Ongoing

New York Foundation for the Arts Emergency Grants
The following grants were established in the tradition of Rauschenberg’s own Change, Inc., a non-profit foundation he established in 1970 to assist his peers across all disciplines in need of emergency aid.

Rauschenberg Medical Emergency Grants
This program provides one-time grants of up to $5,000 for recent unexpected medical, dental, and mental health emergencies to artists in financial need who are creating in the visual arts, film/video/electronic/digital arts, and choreography. Only generative artists are eligible—artists creating their own, independent work, with recent and ongoing opportunities for the public to experience that work.

Rauschenberg Dancer Emergency Grants
This program provides one-time grants of up to $3,000 to eligible dancers facing dire financial emergencies, due to the loss or lack of recent/current live performance work, because of circumstances outside of their control. Common circumstances include cancelled performances, cutbacks or cancellations of dance engagement contracts, loss of touring opportunities, and ongoing shutdowns due to the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact.

2024

Beach Sessions
Support for Beach Session's 10th season Dance Commission by Faye Driscoll. Funding to cover artistic fee, rehearsal and performance fees for a core group of dancers. 

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
Featuring 13 projects of live art, performances, and participatory events in public spaces throughout Downtown New York, the 2024 River To River Festival by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council explores themes of resonance, reconsideration, and resistance. 

The Kitchen
Support for The Kitchen's Capital Campaign, a multi-million dollar effort to ensure that the avant-garde continues to create and innovate in New York City. Central to this campaign is a re-imagined, renovated building offering greater technical support for artists and, as important, greater accessibility for audiences.

Artists Council
The Artists Council, an anonymous group of working artists who assist in shaping the Foundation's philanthropy program by overseeing a portion of the Foundation's grant giving, has been funded in part by the Annenberg Foundation since 2020, and has awarded grants to the following organizations.

Aupuni Space
Aupuni Space presents programming featuring Native Hawaiian and Hawaii-based artists and cultural practitioners whose impact serves to translate, mediate and amplify social justice issues.

AUNTS
AUNTS promotes contemporary performance and provides artist practitioners opportunities to develop their work through live presentations.

Bidoun Projects
Bidoun Projects assists artists, writers and curators in serious economic need and suffering from censorship due to their support of Palestinians and their pursuit of liberation.

Primary Information
Primary Information publishes artists' books and artists' writings, advancing the often-intertwined relationship between artists' books and arts' activism and creating a platform for historically marginalized artistic communities and practices.

Evergreen Review
Evergreen Review continues its dedication to championing new writing since 2017, if not also since Evergreen Review's original iteration in 1957.

Pageant
Pagaent supports experimental dance and performance work, welcoming artists working in a range of mediums including music, video, literature and visual art.

LA Commons
LA Commons creates community-based arts programs centered on youth development, helping to build community connection and empowerment and leveraging art and cultural approaches to create positive change.

Links Hall
Links Hall is a home for performing artists of all kinds to fearlessly explore and invent.

Pieter
Pieter fosters a just and expansive community of artists, healers and activists.

Village Connect
Village Connect creates sustainable positive transformations that improve the lives of individuals, their families, and the communities in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The A.R.T. Library Program
The A.R.T. Library Program distributes books on art and culture to public institutions nationwide, free of charge.

The Octavia Project
The Octavia Project explores alternative futures with a commitment to social justice, using interdisciplinary workshops to break down bias around science and technology.

Color Compton
Color Compton works with youth to build community relationships among people of color while exploring identity and creating art.

Black and Indigenous Land Rights and Agriculture 
The Black and Indigenous Land Rights and Agriculture Advisory Committee is a multi-year program that will assist those organizations involved in redressing the related losses of Black and Indigenous people’s land and capacity for wealth generation due to the long-term bias embedded in governmental and statutory systems. The following organizations have been awarded grants for 2024.

Black Urban Growers BUGS
BUGS contributes to the empowerment and resilience of Black agriculture worldwide, with the specific goal of creating more equitable and sustainable food systems.

Earthseed Land Collective
Earthseed Land Collective strengthens practices in reclaiming cultural and community ways, further bolstering movements and strategies for justice and equity.

Bomazeen Land Trust
Bomazeen Land Trust enables Abenaki/Wabanaki People to renew and resume their caretaking of and stewardship for lands and waters with historical, spiritual, and ecological significance to their communities.

