Big Picture Foundation Inc
Empowering kids to use the arts to create a global community.
Mission
Big Picture Foundation empowers children around the world to use the arts for local, national, and global community building initiatives. Kids incorporate the arts into outreach projects and they use art as a tool for developing a collaborative international peer network.
Ruling year
2017
Executive Director
Ms. Kim Tamalonis
Main address
369 Round Hill Rd
Greenwich, CT 06831 USA
EIN
81-4795736
NTEE code
Arts Service Activities/Organizations (A90)
Youth Community Service Clubs (O51)
Youth Development Programs (O50)
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Programs and results
What we aim to solve
BPF helps kids from a range of backgrounds to see each other as friends, rather than as foreigners. We expose children from around the world to each other, through arts challenges and opportunities. Kids learn about global cultures, while also building friendships based on common interests.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Shared Themes
Each Spring, new themes for the following year are announced. Kids make up the themes. Each themes is given a webpage that becomes a gallery, as kids around the world make and submit theme-based art.
Global Gallery
Three times a year, new online galleries are revealed.
Friend Link
Friend Link matches kids who are refugees, kids who are new to a district, kids who are new to a country, or kids who simply want to expand their friend network with kids who volunteer to be attentive, inclusive, and kind buddies.
Friend Link International
This program, which is in the early stages, will partner kids around the world. The kids will communicate with each other online and develop collaborative projects.
Leadership Team
Meetings with kids who choose to take on a significant amount of responsibility for planning and implementing programs.
Open Studios
Once a week, kids are invited to 1.5 hour open-studio sessions, in order to work on Big Picture Foundation projects and goals. The program is supervised and stocked with art supplies.
Where we work
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Goals & Strategy
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Charting impact
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What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
Big Picture Foundation develops local, national, and global community leaders who thoughtfully contribute to society.
The world views of our kids are shaped by connecting with peers from a range of cultural backgrounds.
Our programs and opportunities are child-developed and child-driven, in order to encourage kids' sense of ownership, dedication, and leadership.
Kids learn to critically, creatively, and proactively address problems.
Kids are empowered to access resources and networks beyond their local communities.
Kids start understanding each other's circumstances by following world news.
Kids develop compassion and learn to anticipate the needs of our partner groups.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
How does it work?
1. By empowering kids to build a global peer community
Kids make art based on child developed "Shared Themes." Big Picture Foundation creates online Shared Theme galleries.
Kids develop ideas for collaborative projects. BPF coordinated the initiatives.
Friend Link International is a new program aimed at pairing kids from different countries, to work on a project
We invited all of our global groups to contribute to our "We are the World" endeavor.
While we encourage kids to follow the "Shared Themes," they can make their own work which is shown in our Fall, Winter, and Spring Global
Galleries.
2. By encouraging kids to use the arts for local, national, and global outreach initiatives. Projects are determined by the vision of individual kids and by the ideas of our global groups.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
We set forth challenges and create an online platform for global kids to post their accomplishments and see each other's results. Our global partner groups fulfill the challenges, each in their own ways.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
We incorporated on January 9th, 2017 and received our IRS 501(c)(3) designation on June 26th, 2017.
Over the past two years, we have developed a network of children's groups that spans 18 countries and 6 continents.
We established a website and launched an online Global Gallery program, to showcase global kids' arts accomplishments and efforts to use the arts for outreach.
We challenged around 2000 children to use the arts for outreach and for community building initiatives.
We nurtured joy and friendship among kids from a range of backgrounds.
We included refugees here and in refugee camps in Jordan and Iraq. We included homeless kids in two schools in India and two schools in Nepal, and orphans from South Africa.
We helped kids think about the needs of others.
We inspired kids to connect with family and friends from other countries, in order to invite them to the group.
We made a safe and inclusive program for all children.
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Big Picture Foundation Inc
Board of directorsas of 05/30/2021
Ms. Leslie Cooper
Evan Wies
Neomantra
Ariel Eckstein
Karen Keane
Cathy DuRei
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