Not An Alternative
Not An Alternative is an art/activism collective with a mission to affect popular understandings of events, symbols, and history.
Not An Alternative is dedicated to harnessing the power of narrative and visual communications for social change. Not An Alternative both initiates and supports campaigns that foreground cultural and mediagenic organizing strategies. Borrowing tactics and techniques from advertising, branding, public relations, and exhibit design, it designs and produces grassroots pressure campaigns that heavily integrate both online and offline visual communications.
Grants
General Operations
| Amount | $200,000 |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2019-2022 |
| Region | US |
| Primary Approach | Allies and Key Projects |
Emergency Funding COVID-19
This grant supports lost income related to cancelled events, closed museums, and closed cultural venues.
| Amount | $10,000 |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2020 |
| Region | US |
| Primary Approach | Allies and Key Projects |
General Operations
| Amount | $50,000 |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2018 |
| Region | US |
| Primary Approach | Cultural Organizing |
Visit to Pittsburgh for an Exhibition Debut
A delegation of eight Indigenous leaders from across North America joined The Natural History Museum in Pittsburgh for the debut of Kwel’ Hoy: We Draw The Line, an exhibition we developed in collaboration with members of the Lummi Nation and other Pacific Northwest Tribes.
| Amount | $5,000 |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2017 |
| Region | US |
| Primary Approach | Travel |
Weeklong Visit with Lummi Nation to Plan and Develop Trans-media Campaign Exhibition
The Natural History Museum proposes to visit the Lummi Nation outside of Bellingham, Washington to spend a week with tribal leaders planning a trans-media campaign and traveling exhibition aimed at raising awareness, bringing the Lummi's struggles to a broader public, and strengthening local coalitions where the exhibit will tour on the west coast.
| Amount | $4,351 |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2017 |
| Region | US |
| Primary Approach | Travel |
General Operations
| Amount | $25,000 |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2017 |
| Region | US |
| Primary Approach | Cultural Organizing |
Standing Rock: video production, meetings with Indigenous Environmental Network and Honor The Earth
We'd like to send two people from our Natural History Museum team to shoot video interviews and footage at the Standing Rock encampment, and also at the North Dakota Heritage Center in Bismarck, North Dakota. The trip would also provide an opportunity to meet with and deepen our relationships with organizers from Indigenous Environmental Network and Honor The Earth, whose work we hope to amplify within the museum sector through a partnership with five museums around the country over the next three years.
| Amount | $2,475 |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2016 |
| Region | US |
| Primary Approach | Cultural Organizing |
Association of Science Museum Directors Annual Conference
Travel to Association of Science Museum Directors Annual Conference in Vancouver
| Amount | $1,700 |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2016 |
| Region | US |
| Primary Approach | Travel |
COP 21
Travel to COP 21 in Paris
| Amount | $2,500 |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2016 |
| Region | US |
| Primary Approach | Travel |
General Operations
| Amount | $15,000 |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2015 |
| Region | US |
| Primary Approach | Cultural Organizing |
The Natural History Museum
Exhibition that confronted the American Museum of Natural History about its ties to climate change denialism
| Amount | $15,000 |
|---|---|
| Year(s) | 2013 |
| Region | US |
| Primary Approach | Cultural Organizing |