Inter-Tribal Buffalo Council 
Inter-Tribal Buffalo Council reestablishes buffalo herds on Tribal lands in a manner that promotes cultural enhancement, spiritual revitalization, ecological restoration and economic development.

Owens Valley Indian Water Commission
Owens Valley Indian Water Commission advances self-sufficiency and sovereignty, protects and promotes culture and traditions, increases sustainability and food security, and expands farming and ranching in the Owens Valley and Eastern Sierra.

Three Sisters Collective
Three Sisters Collective creates safe spaces of engagement for Indigenous people in Oga Pogeh/Santa Fe, New Mexico and supports general operations of community-based initiatives, mutual aid efforts and art-based projects.

Sankofa Community Orchard
Sankofa Community Orchard serves as an example of community resiliency, urban greening and beautification in the Richmond, Virginia area.

Black Church Food Security Network
Black Church Food Security Network supports churches in establishing gardens on their land, hosting miniature farmer's markets, and buying wholesale from Black farmers.

Pineywoods
Pineywoods promotes the viability and success of small, underserved farmers, ranchers, landowners and forest landowners by highlighting the challenges of and advocating for the opportunities inherent in the operations of land ownership.

National Black Food & Justice Alliance
National Black Food & Justice Alliance engages in broad-based coalition organizing with Black-led visions for just and sustainable communities, building capacity for self-determination within local, national and international food systems and land rights work.

Ekvn-Yefolecv
Ekvn-Yefolecv revitalizes the Maskoke Language as well as the traditional ecological knowledge upon which the most authentic Maskoke contributions to climate solutions rely.

Inuit Circumpolar Council-Alaska
Inuit Circumpolar Council-Alaska works toward food security and sovereignty as well as Inuit education and global convenings on climate change.

Sogorea Te' Land Trust
Sogorea Te' Land Trust facilitates the return of Indigenous land to Indigenous people through the practices of rematriation, cultural revitalization and land restoration.

Movement Generation
Movement Generation inspires and engages transformative action towards the liberation and restoration of land, labor, and culture.

2023

Beach Sessions
This organization presents new and free choreographic commissions on the public beach in the Rockaways, helping to expand the visibility of contemporary dance and providing crucial support for some of the most extraordinary movement artists in the region during a time that seems particularly punishing for performers.

Clemente Soto Velez Cultural & Education Center
Historias is an arts festival based on research that recovers and elevates histories of the collaborating communities that exist across all the boroughs. This initiative, involving a selection of the 45 organizations that now compose the Latinx Arts Consortium of New York, will serve primarily low-income people and involve oral histories, archival research, think tanks with scholars and artists, and artists’ commissions to secure the different histories while also making them more accessible through talks, performances, exhibitions, and a website.

Rauschenberg Dancer Emergency Grant, administered by New York Foundation for the Arts
This update to the current RDEG will expand eligible expenses to include basic healthcare/dental care, dance gear/shoes, and rehearsal/studio space rental in addition to rental housing, utilities, food, transportation, and class/physical therapy/etc.

Together and Free
Continued support for this organization will secure bi-lingual case management staff to help parents reunite with their children, once separated from them at the border and now trapped in the US foster care system. 

Artists Council
The Artists Council, an anonymous group of working artists who assist in shaping the Foundation's philanthropy program by overseeing a portion of the Foundation's grant giving, has been funded in part by the Annenberg Foundation since 2020, and has awarded grants to the following organizations.

Black and Pink 
New support for this Omaha branch of a national prison abolitionist organization will help to liberate LGBTQIA2S+ people and people living with HIV/AIDS.

Blank Forms 
Continued support for this organization will sustain opportunities for experimental performers as well as new projects undertaken by Blank Forms Editions, launched in Spring 2017.  

Brown Bag Lady
This organization, founded in 2014, is committed to feeding and providing other essentials to the unhoused in Los Angeles.

Chinatown Tenants Union
This new support will help to provide a space for residents to develop a unified community voice on issues relating to gentrification and development.

Human Resources LA 
This organization supports an artist-driven space focused on performances, convenings and exhibitions.

LA Black Workers Center
This organization seeks to fix the broken opportunity ladder for Black workers in Los Angeles where only 2 in 5 Black workers have quality jobs.  The Center works to reduce unemployment through action and unionization.

