Leeway Foundation awards 12 artists with the Transformation Award
Friday, January 17, 2025
The grants will move $180,000 of unrestricted support to women, trans, and/or gender nonconforming artists and cultural producers.
The grants will move $180,000 of unrestricted support to women, trans, and/or gender nonconforming artists and cultural producers.
When philanthropists are deciding what stories and organizations they strategically support, it's important for them to understand and consider the diversity of paths, perspectives and entry points into the world of news and media making.
What philanthropy needs is not a new framework, but a new endgame, racial liberation, which requires an intentional and laser-like focus on breaking systems of oppression that are based in white supremacist culture.