH THEATRE
Rogue Pack (RP) is a nonprofit youth theatre company that facilitates storytelling theater workshops for underserved youth. Its mission is to create a community where youth transcend social barriers by taking ownership of their stories through theater arts. They help youth write their unique stories and aid them in developing and devising a script through writing and performance workshops.
SOUP AND SOCKS, E.V
Soup and Socks’ vision is a world where everybody can unfold their potential, regardless of background and skill level. Its mission is to engage the refugee community, the Greek host community, and the international community, promoting self-reliance and solidarity in the firm belief that purpose, community, and dignity are essential to building one’s identity.
DEPARTMENT OF IMAGINARY AFFAIRS
The mission of Department of Imaginary Affairs is to imagine equitable futures. Their work is to seek, center, elevate, and amplify the voices, stories, living experiences, perspectives, ideas, and ideally decision-making practices of Newcomers, Immigrants, Refugees, and Youth (especially those who identify as Black, Indigenous and/or People of Colour) in order to co-design more empathetic programs, policies, and services.
QUINDICI19
Quindici19 is an Italian cultural association founded by a group of high school students that, over the years, has become a multicultural space for intergenerational dialogue, where young people can gather, discuss social issues, elaborate solutions and mobilize. They use creativity to find innovative solutions to contemporary problems.
PLEXO PLATAFORMA CREATIVA
Plexo Plataforma Creativa’s mission is to promote and disseminate contemporary art production as well as artistic research in the state of Chihuahua through pedagogical and curatorial strategies in line with our cultural, political and social reality. It aims to position itself as an organization with innovative pedagogical and curatorial programs that are a national and international reference.
LAMA
LAMA operates in the social and urban innovation field, focusing on sustainable cities and communities. It aims to accompany organizations and places in processes of sustainable transformation through values such as accessibility, responsibility, cooperation and resource regeneration. Its vision is to ensure social, and environmental sustainability and in governance and business models through cooperative enterprise in order to best respond to the challenges of our time.
LA GUARIMBA
La Guarimba is an international film festival and association based in Calabria, Southern Italy. La Guarimba -“safe space” in the Venezuelan indigenous language- is a safe space where marginalized youth and the local community can explore the art of film, learn how to express themselves and explore the incredible potential of Calabria.
MARZONA STIFTUNG
The Marzona Stiftung also known as the Design Akademie Saaleck is a historic site with a new purpose, a European platform for future-driven conversations with and for designers, and a place to empower passionate innovators in the fields of architecture, design, and craft. It aims to inspire and educate through art and applied arts and architecture and to stimulate emerging talents for the social and environmental challenges for our planet
IN PLACE OF WAR
In Place of War (IPOW) is a global organization that uses artistic creativity in places of conflict as a tool for positive change. Its vision is to live in a world where creativity conquers conflict. They enable grassroots change-makers in music, theatre and across the arts to transform cultures of violence and suffering into hope, opportunity and freedom. They work with a network of young change-makers based in their communities, in conflict situations across 26 countries, primarily in UK/USA, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and the Balkans.
Creative Tools for Social Change - 2022 Recipients
- CANVAS Arts Action Programs, Toronto
- Centre for Indigenous Theatre, Toronto
- Platform, Toronto
- SKETCH, Toronto
- ARTE , New York
- Big House Books, Jackson
- Brew & Forge, Greenfield
- NYU Center for Black Visual Culture, New York
- Gray Area, San Francisco
- NYC Salt, New York
- RYSE, Richmond
- The Lower Eastside Girls Club of New York, New York
- Urban Word, New York
- 826NYC, New York
- Comando Colibrí, Mexico City
- Fundacion FLAG, Mexico City
- Girl Up Mexico, Mexico City
- Associazione Milano Mediterranea, Milan
- IntegrART, Treviso
- Officina della Produzione, Milan
- ShowDesk, Milan
- Visual Voices, Nicosia
- Amava Oluntu, Cape Town
- Bag Factory Artists’ Studios, Johannesburg
- Bridges for Music, Cape Town
- Eh!woza, Cape Town
- Free Film Collective, Cape Town
ASSOCIAZIONE MILANO MEDITERRANEA
Associazione Milano Mediterranea is a participatory Art center offering opportunities for art residencies to young artists from the Mediterranean diaspora living in Italy. The organization supports their talents and careers against the stigmatization they suffer from formal institutions.
