Supporters, Past and Present

 
 


GOVERNMENT FUNDERS

  • National Endowment of the Arts

  • New York City Department of Cultural Affairs

  • New York City Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice

  • New York State Council on the Arts

  • New York State Media Arts Assistance Fund

  • The Arts Council of the Southern Finger Lakes

  • The Office of City Council member Inez Dickens

  • The Office of City Council member Melissa Mark-Viverito

  • The New York City Department of Parks and Recreation

FOUNDATION SUPPORT

  • AG Foundation

  • Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences

  • Alec Baldwin Foundation

  • Art-House America Campaign

  • Brightwater Fund

  • Chervanak-Nunnalle Foundation

  • Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation

  • A Chance…Fund

  • Frederic R. Coudert Foundation

  • Cashin Family Fund

  • Cultures of Resistance Network Foundation

  • Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund

  • Richard and Natalie Jacoff Foundation

  • Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation

  • William Kistler Charitable Fund

  • NeON Arts

  • Northern Manhattan Fellowship

  • NY Community Trust

  • The Open Society Foundations

  • Pinkerton Foundation

  • The Ralph and Fanny Ellison Charitable Trust

  • Rosenthal Family Foundation

  • May and Samuel Rudin Foundation

  • Shelly and Donald Rubin Foundation

  • Susan Stein Shiva Foundation

  • Tides Foundation

  • Van Lier Fund

  • West Harlem Development Corporation

  • UMEZ Cultural Aid Fund

CORPORATE SUPPORT

  • Gucci

  • HBO

  • NBC Universal Foundation

  • Powerhouse Productions

  • True Aim Productions

COMMUNITY PARTNERS

  • American Documentary / POV

  • African Film Festival

  • BangWorld

  • Brotherhood / Sister Sol

  • Chef’s Modern Caribbean Kitchen

  • Boys and Girls Club of Harlem

  • The City College of New York

  • DOC NYC

  • Community Connections for Youth

  • Do It Your Damn Self Film Festival

  • ECHOES: Alternatives to Incarceration

  • Firelight Media

  • Friends of Island Academy

  • Friends of The Congo

  • Harlem Hospital

  • Historic Harlem Parks

  • Human Rights Watch Film Festival

  • Ms. Tonya's Catering & Sinful Delights

  • Museum of the City of New York

  • National Jazz Museum

  • Nowadays

  • New York Film Festival

  • Red Rooster Harlem

  • The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture

  • S.O.S. South Bronx

  • Strive

  • Studio Museum in Harlem

  • Sylvia's Restaurant

  • Tribeca Film Institute

  • Third World Newsreel

 


PRIVATE CONTRIBUTORS

  • Maiken Baird

  • Catherine Barnett

  • The Beatles : Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Yoko Ono, Olivia Harrison

  • Amanda Benchley

  • Andrea Van Beuren

  • Nelson Blitz

  • Kim Brizzolara

  • Kate Brosnahan

  • Abigail Canfield

  • Nanci Chazen

  • Matthew J. Mallow and Ellen Chesler

  • Orla Coleman

  • Wendy Mackenzie and Sandi Cortesi

  • Jill Furman

  • Andrew Goldberg and Karen Shapiro

  • Donna Goodale

  • Agnes Gund and Catherine Gund

  • Ashton Hawkins

  • Jonathan Lampert

  • John Lyons

  • Wendy Keys

  • Michael Krupp

  • Margaret and John Malicki

  • Deborah Mello

  • Nicholas Negroponte

  • Yoko Ono Lennon

  • George Lucas

  • David Neal

  • Julie B. Perhsan

  • Sarah Plimpton

  • Andy Spade

  • Jean Stein

  • Joseph Wemple

  • Adam Wolfensohn

  • Irwin Young

IN-KIND SUPPORT

  • Tonya Burrell

  • Harlem Brewing Company

  • Sony Corporation

  • Bobbito Garcia

  • Trader Joe's

  • Best Yet Market

  • Aaron Officer

  • Jacob Restaurant

  • Sylvia’s Restaurant

  • Red Rooster

MDC is a proud member of Coalition of Small Arts NYC (CoSA NYC).