PROJECTS
We initiate projects as well as support those already in development, in the following areas:
I. Social and Economic Justice
Towards this aim, we have funded groups such as:
- La Mujer Obrera
- Piñeros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste
- Dakota Roundtable
- National Mobilization Against Sweatshops
- Asian Immigrant Women Advocates
- Sunflower Community Action
- Coalition of Immokalee Workers
II. Educational Opportunity
We have provided scholarships for:
- City College of New York (Yip’s alma mater)
- New York University’s Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program (which Yip helped found)
- Youth Communication / New Youth Connections
- Catching the Dream (Native American students)
- The Cooper Union (architecture, art, engineering)
- Alice Lloyd College (Appalachian school)
- Empire State College/SUNY (Metropolitan Center, New York, NY)
- Davis-Putter Scholarship Fund (student activists)
III. New Works of Political Art
We have helped fund the following documentaries:
- The Legacy of the Hollywood Blacklist (1987)
- Manufacturing Consent (1992)
- Earl Robinson: Ballad of an American (1994)
- Ballot Measure 9 (1995)
- Fear and Favor in the Newsroom (1996)
- Tell the Truth and Run (1996)
- Blacks and Jews (1997)
- The Democratic Promise: Saul Alinsky and His Legacy (1999)
- Porgy and Bess: An American Voice (1999)
- Promises (2001)
- The Weather Underground (2002)
- China in the Red (2003)
- A Most Unlikely Hero (2003)
- Thunder in Guyana (2003)
- School Board Blues (2005)
- Homeland: Four Portraits of Native Action (2005)
- Sacco and Vanzetti (2006)
- The Perfect Life (2006)
- Not in Our Town (2007)
- Revolucion: Five Visions (2007)
- Revolution ’67 (2007)
- Afghan Women (2007)
- Ya Basta (2007)
- Silhouette City (2008)
- The Most Dangerous Man in America (2009)
- The Good Soldier (2009)
- Gerrymandering (2010)
- Coexist (2010)
- Utopia in Four Movements (2010)
- Bringing King to China (2011)
- Mariachi High (2012)
- A Moment in Her Story (2013)
- Brothers on the Line (2013)
- Spilled Water (2014)
- The Cooler Bandits (2014)
- The Trials of Muhammad Ali (2014)
- The Rule (2014)
- Women of ’69 Unboxed (2014)
- She’s Beautiful When She’s Angry (2014)
- Mississippi Inferno (2015)
- When We Were Young / There Was a War (2015)
- Daddy Don’t Go (2015)
- Peace Officer (2015)
- The Seventh Fire (2015)
- Profiled (2015)
- Daddy Don’t Go (2016)
- Cliff, Superfan! (2016)
- Peace Has No Borders (2016)
- The Long Ride (2017)
- Symbiotic Earth (2017)
- Like Any Other Kid (2017)
- The Power to Heal (2018)
- How to Power a City (2019)
- The Atom: A Love Affair (2019)
- The Land of Orange Groves and Jails (forthcoming)
IV. Other Projects