[Note from editor: For the sake of keeping giving on our minds for the entire holiday season, we’re going to highlight a non profit organization or specific good deed that has been done everyday until New Year’s as part of our Real Estate Doers Make a Difference campaign]

Non Profit Highlight: Creative Capital

What they do:

Creative Capital provides integrated financial and advisory support to artists pursuing adventurous projects in five disciplines: Emerging Fields, Film/Video, Literature, Performing Arts and Visual Arts. Working in long-term partnership with artists, Creative Capital’s pioneering approach to support combines funding, counsel and career development services to enable a project’s success and foster sustainable practices for its grantees.

Since its founding in 1999, Creative Capital has committed nearly $25 million in financial and advisory support to 372 projects representing 463 artists, and has reached an additional 4,000 artists through itsProfessional Development Program.

The story:

In 1999, Creative Capital embarked on a mission to reinvent cultural philanthropy and fulfill the needs of the country’s most innovative artists. Founded in response to the culture wars of the 1990s and the NEA’s termination of the majority of its individual grant programs, Creative Capital introduced a ground-breaking model of support for some of the country’s most innovative artists. This fierce commitment to freedom of expression has led to the selection of exceptional projects that challenge cultural and aesthetic conventions and push boundaries in a range of artistic disciplines.

Learn more here or donate directly here.

We have until January 2 to reach our goal of $2,500 for Real Estate Doers Make a Difference (#REDMAD) — please take a minute and contribute $20 to Habitat for Humanity.