New Venture Fund
For The Lady Parts Justice League Project
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Amount$100,000
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Program
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Date Awarded11/14/2017
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Term24 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
This grant will support the Lady Parts Justice League project, which uses humor and pop culture to strengthen reproductive health and justice. Founded by Lizz Winstead, co-creator and former head writer of "The Daily Show," Lady Parts Justice galvanizes support for reproductive rights by developing original comedic content that highlights threats to reproductive rights and abortion access; engaging young people in activism through social media and other online spaces; and capitalizing on live audiences to do in-person engagements such as clinic support tours, collaborative events, activist workshops, rallies, and speaking events.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.newventurefund.org
Address
1828 L Street NW, Suite 300 – A, Washington, DC, 20036, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for the Open Education program at the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition
The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), a fiscally sponsored project of New Venture Fund, is a nonprofit advocacy group that supports systems for research and education that are open by default and equitable by design. With this grant, SPARC will continue to advance open education by building capacity through libraries, promoting structural change in policy and the marketplace, and supporting strategic collaboration. The outcome will be greater opportunities for the use of open educational resources and practices in North American higher education, which will enable more equitable and effective educational experiences for students. (Substrategy: Sustainable Systems)
for Project Unloaded
This grant supports Project Unloaded, a fiscally sponsored project of the New Venture Fund. The mission of Project Unloaded is to create a new cultural narrative that guns make us less safe. Through creative and cultural campaigns, Project Unloaded establishes safe spaces for open conversations about guns and provides accurate information about gun safety to inspire the next generation to choose on their own terms not to own and use guns. Grant funds would support Project Unloaded’s social media campaigns to reach teens throughout the U.S. Funding would also support youth engagement via Project Unloaded’s community partner program and national youth council.
