Organization Spotlight: Creative Visions Foundation

February 26, 2014

Last week we made the exciting announcement that Give a Beat is the newest member of Creative Visions Foundation's Creative Activist Program and we wanted to provide a bit more background for our supporters about this amazing organization. 

Creative Visions Foundation (CVF) is inspired by the life of Dan Eldon, an artist, adventurer and activist killed in Somalia in 1993 while covering the conflict as a photojournalist for Reuters News Agency. To honor his legacy, in 1998 his mother Kathy Eldon and sister Amy Eldon Turtletaub founded the Creative Visions Foundation, a publicly supported 501 (c) 3 organization, to help others like Dan use media and the arts to create meaningful change in the world around them.

Over the past fourteen years, CVF has incubated more than 100 projects and productions on 5 continents, by providing fiscal sponsorship, mentorship, inspiration, fundraising, connectivity, and step-by-step toolkits for launching projects. To date, their creative activists under their umbrella have touched more than 90 million people and raised more than $11.2 million to fund their projects.

Their Creative Activist Program (CAP) serves as a global hub for individuals who are using Arts, Adventure, and/or Activism to create high-impact media projects and productions within our Core Social Issue categories: Human Rights, the Environment, Youth & Education, Gender Equality, and Health & Well-Being. CVF encourages collaboration and facilitate workshops, speaker series, think tanks, and a myriad of community and networking events to serve our community and connect like-minded artists and professionals.

Learn more about their amazing work at creativevisions.org and follow them on Facebook for your daily dose of inspiration.