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Creative, progressive, spirited philanthropy. Since 1998.
Decades of reproductive history represented through design choices and innovation: the Designing Motherhood exhibition now on display at the Museum of Arts and Design is NOT to be missed.
07.11.2025 15:02 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Great to see and hear from the brilliant @reshmasaujani.com, AND, Lacresha Berry, one of our first Funny Girls instructors, rocked the emceeing. Talk about leadership in action! Special bonus to find that our partnership Funny Girls program was a featured part of the show--gratitude and congrats!
03.11.2025 18:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
With a whoop and a holler as the lead Changemaker Sponsor of YWCA NYC’s Salute Gala, we celebrated their work supporting generations of girls who have evolved to become confident women leaders!
03.11.2025 18:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Thank you to Ruth Ann Harnisch for her continued support of The Hell Gate Podcast and Hell Gate!
Ruth Ann's support through the years has helped us grow and stay "stubbornly idealistic."
Excited to continue this work with her support!
"Stubbornly idealistic" independent local journalism that's owned & run by the people working there? Yes! We love this work so much that Ruth Ann personally gave @hellgatenyc.com support for a dedicated podcasting studio, which they're naming The Ruth Ann Harnisch Studio. Join us in supporting them!
30.10.2025 15:03 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Overjoyed to share that RATIFIED is now streaming on @pbs.org platforms!
www.pbs.org/video/ratifi...
Watch how a legion of activists worked to enshrine the Equal Rights Amendment - making it the 28th Amendment to the US Constitution - that 80% of Americans still don’t know about.
HUGE congratulations to WOMEN LAUGHING for their world premiere at @woodstockfilmfest.bsky.social this weekend! @lizadonnelly.bsky.social is one of the most iconic voices in political and cultural cartooning, and we are thrilled to support such a critical story of women's relationship with humor.
20.10.2025 16:33 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Hey Woodstock! You've got a lot of great options at the @woodstockfilmfest.bsky.social, but @nywift.bsky.social has curated an amazing list of choices featuring work by their members. We're grateful for the shoutouts of two films on which Ruth Ann is an EP-- ASK E. JEAN and ARREST THE MIDWIFE. 🙏
17.10.2025 18:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0So proud to be an executive producer of this film!
14.10.2025 20:39 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Celebrating girls and their leadership, today and every day! #dayofthegirl
11.10.2025 14:31 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We’re partnering with End Well 2025 to spark bold conversations about life, loss, and what it means to face the end with courage and compassion. Join us November 20—virtually or in Los Angeles—for a day that inspires change and connection.
endwellproject.org/end-well-2025/
🌟 Exciting news! Our Funny Girls™ family is growing: Meet the amazing partners joining us for 2025-26 across Seattle, NYC, Sarasota, Long Island, Nashville, and Rochester. Together, we're creating spaces where girls develop leadership skills, emotional intelligence, and unshakeable confidence. ✨
23.09.2025 16:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1“No one has done more to help the world see itself than Robert Redford. His vision inspired countless creative endeavors, including ours.” —Ruth Ann Harnisch
17.09.2025 17:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Absolutely could not be more thrilled that PATRICE won the Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards. Share in our celebration by watching now on Hulu and sharing this powerful work.
@theemmys.tv
In theaters all summer: don't miss this film that the @newyorker.com’s Richard Brody says is “among the most surprising, insightful, moving, and politically far-reaching documentaries I’ve seen in a long while.” More info and tickets:
www.lifeafterfilm.com/screenings
We are overjoyed to hear that PATRICE has been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit In Documentary Filmmaking! Watch now on Hulu and share this powerful film.
@theemmys.tv
NEW YORK CITY! This week, you have a chance to see MARLEE MATLIN: NOT ALONE ANYMORE at the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan -- showtimes and tickets here: jccfilm.eventive.org/films/681cc8...
07.07.2025 22:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We are so incredibly proud to have supported these 3 Emmy-nominated films: absolutely brilliant and critical work you've all created. 💜🩵 @theemmys.tv
27.06.2025 18:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
You know @marleematlin.bsky.social as the most influential Deaf actor of her generation, but you may not know the private struggles that she's lived through--struggles we can all feel. MARLEE MATLIN: NOT ALONE ANYMORE made its New York debut at Tribeca, and we're so very honored to be EPs.
12.06.2025 20:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
🎉💛🤍💜🖤 You remember Pat, right? Who could forget Pat?! The indelible mark they left on the culture deserves a 2025 look, and that's why we were thrilled to join as executive producers of WE ARE PAT, which made its world premiere at Tribeca this weekend.
www.tribecafilm.com/films/we-are...
📣🌈 With attacks on trans people mounting in number and intensity every day, we are honored to be executive producers on STATE OF FIRSTS, which made its world premiere at Tribeca this weekend. Catch it on Wednesday before it closes!
www.tribecafilm.com/films/state-...
WORLD PREMIERE: Tonight at Tribeca, Suzannah Herbert's NATCHEZ will make its debut & we are honored to be executive producers.
"A potent choral portrait of a town reliant on its antebellum past to survive, and how its idiosyncratic citizens navigate—and reflect on—their town’s history and memory."
🌊 THIS WEEKEND: Want to celebrate women who face--and overcome-- massive challenges with grit and grace? Join us for the online premiere of MAYA AND THE WAVE, a film we're proud to be an executive producer on.
mayaandthewave.com
🎉🌈 Today, we celebrate the world premiere of I WAS BORN THIS WAY at Tribeca:
Archbishop Carl Bean got the break of his life when he recorded “I Was Born This Way” in 1977. It quickly became the first gay anthem; when the AIDS crisis hit, however, he soon found himself drawn to a different calling.
We are so thrilled to be executive producers on HEIGHTENED SCRUTINY-- catch the NYC premiere TONIGHT at #NewFest!
30.05.2025 17:58 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
You've only got a few days left to have your school or program join up with us for the next school year! Find out more: funnygirls.org/info
29.05.2025 14:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0The non-member deadline has passed for this extraordinary opportunity, but becoming a member of Film Independent gives you more time, and incredible benefits!
14.05.2025 16:43 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Want the girls in school to feel the power of real leadership skills and have a blast doing it? Find out more about Funny Girls at funnygirls.org/apply!
10.04.2025 16:22 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
When values of bodily autonomy and individual choice collide with latent fears of disability, the conversations get uncomfortable, to say the least. Making its NYC debut tonight at @reelabilities.bsky.social, "Life After" is a new, unflinching dive into those conversations:
07.04.2025 17:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We to invite you and your organization to be part of our Funny Girls family!
We’re thrilled to share our Funny Girls 2025-2026 Partnership Application.
Check out the application at bit.ly/FunnyGirls2025, or for more information, go to FunnyGirls.org.
