Agency Details:

Zing Foundation

The Zing Foundation has a dual mission: (1) to promote out-of-the-box philanthropy and (2) to promote the field of art and social change. We currently run two initiatives: Bolder Giving in Extraordinary Times and the Arts Rising Funding Circle. We are a small educational nonprofit -- not a grant-making organization -- based in Arlington, Mass.

Description:
The Zing Foundation aims to spark heart felt, strategic, and substantial giving through programs that:

• Inspire the active use of millions of new dollars for social change;
• Engage thousands of donors to explore their true giving potential;
• Provide out-of-the-box public models of how much it is feasible to give;
• Give new hope and inspiration to non-wealthy people working for social change;
• Help the donor education and donor organizing fields to grow more effective and coordinated.
  
  

Promoting Arts for Social Change

The Zing Foundation aims to act as a catalyst, organizer, and promoter for the field as a whole (much as we did for the field of donor organizing in the 1990s). Our programs promoting Arts for Social Change aim to:

• Bring millions of new dollars and dozens of new long-term funders to the field of social healing arts;
• Strengthen the infrastructure that supports the field, bringing it visibility, encouragement, and financial support;
• Launch new partnerships between international healing arts networks and international social justice or environmental networks — partnerships that demonstrate the power and practicality of using arts to address social change goals.
  
  

Please note that Zing Foundation is not a grantmaking organization.

History:
The Zing Foundation brings much-needed resources to social change:

1. The human and financial contributions of people with wealth
2. The power of the arts and other cultural forms
   
   

A nonprofit 501(c)3 organization, Zing Foundation was launched in 2004 and is based in the Boston area. We are currently run by four staff and a five-member Board.

Contact people:

Anne Ellinger, Executive Director, (phone), (email) Zhaleh Almaee, Program Coordinator, (phone), (email)

Address:

21 Linwood Arlington, MA 02474 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.zingfoundation.org

Directions:

Nearest Bus Stop: Mass Ave and Foster Street, 15 minute walk

Last updated on June 12, 2009