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Publication in SSIR
Itâs been a tremendous year for power sharing in philanthropy. Communities of practice are organizing, and longtime practitioners are reflecting ...

Celebrating IWFF
Over the past few weeks, we have been reflecting on the first four years of the Indigenous Womenâs Flow Fund ...

READ THE STORYTELLING REPORT Four years ago, the Indigenous Womenâs Flow Fund (IWFF) was created to move resources to Indigenous communities ...

Kishti Afghanistan Fund welcoming donations of all sizes
Donate now: Entering our third year, Kishti offers opportunities for encouragement, joy, and safety as crisis in Afghanistan worsens Although the ...

Makers Muse: Collective Grief and Collective Healing through Art
Makers Muse, our beloved flagship program, has been supporting the vibrant work of so many brilliant makers, creative disruptors, and ...

Dear Kindle friends, We hope this finds you inspired. This spring, we're finding inspiration in our growing Kindle family and how ...

What we learned about conflict from Crossing Divides
In this age of hyper-partisanship and social media algorithmania, Americans seem hopelessly dividedâbut we know there are people at the ...

Cheers to spring growth!
Greetings Kindle fam, Nowruz mubarak. We are excited to share fresh energy and new branches of growth to come in what ...

Celebrating Year Two of the Indigenous Women's Flow Fund
Welcome to the second year of a special participatory grantmaking journey, the Indigenous Womenâs Flow Fund (IWFF). Through a process ...

The ArtLords Virtual Exhibition
We are excited to share beautiful work by ArtLords, a Kishti fund grantee Curated by Omaid Sharifi ArtLords was established in 2014. ...

Join Kishti - Kindle Project's Afghanistan Fund
Jaw Aka Faizal Nahman and his daughter Nono from Bamiyan province, now living in an improvised plastic shelter in the ...

Afghanistan Fund
Dearest Kindle Community, I am writing to you today at a pivotal moment. Weâve all witnessed the incredible historical events in ...

Celebrating the Indigenous Women's Flow Fund
In 2020, Kindle Project embarked on a new 3-year participatory grantmaking journey called the Indigenous Womenâs Flow Fund (IWFF). The ...

Makers Muse stealthily supports visionaries
2020 was an exceptional year in every way. For Kindle Project, it was art and expression that got us through ...

To spread some warmth in cold days, please join us in celebrating SpiderWeave, our participatory grantmaking program that supported more ...

We believe that music can heal personal, social, and political woundsâand we needed a heckuvalot of that last year. Thatâs ...

Slow Fuse 2020: Celebrating women powered community grantmaking

Listen up...
As a universal language, music has a unique power to uplift and compel social progress. It short-circuits entrenched biases, resets ...

10th Year Birthday Bash Flow-Funding Roundup
Throughout our tenth year, weâve kept on doing what we do⌠revolutionizing grantmaking by diversifying decision-making, shifting power and backing ...
Podcast!
We are making a podcast! It's going to be inspiring, challenging, and super funâwhile uplifting badass changemakers and weirdos disrupting ...

Announcing New Kindle Grantees
Announcing New Kindle Grantees Whose Work Locally Resonates Universally It has never been more important to organize locally, and no one ...

Sundus Abdul Hadi
âCommunities can create powerful shared narratives, which allow all of their members to look in the same direction, to share ...

10 Year Anniversary Partner -- High Mayhem
High Mayhem Emerging Arts is inching towards 20 years. Over the years we have had to define and redefine who ...

10 Year Anniversary Partner - Nika Khanjani
After a few months of weekly sessions with the new therapist, he suggested that I was anxious and depressed. âNot ...

Beth Hill and Bett Williams
Beth was setting up her new woodshop when she came inside the house feeling dizzy. She had been trying out ...

10 Year Anniversary Partner -- ZZK Records
Grant C. Dull ZZK Records & ZZK Films I often think to myself what role weâre playing at ZZK Records and ZZK ...

10 Year Anniversary Partner -- Sins Invalid
The following is an excerpt from Skin, Tooth, and Bone, a primer on disability justice written by Sins Invalid. We are ...

