Dubai: Content Creator Simon Squibb Receives 'One Billion Award'
The award, valued at $1m, recognises exceptional content creators who drive social change and contribute to shaping a better future through their platforms.
The One Billion Award drew more than 16,000 submissions from content creators in 190 countries.
The ceremony was held at Dubai's Emirates Towers, DIFC, and the Museum of the Future.
The summit attracted over 15,000 content creators and influencers, with more than 420 speakers.
Selected Grant News Headlines
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Hidden Gems in Philanthropy
Foundation: Community Foundation of Sarasota County, Manatee Community Foundation
Harvest House provides affordable housing and addiction recovery services.The Skilled Companion Dog Program provides dogs that serve as loyal companions and teachers.Bridge A Life supports children...more
Foundation: Community Foundation of Sarasota County, Manatee Community Foundation
Harvest House provides affordable housing and addiction recovery services.The Skilled Companion Dog Program provides dogs that serve as loyal companions and teachers.Bridge A Life supports children...more
Peer Learning Networks 
Creative Australia's peer learning networks help to foster a collaborative and supportive environment for artists and creative workers.National Giving Day to the Arts is a new initiative designed to...more
Creative Australia's peer learning networks help to foster a collaborative and supportive environment for artists and creative workers.National Giving Day to the Arts is a new initiative designed to...more
Corpus Christi 2025 Arts Grant Program Recipients Recognized 
Corpus Christi 2025 Arts Grant Program Recipients Recognized.City of Corpus Christi's Arts & Cultural Commission (ACC) announced the recipients.Program provides $300,000 in total funding to support...more
Corpus Christi 2025 Arts Grant Program Recipients Recognized.City of Corpus Christi's Arts & Cultural Commission (ACC) announced the recipients.Program provides $300,000 in total funding to support...more
Arts Center Exhibit Features Painter Hayes 
Painter Hayes, the creative team of Sarah and Cosby Painter Hayes, brings together a vibrant selection of work that engages with themes of identity, environment, social reflection, and kitsch...more
Painter Hayes, the creative team of Sarah and Cosby Painter Hayes, brings together a vibrant selection of work that engages with themes of identity, environment, social reflection, and kitsch...more
Humans of the U: Lauren Carn 
Lauren Carn, Class of 2025, BFA in Theatre Teaching, College of Fine Arts, from Draper, Utah.Carn is starting a job at Salt Lake Arts Academy teaching fifth through eighth grade drama.Carn wrote a...more
Lauren Carn, Class of 2025, BFA in Theatre Teaching, College of Fine Arts, from Draper, Utah.Carn is starting a job at Salt Lake Arts Academy teaching fifth through eighth grade drama.Carn wrote a...more
Governance Hub 
Creative Australia's governance initiatives are open to the public.For questions related to Creative Australia's Governance initiatives, please email.For more information,...more
Creative Australia's governance initiatives are open to the public.For questions related to Creative Australia's Governance initiatives, please email.For more information,...more
Partner and Co-Invest 
Creative Australia is the Australian Government's principal arts investment, development and advisory body.It aims to support a thriving arts and cultural sector and encourages all Australians to...more
Creative Australia is the Australian Government's principal arts investment, development and advisory body.It aims to support a thriving arts and cultural sector and encourages all Australians to...more
The Frost School Partners With Ai Program to Shape the Future of Music
The Frost School of Music announces a groundbreaking partnership with Suno, an artificial intelligence music program.The partnership will explore ways to leverage the powerful new technology to shape...more
The Frost School of Music announces a groundbreaking partnership with Suno, an artificial intelligence music program.The partnership will explore ways to leverage the powerful new technology to shape...more
Philanthropy in Action: Yerkin Tatishev Drives Cultural Legacy At Tsinandali 2025 
The Tsinandali Festival is returning for its seventh edition from September 4 to 14, 2025.The festival is a unique initiative backed by Kusto Group and Yerkin Tatishev, designed to connect cultures...more
The Tsinandali Festival is returning for its seventh edition from September 4 to 14, 2025.The festival is a unique initiative backed by Kusto Group and Yerkin Tatishev, designed to connect cultures...more
Impact Investment Readiness 
Impact investing is a funding model with a range of benefits for arts and cultural organisations seeking to access new sources of capital.Australia's National Cultural Policy: REVIVE includes a...more
Impact investing is a funding model with a range of benefits for arts and cultural organisations seeking to access new sources of capital.Australia's National Cultural Policy: REVIVE includes a...more
Wednesday May 7, 2025
Social Entrepreneurship
Spotlight
Who Made Your Pants Founder Combines Fashionable Pants and Human Rights
Becky John, after reading a Guardian article about social enterprises in 2006, decided to trigger her activist DNA by founding Who Made Your Pants? (WMYP)
