We use contemporary art, memory, and education to create cultural programs around migration, resilience, and diaspora.
VAEA · New York 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization
Support the New York/Venezuela Chapter
Help activate an arts, migration memory, education, and public dialogue program in New York.
Exodus & Resilience — New York/Venezuela Chapter is currently in its activation phase. We are building the institutional and community base needed to launch the program’s first public activities: bilingual workshops, artist conversations, educational materials, visual documentation, cultural mediation, and public dialogue around migration, memory, resilience, and belonging.
Developed in collaboration with the Venezuelan American Endowment for the Arts, Inc. (VAEA), a New York-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, the program connects contemporary art, diaspora communities, cultural institutions, and partners committed to social and cultural impact.
Transparency note: The program is currently in its activation phase. Contributions and institutional support will help move the project from preparation to public implementation. Any funding received will be allocated to activities, materials, coordination, documentation, accessibility, and community participation connected to the program.
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What your donation helps activate.
Millions of displacement stories risk disappearing without cultural preservation, public dialogue, and educational tools.
Your support helps fund exhibitions, resources, community programs, artist participation, documentation, translation, publishing, and donor reporting.
Before donating, you may generate a reference code so your contribution can be internally matched to this campaign.
Why support
Art can become cultural infrastructure for communities in movement.
Migration does not only transform territories; it transforms families, memories, languages, identities, and forms of belonging. Exodus & Resilience uses contemporary art as a tool to document lived experiences, open public conversations, create educational resources, and strengthen connections between immigrant communities, artists, institutions, and the broader public.
Supporting this chapter means contributing to a cultural infrastructure that can:
- Create safe spaces for expression and dialogue.
- Activate bilingual workshops and public conversations.
- Connect artists and diaspora communities.
- Produce accessible educational materials.
- Document processes, testimonies, and learning.
- Strengthen the cultural memory of migrant communities.
- Build bridges between art, education, and social impact.
Funding phasesPhase 1 · Activation$20K Phase 2 · Public programming$50K Phase 3 · Exhibition and archive$100K Phase 4 · Replicable model$250K+
A phased path from preparation to public implementation.
The program is designed to grow through clear funding phases so donors, foundations and partners can understand what each level of support helps unlock.
Launch planning, artist outreach, partner coordination, bilingual materials, initial documentation, community mapping and the first public pilot activities.
A stronger cycle of workshops, artist conversations, educational resources, cultural mediation, audiovisual documentation and public-facing communications.
Development of exhibition materials, living archive records, public programs, press, printing, logistics, accessibility and expanded institutional reporting.
A full implementation cycle that can position New York/Venezuela as a replicable model for diaspora cultural memory, education and public documentation.
What your support makes possiblePilot workshop$1,000 Community activation$5,000 Public program$10,000 Launch phase$20,000 Custom institutional supportTailored
From a first workshop to a launch phase.
The following examples show how individual or institutional support may help move the program from preparation into community-facing implementation.
A $1,000 contribution can support a first pilot activation, including basic artist/facilitator honoraria, bilingual materials, initial documentation, refreshments, accessibility, and community outreach.
A $5,000 contribution can support a fuller public activity, including preparation, coordination, educational materials, communications, community participation, basic audiovisual documentation, and logistical support.
A $10,000 contribution can support an initial cycle of workshops, public conversations, bilingual materials, documentation, cultural mediation, and coordination with community or educational partners.
A $20,000 contribution can help consolidate a first implementation phase, including programming, coordination, artist participation, educational resources, professional documentation, accessibility, reporting, and institutional development.
Foundations, companies, collectors, individual donors, and cultural partners can speak with the team to define a collaboration aligned with their cultural philanthropy, CSR, community impact, or institutional goals.
Funding pathways
Choose the support path that matches your philanthropic goals.
Different donors and institutions support cultural memory in different ways. These pathways help foundations, companies, diaspora families and individual donors identify the right entry point before contacting the team or making a gift through VAEA.
01 · Major gifts
Founding Circle
For major donors and catalytic gifts that help launch the New York/Venezuela Chapter as a durable cultural infrastructure.
Explore pathway → 02 · CorporateCorporate & ESG Partnerships
For companies seeking cultural, educational, community, CSR or ESG-aligned partnerships.
Explore pathway → 03 · Community givingDiaspora Giving Campaign
For Venezuelan and Latin American families, communities and friends who want to support public memory.
Explore pathway → 04 · EducationEducation & Youth Impact
For support directed to bilingual learning, youth engagement, mediation and cultural education resources.
