Organizations Filed Purposes:
CatchLight leverages the poser of visuals to inform, connect and transform communities. It acts as a catalyst bringing resources and networks together to foster a more nuanced and empathetic understanding of the world. It does so by supporting innovators in the field of visual arts. In 2019 it launched CatchLight Local, a new systemic approach to connecting visual artists with their communities and local news organizations to fulfill information needs. IT also holds an annual convening to move the visual field forward.
CatchLight Fellowship: The CatchLight Fellowship serves as a form of incubator for innovative leaders working in visual storytelling. More than 320 artists, residing in 61 countries applied for the 2019 CatchLight fellowship, which was awarded to four innovative artist leaders: Alexandra Bell, Pierre Terdjman, Sparsh Ahuja and Tasneem Alsultan. CatchLight's projects have reached 100,000 people in-person and an estimated 90 million people through digital content. Fellows' work has been published in over 40 media outlets around the globe including National Geographic, The Washington Post and the New York Times and exhibited in more than 17 international exhibitions including the Nobel Peace Center, the Whitney Biennial and King Abdulaziz Center For World Culture. CatchLight Fellows have earned more than 20 awards including National Geographic Explorer, Artadia Chicago Awards, and Kaleidoscope Fund. More than 4,500 students learned about photography, media literacy, and democracy from photographers teaching in their classrooms and through CatchLight's Visual Storytelling Summit in Spring 2019. Program partners included: the Boda Group, International Center for Photography, the Center for Investigative Reporting, the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting, The Commonwealth Club, SF Camerawork, Anastasia Photo, San Francisco State University, Project Rebound, United Photo Industries, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, and Minnesota Street Projects. CatchLight Local: A Visual Storytelling Initiative: Responding to media consolidation, news deserts and a growing urgent need for local visual storytelling to help communities see and respond to local issues, this new initiative combines place-based community art engagement with new media models to help reseed visual storytelling at the community level. Launched in the fall of 2019, CatchLight Local paired three visual storytellers with local news rooms resulting in intimate and in-depth coverage of local communities and their sense of home in the midst of a housing crisis. The launch workshop, subsequent open call and public programming started taking place in 2019 and is ongoing in 2020 in response to the COVID-19 crisis. Partners of CatchLight Local include the GroundTruth Project, the Kresge Foundation, The Bay City News, The San Francisco Public Press, The Salinas Californian, City Hope, Policy Link. The CatchLight Visual Storytelling Summit: In 2019, CatchLight held its First Visual Storytelling Summit offering free day-long talks by leading voices in visual storytelling. It also offered portfolio reviews with leaders in the field of visual storytelling to over 50 artists. Partners for this program included the McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, Minnesota Street Projects, Google and PhotoWings.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Elodie Mailliet | Executive Director | 40 | $185,654 |
| Stephen Mayes | Director | 0.25 | $0 |
| Christopher Michel | Director | 0.25 | $0 |
| Mike Ramsay | Director | 0.25 | $0 |
| Deirdre Atkin Hockett | Director | 0.25 | $0 |
| Robert J Rosenthal | Director | 0.25 | $0 |
| Ed Kashi | Director | 0.25 | $0 |
| Nancy Richards Farese | Board Chair | 20 | $0 |
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