Participatory Grantmaking on Fire

Announcing the 2018 Makers Muse Artist Awardees!
Every year, we pleasantly shock a small handful of remarkable individuals with an unsolicited cash gift. We strive to find ...

Announcing the New Kindle Project Grantees!
Meet the New Kindle Project Grantees These eleven partners come to us entirely via our #ShiftThePower m.o. from our 2018 participatory ...

10 Year Anniversary Partner -- The Wildfire Project
It Always Comes Back to Agency by Michael George Strom, Program Director at The Wildfire Project  Just after the Occupy Wall Street ...

10 Year Anniversary Partner Feature -- Majal
MUSIC AS A LANGUAGE IN THE FACE OF CENSORSHIP Majal.org founder Esra'a Al Shafei talks about her organization's music project, Mideast ...

10 Year Anniversary Partner Feature - Nova Ruth
Saat aku remaja, dengan sahabat-sahabatku, kami membuka peta dan mimilih mimpi. Belahan dunia manakah yang ingin kami lihat. Aku menunjuk ...

Announcing our New Kindle Project Grantees!
Since there was snow on the ground, weâve quietly been building new and exciting partnerships with thirteen new groups. Our love ...

10 Year Anniversary Partner Feature - United Roots
Youth in Oakland are leading the way towards an equitable, life affirming economy! At the 2018 People's Pitch Event, 10 teams ...

Launching the Carousel Awards!!

Announcing our 10 Year Anniversary Partners!
What do coloring book illustrators, community organizers, performance artists, film mavens, and music geniuses have in common? Theyâre all movers ...

Leaders of the Free World
Leaders of the Free World (LFW) is an international experience and leadership development program for young Black men. Â LFWâs mission ...

2018 Program Announcement
Nowruz Mubarak and happy spring equinox to each of you! Weâve had a productive start to the year and we are ...

Christian Michael Filardo
My name is Christian Michael Filardo. I am an agender Filipino American photographer and composer living and working in Santa ...

ArthereIstanbul
ArthereIstanbul is an art center, art residency and art solidarity community founded by Syrian artists in Istanbul in 2014. We ...

The National Institute of Flamenco
Meet our fearless leader! Eva Encinias founded the National Institute of Flamenco (NIF) in 1982. Along with her children, co-directors ...

Casa Marianella
Casa Marianella Staff Take a Trip to the Border Originally published on the Casa Marianella blog in November 2017 by Kate ...

Sacha Warmi
Health and life in the Amazon by Didier Lacaze of Sacha Warmi This post was originally written in Spanish by Didier. Si desea ...

Aurora Lights Herbal Medic Chapter
The Aurora Lights Herbal Medic Chapter, with the help of herbalists from the Commonwealth Center for Holistic Herbalism, were able ...

Announcing our End of Year Grantees and Awardees!
Who is ready for a bit of celebration?! We sure are. As we mentioned a couple weeks ago, weâre coming up ...

Mahwish Chishty
I am grateful for all the amazing experiences I have had while living in Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and the U.S. ...

Mateo Kingman
El tambor es la tierra y al mismo tiempo es la tormenta. El tambor resuena en las pieles, en los ...

Happy 10th Anniversary to Us!
Kindle Project is celebrating our 10th anniversary and we are inviting you to join us! 10 years ago, Kindle Project was ...

Candy Chang
Five Things That Improve My Mental Health Among the many aspects that determine our overall health, mental health is often neglected. ...

Announcing 2017 Boomerang Grantees
We love experiments. We love them when they are both measured and dreamy. We love them when they are lofty ...

Zahra Marwan
Always leaving. 1). I left Kuwait when I was a child with my family. I was born without nationality, and my ...

2Fik
My name is â2Fikâ. My passport name says âToufikâ. My close friends call me âTouffeâ [Bush]. My family calls me âFikâ [Fik]. But none ...

Jules Buck Jones
How to Hang with Friends and Make Art A Tribute to Collaboration by Jules Buck Jones How to hang with friends and make ...

Raul de Nieves
I make art because it makes my connection to others clearerâwhether through the work itself or in my collaboration with ...