Participant
Renewed support for this artist-centric gallery on the Lower Eastside will help it maintain its experimental exhibitions, many of which focus on performance and its global history.

Pinko 
This journal is committed to the creation of a new language and new concepts with which to grasp capitalist sexual and gender relations in order to allow the collective self-determination of gender become a “revolutionary achievement of the highest order.”

Public Assistants
Renewed support will allow this mutual aid network, design lab and resistance hub, founded in 2020, to continue to serve BIPOC creatives and doers who have previously felt underserved.

ReClaiming Our Homes 
New support will help pay for the legal fees needed to fight eviction from homes leased from Caltrans that purchased the buildings decades ago to clear the way for a freeway that never was built. Each family has a court case over the next year to determine whether it can remain in its homes.

El Sereno Community Land Trust
New support for this land trust, that also partners with Reclaiming Our Homes, will allow it to hire a community activist to elevate visibility for ways to develop local housing for the unsheltered. The trust has three main objectives: to support land defenders, economic justice, and housing justice.

Rolling Grocer 
This grocery store in Hudson, New York serves a wide range of community members including those living in poverty through a strategy of tiered pricing.

Transformative Arts 
This Los Angeles-based organization, founded in 2006 by two foreign-born American citizens, serves vulnerable populations, especially women and children, that could benefit from a direct engagement with the arts in order to hone and extend civic participation.

Wide Rainbow
Renewed support for this contemporary art after school program allows it to work in under-resourced neighborhoods with limited or no access to the arts or arts education in New York, Los Angeles, and Detroit.

Black and Indigenous Land Rights and Agriculture 
The Black and Indigenous Land Rights and Agriculture Advisory Committee is a multi-year program that will assist those organizations involved in redressing the related losses of Black and Indigenous people’s land and capacity for wealth generation due to the long-term bias embedded in governmental and statutory systems. The following organizations have been awarded grants for 2023.

Dishgamu Humboldt Wiyot
Dishgamu Humboldt is a non-profit land conservancy operated wholly by the Wiyot Tribe under Tribal law in California. It oversees landback initiatives and is reorienting land conservancies to incorporate Indigenous worldviews. They received Tuluwat Island, both a sacred site and the location of a mass murder in 1860, that had been owned by the City of Eureka; It is understood to be the first municipality in U.S. history to voluntarily return land to a Tribe without restrictions on how it can be used.  

Owens Valley Indian Water Commission 
Owens Valley is also known as Payahǖǖnadǖ, “the place of the flowing water”. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) owns upwards of 95% of private land in Owens Valley, including that previously owned by the Bishop Paiute Indian Reservation. LADWP drained Owens Lake in the 1920s and has been systematically draining the aquifers ever since. Owens Valley Indian Water Commission is a non-profit that represents issues of the Bishop Paiute, Lone Pine Paiute, and Big Pine Paiute of the valley. Many of these issues relate to water, environmental and cultural resource monitoring and mitigation, and advocacy. 

Shelterwood
Shelterwood is a 900-acre Indigenous, Black, and Queer-led community forest and a collective of land protectors and cultural changemakers. Shelterwood is based on unceded Southern Pomo and Kashia territory, above what is now called the Russian River in Northern California. Through land stewardship, active forest restoration and wildfire risk reduction, community and cultural organizing, and the development of a future community retreat center, Shelterwood seeks to heal interconnected ecosystems. Local tribes are involved in sharing knowledge about Indigenous practices such as controlled burns.

2022

Foundation Initiatives

Black and Indigenous Land Rights and Agriculture Initiative
A new 3-year philanthropic activity, the Black and Indigenous Land Rights and Agriculture Initiative seeks to begin to redress the losses of Black and Indigenous people’s land and capacity for wealth generation due to long-term bias imbedded in governmental and statutory systems while providing risk capital to seed future activities and coalitions that could provide financial and spiritual relief. It will be shaped and led by a committee of experts from related fields. 

Grantees

Abrons Art Center*
Continued support to early and mid-career artists for cross-disciplinary performances, exhibitions, and residency programs.

A.rt R.esource T.ransfer (A.R.T.)*
Renewed support for A.R.T. press which publishes artist-to-artist conversations and artists' books that then are circulated through the Distribution to Underserved Communities Library Program (D.U.C.), to public schools, libraries, prisons, and alternative education centers natiowide, free of charge.

