Video

Grantee Updates December 20, 2012

Image and memory, past and present

Today we share the last in our new series of videos that add to the web-based collection of stories we call “Glimpses of Who We Are.” This video reunites two friends from Barrow - one a film maker and the other a writer - in an evocative work that explores a geography that, for some, feels extremely foreign. Yet the nostalgia for people and places past is something acutely familiar, especially this time of year.

Grantee Updates December 13, 2012

Still Echoes

Rasmuson Foundation has launched a new series of videos that add to the web-based collection of stories we call “Glimpses of Who We Are.” Today we share the fourth in that series - a piece that questions the origins of artistic inspiration.

Grantee Updates December 5, 2012

Haven House

Today we share the third in our new video series - a piece titled "Haven House" that looks at the work of a Homer nonprofit that provides advocacy and emergency shelter for victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. As filmmaker Brian George Smith says about SPHH, "Many lives are saved in this humble little clapboard building. Many lives are indeed begun anew."

Grantee Updates November 29, 2012

The Trail

Last week Rasmuson Foundation launched a new series of videos that add to the web-based collection of stories we call "Glimpses of Who We Are." Today we share the second in that series - a whimsical, possibly mysterious short that film maker Ellen Frankenstein says was "inspired by late night episodic-serial TV watching."

Grantee Updates November 21, 2012

Introducing video glimpses

Today Rasmuson Foundation launches the next generation of its web-based storytelling. This time, with a nod to advances made in networking speed and connectivity, working with media artists to tell stories about the nonprofit sector.

Grantee Updates August 29, 2012

Sabbatical: go for it

Are you (or do you know) a nonprofit leader interested in the Rasmuson Foundation Sabbatical Program? We asked some former Sabbatical recipients about the value of their sabbatical, and if they had any advice for you. In this post, Rasmuson Foundation President Diane Kaplan shares stories about the impact of time away.