Announcing 2017 Makers Muse Artists!
Hey hey, itâs that time of year again: Makers Muse! Weâre thrilled to welcome eight artists into the Kindle Project ...

MuckRock
When we started MuckRock in 2010, we had a sense that journalism was at a crisis point: Declining revenues and ...

Matchmaking with Kindle Project
What do artists, seed savers, punk-rockers, activists, and entrepreneurs have in common? They're all Kindle Project grantees and... Kindle Donors! Weâre inviting new ...

Introducing Kindle's 2017 Summer Grantees
Intersectional. The buzzword of the moment, donât you think? We keep hearing it, reading it, saying it, dreaming it. This ...

Prosigue
Historia atrĂĄs de la creaciĂłn del Mural: âOFRENDAâ Los niĂąos, niĂąas y jĂłvenes de la AsociaciĂłn Civil "PROSIGUE-Programa NiĂąos de la ...

20 Q's with Sacred Fire Foundation's Sofia Arroyo
1. Who are your real-life heroes in your field? Indigenous elders from all over the world who are keeping the fires ...

20 Q's with Rockaway Waterfront Alliance's Jeanne DuPont
1. Who are your real-life heroes? My hero growing up was always Jane Goodall. 2. What did you want to be when ...

20 Q's with Aaolkam's Bharathi Penneswaran and Jyotsna Kalyansundar
1. Who are your real-life heroes in your field? Our teacher, Justin McCarthy, is a huge inspiration. He grew up in ...

20 Q's with Fadi J. Khoury of FJK Dance Inc.
1. Who are your real-life heroes in your field? My biggest Hero in the dance world is William Forsyth. 2. What did ...

Announcing the SpiderWeave Flow Fund
You all know about Kindle Projectâs love of Flow Funding right? With nearly a decade of experience, we think itâs ...

19 Q's with Santa Fe Dreamers Project's Allegra Love
1. What did you want to be when you grew up? A forest ranger-- but a cranky one like Edward Abbey. ...

Israel Haros Lopez
Iâm writing this just days before Donald Trump becomes president of the United States. I, like many people in the ...

Jaimie Warren
When I was asked to produce a Nexus Post for the Kindle Project, I was excited about creating a new ...

Announcing Fall 2016 Boomerang Grantees
This year we embarked on another Kindle Project experiment: Boomerang. Remember that program? The one where we conspired to have ...

The Bureau of Linguistical Reality
A few weeks ago the Oxford Dictionary released its 2016 International word of the year, which fittingly is Post Truth. ...

Downtown Boys
Downtown Boys: The Need for a Diversity of Tactics The role of platform for an artist, political figure, or really any ...

Announcing Kindle Project #NoDAPL Grantees
Solidarity can look a lot of different ways. While the Kindle team is all over the world and far away ...

LIBRE
Alfredo LIBRE Gutierrez is both an artist and an architect combining traditional techniques with alternate ones to create body of ...

Paula DurĂł
Bien, en principio, comenzar a escribir este texto, es todo un ejercicio en si, ya que de alguna manera mi ...

The Inland Empire Immigrant Youth Coalition
What were the initial sparks that got IEIYC started? The Inland Empire Immigrant Youth Coalition was founded in 2010 by two ...

ANIMALS - Interview with Director, Benjamin Simmons
What were the initial sparks that got you started on the path to make this film? I had always wanted to ...

Axle - Interview with Co-Founders Matthew and Jerry
What were the initial sparks that got Axle started? Matthew: A little over 6 years ago there was a beautiful old ...

Announcing our 2016 Makers Muse Awardees
It's our favorite time of year: Makers Muse Artist Award season! Each year we flex our project discovery muscle, scouring ...

Santa Fe Dreamers Project - Interview with Director, Allegra Love
What were the initial sparks that got Santa Fe Dreamers started? I was living in Santa Fe and teaching at an ...

20 Q's with Southwest of Salem Director, Deborah S. Esquenazi
1. When and where did you feel most fulfilled in your work? Those moments of intense creative flow, usually for me ...

