Redford Center Grants will be accepting grant proposals from May 1- June 1, 2018 from filmmakers working on environmental solutions stories with topics relevant to the United States.  Don’t take our word for it. Listen to their 2016 inaugural cohort of grantees tell you why you should apply now! Funded by The New York Community Trust, Redford Center Grants will award $20,000 development grants, networking opportunities, and story development support to six film projects. Understand the power of a well-told, well-timed story to inspire positive change in the world? Then send them your character-driven, solutions-focused, feature-length environmental film project ideas! 

Apply here:  http://redfordcenter.org/grants.

Former ITP Grant Partner and Rainforest Connection's founder Topher White is getting assistance in the fight against the destruction of the rain forests using TensorFlow, Google's open source machine learning framework.  Read the article and watch the video here.

Invoking The Pause is pleased to announce our new 2018 Grant Partners selected from a pool of over 50 applicants.  The proposals came from scientists and artists, activists and educators.  As we reviewed the requests, we were inspired by the creativity and quality of the collaborations seeking climate challenge solutions across so many different disciplines.  The year, we selected 10 new projects to receive Invoking The Pause support.  2018 marks the largest number of projects ITP has funded in one year.  Visit our Grant Partner page to read about these interesting and exciting projects.

ITP Grant Partners Eve Mosher and Heidi Quante collaborated on HighWaterLine. HighWaterLine uses art and public performance to build community awareness around climate change.  Their newly developed Guide for Creative Community Engagement provides a roadmap for how you can use creativity to spur change in your local community.  Read more here. 

Invoking the Pause Advisory Committee member Lisa Micheli has been honored by Bay Nature Institute as the 2018 Environmental Education Local Hero. Read the announcement article here.

Dancing Earth Creations (2017 ITP Grant Partner) is so pleased to announce that our Founding Director and Choreographer, Rulan Tangen, has been selected for the Kennedy Center Citizen Artist Fellow Recognition Award! » Read More

ITP Grant Partner, As You Sow - actions once again provide results.  A momentous decision by the giant brand.  Read more here.

As far back as 2008, The Redford Center understood the power of environmental messaging: that if we continued to put the same-old-same-old gloom and doom red-alerts into the world, people would start to tune out, feel hopeless, and disengage. Our intuition was proved correct when we hired a firm to research the clean energy field, and do a poll about how everyday people understand climate change and energy.

What we found was that most of us take light switches and electrical sockets for granted, and few of us know where, exactly, our energy comes from, or how much of it we use throughout each day, week, or year. We learned that we are consuming energy at an increasing rate, and the impacts of climate change are occurring faster than even the climate scientists predicted. We also learned that the majority of Americans believe that climate change is real, and is happening. At the same time, we learned that the very same majority of Americans does not believe that climate change is caused by human activities, nor that it will affect them personally. » Read More

Thanks to the critical grant we received from Invoking the Pause in 2017, The Redford Center was able to host a strategic retreat over Memorial Day weekend. In the beautiful, gothic setting of the Berkeley City Club, our staff, consultants, Board members, and industry experts met for two days of games, good food, and hard work.

The Redford Center is based in the Presidio, but our team is spread over a much larger region—needless to say, we don’t always have the opportunity to meet with each other in person. So, while the physical retreat was really just the beginning of our process to amplify our positive impact on climate solutions, it was also an invaluable opportunity for the team to be together, to deepen our relationships, and ultimately, to understand how dedicated, passionate, and focused we all are to achieving our common goal. » Read More