The Center for Cultural Power

We are thrilled to partner with Offor to launch our search for our next CEO. This The Center for Cultural Power CEO will:? **Implement a team structure by creating systems, structures, and cultures that maximize organizational efficiency.? **Increase CCP’s long-term financial stability. **Develop and implement CCP’s new strategic plan beyond 2026. The application closes on Monday, November 11, 2024. See Below for the Job Description. #nowhiring #leadership #CEO #fundraising #strategy

The Gila River Indian Community is one of several Indigenous gateways into the Phoenix metro area in Arizona, and it’s here that Constellations Fellow?Leonard Bruce?worked on his narrative shift project with his partner organization,?Three Precious Miracles. Listen as he shares his experience navigating the powerful intersections between Indigenous history and technology as an Akimel O’odham man living in his occupied homelands. Thank you for sharing your love of your people and their legacies with us, Leonard! Profile produced by?Breaktide Productions LLC Project management:?T. R. Carmona #ConstellationsFund #StoriesToChangeTheWorld #BIPOCNarrativePower #CultureBearers

Over the last year, many of you have become familiar with the ten incredible Constellations fellows who have diligently enriched our network as both Artist Disruptors and Culture Bearers. Within that group are many respected knowledge keepers, community creatives, and way finders advocating to protect not only their cultural cornerstones but also those of others. Among these is Amy Stretten, who comes from the Chickahominy Tribe of Virginia and partnered with United American Indian Involvement, Inc. (UAII) during their fellowship. Take a moment to listen to her fellowship's impact on her work and community, and thank you to Amy for leading powerful conversations around wellness and body sovereignty! Profile produced by Breaktide Productions LLC Content contributions: Photographer/Videographer: Ames Hoang (radicchiofilms.com) Addt’l content from: Nel, Wellness for Her Amy Stretten, Chief of Style This activity is supported in part by The California Arts Council. #ConstellationsFund #StoriesToChangeTheWorld #BIPOCNarrativePower #CultureBearers

This Spring, in partnership with the California Arts Council, The Constellations Culture Change Fund & Initiative invited California-based and focused organizations led by folk artists and Culture Bearers working through traditional and tradition-based forms and practices to apply to our 2024 Constellations Folk Arts & Cultural Stewardship Grants. Through a participatory decision-making process, a panel of Culture Bearers and folk artists selected six lighthouse organizations leading community culture bearing with intention and power. We are honored to start this partnership with them and we invite you to join us in welcoming them to the Constellations Network: Bay Area American Indian Two Spirits (BAAITS) Cunamacué The Luke Madrigal Indigenous Storytelling Nonprofit Omnira Institute Pacific Island Ethnic Art Museum Seeds of Ancestral Renewal (SOAR) The 2024 Constellations Folk Arts & Cultural Stewardship Grants are one-year, flexible, general operating support grants for California-based and focused organizations that work at the intersection of arts, culture, and social justice and whose work on cultural and narrative power building is rooted in and aligned with ancestral, Indigenous, and traditional knowledge, values, and practices. #ConstellationsFund #StoriesToChangeTheWorld #BIPOCNarrativePower #CultureBearers

The final group in this Constellations 2023 Grantee Partner Announcements chapter comes to us through their collective powerful and creative works. Bringing joy and honesty to community members onstage and off is no easy feat and we give thanks for: Borderlands Theatre Decimania Incorporado (decimania.com) Mississippi Coalition To End Corporal Punishment (https://lnkd.in/gTgFwNRQ) SOUTHERN FRIED QUEER PRIDE Swipe to learn more to witness their work and learn about them, and be sure to give them a follow! #ConstellationsFund #StoriesToChangeTheWorld #BIPOCNarrativePower #TrustBasedPhilanthropy

Up next in Constellations’ 2023 Grantee Partner announcements are the powerhouses in: ? Asociación de Documentalistas de Puerto Rico ?? Pegasus Media Project ? Undocumented Filmmakers Collective Their media and documenting work has inspired us to begin our own archival and power-building processes. We highly recommend following their pages and visiting their websites to see what stories are being shared through their networks. #ConstellationsFund #StoriesToChangeTheWorld #BIPOCNarrativePower #TrustBasedPhilanthropy

We’re continuing to debut our incredible 2023 Grantee Partners whose invigorating community and cultural work has prompted us to dive deeper into our traditional,? restorative, and transformative ways of knowing! Constellations welcomes the following organizations to our network: FLOWERS & BULLETS Sagan Kotturan Chamoru - Inadahen I Lina'la' Kotturan CHamoru Transforming Generations Center for Native Futures Swipe to get educated about their community impact and be sure to give them a follow! #ConstellationsFund #StoriesToChangeTheWorld #BIPOCNarrativePower #TrustBasedPhilanthropy

In 2022, Constellations launched a radical regranting program, and in 2023, we continued our resourcing work, providing $2M to fifteen (15) cultural strategy organizations working at the intersection of arts, culture, and social justice, in the form of two-year general operating grants. It’s our honor to introduce you to these organizations that have enriched our network and inspired many of the regional impacts we’ve seen of late! Please join us in celebrating the work of: Black Girl's Guide to Surviving Menopause? Micronesia Climate Change Alliance San Anto Cultural Arts Intelligent Mischief Swipe to learn more about them and be sure to follow their work! #ConstellationsFund #StoriesToChangeTheWorld #BIPOCNarrativePower #TrustBasedPhilanthropy

After accepting the invitation to meet Constellations Fellow Keala Kahuanui and her Kanaka kin on Hawai’i Island in August, our team immersed ourselves in the tender and fierce aloha only found in Hawai’i. Culture Bearer Keala Kahuanui and her partner organization NA KALAI WAA hosted dozens of visitors during her summer showcase Ho’ō Kākou: Food Provisioning for OUR Wa’a & Moku. Many organizations, community leaders, educators, and water protectors came together to learn about food sovereignty, sustainability, and traditional food preservation techniques and shared a delicious, all-ancestral meal. We are all forever changed in knowing Keala but also the love of a community that is not our own, but allows us to share - by invitation - the honor that it is to be a visiting guest in their sovereign kingdom. Mahalo nui, Keala. We love you, fellowships. #ConstellationsFund #StoriesToChangeTheWorld #BIPOCNarrativePower #TrustBasedPhilanthropy

Rare are the storytellers *from* the community who are not there to share something sacred, but trusted to carry a piece of culture forward. Constellations Fellow Adam Perez is such a storyteller and weaves his web through a plethora of talents be it in front of, or behind the camera. We were honored to attend his fellowship showcase, which culminated in the Tierra Mia Festival, a day spent honoring the myriad cultures and community members in the Central Californian Valley. Co-hosted by his partner organization Central Valley Empowerment Alliance, the event welcomed over 1,000 attendees! Have a peek at this wonderful day and thank you from our heart of hearts for including us, Adan. This showcase was sponsored by a partnership between The Constellations Culture Change Fund & Initiative, housed at The Center for Cultural Power, and the California Arts Council. #ConstellationsFund #StoriesToChangeTheWorld #BIPOCNarrativePower #TrustBasedPhilanthropy