Introducing...

THE HEN FOUNDATION!
“When the hen crows, the state will fall” Confucius

We all feel the need for music, poetry and theater which has the power to challenge oppression and help us to imagine creative alternatives. We understand the value of strong political performers and wish there were more of them. We hope that the ones we love and respect have the strength to continue, because we count on them to ignite our events, to energize our rallies, to make our fundraisers and benefits a great success.

Like most activists, political performers most often work double or triple time to contribute their creativity to movements for justice. Yet, relative to other forms of activism, even the most prolific political performers lack access to organizational or institutional funding. To sustain their efforts to provide high-quality artistic statements within our political movements, they rely on grassroots support from people like you and me.

• The HEN Foundation stimulates, develops and sustains mutual support and collaborative advancement of grassroots activists, progressive social movement organizations, and artist-activists.

• HEN raises and distributes funds to develop and promote an international community of artist-activists whose work furthers the causes of anti-oppression, cultural innovation and peace-with-justice.

• HEN connects artists with small grants, coordinates nationally-touring political performance roadshows, connects progressive organizations with artist-outreach workers, and produces and distributes a yearly “WHEN THE HEN CROWS” CD compilation which chronicles the work of HEN artist-activists and provides an annual oral record of activist issues, struggles and victories through music, spoken word and spoken theater.

• The HEN Foundation supports leadership of women and people of color within movements for justice. We prioritize our work with artists and organizations accordingly.

WE NEED YOUR SUPPORT TO BUILD A STRONG FOUNDATION!

HEN has received 501(c)(3) status and hopes to be awarding grants by Spring 2009.

If you are interested in supporting our efforts to mobilize and sustain artist-activism, we welcome you to become a grassroots member, supporter or sustainer of the HEN Foundation. Contact The HEN Foundation for more information.

Also, please donate to our cause by clicking the Donate link on the left of the page!