Black Opry is a fast growing organization that seeks to create equity and opportunities for Black artists working in the country, Americana, folk, and roots music industries. This music has been made by and loved by Black people since its conception.
For just as long, they have been overlooked and disregarded. Black Opry wants to change that. We see a more inclusive version of these genres that includes Black artists, fans, and executives within the industry.
The Biscuits & Banjos Foundation celebrates the African diaspora’s role in shaping American identity and culture through music, literature, food, and community.
GRAMMY & Pulitzer Prize-winning artist Rhiannon Giddens developed the Biscuits & Banjos Foundation with a goal to envision a world where the full story of American music, literature, food, and culture is told, and where the communities that created it are resourced, visible, and thriving.
The Once & Future Sounds Fund works to improve equity in the music industry by elevating artists from historically marginalized and exploited groups. The Fund will launch two signature programs — The Once & Future Laureate Program and the Once & Future Festival — over the next three years.
Launched in 2021, the Unmanageable Giving Circle provides relief for artists in order to advance their art-making. Every dollar donated goes directly to artists. No overhead, no strings attached. The Unmanageable Giving Circle’s ongoing fundraising efforts have yielded more than $300,000 in direct individual support and mutual aid for artist mothers. During the spring of 2026, the Unmanageable Giving Circle launched a Mutual Aid Fund.
Created by artist, producer & actor Amber Rubarth, Cover Crop is an episodic video series bringing music performances to farms across North America with the aim of creating more generosity, connection, and sustainability through food, community, and music. Cover Crop is also a visual celebration and exploration of the passions and hardships of small scale sustainable farms throughout North America. In the spirit of reciprocity, Rubarth offers music, often featuring other guest musicians, as her way of feeding back into the environment that nourishes her.
We Are North Nashville is a two-year multimedia storytelling project. Led by artist, author, activist, and community organizer M. Simone Boyd, with the support of Andrea Tudhope and Steve Haruch, the project has a goal to gather, document, and share wisdom and sacred knowledge from North Nashville community elders to fortify us for the uncertain future ahead. The project will also redistribute wealth via resources raised for the project to community members.
Your Song, founded by songwriter and music therapist Kyshona Armstrong, is a collaborative songwriting program that connects performing arts centers, musicians, and artists with vulnerable communities to promote healing and community connectedness.
Human Resources, led by Joseph Pope III and Julie Davis, will gather local artists, culture workers, advocates, and students in sustained community-building with our neighbors. The live event and gallery space will foster connection and belonging, reduce burn-out, support creative identity development and growth, and strengthen community resilience.
Human Resources will deliver a vision for downtown Denver rooted in art, equity, cultural collaboration, and heart. Neighbors will participate in events and conversations that grow our understanding of what is possible as we counter isolation and despair by building new worlds together. We will present local, national, and international art of all genres, while supporting Colorado artists and other nonprofits by providing space, resources and a sense of community.
A series of LPs from Spinster and Americana Music Productions celebrating the centennial of Rosetta Reitz and her legendary feminist record label Rosetta Records.
Two legendary festivals are joining hands for an evening of music, dance, and fellowship on the Virginia Beach boardwalk! We’ll build community, share music and farming stories, and dance with the crashing waves behind us. Farm Aid Family Reunion: “We the Farmers” Takeover in partnership with the 52nd Annual Neptune Festival Boardwalk Weekend will take place at Neptune’s Park on Friday, September 25th from 6-11p.m.
Farm Aid Family Reunion is produced in partnership with the 52nd Annual Neptune Festival Boardwalk Weekend and Unmanageable Arts.