Artists Space*
Renewed support for artists' work in all forms, uniting visual, media, and performing arts together under one roof.

Beach Sessions Dance Series*
Renewed support for this pioneering performance series in Rockaway Beach, Queens, that commissions, produces, and presents free, site-responsive choreographic work on New York’s shoreline, creating ambitious new work that expands the boundary of contemporary dance and its audiences.
 
Chinatown Art Brigade*
Support for this intergenerational cultural collective of Asian diasporic artists, media makers, and activists with deep roots in Manhattan’s Chinatown who are making work that centers art and culture as a way to address issues of gentrification and displacement.  
 
Chocolate Factory Theater*
Renewed support for this artist-centered organization, built by and for artists that, since 1995, has grown by centering its programs on the development of new work as guided by experimental performance-based makers. 

Colorado Plateau Foundation
General operating support, for this native-led philanthropic organization serving the tribal nations of the Colorado Plateau region (New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and Utah) that reinforces the self-determination, land, and cultures of native-led organizations in the region.
 
Genderfail Press*
Support for three years to this publishing initiative that encourages projects that foster an intersectional queer subjectivity by looking at work that pushes against a capitalist, racist, ableist, xenophobic, transphobic, homophobic, misogynistic, and anti-environmental ideology. This Brooklyn-based organization is fueled by collaboration, education, and community.
 
Half Letter Press*
Support for three years to this Chicago-based publishing imprint and online store, which endeavors to build long-term support and expanded audiences for experimental work, particularly supporting people and projects that have had difficulty finding assistance through mainstream commercial channels.
 
Heart of Dinner*
Renewed support for this organization that evolved during the pandemic to combat food insecurity and isolation among elders in Chinatown by delivering culturally appropriate meals accompanied by handwritten notes while also supporting small businesses as they recover financially.
 
Interference Archive*
Support for three years to this collectively-run space in Brooklyn that explores the relationship between cultural production and social movements by supporting an archival collection, publications, study center, and public programs that encourage critical and creative engagement with the history of social movements.
 
MARSH (Materializing and Activating Radical Social Habitus)*
Support for three years to this bio-cultural laboratory located in St. Louis, MO, that investigates and directly practices relational forms of social, economic, ecological, and cultural activities designed to explore emergent models of human-scaled and generative social practices including providing food, transitional housing, and residencies.
 
Moms 4 Housing*
Renewed support for a collective of unsheltered and marginally housed mothers in Oakland, California working to reclaim housing from big banks and real estate speculators in the belief that housing is a human right.

NYFA Rauschenberg Dancer Emergency Grants, administered by New York Foundation for the Arts
Renewed support that provides one-time grants of up to $5,000 to professional dancers who have a dire financial emergency due to the pandemic.
 
Participant*
Renewed support for this NYC-based venue in which artists, curators, and writers can develop and present ambitious exhibition projects within a context that recognizes the social and cultural value of artistic experimentation.
 
Project EATS*
Support for this NYC-based organization that creates community-based agricultural enterprises in urban settings while building understanding of good nutrition  and strengthening ties between neighbors.
 
Protect the Sacred*
Renewed support to assist this grassroots initiative to educate and empower Navajo youth and young people through Indian Country to rise up as the next generation of leaders and enhance opportunities for voting in the mid-term elections.
 
Public Assistants*
Renewed support for this Crown Heights, New York mutual aid hub that provides a creative sanctuary for BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ artists while also serving as a Resistance Community Space that offers communal farm, garden, bike repair services, mural projects for youth, toy and coat drives, meal giveaways, and an apothecary clinic among a host of others.
 
The Union for Contemporary Art*
Support for three years to this Omaha, Nebraska cultural center that works to strengthen the cultural and social landscape of North Omaha by using the arts as a vehicle to inspire positive social and civic outcomes including increased civic participation.
 
Wendy’s Subway*
Support for three years to this reading room, writing space, and independent publisher based in Bushwick, Brooklyn that provides an open and versatile platform for expanding modes of reading, writing, and publishing, and is dedicated to encouraging creative, critical, and discursive engagement with arts and literature, with the belief that equitable access to reading and collaborative forms of knowledge-production are catalysts for social transformation.
 
