New Arts & Mental Health program to serve communities impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic
Grants targeted to use the arts as a vehicle to address mental health challenges and to fight stigma that is a barrier to seeking help.
News
The Illumination Fund considers media and communications as an important way to amplify the work of its grantees and to share program models. Some recent press coverage and program news can be found below.
CSQ Magazine publishes Laurie Tisch’s “How Philanthropy Can Support Arts and Inspire Our Mental Health Recovery”
CSQ Magazine invited Laurie Tisch to reflect on philanthropy programs for frontline hospital workers, particularly to address mental health challenges that emerged during the pandemic.
Ten new Community Murals at NYC Health + Hospitals!
The Community Murals project is designed to encourage creativity, lower stress, build trust and increase engagement between hospitals and members of their surrounding communities.
Announcing Request for Proposals for COVID-19-related Arts & Mental Health Program
New program will support organizations that use the arts to address mental health challenges in communities disproportionately affected by the COVID 19 pandemic in New York City
Announcing the expansion of the Community Murals Project
Harlem World, March 23, 2021: New York City NYC Health + Hospitals’ Arts in Medicine program today announced the third group of artists that will lead community-based mural projects at nine facilities. The artists, chosen from 131 applications, will engage patients, staff, and local community…
NYC COVID-19 Response & Impact Fund releases report, “Resilience & Resolve”
Jan 7, 2021: New York Community Trust releases “Resilience & Resolve,” a report detailing the scope and impact of the NYC COVID-19 Response & Impact Fund, a historic collaboration that distributed more than $110 million in grants and loans to nearly 800 nonprofits. The Illumination Fund was one of the founding donors, which included Bloomberg Philanthropies, Carnegie Corporation of New York, Ford Foundation, the Trust and more.
NYC Health + Hospitals launches website using documentary photos and videos to share stories from the frontline
COVID-19 Health Care Heroes features compelling stories, photos, and videos from employees throughout the system, and key statistics highlighting what makes NYC Health + Hospitals a national leader in the pandemic response.
Sustaining NYC’s Immigrant Arts Ecosystem Through Crisis and Beyond
New report by the Center for an Urban Future, supported by the Illumination Fund along with the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and New York Community Trust, provides a new level of detail on the landscape of immigrant arts in New York City— and what’s needed to sustain immigrant arts communities across the five boroughs.
Enjoy the latest round of Community Murals in our partnership with NYC Health + Hospitals!
The Community Murals Project is a flagship of the public hospital system’s Arts in Medicine program, which seeks to foster the emotional well-being, promote healing, wellness, and engagement of patients, families, employees, and the greater health system’s community by integrating all disciplines of the arts such as literary, visual and performing arts throughout the public hospital system.
COVID-19: Our commitment
“This is a time of unprecedented need. Our most vulnerable populations are impacted by the pandemic more severely than others. It is imperative that philanthropic organizations take immediate action to meet this challenge. From its inception, the Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund has stepped up…
NYC Health + Hospitals/Woodhull Unveils a New Community Mural by Brooklyn-Based Artist Imani Shanklin Roberts Entitled Through Healing We Unite
Press release New Mural is part of the largest mural project in any public hospital system since the Works Progress Administration of the 1930s Community paint party to create Through Healing We Unite at Woodhull Hospital THURSDAY October 8, 2020 at 3 p.m., NYC Health…
Public Health System’s Arts in Medicine Program Selects 10 Artists to Lead Next Installment of Community Mural Projects Throughout the City
Artists will engage patients/residents, staff, and local community residents to create an integrated mural at NYC Health + Hospitals facilities (New York, NY – August 4, 2020) NYC Health + Hospitals’ Arts in Medicine program today announced the second group of artists that will lead…
NYC COVID-19 Response & Impact Fund Issued Over $110 Million in Emergency Funds to 768 New York City-Based Nonprofits
NYC COVID-19 Response & Impact Fund Issued Over $110 Million in Emergency Funds to 768 New York City-Based Nonprofits 768 Critical Arts and Social Service Nonprofits Across the 5 Boroughs Received Support to Weather Onset of Pandemic NEW YORK, NY – July 29, 2020 –...
NY1: Acts of Kindness: Man Who Lost Both Parents Within Weeks of Each Other Finds Way to Give Back
Illumination Fund supports partners in emergency food project in Washington Heights by Kristin Shaughnessy A man whose family was devastated by grief and loss is working through that grief by giving back. Tom’s mother died on Valentine’s Day from an illness unrelated to. His father…
Inside Philanthropy: A Necessity, Not a Luxury: A Funder Looks to Activate Art’s Power to Heal
by Mike Scutari In my recent conversations with arts professionals looking at how philanthropy can build a more resilient post-coronavirus arts sector, respondents repeatedly called for more robust advocacy from funders. “Right now, we are seeing a demand for the arts like never before: individually…