Color Congress joined Roadmap Consulting for a conversation about developing organizational strategy and capacity building.

RoadMap reflects on their collaboration and work with Color Congress.

Sahar Driver shares the rationale and approach to building up the POC documentary ecosystem at the Media Impact Forum 2023.

Read the 2022 Color Congress Impact Report, concluding the first year since the launch of the organization.

Read Sonya and Sahar’s op-ed for FIlmmaker Magazine about the evolution of the impact field and where it may be moving through in its next evolution.

The Color Congress, a new intermediary group created to help support POC-led documentary organizations that operate outside of major media hubs, has announced the recipients of its inaugural granting program.

The 17 grantees, selected from a pool of 120 applying organizations, are ones serving historically marginalized communities, have budgets under $300,000 and operate outside national media hubs. The two-year unrestricted inaugural grants range in amounts from $45,000 to $90,000.

Co-Directors Sonya Childress and Sahar Driver pen an article for Ford Foundation about the documentary community of color that drives the mission of the Color Congress forward.

Rashid Shabazz sits down with Color Congress Co-Directors, Sonya Childress and Sahar Driver, for an interview in Documentary magazine.

Read Lauren Pabst’s blog on the MacArthur Foundation site about support for people of color leading a documentary film movement by and for their communities.

Read a recap of the webinar, An Era of Power Reckoning: Trust-Based Philanthropy and the Implications for Documentary Film Funding, co-hosted by Color Congress and the Trust-Based Philanthropy Project.

This webinar, co-hosted by Trust-Based Philanthropy and Color Congress, focuses on the documentary film funding field contextualized within exciting philanthropy practices.

If you missed our launch event at Sundance 2022, which was a celebration of leaders and organizations on whose shoulders we stand, you can still check it out.

Check out this frank conversation with the foundation program officers who seeded Color Congress about the political and cultural experiences that shape their worldviews and funding strategies and their thoughts on the future of the documentary field.

Color Congress launched in January 2022 with an open call for organizations to apply for unrestricted grant funding. The open call closed in February 2022.