FUNDACIÓN FLAG
FLAG (Fundación Lorena Alejandra Gallardo) is an organization based and working in Mexico City, supporting high-achieving and under-resourced university students in their academic, personal and professional growth during their student experience and the transition to a professional career, helping them to develop their strengths and ambitions.
FREE FILM COLLECTIVE
Free Film Collective offers film and arts education programs to young aspiring filmmakers, writers, artists, and activists, helping them to develop fundamental professional skills in a country – South Africa – with an extremely high youth unemployment rate.
CANVAS ARTS ACTION PROGRAMS
CANVAS organizes arts-based education, dialogue programs, and workshops for young people to fight gender-based and sexual violence, homophobia, and transphobia. They work in schools, community centers, shelters, and camps, where they encourage empathy and dialogue through art.
VISUAL VOICES
Visual Voices creates spaces where young artists from communities affected by violent conflicts can express their artistic vision and advocate for peace through visual means. They support young creative communities through their artistic journey towards positive social change.
826NYC
826NYC is dedicated to exploring the endless possibilities of words and fostering generations of creative writers and thinkers, starting from the assumption that creativity is key to engaging youth and promoting positive social change. 826NYC encourages young people to write their future, cultivating writing skills and discovering new approaches. Their creative writing programs are designed to center student voice and encourage youth to harness their imaginations.
OFFICINA DELLA PRODUZIONE
Officina della Produzione is a Milan-based organization that wants to give voice to those who have no means to express themselves. Focusing on the value of cooperation and active participation, they make audiovisual products and organize art workshops and social events to produce social cohesion, aggregation, and weaving new relationships among young people in the neighborhood.
SHOWDESK
Showdesk is an Italian NGO that supports and encourages youth from underserved communities to develop creative projects and use design as a tool for social development and cultural growth. The organization aims to find young talents and provide them the skills and the confidence to change their future through unconventional educational programs.
RYSE
RYSE creates safe spaces for youth from marginalized and underserved communities in Richmond, California, that suffer from systemic inequities and discrimination from the institution. RYSE works to address those issues, cultivate healing and build a movement that facilitates the creation of personal, political, and expressive art to shift narratives about youth.
URBAN WORD
Urban Word encourages marginalized youth to discover the transformative power of the written and spoken word, providing them the tools, training, and platforms to rewrite their personal narratives and communities. They aim to ignite a personal commitment to social change in young people by promoting active literacy, critical thought, and positive social dialogue.
PLATFORM
Platform aims to create a reality in which all black and indigenous youth, racialized women, and gender-diverse people can participate fully and safely in an equitable society, tickling their leadership capacity to advance gender equity and justice through skill-based workshop series, mentorship, and networking events.
AMAVA OLUNTU
Amava Oluntu is a South African NGO that firmly believes a renewed sense of community can tackle social inequality. Their communication skills training and networking opportunities aim to support young people to find solutions to the growing challenges in our society, mentoring them to discover their potential and drive positive social change in their communities.
BREW AND FORGE
Brew & Forge’s work stands at the intersection of art and activism. Their initiatives, such as the annual book fair and The Witches & Warriors retreat, aim to raise awareness among young writers and artists on the most pressing social justice issues. Encouraging contamination and dialogue between writers and activists, Brew & Forge upholds the central role literature can play in envisioning a liberated future.
CENTER FOR BLACK VISUAL CULTURE
The Center for Black Visual Culture at New York University researches, documents, and celebrates the cultural and intellectual production of Africa and its Diaspora. It is an interdisciplinary space for students, faculty members, and the external public. It promotes and encourages research and discussion on the contemporary black community’s artistic production.
BAG FACTORY ARTISTS' STUDIOS
Based in Johannesburg, Bag Factory is a non-profit contemporary visual art organization that prepares emerging artists, writers, and curators for their future careers. Bag Factory supports them in the longer term by providing an infrastructure where they can express and develop creative skills, explore and grow.
GIRL UP MEXICO
Girl Up Mexico’s mission is to empower a new generation of women as transformative leaders to advocate for gender equity. With over 250 Clubs across Latin America and the Caribbean, they have trained 3,000 young people of all backgrounds to create tangible change for girls and youth everywhere, giving them a platform to tell their stories and the tools to become gender equity advocates and intersectional activists.
