Moleskine Foundation

📣 Applications are now open for the Creativity Pioneers Fund 2025! 🎨 Creativity is a powerful force for social change. That’s why we've partnered with the Moleskine Foundation to expand the Creativity Pioneers Fund’s impact in the food and farming space. Together, we believe in the power of co-creation—building trust, strengthening capacity, and amplifying shared narratives to drive systemic change. 💡 This fund provides €5,000 unrestricted grants to food sustainability organisations using creativity to tackle pressing challenges, and build a more just, inclusive, and equitable world, Apply before 7 April 2025, 17:00 CET or join one of the Q&A sessions here: https://lnkd.in/dGcXir8n #CreativityForSocialChange #CreativityPioneers #FundingOpportunity

The Creativity Pioneers Fund Open Call 2025 is now live! Apply by April 7 for a chance to receive a 5,000€ unearmarked grant and join a global community of like-minded organizations using creativity and culture to address today’s most pressing challenges. How to apply: Click the link below to read the Open Call and fill out the application form. Available in English, Spanish, French, and Italian. A special thank you to the partners of the Creativity Pioneers Fund, a unique coalition investing in and promoting Creativity for Social Change. Don’t miss this opportunity! Apply now: https://lnkd.in/dGcXir8n #CreativityPioneers #OpenCall #FundingOpportunity #CreativeImpact #SocialChange BIC Promozioniservizi® - Gruppo CRIF Cherry Bank Fondazione Marcegaglia Porticus BASE Milano Hawthornden Foundation Healthy Food Healthy Planet Fondazione CON IL SUD Open Society Foundations MANE King Baudouin Foundation Nirox Sculpture Park Allianz Foundation The DOEN Foundation Conrad N. Hilton Foundation The Democracy & Culture Foundation Fondazione Italiana Accenture ETS KAOSPILOT Social Enterprise Open Camp Isola.Catania Fondazione OELLE Mediterraneo Antico Istituto Marangoni The African Leadership University Fondazione Pietro Pittini LAGO-COLLECTIVE Community Arts Network FROM – Moltiplichiamo valore pubblico European Cultural Foundation ODI Global Alterna British Council

🚨Last week to submit nominations! If you know a visionary changemaker using arts and culture to tackle critical social issues, then nominate them for the Creativity for Social Change Award 2025! Launched by both the Democracy & Culture Foundation and the Moleskine Foundation, the award includes a €10,000 prize, access to the Creativity Pioneers Fund ecosystem, and a chance to co-curate a panel at the Art for Tomorrow conference. The members of the selection committee are Heba Y. Amin, Dimitris Daskalopoulos, Sandra Jackson-Dumont, Jeff Koons, Sebabatso Manoeli-Lesame, PhD, Simon Njami, Adama Sanneh and Kimberly Conniff Taber Nominations are open until February 28th at 5 PM CET. Learn more and submit your nomination at https://lnkd.in/ekQqi7nE

Fondazione Italiana Accenture ETS joins the Creativity Pioneers Fund! We are excited to welcome Fondazione Italiana Accenture ETS as a Funding Partner of the Creativity Pioneers Fund, strengthening our shared commitment to supporting cultural organizations worldwide driving social impact. Through this collaboration, idea360, Fondazione Italiana Accenture’s digital platform, will play a key role in making access to the fund more inclusive and in helping us continue our research on the Creativity for Social Change sector. By leveraging technology, we aim to support organizations that use creativity to tackle social and environmental challenges, ensuring greater impact. #CreativityPioneersFund #CreativityForSocialChange Adama Sanneh Tania Gianesin Marina Mussapi Simona Torre Maria Chiara Marozza Francesca Iacoangeli

🌟 Thrilled to announce the launch of the first-ever Creativity for Social Change Award! 🌟 This groundbreaking award, in partnership with Art for Tomorrow, the Democracy & Culture Foundation, and the Creativity Pioneers Fund, honors changemakers who use the arts and culture to address pressing social and environmental challenges. 🏆 The award includes: - A €10,000 cash prize - Access to the Creativity Pioneers Fund - The opportunity to attend and co-curate a panel at the Art for Tomorrow conference in Milan 🗓️ Nominations are open until February 28th, 5 PM CET. If you know an inspiring individual or organization making a difference through creativity, nominate them today at https://lnkd.in/ekQqi7nE Let’s celebrate the power of arts and culture to change the world! #CreativityForSocialChange #Award #CallForNominations

