Arts & Community Practice Expert Bill Cleveland Interviews Tom Tresser on the Work – Artists as Leaders…
Creativity Expert Peter Cook Interviews Tom Tresser on the 100K Project
You can make a tax-deductible donation to our work via Fractured Atlas! You can mail checks to The 100K Project, 1643 N. Larrabee Street, Suite i, Chicago IL 60614. For donations of $5,000 or more, or if you wish to do a direct ACH deposit, please FIRST download this letter and mail to Fractured Atlas.
Are you frustrated by the fact that powerful and evidence-backed plans for progress, service, and change created by creative people have gone NOWHERE? Check out the Graveyard of Proressive Policies – just a few of the agendas and solution sets organizer Tom Tresser has collected over the years. It’s becuase we have NO POWER. Let’s change that!
Find out about our inaugural training program! Our 8 week online program began October 9 (2 hour sessions). The 100K Project is proudly partnering with the National Guild for Community Arts Education and the Cleveland Arts Education Consortium to produce this leadership development program.
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We seek to recruit, train, and propel 100,000 people from the arts, nonprofit, social services, education, and science sectors (and their supporters) to run for local office or help those with our values run as champions of service, science, justice, equity, peace, creativity, and the public sector. All permitted functions inside the 501 c 3 framework. We are in the early stages of organizing. Here is our Steering Committee.
The nonprofit sector documents its own powerlessness. Enough. Time to organize!
Read the call to action in The Nonprofit Quarterly!
Watch this video on the history of the Culture Wars from the 1990’s and how it set up the civics in America today!
The 100K Project is in formation! Please check back for our case statement, the list of our Steering Committee and much more! The Lead Organizer is Tom Tresser, based in Chicago :). Reach him at [email protected]. Here is the column he wrote in 1991 for a Chicago-based performing arts newspaper calling on cultural workers to lead in public life to Fight the Right!
If we do not fight to protect and champion the First Amendment, it will be whittled away one word at a time and you will not be able to freely practice your art in the new century. If we do not demand that our government create policies and budgets which reflect our values, then we will continue the trend of the eighties in which wealth and opportunity is transferred from the lower and middle economic strata of our society to the richest, highest strata. In this bleak scenario, the new century will be a place where artists are seen as criminals and the rich and privileged live apart from the economic and environmental blights wreaked by decades of governmental incompetence and venality.
Here is Tom’s manifesto from 2008 directed to all cultural workers, creative professionals, and anyone who defines themselves via their creativity. America Needs You (then and now)!
Watch this two-minute video from 2011 that was made by Scientists & Engineers for America (SEA), urging their peers to run for local office. They are no longer active. What happened?
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