EH!WOZA
Eh!woza’s work lies between science communication, youth advocacy, community engagement, and technical education. This Cape Town-based organization provides technical and artistic workshops to high school students and young adults. Thanks to these workshops, students learn how to produce documentaries, music, poetry, and music videos that spread knowledge and awareness about HIV and TB, telling the individual, social, and emotional costs of diseases.
INTEGRART
IntegrART is an NGO association based in Treviso, Italy fostering social inclusivity of vulnerable subjects through the arts. IntegrART acts as a mobile incubator of the direct connection between the excellencies and the vulnerable people, mainly women, young people, and immigrants, organizing courses, workshops, and projects in schools and settings of cultural gatherings.
BRIDGES FOR MUSIC
Bridges for Music considers art an essential agent for social change. That’s why they focus on providing underserved youth with quality arts education, bridging the gap they have to face to become professionals in the creative industry.
CENTRE FOR INDIGENOUS THEATRE
Centre for Indigenous Theatre supports young and emerging Indigenous creatives to discover their artistic voices through theatre and performing arts. This Toronto-based organization embraces the spirit, energy, and inspiration derived from Indigenous people’s culture, values, and traditions. It encourages the cultural exchange of practices and techniques between Indigenous Nations and communities.
ARTE
Art and Resistance Through Education (ARTE) is an NGO based in NYC, inspiring young people to become human rights advocates. The organization engages youth from underserved communities to promote positive social change through visual arts, providing them with tools, skills, and spaces that are too often out of reach.
NYC SALT
NYC SALT’S mission is to empower underserved youth in New York City through an understanding of the visual industry. SALT creates opportunities and pathways to college and career for youth from diverse backgrounds who are dedicated to careers in the arts, by engaging them in a mix of professional photography instruction, college-preparatory workshops, and career exposure.
SKETCH
Sketch believes that art has the power to transform lives and impact change, envisioning a societal movement in which marginalized young people are empowered to become culture makers. Its work aims to show diverse youth who live homelessly or in poverty the transformative power of arts and how art can bring consistent societal change. They offer various artistic and social programs to meet all participants’ needs, from the most basic to the educational ones.
BIG HOUSE BOOKS
Big House Books is an NGO based in Jackson, Mississippi, that promotes literacy among inmates in prisons or juveniles’ detentions, in the belief that literacy can be a crucial factor in re-educating and rehabilitating young people currently in correctional facilities in present society.
COMANDO COLIBRÍ
Comando Colibrí’s ultimate purpose is to liberate Mexican girls and women by teaching them how to respond to any kind of violence and fight patriarchal abuses at any level, both physical and spiritual. They focus on empowering women, providing them mental help, and core martial arts education program.
GRAY AREA
Gray Area fosters innovative art and design projects to envision and create our tomorrow using digital tools. They aim to inspire the next generation of change-makers, uphold technology as the key to finding responses to contemporary criticalities, and rethink cities as creative playgrounds to design the future.
THE LOWER EASTSIDE GIRLS CLUB OF NEW YORK
The Lower Eastside Girls Club supports young women and gender-expansive youth of color throughout NYC in leveraging their inner power to shape a better future for themselves, their community, and the world. Through free, year-round, innovative programming, they connect young people with their passions, celebrate their curiosity, and channel their creative energy to build a just and equitable future filled with “Joy. Power. Possibility.”
WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
The program targets non-profit organizations whose work highlights the link between creativity and social transformation. As such, they not only produce unique and unconventional programs and initiatives but generate and foster social change. Areas of intervention might include education, arts and culture, social justice, minorities inclusion.
The program is open to non-profit organizations from all sectors and civil society at large and supports short- or long-term actions that either/or:
- Contribute to the sharing and development of knowledge and culture.
- Support self-expression and creativity.
- Showcase the role of creativity as a driver for social change.
- Support the development of creative ecosystems
- Promote critical thinking, creative doing, lifelong learning and changemaking attitude
WHAT DO WE OFFER?
We offer Moleskine Notebooks in different sizes and layouts.
All products are new and come from current or past collections that have been developed over the last 5 years. The majority of the products available are coming from our Limited Editions Collection, such as Bob Dylan, Dr. Seuss, Rolling Stones, and many others.