Explore pathway → 05 · ArchiveLiving Archive Fund
For documentation, oral histories, artist files, metadata, translation and public research materials.
Explore pathway → 06 · Public programsExhibition & Public Programs Fund
For exhibitions, conversations, workshops, mediation, documentation and public-facing cultural activation.
Explore pathway →Use of funds
Funds support real program needs.
Funds may be allocated to:
- Artist, facilitator, and cultural professional honoraria.
- Production of workshops, public conversations, and community activations.
- Bilingual educational materials.
- Design, communications, and community outreach.
- Photography, audiovisual, and archival documentation.
- Accessibility, local transportation, refreshments, and participant support.
- Program coordination, follow-up, reporting, and basic evaluation.
- Partnership development with cultural, educational, and community organizations.
Transparency
Projected allocation of funds.
The New York/Venezuela Chapter uses a percentage-based allocation framework to explain how funds are expected to support program delivery, artists, documentation, public programming and institutional development.
This framework is designed for institutional clarity. It communicates projected allocation percentages without exposing private contracts, individual honoraria or commercially sensitive budget lines.
75% of the projected budget supports program execution, artists, archive, logistics, public programming and dissemination. 25% supports curatorial direction, research, strategic design and institutional development.
| Technical Execution and Digital Archive | 35% |
|---|---|
| Intellectual Property and Program Direction | 25% |
| Direct Program Costs and Artist Support | 15% |
| Fine Arts Logistics and Insurance | 13% |
| Public Programs, Press and Printing | 12% |
- 35%Technical Execution & Digital Archive
Audiovisual production, bilingual web infrastructure, and digital cataloging.
- 25%Intellectual Property & Program Direction
Curatorial oversight, research, strategic design, and institutional development.
- 15%Direct Program Costs & Artist Support
Direct stipends for artists, research travel, and community impact metrics.
- 13%Fine Arts Logistics & Insurance
International specialized transport, climate-controlled crating, and wall-to-wall insurance for the artworks.
- 12%Public Programs, Press & Printing
Exhibition catalogs, educational guides, community outreach, and cultural PR.
Transparency note: These percentages describe a projected program allocation framework. They are not audited expenditure figures and may be refined as formal budgets, institutional agreements, venue requirements and program phases are confirmed.
Ways to collaborateDonate Sponsor Partner Connect
Support can take several forms.
Support the initial activation of the program.
For companies, foundations, or donors who wish to associate their support with a specific activity, workshop, public conversation, or program phase.
For cultural institutions, universities, schools, community organizations, or migrant networks interested in developing joint activities.
For individuals or organizations that can facilitate introductions to foundations, artists, community organizations, cultural spaces, media, or donor networks.
For foundations and institutional donors
Transparent development, documented in public.
We are preparing and submitting a pipeline of applications, expressions of interest, and institutional conversations with foundations, microgrants, and cultural/community support programs. The Program Journal documents this process transparently, including submitted requests, review status, and next milestones.
Follow the funding pipeline: the Program Journal is maintained as a public record of development and transparency, not as an announcement of awarded funding unless clearly stated otherwise.
Contribute through VAEA
Register once, then choose the contribution channel that works for you.
A clear and traceable contribution path
VAEA receives contributions for the Exodus & Resilience — New York/Venezuela Chapter. Before continuing to the official VAEA donation page, PayPal, Zelle or a request for wire instructions, register the basic identifying details associated with your intended contribution.
The system will create a secure reference beginning with NYVE. Keep it until the contribution is reconciled. This registration does not process payment and is not a payment confirmation or tax receipt.
Donor questions
Before you donate
Is my donation tax-deductible in the United States?
Donations are processed through The Venezuelan American Endowment for the Arts (VAEA), a U.S. 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. For U.S. taxpayers, contributions may be tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law. Please keep the receipt issued by PayPal, PayPal Giving Fund, VAEA, or the payment processor for your records and consult your own advisor.
Does Exodus & Resilience issue the tax receipt?
No. Exodus & Resilience does not issue the tax receipt directly. The donation is processed through VAEA or the corresponding payment processor.
Why do I need a reference code?
The reference code helps us identify that your donation was intended to support Exodus & Resilience — New York/Venezuela Chapter.
What if PayPal does not show a note field?
Please complete the donation anyway. We will match it using the date, amount, and donor information submitted through the reference form.
Contact
Start a conversation with the program team.
If you represent a foundation, cultural institution, company, community organization, or donor network interested in art, migration, education, immigrant communities, or public dialogue, we would be glad to connect.