Our Programs
CONNECT
Organizational Membership
To foster trust and connection among people of color-led and serving organizations
Color Congress is a membership body that serves majority people of color (POC) and POC-led organizations that offer programming in service of filmmakers, leaders, and audiences of color in the documentary field. Membership is for organizations that wish to work with peer organizations to build power as an ecosystem. The membership program is free and participation is voluntary.
SUPPORT
Field Building Program
To build organizational and collective capacity, and strengthen transformational collaboration between people of color organizations
The Field Building Program provides the infrastructure for collaborative, field-led work and resources members’ collective needs and ambitions. In Summer 2022, member organizations directed a $525K fund toward technical assistance to strengthen organizational sustainability. In 2024 our members directed $600k over two years toward marketing experimentation that can address a field-wide distribution crisis.
RESOURCE
Organizational Grant Program
To address chronic disinvestment and stabilize POC-led documentary organizations
The Organizational Grant Program offers unrestricted, two-year grants to organizations based on criteria that aims to address current or historic field needs and conditions.
The Organizational Grant Program is designed to support organizations that are a primary gateway through which filmmakers and leaders of color enter the nonfiction field and that offer critical support to the communities they serve (based on geographic location, racial and ethnic identities, roles and functions in the field, etc.) so they can sustain or grow their work and contribute to the nonfiction film field. Grantees do not have to be member organizations.
In February 2025, Color Congress directed over $2.2 million dollars to 33 documentary organizations across the United States and U.S. islands.