Announcing Boomerang
What would it look like if artists could help to shape the distribution of philanthropic dollars? Announcing, Boomerang, our latest adventure ...

20 Q's with Shiraz Ksaiba
1. When and where did you feel most fulfilled in your work? I have created and opened up a surf hostel ...

Nanbel's Moe Shreif
First, I really don't like talking about myself nor know how to, to be honest. Nanbel started as a need, or ...

The Shore Break
What happens when documentary filmmakers make a documentary â the story of The Shore Break and Graham Edwards by Ryley Grunenwald ...

Some Kindle Light in the Dark
Due to the darkness of the events that took place in Orlando, we wanted to share some of the light ...

Announcing our Spring 2016 Grantees and the Year of the Flow Fund!
Hello Kindlers, Welcome to the year of the Flow Fund at Kindle Project! Whatâs a Flow Fund you ask? Flow funding ...

20 Q's with Movement Generation's Josh Healey
1. When and where did you feel most fulfilled in your work? When we did a comedic film project (see a ...

Nika Khanjani
Identification : let me tell you where iâve been* in five short stories âI, alive and glimmering like the instants, spark ...

Doc Next Network
Radical Democracy: Reclaiming the Commons Five years have passed since the protest wave of 2011 captivated Europe. Far from subsiding, the ...

The Future of Kindle Project and Indie Philanthropy
Greetings Kindle Project and Indie Philanthropy communities, Happy New Year. As many of you have been waiting to hear about the ...

Meet the Kindle Project Fall 2015 Film Fund Grantees and Awardees
Cry You One ⢠The Black Dutchman Movement Generation ⢠Nanbel Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio ...

Juice Rap News
Dear netizens, this is Giordano and Hugo from Juice Rap News For those of you who don't know us already, we ...

Taslim van Hattum
THE ONLY DIFFERENCE SETTING- Five Star Burger, Santa Fe, NM. Devargas Mall parking lot. It is 9 oâclock. FORECAST- Light snow. TIME- 9pm, ...

Grey Filastine
(Trailer) The Miner is the first installment of four new audiovisual pieces by Filastine on the refusal to lend our bodies to degrading work. Filmed ...

Grant C. Dull of ZZK Records
A Letter from from ZZKâs 12 Year LatAm Expat Director by Grant C. Dull Iâm currently writing this as I listen to ...

Kent Monkman
In âMiss Americaâ, Monkman has chosen as his inspiration Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. His reworking of Tiepoloâs ceiling cycle The Four Continents (1754), specifically America at ...

Voice Monet
I don't know what it's like to not approach a situation creatively. Self expression is a delicate balance of honesty, ...

Meriem Bennani
Meriem Bennani writes an e-mail to a friend about one night in Morocco 2015-06-18 10:06 GMT-04:00 Meriem Bennani <mmeriembennani@gmail.com> wrote: Dear A, I hope you ...

Faig Ahmed
I explore ancient traditions, cults and cultures, I make my own research and as I communicate with it, I create ...

Announcement of our First Doc Film Grantee and Awardee Docket!
What stories are the ones being told that donât get heard? Which are the stories whose narratives propel us into ...

Franklin LĂłpez
Hi my name is Franklin LĂłpez and Iâm the founder of subMedia.tv which launched in the year 2000. More than ...

Julio Salgado
My name is Julio Salgado and I gratefully received the Makers Muse Award this year. One doesnât really do this ...
Announcement of 2015 Makers Muse Recipients
Faig Ahmed ⢠Franklin López Kent Monkman ⢠Julio Salgado Meriem Bennani ⢠Taslim van Hattum Voice Monet ⢠Winona ...

A Letter from our Director
Hello Kindle Project community, As many of you may know, in 2008 I co-founded Kindle Project as a response to the ...

CoClimate
CoClimate is a research & design studio whose mission is to provoke, stimulate, and inspire new connections between people, technology, ...

Pruitt-Igoe Bee Sanctuary
Pruitt-Igoe Bee Sanctuary by Juan William Chåvez As an artist, I use the studio as a space to contemplate, explore, develop and discover ...
Announcement of Fall 2014 Grantees
2014 is coming to a close and weâre all exhaling in inspired confusion at the fascinating planet we live on. ...