Exciting news—the Alliance for Socially Engaged Arts is here! Together with some of the leading Foundations in Europe working in the Creativity for Social Change field, we are launching a Fellowship program to support the journey of visionary leaders of arts organizations driven by community engagement and social change across Europe. Are you striving for a future where community engagement and creative collaboration lead the way in the arts sector? The Fellowship is here to help you amplify your mission and scale your impact. Discover how the Fellowship can support your journey:  https://lnkd.in/e_ubnMxc Shape the future of socially engaged arts! #SociallyEngagedArts

As funding for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) remains unpredictable and global problems become more urgent, our colleague Elena Torresani had the privilege of joining a panel discussion at the unDavos Summit. Together with representatives from Moleskine Foundation, Ellen MacArthur Foundation, and Cardano Foundation, the panel explored how innovative giving models – such as impact investing, systemic philanthropy, and crypto philanthropy – can drive meaningful change. Key topics discussed included: 💡 Balancing the need for measurable, widespread impact with the deeply local, context-specific realities. 💡 Unlocking the catalytic potential of capital along the impact investing continuum. 💡 Enhancing donor trust through the traceability of blockchain technology donations. 💡 The role of local, bottom-up entrepreneurial solutions to promote the resilience of society as a whole. A heartfelt thank you to Adama Sanneh, Jonquil Hackenberg, and Sandro Knöpfel for the engaging discussion, and to the audience for their thoughtful contributions! #WEF2025 #Davos #unDavos

Looking forward to join this conversation about the future of philanthropy and how it intersects with creativity and culture next Tuesday in Davos. A panel to explore how innovative giving models—impact investing, systemic philanthropy, crypto philanthropy, and more—are reshaping how we address global challenges. As we consider these innovations, some essential questions emerges: Can creativity and culture truly scale, or do they require us to rethink the very notion of scaling itself? How do we balance the desire for measurable, widespread impact with the deeply local and context-specific nature of culture and creative practices? Creativity and culture hold transformative potential, but harnessing them for systemic change may call for reimagining traditional approaches to scale and impact. If you're around join us ! Thanks Stéphanie Kioutsoukis for the kind invitation https://lnkd.in/dTgKU8Qe

Narrative change is at the heart of the work of the Creativity Pioneers Fund. After successfully launching our marquee video on The Big Think last November, we are grateful to our partners, Hawthornden Foundation and Healthy Food Healthy Planet,  for supporting three new videos about Creativity Pioneers Sunshine Cinema, XFarm Agricoltura Prossima, and Kitambo, which are now live on YouTube. These videos are one of our attempts to change the perception of what creativity can do to address challenges such as food sustainability, climate change, identity, and democracy, to name a few, and to keep shining a light on the transformative work of the Creativity Pioneers. Thank you to Freethink for the stellar work - let's keep spreading Creativity for Social Change! Sunshine Cinema: https://lnkd.in/ds8cSqww XFarm: https://lnkd.in/d5niMYwU Kitambo: https://lnkd.in/d36pkJaQ #CreativityForSocialChange #CreativityPioneersFund #CreativityPioneers Adama SannehElena Korzhenevich Daniele Carlini Sydelle Willow Smith Marco Notarnicola Catherine Dunga Erik Spink Nadia Laroussi Michael Melrose Gene Limbrick Blair Milam

¡Vuelve Caribe Atómico Film Festival! La segunda edición se celebrará del 1 al 8 de diciembre de 2024 y trae consigo un festival de cine con proyecciones de cine venezolano y caribeño, talleres de cine para niños y adultos, paseos para descubrir la ciudad, fiestas para bailar juntos y conversatorios que nos invitan a reflexionar sobre nuestra identidad. Todo el programa del festival es gratuito gracias al apoyo de: British Council Venezuela , Embajada de Suiza en Venezuela, Ovejita, Plus Ultra Líneas Aéreas, Istituto italiano di cultura di Caracas; y a la colaboración de: La Mega Estación, Circuito Gran Cine, Banco del Libro, Uniendo Voluntades, Ciudad Laboratorio , Universidad Monteávila, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Casa de Todos, Galería ABRA, El Marchante, Moleskine Foundation y Glasgow Short Film Festival El detalle de esta semana atómica lo encuentras en https://lnkd.in/e_g_hfPB y todas las actualizaciones en nuestro instagram @caribeatomicoff. ¡Nos vemos pronto!