Grantees All Years

Cat-Fish II — A humanitarian Mission To Haiti

Oil Drum Art

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

A catamaran, using 8 recycled 55-gallon oil drums, was created by Oil Drum Art. It will sail 2,250-miles from CT to Haiti via the Intracoastal Waterways and donated to a fishing village to improve fishing capabilities and better feed its families. Read More

Gender.Network

Olson, Sky

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Gender.Network is a digital archive of flyers, photos, artwork, cartoons, letters, poems, and other media by trans, Two Spirit, non-binary, and gender liberation activists, organizers, and artists. Read More

Fly By Light (2014)

One Common Unity

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

The Fly By Light Youth Ambassador Program is an innovative youth program that emphasizes leadership, compassionate communication, effective conflict resolution, and self-love as pathways to personal growth, health and wellness. Read More

One Common Unity

One Common Unity

Year Grant Awarded: 2011

One Common Unity's mission is to nurture sustainable, caring communities through innovative peace education services, arts initiatives and media programming. Read More

Independent News Curation Team

OptOut Media Foundation

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

The OptOut Media Foundation has a mission to educate the public about current events and help sustain a diverse media ecosystem by promoting and assisting independent news outlets and, in doing so, advance democracy and social justice. Read More

Early Career Artists

Orion Magazine

Year Grant Awarded: 2015

Deemed by the Boston Globe "America’s finest environmental magazine," Orion has received several Puffin grants. Ad-free and artistically presented, Orion produces print and digital editions that address the most pressing environmental issues. Read More

Rear view

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Dorothea Osborn explored the history of whiteness in her own family going back to her first paternal settler in 1637 Each of the 6 panels in Osborn's fabric installation, Rear View, represents a different generation and their economic/social status of the artist's family. Read More

Map of Water Project

Year Grant Awarded: 2017

With a fascination for maps, the concept of mapping, and a deep sense of environmental changes, artist Susan Osgood began a series of monotype prints, paintings and drawings seeking to find and document the very essence of water. Read More

The Hebrew Lesson

Ouray, Esther

Year Grant Awarded: 2012

A rite of return about the Right of Return, The Hebrew Lesson is an hour long one-woman play, written and performed by Esther Ouray, with live music by composers and musicians Tim O’Keefe, Maryam Yusefzadeh and Greg Herriges, and directed by Zaraawar Read More

Weather We will Weather the Weather?

Ouray, Esther

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Weather We will Weather the Weather is an outdoor 15 minute theater piece. It uses the accessible aesthetics of street theater to illuminate the intersection between homelessness and climate change. The majority of its ensemble have the lived experience of homelessness. Read More