The Golden Globe Foundation is spreading good cheer heading into the holiday season with the reveal of its 2024-2025 grant recipients, a diverse group of 83 nonprofits.
The foundation, created following the sale of the Golden Globes in 2023, continues the philanthropic initiatives and charitable giving started by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association by using revenue generated by licensing fees for the Globes telecast. Over three decades, a whopping $60 million has been doled out, and the grant recipients for this year lengthen longtime support for arts education, film restoration, journalism, free speech protections and lifting up underserved communities.
“Golden Globe Foundation is committed to investing in its community and striving for a world where all creatives flourish,” said Golden Globe Foundation president Henry Arnaud. “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.”
Grants were awarded in several categories: Promoting cultural exchange through film ($865,000); professional mentorship and training programs ($525,000); journalism and press freedom programs ($450,500); fellowships and institutional support for higher education film schools ($430,000); pre-professional education and mentoring programs ($212,000); special projects including community arts and social service programs ($197,500); film restoration and preservation ($175,000); fellowships and institutional support for journalism colleges and universities ($100,000); endowed film scholarships and fellowships ($20,000).
Grantees include 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, RespectAbility, 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 others.
Higher education institutions set to receive support include American Film Institute, UCLA Film & Television Archive Film Series/BIPOC Artists in Residence, University of California Los Angeles, California Institute of the Arts, 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’s Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema.
Golden Globe Foundation also provided awards to a roster of 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.
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