Sandy Storyline
The power of stories in the ongoing recovery from Hurricane Sandy by Michael Premo Originally published on wagingviolence.org on November 11, ...

Amazon Women on the Frontlines of Climate Change
Amazon Women on the Frontlines of Climate Change Words & Pictures by Caroline Bennett/Amazon Watch âWhen women decide to do something, when ...

High Mayhem: Times of Change
Times of Change by Carlos Santistevan As artists we create art because we need to. Itâs a calling of sorts. An ...

Amazon Watch â Protectors of the Rainforest and Prime Indie Funders
One of our grantees that continues to stand out in the in their incredible efforts with their dedication, longevity and ...

Ghana Think Tank
The Ghana ThinkTank (GTT) is known for its unconventional approach to negotiating social conflicts. Using a blend of public art ...

Antena
Listening As A Form Of Speaking: A Brief Guide To Antena Antena is a collaborative co-founded by Jen Hofer and John ...

The Wildfire Project
Our generation is coming of age amidst deep economic, political, and ecological crisis â and rising to the challenge. But ...

Center for Court Innovation
From the Navajo Nation to Red Hook, Brooklyn, Peacemaking forges long-lasting connections By Erika Sasson I remember meeting our first peacemaking participants, ...
Zane Fischer Answers the Kindle Questionnaire
Who are your real-life heroes in your field? I hope the most important field I'm working in is the diligent research ...

Seed Broadcast
Technology and seeds have long been intertwined in a complex field of relations. Throughout history plants have cycled from seed ...

Virunga
When we launched Virunga at Tribeca Film Festival we did so in the knowledge that our contributor and colleague, Emmanuel ...
Generation Food Project
Steve James and Raj Patel talk about Generation Food Steve James: So, Raj, letâs start with this â how did you ...

Sadaf Rassoul Cameron's Revolution of Imagination
My son graduated from Desert Academy International Baccalaureate high school yesterday. Nineteen years ago, around this time, I was fifteen ...
Announcement of Spring 2014 Grantees
Storytelling has been at the forefront of our minds this year. With our Solutions Lab crew collaborating with the Santa Fe SpeakEasy, and ...

Branden Barber Answers the Kindle Questionnaire
What do you see as the greatest challenge your community is facing? Wealth inequity and the challenges that brings. With increasing ...
Center for Land Use Interpretation
Solar Boom: A Look at a Possible Energy Future Some people have calculated that it would take 10,000 square miles of ...

Center for PostNatural History
It's been two years since we first opened the doors of the Center for PostNatural History, the only museum dedicated ...
NMELC's Eric Jantz Answers the Kindle Questionnaire
Eric Jantz is a Staff Attorney with the non-profit New Mexico Environmental Law Center, which focuses on environmental justice advocacy. ...

Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
Life near nuclear reactors, âReference Manâ, and the Healthy from the Start Project by Arjun Makhijani, President of IEER It is little ...

Solutions Lab + Santa Fe SpeakEasy Event
We've been longtime fans of the Santa Fe SpeakEasy and we are so excited about this new collaboration. We can't wait ...
Solutions Lab Dispatch: Railyard Stewards
We asked the Railyard Stewards to imagine it's the year 2050. We wanted to know how their work contributed to ...

Center for Genomic Gastronomy
Center for Genomic Gastronomy - RECENT WORK It has been a little less than a year since our last blog post ...

Other Worlds: Harvesting Justice
We know you care about what you eat, how it was produced, and who was harmed or who benefited in ...
High Mayhem
Webcasting as a Means to Expand Community by Carlos Santistevan As a working musician and fan I have seen countless musical legends ...

Sins Invalid
David Langstaff, intern at the Catalyst Project, interviews Leroy Moore and Patty Berne, co-founders of Sins Invalid, a disability justice ...

Cry You One
One of the first steps in creating Cry You One, a digital media platform and immersive outdoor performance set at ...

