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Do you remember what life was like one year ago? Let’s travel back in time: People around the world were just beginning to process the trauma, grief and loss created by a multiyear pandemic. A coordinated attack on the bodily autonomy and human rights of women, transgender and gender expansive people was gaining momentum. The white nationalist cultural movement’s systematic efforts to erase racial history, queer studies, and social-emotional learning from public education was underway. And a(nother) contentious election season was taking shape. We’ve been through a lot—and real talk—we’re st ..read more

In 2022, the Pop Culture Collaborative proudly made $2.2 million in narrative infrastructure grants to 27 inspiring field partners. Since the Pop Culture Collaborative was founded in 2016, we have prioritized support for both Narrative Infrastructure, the investment in leadership, intelligence, collaboration, industry power, innovation, and community building that collectively builds narrative power; and Narrative Immersion, the narrative ocean of content and experiences, that when millions of people are immersed in everyday, that gradually normalize new realities, behaviors, an ..read more

The Pop Culture Collaborative is delighted to announce the 2022 Becoming America Fund narrative network, over three dozen grantee partners and Pluralist Visionaries who will work together to build the yearning in tens of millions of people for a just and pluralist future.   First launched in 2020, the Becoming America Fund supports pop culture for social change practitioners to immerse millions of Americans in narrative oceans of pop culture content that ignite passion, curiosity, and faith in our ability to create something truly visionary, together: a just and pluralist society. M ..read more

We are thrilled to announce that the Pop Culture Collaborative has joined forces with the CAA Foundation, the philanthropic arm of the talent and sports group Creative Artists Agency, to launch Evolutionaries, a first-of-its-kind program to advance the vision and voice of pluralist visionaries. Through this partnership, the Collaborative and the CAA Foundation are supporting civic activists, artists, and movement leaders whose work seeks to change unjust social systems and cultural norms and put forth an actionable vision to transform them. Evolutionaries are leaders who have spent t ..read more

Everyday, the Pop Culture Collaborative team works with our partners to move closer to our North Star: a robust, well-resourced pop culture for social change field that has the resources they need to unleash abundant thinking, inspire deeper bonds across our differences, and spark deep yearning in millions of people to co-create a just and pluralist society. When we launched the Becoming America Fund in 2020, we knew that philanthropy could do more to support the pop culture for social change field to proactively work towards this vision. Our grantees, funding partners, and staff also recogniz ..read more

Do you remember what life was like one year ago? Let’s travel back in time: People around the world were just beginning to process the trauma, grief and loss created by a multiyear pandemic. A coordinated attack on the bodily autonomy and human rights of women, transgender and gender expansive people was gaining momentum. The white nationalist cultural movement’s systematic efforts to erase racial history, queer studies, and social-emotional learning from public education was underway. And a(nother) contentious election season was taking shape. We’ve been through a lot—and real talk—we’re st ..read more

In 2022, the Pop Culture Collaborative proudly made $2.2 in narrative infrastructure grants to 27 inspiring field partners. Since our launch in 2016, the Pop Culture Collaborative has prioritized support for both Narrative Infrastructure, the research, leadership, core capacity, pipelines, networks, and gathering spaces that enable a field or network to operate effectively and in deep coordination; and Narrative Immersion, when millions of people are immersed in a narrative ocean of content and experiences that normalize new realities, behaviors, and identities. Since then we have invested alm ..read more

After the early leak of the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn fifty years of legal precedent around abortion access, the Pop Culture Collaborative, with support from an anonymous donor, activated our Becoming America Fund’s narrative-focused, rapid response grantmaking capacity. The Collaborative is honored to support the critical work of artists, media makers, cultural leaders, and movement organizers that will help tens of millions of people make meaning of what’s next in a post-Roe world, find care and connection amidst ongoing trauma, and ultimately, step into the fight for reprodu ..read more

The Pop Culture Collaborative is delighted to announce the 2022 Becoming America Fund narrative network, over three dozen grantee partners and Pluralist Visionaries who will work together to build the yearning in tens of millions of people for a just and pluralist future.   First launched in 2020, the Becoming America Fund supports pop culture for social change practitioners to immerse millions of Americans in narrative oceans of pop culture content that ignite passion, curiosity, and faith in our ability to create something truly visionary, together: a just and pluralist society ..read more