
Community runs deep – it allows us to tap into new geographies, celebrate diversity and multiculturalism, hero local clubs, but most of all, it’s about the local merchants and restaurants whose potato scallops haven’t changed since you were a child. “What I love most about this partnership is that it allows DoorDash to support and give back to the community. Connecting locally allows us to build DoorDash’s presence and grow the brand at a grassroots level, extending their NRL partnership. Shivani Maharaj, chief content & partnerships at Wavemaker, said: “Sport is the number one passion for Aussies and Touch Football is the largest social team sport in the country, with over 700,000 participants across Australia. These visionary artists will receive up to 6,000 each to create innovative work that will be shared with the public beyond traditional exhibition spaces. “At DoorDash we believe it’s important to give back in a meaningful way, and we are excited to help acknowledge the amazing work Touch clubs play by providing the resources they need to keep supporting their communities.” Touch clubs have an incredible impact on Australians from all walks of life, through connection, fitness, fun and friendships within their teams and in turn local communities. Madison Westall, partnership manager at DoorDash, said: “We are so proud to partner with Touch Football Australia again to deliver good to our local communities.

The winners will share the $100,000 grant to pay for new uniforms, club house repairs and coaching programs. DoorDash invited clubs from across the country to share their stories and apply for grants, with 12 winners chosen from 66 applications. With Covid budget cuts and extreme flooding destroying sporting grounds, Touch clubs across Australia have been doing it tough. Donor Name: City of Tempe State: Arizona City: Tempe. The grant prizes are part of the $100,000 Foot圜ash grant-based funding program launched by DoorDash in partnership with Touch Football Australia earlier this year, allowing affiliated Touch Football clubs across the country to apply for grants. The Wavemaker Arts Grants are available to arts non-profit organizations providing inclusive arts and culture programming in Tempe (501c3 status required). The campaign shines a spotlight on remote Australian Touch communities that have been hit hard by Covid and extreme flooding over the past two years, and shows DoorDash Foot圜ash grant prizes being delivered to clubs across Australia by star NRL and NRLW players: NRL legend Petero Civoniceva to Burdekin Touch Association in Queensland NRLW Brisbane Broncos and QLD player Ali Brigginshaw to Ipswich Touch Association in Queensland and NRL Melbourne Storm player Harry Grant to Harlequins Touch Association in Victoria. With generous project support from Disapora Vibe Cultural Arts Incubator (Miami) and ReadyTex Gallery (Paramaribo, Suriname).DoorDash is highlighting its Touch Football Australia partnership in a TVC produced by Wavemaker Australia and Knack Studios ahead of the footy finals launch.


Knight Foundation, the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs, and Wells Fargo. Wavemaker Grnts focuses on experimental, artist-centric projects and activities that operate without traditional funding sources and outside the dermands. Wavemaker Grants is supported by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, John S.

Support for Alosúgbe was also provided in part by Locust Projects through its Wavemaker Grants program, which is part of the Andy Warhol Foundation’s Regional Regranting Program. His walking practice takes him by many unkempt edges and along undeveloped or disused lots to capture the plants, people, and history in a poetic manner.Īlosúgbe was originally curated by and presented at Emerson Dorsch Gallery in Miami, where it was funded in part by The Ellies, Miami’s visual arts awards, presented by Oolite Arts. Onajide Shabaka is a South Florida-based artist whose “studio” occupies a metaphorical space of a walk or a hike within the built urban environment. This exhibition derives from several years of ongoing research finding connections between colonial sites in the Low Country (Georgia & South Carolina), the Caribbean archipelago and Suriname. Through a combination of abstract, calligraphic works on paper, documentary photographs, sculpture and found objects, Alosúgbe traces Shabaka’s own family history along with the migrations of people and plants from the rice plantations of the Atlantic colonial slave era to 20th century Florida. Grantees receive up to 6,000 each in three categories: New Work /. Miami based artist Onajide Shabaka explores ethnobotany, geology and archaeology as they relate to human history, society and culture. Since 2015, WaveMaker has awarded 510,000 in funding to 102 of Miamis visionary artists.