Solutions Lab Dispatch: Reunity Resources
Reunity Resources and Kindle Project's Solutions Lab by Juliana Ciano Reunity Resources is a Santa Fe-based non-profit with a mission to reunite ...
Movement Generation
Movement Generation is bridging the gap between our current social movement strategies and the scale of the unfolding ecological crisis. ...
New Economy Coalition
Our dream is to help catalyze a just transition to a new economy that is grounded in racial and economic ...

Arianne Shaffer Answers the Kindle Questionnaire
⢠What do you see as the greatest challenge your community is facing? I live in Canada. I see two challenges: ...
May First/People Link
May First/People-Link is a membership organization that redefines the concept of âInternet Hosting Serviceâ in a collective, progressive and collaborative ...

Lorna Simpson
The past year has been really interesting with shows and projects and books (listed just below) coming to fruition. Lorna Simpson By ...

Nao Bustamante
My upcoming project will time-travel the role of women in combat, by means of performance, wearable sculpture, and video, bringing ...

Trevor Paglen
Have you ever thought about sending art into space to attach itself to a satellite to last for billions of ...
Announcement of Fall 2013 Grantees
This year has been a big one for us at Kindle Project. We shared our roots with the world, started ...

Announcement of 2014 Solutions Lab Cohort
Earlier this year we put out our first ever open Request for Proposals for the Solutions Laboratory program. We asked ...

Kindle Project + Yes Lab || Match Grant Campaign
Alright, so hereâs the deal. A couple weeks ago our friends over at the Yes Lab launched an awesome campaign ...

Dread Scott
I am currently working on an epic project and I want to share with you a behind the scenes look ...

Cohdi Harrell
These images and short trailer are from my newest piece of work "theOTHER". I have spent the better part of my ...

Erika Wanenmacher
I am an unrepentant maker of things. I believe objects that are made with intent carry resonance that can shift ...

Juice Rap News
Hey, everyone, This is Hugo and Giordano from Juice Rap News. We were honoured, and a little flabbergasted, to receive the Makers ...

Community Midwifery Fund
Community Midwifery is a Reproductive Justice Issue The Community Midwifery Fund (CMF) partners with individuals, organizations, and communities that embrace the ...

Indie Philanthropy on Philanthrogeek
At Kindle, weâve been practitioners of Indie Philanthropy since we began in 2008, before we even knew it had a ...

Kindle Project and the Yes Men: A Day in the Life at EGA
A couple weeks ago Kindle Project and our longtime grantee, the Yes Lab, had the good fortune to attend the ...

Interference Archive: An Update by Molly Fair
In 2011, Interference Archive opened itâs doors to the public in Brooklyn, NY. Â It evolved from artists/activists Josh MacPhee and ...
People's Grocery - Food Justice in Context
Food Justice: Context By Nikki Henderson Executive Director, Peopleâs Grocery For me Food Justice strikes the heart I live in West Oakland I walk to work Bike ...

John Bolenbaugh Answers the Kindle Questionnaire
Helppa.org is the organization I created to fight against corporations polluting our water, air, land, and life with toxic chemicals. ...

Solutions Laboratory - Request for Proposals is Now Open
For all funding and application criteria click here. To fill out an application click here. We can't wait to see what you'll ...
Carlos Motta's New Film - NEFANDUS
Carlos Motta shares stills and poetry from his latest film, which just premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on ...

Press Release - Kindle Launches Solutions Laboratory
Santa Fe, NM FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Kindle Project For media inquiries contact Arianne Shaffer, Communications Director: arianne@kindleproject.org, 505-983-7463 Kindle Project Launches The Solutions Laboratory to Fund ...

Amazon Watch - Notes from the BacajĂĄ
The Star Woman, Notes from the BacajĂĄ - Words and pictures by Caroline Bennett Tears swirled with drops of sweat as ...
Tar Sands Blockade - An Update via Video
Tar Sands Blockade (TSB) is a coalition of affected Texas and Oklahoma residents and climate justice organizers using peaceful, creative, ...

Kimi Green Answers the Kindle Questionnaire
What do you see as the greatest challenge your community is facing? In a community rich with indigenous, traditional and creative ...