Woodbine*
Renewed support for this volunteer-run experimental hub in Ridgewood, Queens that pivoted from developing the creative and organizing tools needed to build civic autonomy to providing food for the local community during the pandemic. 

2021

Abrons Art Center*
Continued support  to early and mid-career artists through cross-disciplinary performances, exhibitions and residency programs. Funds also aid the Abrons’ Food Access Initiative that delivers weekly fresh groceries, prepared meals and key supplies to over 900 food insecure households across Lower Manhattan.

Artist Relief 
Helped launch second round with other endowed organizations to provide lead funding for the Artist Relief Fund to continue distributing $5,000 grants to artists facing dire financial emergencies due to COVID-19, serving as an ongoing informational resource and co-launching the COVID-19 Impact Survey for Artists and Creative Workers, designed by Americans for the Arts, to better identify and address the needs of artists moving forward.

Artists Space
Emergency funds for this arts organization to continue fostering the artistic and cultural life of New York City as a primary venue for artists' work in all forms, uniting visual, media and performing arts together under one roof.

Beach Sessions Dance Series: Moriah Evans’ Repose
Support for the choreographer and 20 dancers involved in this free, newly commissioned performance taking place one day on Rockaway Beach for six hours.

COUSIN
To assist with costs associated with a publication, undertaken in partnership with Light Industry, that  is the first collection of writings, most newly commissioned, on Indigenous film. Cousin is a collective of four Indigenous filmmakers that supports artists expanding experimental forms of moving picture genres, from documentaries to installation.

Dance Rehearsal Space
To provide free and subsidized rehearsal space for two years at six small dance-focused organizations across the country— the Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance, Topaz Arts in Queens, MOVO Space in Minneapolis, Performance WorksNW in Portland, CounterPulse in San Francisco, and Movement Research in New York City, where the opening of the Bob Studio is scheduled for Fall of 2022.

Danspace Project
Emergency funds to sustain dancers and choreographers’ creative efforts during COVID-19. 

Heart of Dinner*
Support for this culinary inspired organization that evolved to combat food insecurity and isolation among elders by delivering culturally appropriate meals, fresh produce and groceries paired with handwritten letters and heartwarming illustrations, meanwhile supporting small businesses as they recover from the impacts of COVID-19.

The Kitchen
Emergency general operating funds supporting the innovative work of emerging and established artists across dance, music, performance, theater, video, film and art.

Laundromat Project
Support for this Bedford Stuyvesant organization’s build-out of its first space to simultaneously house all its staff and artists-driven community programs.

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
Funds for a partnership with The Clemente, a cultural center on the Lower Eastside, to produce performance events and dance commissions as part of the 2021 and 2022 River to River Festival.

Mision Peniel in Support of Coalition of Immokalee Workers
Emergency assistance for farm workers in Immokalee, Florida to provide financial support and COVID-19 relief by offering free testing and cash assistance.

Moms 4 Housing*
General Operating Support for a collective of homeless and marginally housed mothers working to reclaim housing for the Oakland community from big banks and real estate speculators fighting under the banner that housing is a human right.

Nuwu Art, Cultural Arts and Activism Complex*
Support for the POC-owned and operated space in Las Vegas that works to uplift and advocate the equity of the Indigenous community by strengthening cultural knowledge and identity through the arts, activism and education. Nuwu renovated an old synagogue and rents the space as studios and a gallery for Indigenous artists.

NYFA Rauschenberg Dancer Emergency Grants, administered by New York Foundation for the Arts
To provide one-time grants of up to $5,000 to professional dancers who have a dire financial emergency due to the pandemic.

Protect the Sacred*
Funds will assist this grassroots initiative to educate and empower Navajo youth and young people through Indian Country to rise up as the next generation of leaders that will protect the elders, preserve the languages, medicine ways, and fortify cultural practices and traditions.

Public Assistants*
Support for the Crown Heights mutual aid hub provides a sanctuary for BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ artists to create freely without expectation, while also serving as a Resistance Community Space: housing a communal farm, garden, bike repair services, a mural project for youth, toy and coat drives, meal giveaways and an apothecary clinic among a host of others.

