CHOP ART (Atlanta, GA) [WINNER]
Empower homeless youth through art by providing a two week arts summer camp focused on the holistic immersion of music, theater and dance.
303 COMMUNITY COALITION, INC. (Atlanta, GA)
Create short film about gentrification vs. resident upgrading, using narratives from residents containing all five elements of hip-hop.
MEDIA IN NEIGHBORHOODS GROUP (Philadelphia, PA) [RUNNER UP]
Prisoners, police, prosecutors, judges, at-risk youth create short documentaries about each other to increase humanity and understanding.
OURTIME.ORG (Washington, DC)
OurTime.org is one of the nation’s largest non-profit organizations committed to increasing the voter participation of young Americans.
P.O.P. (POEM OVER PISTOL) PROGRAM (Atlanta, GA)
The P.O.P Program is a Life Skills Program that teaches Youth how to redirect their negative emotions into a rap, poem, song or short story.
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The Center for Civic Innovation builds and supports networks of people around key community challenges, such as food security and STE(A)M education. Additionally, through a process called Civic Labs, we connect social entrepreneurs to constrained public agencies and nonprofits through pay for performance contracts, reducing risk for the public agency and giving the entrepreneur what they want and need most: a customer. In addition, we provide capacity building services to local governments, nonprofits, and businesses to help them better engage and connect with their local communities.