Grantee tags Immigration

Life: Immigration Game

Garbani, Isabelle

Year Grant Awarded: 2017

"Life: Immigration Game" takes the original “Game of Life”, and replaces the game tiles with new pieces which are relevant to the life of an immigrant to the US. The game aims to educate native-born residents of the United States about the difficulties and joys of immigrating to America. Read More

“Refugee Kids: One Small School Takes on the World”

Willow Pond Films

Year Grant Awarded: 2017

A short documentary about students at a New York City summer program for children seeking asylum from the world’s most volatile conflicts. Read More

“Onkel Oskar’s Suspenders”

Bulow, Peter

Year Grant Awarded: 2017

"Onkel Oskar's Suspenders", a sculptural installation in Sherman Creek Park, Inwood, NY, is a tribute to the life of my mother, Gizelle, who was liberated from the Budapest Ghetto to migrate from one country to another (Israel, Germany, India) until her arrival in NY in 1968. Read More

Displacement

Svalbonas, Krista

Year Grant Awarded: 2016

Displacement captures the traces of former WWII Displacement Camps in a series of laser cut pigment prints on paper. Read More

When We Were Young/There Was A War

Goudvis, Patricia

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

Through poignant then and now footage of Central Americans, this bilingual website explores the impact of war and its aftermath. Videos, photos and text highlight the ongoing connections between the history and people of Central America and the US. Read More

The Long Ride

Lapin Ganley, Valerie

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

The Long Ride is a timely documentary film about the birth of the new Civil Rights Movement for immigrant workers. Read More

Crossing Paths

Wilson, Tona

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Crossing Paths is a four-channel stop-action animated video in which figures emerge from “clippings” from newspapers and other documents that deal with immigration and migration, and interact with one another across four screens. Read More

Undue Influence: the power of Police and Prison Guards’ Unions

Making Contact/ National Radio Project

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Puffin Foundation supported the production and distribution of an edition of Making Contact investigating the undue influence of police and prison guards’ unions. MC’s radio documentary series can be heard on 141 stations and at www.radioproject.org Read More

The Washington Spectator (2014)

The Public Concern Foundation, Hamilton Fish, President

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

Independent, nonprofit, and reader-supported, the monthly Washington Spectator reports from the ground on the excesses of the public and private sectors that distort our politics and undermine democracy. Read More

Mixteco/RVA

Stoddard, Christine

Year Grant Awarded: 2012

Mixteco/RVA is a photographic book art project about the author's yearlong journey toward understanding linguistic injustice amongst Virginia's Latin American immigrants—Spanish-speaking and otherwise. Read More