Rauschenberg Artists Fund* / COVID-19
Emergency funds for 13 artists nominated by the Artists Council: Arto Lindsay, Azikiwe Mohammed, Keijaun Thomas, Bernadette Van-Huy, Brenda Shaugnessy, Jennifer Teresa Villanueva, Juliana Huxtable, Kalamu Ya Salaam, Kenzi Shiokava, Luciana Achugar, Mariame Kaba, Paolo Javier and Sam Eng. Administered by New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA)

Shelterwood
To provide support for infrastructure upgrades and repairs for the collective of community activists and artists to live on-site and host programs. Shelterwood is a Black, Indigenous, and LGBTQ-led community forest and retreat center working to restore damaged ecosystems through land justice, community revitalization, and active forest stewardship.

Summaeverythang Community Center*
Provide general operating support for the community center in South Central Los Angeles that delivers local, organic food to the Watts, South Central and Compton neighborhoods.

Together and Free
General operating support for this volunteer-run organization that provides legal, financial and mental health assistance to immigrant families from the time they cross the border between Mexico and Texas.

The Underground Museum
Funds for the renovations and programming of the museum’s Purple Garden, a singular oasis in the South Los Angeles neighborhood where everything from meditation classes and film viewings to educational panels take place.

Wide Rainbow*
Funds for this after-school program to continue making the arts and arts education accessible to underserved communities by connecting contemporary artists with students from low-income neighborhoods and hosting art workshops, tours of leading museums and studio visits.  

Woodbine*
Support for the volunteer-run experimental hub in Ridgewood, Queens to expand its workshops, lectures, discussions and meeting space into a new and bigger setting.

2020

Artist Relief
Funding partner for the Artist Relief, a new national, multidisciplinary initiative that offers immediate individual grants of $5,000 to alleviate the effects of the pandemic.

Ayuda Legal Puerto Rico
Ongoing support of an organization providing swift, on-the-ground legal aid and educational services to the people of Puerto Rico, specifically in efforts to prevent foreclosures and evictions.

Bidoun Projects
Support publishing operations for two years, allowing Bidoun to continue to fill the gaping hole in the arts and culture coverage of the Middle East by supporting 15-20 Middle Eastern artists, writers, and critics per year, which will yield dozens of essays and articles, translations from Arabic and Farsi, as well as artist projects.

Blank Forms
Provide funds for two years to bolster the publishing work of Blank Forms, which supports experimental music across generations and geographies, and is dedicated to supporting emerging and underrepresented artists through curatorial assistance, residencies, commissions and publications well as identifying and placing at-risk underrepresented artists’ archives.

Light Industry
Provide general funds for two years to support Light Industry’s focus on experimental and under-recognized filmmakers and the expansion of its publishing initiative focusing on writings and criticisms of pioneering figures in the field.

Studio Museum in Harlem
Endowment of a named curatorial fellowship, part of a program at the Museum that serves as an incubator for new talent thereby developing the next generation of museum professionals. The Robert Rauschenberg Curatorial Fellowship will be awarded by the Museum on an annual basis to one awardee, for a period of one year, beginning in 2021.

Teaching and Learning through Photography: Tanzania
Support for the creation of affordable visual aids, aligned with the national curriculum, to enhance teaching and learning in secondary schools in Tanzania.

Ugly Duckling Presse
Provide two years of organizational support to Ugly Duckling Presse, a publisher that favors emerging, international, and “forgotten” writers, and publishes poetry, experimental nonfiction, performance texts, and books by artists including translations from under-recognized Eastern European and Latin American authors.

Vida Legal Assistance
Multi-year support of their work providing legal resources and representation to the most vulnerable populations in south Florida – immigrant victims of human trafficking and survivors of domestic abuse.

2019

Beta-Local
Three-year funding for this artist-run center to develop three of its key programs - La Práctica, The Harbor, and La Ivan Illich - as well as plan for a transition in leadership.

Coalition of Immokalee Workers
Five-year general operating support including to fortify its Fair Food Program and expand the worker-driven social responsibility paradigm it has developed to provide a Bill of Rights for farm workers.

LaGuardia Community College
Three-year funding to establish an experiential learning program focused on ecology, activism and wealth inequality.

* Funded by the recommendation of the Artists Council, an ongoing group of working artists that assists in shaping the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation's philanthropy and oversees a portion of the Foundation’s grant giving. Artists Council stipends and expenses are funded through a grant from the Annenberg Foundation.

*** Funded by The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Fund through the Southwest Florida Community Foundation.