10/15/12 - $798,400 for 15 NYC Projects Give Teens Digital Tools
Contact: Ani Hurwitz, VP, Communications
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Teen Technologists Create Websites, Mobile Phone Apps, and Use Digital Media to Gather Data, Tell Their Stories, and Address Social Issues
$798,400 for 15 NYC Projects Give Teens Digital Tools
The Hive Digital Media Learning Fund was started by the MacArthur Foundation and The New York Community Trust in 2010 so that, together, educators and young people can design new and exciting ways to learn, create, and participate beyond the classroom. In addition to MacArthur and The Trust, donors include the Joan Ganz Cooney and Beth M. Uffner funds in The Trust, Renate, Hans, and Maria Hofmann Trust, the Mozilla Foundation, and the David Rockefeller Fund.
The following grants were made in October 2012:
Downtown Community Television, $18,900 for Young
Women Speak Out, a youth-produced website where girls make, share, and
respond to media about issues that affect them. Partner: Parsons the New School for Design
Girls Write Now, $100,000 for a mentoring program in
which girls from the City’s public schools hone their writing skills
with the help of Parsons undergraduates and learn how to use digital
tools for movie making, blogging, and mobile game design. Partner: Parsons the New School for Design
Global Action Project, $50,000 for youth to develop a
web version of the Media History Timeline, in which youth chart the
media’s role in political, economic, and social movements. Partners: Hive Learning Network New York and designer Rosten Woo
Global Kids, $25,000 to form a youth council that will
deepen young people’s involvement with Hive Learning Network NYC and
advise on topics including network programming and an online badge
program that recognizes achievement. Partner: Hive Learning Network NYC
Iridescent, $50,000 to integrate technology clubs into
the Technovation Challenge, in which high school girls work with
professional women in technology to develop and pitch mobile phone app
prototypes. Partners: the Girl Scouts, THE POINT Community Development Corporation, Reel Works, and YMCA of Greater New York.
Museum of the Moving Image, $10,000 for youth to
creating paper prototypes of innovative technology tools in order to
develop a richer understanding of the design process. Partners: The DreamYard Project, Polytechnic Institute of New York University
New York Hall of Science, $150,000 to teach young
people how to use mobile phones and digital technology to collect and
analyze data on urban pollution and take action to improve conditions. Partners: Bank Street College, HabitatMap, Wagner College, YMCA of Greater New York
New York Public Radio, $25,000 for WNYC’s Radio Rookies
program which will produce and distribute a do-it-yourself video series
focused on storytelling, and templates for educators to create their
own videos. Partner: Hive Learning Network NYC
Parsons the New School for Design, $39,000 for gadgITERATION, a program that teaches fashion design and technology skills to middle school students. Partner: MOUSE
People’s Production House, $25,000 to create youth Pop
Squads to teach Mozilla’s Popcorn Maker, a web media tool, to youth
throughout the Hive Learning Network New York. Partner: Hive Learning Network NYC
THE POINT Community Development Corporation, $50,000
for the Collective Power Initiative, in which youth create a digital
toolkit to address social and environmental justice issues facing the
South Bronx.
Reel Works, $50,000 for youth to develop transmedia stories, which tell a single story in multiple formats using digital technologies. Partners: MOUSE, WNYC Radio Rookies, The LAMP, and the New School for Social Research
Rubin Museum of Art, $50,000 for youth to create an interactive online map documenting aspects of Himalayan art in New York City. Partner: City Lore
Tribeca Film Institute, $105,000 for incarcerated young women to learn media literacy and production skills. Partner: The LAMP
YMCA of Greater New York, $50,000 to develop teens’ awareness of health issues and the importance of exercise using digital badges and social media. Partners: Institute of Play and Global Kids
For more information, follow:
@HiveLearningNYC and
@DMLResearchHub, and visit
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explorecreateshare.org.
About The New York Community Trust
Through the generosity of New Yorkers past and present, The New York Community Trust makes grants for a range of charitable activity important to the well-being and vitality of our city. We’ve helped make donors’ charitable dreams come true since 1924. Grants made from these funds meet the changing needs of children, youth, and families; aid in community development; improve the environment; promote health; assist people with special needs; and support education, arts, and human justice. The Trust ended 2011 with assets of nearly $2 billion and made grants totaling $137 million.