Project Survival Media - Shadia Fayne Wood on the Roots of her Work
Imagine this, two seven year old girls walking on a sunny day in a beautiful green valley in a tiny ...
Announcement of 2013 Makers Muse Recipients
⢠Nao Bustamante ⢠Cohdi Harrell ⢠Trevor Paglen ⢠Dread Scott ⢠Lorna Simpson ⢠Erika Wanenmacher ⢠Juice Rap ...

Haymarket Books: Anthony Arnove tells us why books still matter
In 2013, much of the discussion about books has become about the technology of distribution and the business of publishing. ...
Other Worlds' Beverly Bell Answers the Kindle Questionnaire
What do you see as the greatest challenge your community is facing? Defining our community as social movements, the greatest challenge ...

Seed Broadcast
For long-time readers of the Kindle blog, you may remember our obsession with seeds last winter, when we covered a ...
Announcement of Spring 2013 Grantees
New grantees mean new opportunities. It means new ways to look at problems and solutions. It means new inspirations, models ...

Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund
The Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund (CELDF) first became of interest to us when we heard about their Democracy School program. ...

Center for Genomic Gastronomy
Over the past few years, a unique cultural climate has developed around food. Food obsession, facilitated largely through a boom ...

Yansa
So often in our top-down instant-gratification culture, singular and simple solutions are employed to address multifaceted and complex problems. For ...
Women on Waves
International Womenâs Day just passed on March 8th. A âholidayâ that feels only half resonant with some of us on ...
Center for Court Innovation
At Kindle weâre always looking for projects that take a new approach to existing problem. Peacemaking in many forms is ...
Center for Land Use Interpretation
As youâve likely heard, a meteor landed on Earth last Friday. As I write this, people in Russia and Kazakhstan ...

Citizen Koch
We knew about Citizen Koch Directors, Tia Lessin and Carl Deal, from their Academy Award Nominated film Trouble the Water ...

New Energy Economy
Want to know how to erect a national monument? Ask the folks at New Energy Economy (NEE). As I write ...

Dirty Wars
I can think of no better way to start this year off than to share with you news of Dirty ...
Marjane Satrapi
Recently, I was talking with a friend about Kindleâs 2012 Makers Muse Recipients. This friend happens to be Iranian, and ...
Dynasty Handbag
You may remember meeting Jibz Cameron (a.k.a Dynasty Handbag) from our candid Brooklyn interview with her this past spring. Sheâs ...
Announcement of Autumn 2012 Grantees!
As the year draws to a close and 2012 may or may not signal the end of the world, we ...
Announcement of Kindle Project Photography Awards
We are honored to announce the recipients of our first Kindle Project Photography Awards Agnes Thor Marie-JosĂŠ Jongerius Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs This ...
Carlos Motta
Gender has been on our minds a lot lately. A record breaking number of women were voted into Congress in ...
Miranda July
Recently, on Instagram, I saw that Miranda July had become a verb when someone photographed a pair of her own ...

Josh MacPhee
Josh MacPhee is an understated artist with a loud series of movement building messages. Through his prints he conveys justice ...
Nova Ruth
When we ask our Makers Muse Recipients to contribute to our blog, we never know what weâre going to get; ...

Video Premiere and Interview with Calligraffiti Master, eL Seed
eL Seed was a Makers Muse recipient in 2011Â and since then heâs become a close friend of ours. Over the ...
New Mexico Environmental Law Center
The New Mexico Environmental Law Center (NMELC) has been with Kindle since our inception in 2008. They were one of ...

Government Accountability Project
Before I tell you about the Government Accountably Project, (GAP) I need to tell you about my experience with the ...
Institute for Energy and Environmental Research
The Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER) is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year! With a quarter century of ...

Grantee Feature: Planned Parenthood New Mexico
Planned Parenthood. Itâs almost a dirty word in some parts of the United States. The highly contested national organization has ...
War is Business
We first started funding War is Business (WIB) in 2010. We were initially taken with the siteâs veracity and unique ...
High Mayhem
Kindle Project has been funding High Mayhem since 2009. As a local art collective with leaders and members who are ...