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

Over the last 18 months, we at Constellations Culture Change Fund & Initiative have been uplifting the innovation and leadership of our Constellations fellows, their partner organizations, and our ever-growing network while watching the growth of narrative shift movements across six regions that we’ve prioritized. It has been a remarkable journey to partake in and also to witness work that has had an indelible impact on community-led initiatives. Illustrator, textile, and rasquache Artist Disruptor Nansi Guevara is one fellow holding critical conversations within the Rio Grande Delta (outside Brownsville, TX)? and uplifting calls-to-action to save sacred lands through her work with Nuestra Delta Magica and Trucha. Mil gracias, Nansi, for the love you selflessly give to the land, its inhabitants, and our creative community! Profile produced by: Breaktide Productions LLC Project management: T. R. Carmona Additional video content: T.R. Carmona #ConstellationsFund #StoriesToChangeTheWorld #BIPOCNarrativePower #CultureBearers

While many people overlook the intersectional identities of those in the South, Constellations Fellow Charmaine Minniefield leaned into calling on all the ancestors of the land. As a community-based initiative, The Praise House Project places multimedia and site-specific public art installations within communities to uphold the African American histories and narratives of the area and address issues of erasure and systemic inequities. Thank you, Charmaine, for holding space not only for the stewards of the land but also for protecting the praise houses, which are historic and influential containers for people's power! Profile produced by Breaktide Productions LLC? Project management: T. R. Carmona Additional content:? Dr. R. Candy Tate? Julie Yabrough #ConstellationsFund #StoriesToChangeTheWorld #BIPOCNarrativePower #CultureBearers

Deep in the heart of Blackfeet territory lives an inspired and committed Culture Bearer who honors her Amskapipikuni and Tsalagi lineages through her community work. We’re so proud to support Mariah Gladstone, who was not only a #ConstellationsFellow but also represents her people as an artist, aerialist, and founder of Indigikitchen. Thank you, Mariah, for inspiring us to move our bodies and reconnect with traditional foods and for how you pour your heart into your people’s wellness! Follow the link to support her youth-inspired Indigenous recipe book: https://lnkd.in/giNGchVZ Profile produced by Breaktide Productions LLC Project management: T. R. Carmona Additional content: Jamison Aimsback of FAST Blackfeet #ConstellationsFund #StoriesToChangeTheWorld #BIPOCNarrativePower #CultureBearers

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