Giving Program
Your gift helps ROOTS’ vanguard artists impact the culture and fabric of our country and beyond as they affect positive change in the communities in which they serve. Your dollars go towards direct support through grants, partnerships, travel stipends, and technical assistance. ROOTS also advocates for Southern artists, communities, and those least represented in the national arts and social justice ecosystem.
Why give to ROOTS?
Fear harms vulnerable communities, and the South has long been a training ground for repressive policies. Alternate ROOTS’ Southern artists resist fear and create spaces for hope, challenging intersectional oppressions of race, gender, ability, sexual orientation, religion, and class. They call for social and economic justice, working to dismantle all forms of oppression. Your gift helps ROOTS’ artists create positive change in their communities through grants, partnerships, travel stipends, and technical assistance
Our Numbers
- Between 2017-2022, Alternate ROOTS has put $3.4 million directly into the hands of artists through Artistic Assistance, Partners in Action, Partners for Change and other programs.
- We have 640 Voting, General, and Organizational Members
- There are over 4,000 people in our network/mailing list
What to Give ?
Lodging : ROOTS host artists for convenings throughout the South, and at national conferences and meetings. Your donation of in-kind lodging (retreat spaces, hotels, rental housing, or other lodging) will enable our members to effect change throughout the country.
Transportation : ROOTS is a regional organization for which members, staff, and Executive Committee members move throughout the region regularly (and sometimes internationally). Travel vouchers or member points for airfare, bus, trains, carpooling services, and any other means of transportation ensure that we can convene and support each other’s work as needed.
Professional Development | Artistic Supplies : ROOTS members are from all artistic disciplines and backgrounds, including visual art, theater, dance, film, and other cultural practices. We could accept supplies or vouchers for supplies, leadership development programs, software, computers and other technology, marketing and press, website development services that could further the endeavors of the artist activists that we serve.
How to Give
Planned Giving
- Planned giving allows you to make donations for a future date, in perpetuity or even many years beyond life passing. Many members have dedicated their lives to ROOTS, and planned giving is a way to ensure ROOTS’ sustainability into the future.
Tribute Giving
- Making a gift in honor or memory of a loved one, whose values and principles are aligned with Alternate ROOTS, is tremendous opportunity to extend their lifelong legacy.
Gifts of Stocks and Securities
- Alternate ROOTS accepts gifts via stock, mutual funds, IRA contributions, and donor advised funds.
Sponsorship
- Organizations and businesses are able to give to Alternate ROOTS via monetary donations or in-kind gifts. Please contact Paige Heurtin, Co-Executive Director , at paige@alternateroots.org, or 404-577-1079 Ext. 305.
