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About the Arts Program
The DR Fund’s Arts program supports arts and culture organizations that are using the arts to advance social justice movements or power-building efforts on a national level. We seek to fund exemplary and inspiring efforts that demonstrate how artistic practice can move beyond a single person or institution to affect broader communities and accelerate social, economic, and ecological justice.
We are particularly interested in work that inspires civic engagement; ensures that social movements incorporate arts and culture into their strategy; and prioritizes communities impacted most by environmental injustice, mass incarceration, over-policing, and other forms of racial injustice.
Art is important because it expands how we look at and understand the world. It can make us think beyond our own experience, and often, in our appreciation, we find things that link us in a common humanity.
David Rockefeller