The Golden Globe Foundation has announced its grant award recipients for 2024-2025. These contributions support a diverse group of 83 nonprofits that provide a multitude of resources and services to programs that educate, enrich and empower the next generation of filmmakers and storytellers, colleges and universities, underserved communities, film restoration projects in the United States and abroad, along with providing financial aid, assistance and resources to journalists worldwide.
“Golden Globe Foundation is committed to investing in its community and striving for a world where all creatives flourish,” said Henry Arnaud, President, Golden Globe Foundation. “Our organization has a longstanding history and time-honored tradition of providing support to an array of programs making a difference in arts, culture, education, journalism and free speech protections. We are proud of what this year’s grantees have accomplished and congratulate them on the extraordinary impact they are making,” Arnaud continued.
Funding for GGF’s philanthropy is made possible from revenue generated by licensing fees from the Golden Globe® Awards.
Grantees include noteworthy programs such as Black TV & Film Collaborative, Easterseals Southern California Disability Challenge, Film Aid International, Film Independent, Film2Future, Inner-City Filmmakers, Lollipop Theater, The Moth, Urban Peace Institute, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, National Hispanic Media Coalition, Disability Belongs, Sundance Institute, The Film Collaborative, Third World Newsreel, United Veterans’ Artists Alliance, Women In Film, Big Brothers Big Sisters Los Angeles, Venice Arts, A Place Called Home, Compton Unified School District Foundation, Echo Park Film School, IndieCollect, National Museum of American History, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, International Women’s Media Foundation, ProPublica, Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, New Filmmakers of Los Angeles, Valley Cultural Foundation and Vidiots Foundation, among many others.
Higher education institutions receiving support include American Film Institute, UCLA Film & Television Archive Film Series/BIPOC Artists in Residence, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Cal State Dominguez Hills, Cal State Los Angeles, Cal State Long Beach, Cal State Fullerton, Cal State Northridge, Los Angeles City College, Santa Monica College, Southwestern Law School, Los Angeles Valley College, Loyola Marymount University, Cerritos College Foundation, Mt. San Antonio College, Glendale Community College and Brooklyn College Feirstein School.
Golden Globe Foundation also provided significant awards to support a variety of worthy programs and special projects including $400,000 to the NAACP Hollywood Bureau, $100,000 to Cinematheque Francaise for the restoration of the 1927 classic, “Napoleon” and $100,000 to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.
The Hollywood Reporter covered the announcement: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/golden-globe-foundation-grant-recipients-2024-2-1236072118/
