SHiNE Today:
SHiNE is currently going through a long overdue reorganization. For the past eight years SHINE has helped to mobilize a generation by giving them the tools and support that they need to improve their lives and foster broad social change. From helping students to lobby Congress to enact Hate Crimes Legislation to working with them to build community gardens and paint murals, SHiNE has played an active role in the lives of millions of today’s youth. We are now carefully focusing our efforts to galvanize this generation of content creators to use their creative strength and knowledge of consumer generated media and social network communities to build an immense community of young people who will use their combined creative power to inspire and provoke their communities.
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SHiNE Mission:
SHiNE provides financial and organizational support to young people who wish to create art that inspires and provokes their communities and promotes respect for diversity. SHiNE is particularly interested in providing grants to young people who wish to work collaboratively in their creative efforts.
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SHiNE Programming:
SHiNE serves as a foundation, both literally and figuratively, for young creative visionaries. To further student efforts in this area we will be launching a new quarterly grant program entitled a “Call to Visionaries”. Grant applicants will be encouraged to think critically about how they can use their creative prowess to be a force for change. This concept can take many forms. It could be a young filmmaker looking for seed money to create a documentary about an important social issue, someone who wants to hold a poetry slam in their community, or a young curator could organize an art show, with the proceeds going to a cause that is close to their heart. Please keep checking back to learn about the grant timing and qualifications.
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SHiNE on the Internet:
SHiNE is entering into a long-term strategic partnership with a popular youth web site to ensure that the large and diverse community of SHiNE participants have a place to display and proliferate their content in digital form.
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