If you’re selected for the Program, we will do our best to accommodate your product preferences.
Participants can apply for three different product amounts:
» Small: from 250 to 1.000 pcs
» Medium: from 1.001 to 3.000 pcs
» Large: from 3.001 to 5.000 pcs
Please bear in mind that the Program has a limited number of tools to give per submission round and the number of successful applications proportionately decreases the larger the grant size.
TIMELINE &
SELECTION PROCESS
The Call for 2023 is now closed. Stay tuned for the 2024 Call.
Applications will be reviewed by Moleskine and Moleskine Foundation teams. Due to the anticipated high volume of applications, we will complete the assessment procedure within 8/12 weeks from the submission deadline. This is also why decisions are final and why we unfortunately cannot enter into any correspondence regarding unsuccessful applications afterward.
APPLICATION FORM
- Carefully read the call.
- Be creative in your application – feel free to add links to any video or picture to support your cause.
- Share the call with others and help us grow a global community of likeminded organizations.
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SELECTION CRITERIA
- Quality: innovativeness, and unconventionality of creative programs, delivered consistently over an extended period
- Social transformation and ecosystemic impact: capacity to directly or indirectly foster positive systemic change in relevant individuals and society, at multiple levels.
- Influence and integrity – the ability to drive growth and change perceptions around the “creativity for social change” field and cultural and creative industries.
- Areas of intervention: Education, arts and culture, social justice, racial equity.
We will take into high consideration applications coming from organizations focused on inclusivity, supporting minority groups and underserved communities.
ELEGIBILITY CRITERIA
- Applications must be submitted in English and must be completed in all parts.
- Applicants must be above 18 years old.
- The call is open to non-profit organizations officially recognized in the country of operation.
- The organization’s main target should be young adults (16 – 27 years old)
- Organizations from Europe, the US, South Africa, Canada, and Mexico can apply.*
- We do not accept proposals submitted by political parties or religious associations.
*We would like to offer this program worldwide. Unfortunately, there are some areas that we are not able to reach for now. We hope to extend this opportunity soon to Organizations from all geographies.
Claude Bunny Massassa is a contemporary artist from Gabon. She created Bunny Studio in 2016, a start-up dedicated to photography production, which became DWABI Studio in 2021. As an artist, she has represented Gabon in many international exhibitions in Senegal, Uganda, France, the United States, and Italy. In her art, she denounces social stigmas around issues of identity and mental health, and explores themes of traditions and myths.
Executive Director Kimberly Aceves- Iñiguez has been passionately committed for over 20 years to social justice organizing and advocacy efforts that bring voice and power to youth, LGBTQ people, people of color, and working-class communities in the Bay Area. Before coming on as the Executive Director for RYSE, Kimberly served as the Executive Director for Youth Together, the founding organization of the RYSE Center.
Kanwarpal Dhaliwal is one of the co-founders of RYSE and currently acts as the Associate Director. She supports and guides the implementation and integration of healing-centered practices, grounded in racial justice and liberation, and also develops, promotes, and advocates for policies, investments, practices, and research that enliven healing, justice, and liberation. Kanwarpal believes that the purpose of her work and life is to contribute to movements, communities, and legacies of liberation that honor the ancestors who fought for her existence and survival, and to forge a world that is just and gentle for future generations.
Sagal Ali is the founder and executive director of SAF. After a few years in her career in heritage protection in the cultural sector, she decided to develop the initiative to directly support young creatives in Somalia by launching her own foundation. She hopes to bridge the social gaps and inequalities women face in Somalia, both in society and in the arts scene.
Co-founders Catherine Dunga and Marleen Palmaers created Kitambo to bridge the gap between the African diaspora in Colombia and the narratives from the continent. From Kinshasa and Antwerp respectively, they work to connect African artists from the continent and their peers from the Colombian diaspora.
Martha Kazungu is a curator, art Historian and Founder of Njabala Foundation, an organization that curates periodic exhibitions and organizes a public program of activities to create a safe space for female artists to thrive and blossom.
Alicia Hansen is a photographer and teacher from New York. She founded NYC SALT in 2008 and, beyond teaching valuable creative skills to her students, has developed a long-term support system to uplift them through school and into their early artistic careers.
