VAEA
Venezuelan American Endowment for the Arts — host entity for the New York program and 501(c)(3) organization.
Partnerships
Partnerships to build cultural and social infrastructure.
Exodus & Resilience builds partnerships with organizations that understand culture as infrastructure for social cohesion and cultural rights as part of the mandate of any serious philanthropic, institutional or corporate project. The platform’s founding program works with the Venezuelan diaspora; its model is designed to grow toward other migration contexts. The partnerships now open are foundational partnerships: they have the capacity to participate in the definition of the model, its governance, its ethical frameworks and its program priorities, both in the Venezuelan founding phase and in the expansion phases that will follow.
Existing partnerships and open conversations
Exodus & Resilience is in its founding phase. It currently has two formalized institutional partnerships and a signed fiscal sponsorship agreement, in addition to open conversations with cultural, academic and philanthropic partners to activate the nodes in design.
Fundación Museo de Arte Acarigua-Araure
Implementing entity for the Acarigua program and Venezuelan regional cultural institution.
Fractured Atlas
Signed fiscal sponsorship agreement to channel U.S. donations that may be tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law and are designated for programs outside New York.
A partnership with the platform contributes to long-term installed capacity: curatorial frameworks, local partnerships, documented methodology, fund traceability and public reports of institutional learning.
Guiding principle: partnerships do not fund only activities. They fund conditions of possibility: archive, mediation, governance, documentation, critical education, cultural rights and trust networks among communities, artists and institutions.
Foundational partnerships, not one-off sponsorships
The partnerships now open are foundational partnerships: they allow participation in the early consolidation of the model, its governance, ethical frameworks, measurement methodology and territorial priorities.
Before reporting program outcomes, we have prioritized building the institutional architecture required to make impact verifiable, traceable and sustainable.
From the perspective of cultural citizenship (Rosaldo, 1994), supporting Exodus & Resilience means contributing to the right of displaced, migrant or territorially invisibilized communities to participate in public cultural life and to be recognized as producers of knowledge, memory and contemporary heritage.
Read impact methodologyPartnerships as civic and cultural infrastructure
In culture, impact is not produced only by funding events. It is produced when a partnership makes it possible to document what was at risk of disappearing, open access to non-traditional audiences, strengthen community networks, sustain educational processes and create institutional legitimacy for artists, archives and memories that do not have sufficient infrastructure.
From the perspective of expanded curating (O’Neill, 2007; Obrist, 2008), a partnership can sustain much more than an exhibition: it can fund research, living archive, public programs, cultural mediation, publications, critical pedagogy, impact measurement and processes of intergenerational transmission.
Social capital
Partnerships generate networks of trust, cooperation and access among artists, communities, institutions, donors and territories.
Cultural rights
They enable migrant, diasporic or peripheral communities to access, participate and contribute to cultural life with dignity.
Archive and memory
They sustain processes of documentation, preservation, interpretation and transmission of cultural memories that do not always enter official archives.
Segmented partnerships
Three ways to start a strategic conversation
Each conversation is adapted to the partner type, jurisdiction, reporting criteria and territory of interest. Our objective is to define a clear, traceable and proportional collaboration mechanism according to the institutional phase of each node.
For foundations and institutions
Request the institutional dossier with theory of change, governance model, methodology, founding-phase status, fiscal architecture, curatorial framework, measurement criteria and alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals.
Request institutional dossierFor private donors and family offices
We schedule a private session to present the model, the nodes available for collaboration, the status of each territory, the planned traceability and the kind of cultural legacy your contribution can help build.
Schedule private briefingFor corporate and ESG partnerships
We design reportable partnerships aligned with corporate sustainability, education, culture, community, diversity, social cohesion, cultural rights and responsible institutional reputation.
Explore corporate alliancePartnership types
Collaboration models according to role, scope and horizon
Every partnership should have a clear logic: what it supports, which indicators it follows, how it is reported and what institutional contribution it leaves within the ecosystem.
Strategic Philanthropic Partner
Partners sustaining global institutional development and responsible expansion of the model. Includes institutional reporting, strategic dialogue and participation in learning processes.
Founding Partner
Recognition for those making the initial consolidation of the platform, its first institutional capacities and the activation of its territorial nodes possible.
Program Partner
Focused support for a specific territorial node —New York, Barcelona, Caracas or Acarigua— with its own reporting, traceability and contextualized objectives.
Corporate Impact Partner
Companies with ESG strategies seeking documentable cultural and social contribution aligned with their sustainability, community, diversity, education or impact frameworks.
Cultural Institution Partner
Co-production with museums, cultural centers, curatorial platforms and cultural organizations for exhibitions, residencies, publications, mediation or documentation.
Academic & Knowledge Partner
Universities and research centers producing applied knowledge with the platform: case studies, publications, evaluation, archive, research and critical pedagogy.
Support mechanisms by program and jurisdiction
Donations to the New York program
Donations designated for the Exodus & Resilience New York program are channeled exclusively through our institutional partner Venezuelan American Endowment for the Arts (VAEA), a 501(c)(3) organization. Contributions from U.S. tax-resident donors may be tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law. As a 501(c)(3), VAEA is subject to public reporting to the IRS and to the governance standards applicable to nonprofit organizations.
Donations to the Barcelona, Caracas and Acarigua programs
For U.S. tax-resident donors wishing to support these programs with contributions that may be tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law, funds are channeled through the signed fiscal sponsorship agreement with Fractured Atlas, a 501(c)(3) organization, effective since June 2025. For donors in other jurisdictions, contribution through Fractured Atlas remains possible, although it may not generate a tax deduction in their jurisdiction. It can still function as an appropriate route for philanthropic, corporate or reputational partnerships without a direct tax-deduction objective. For European or local donors who prefer to articulate support directly with accredited entities in each territory, an alternative mechanism is documented upon closing each agreement.
Contact us to define the mechanism best suited to your jurisdiction and to the institutional status of the node you wish to support.
Read the full institutional architectureInstitutional commitment to each partner
Partnerships should generate value for the territory, the community, the platform and the partner. That is why we prioritize clarity of objectives, traceability and reporting.
- Impact reporting. Periodic documents with aggregated indicators and metrics specific to the supported program, when verifiable program activity exists.
- Fund traceability. Clear status of how allocated resources are used and how they relate to activities, processes or results.
- Authorized institutional visibility. Recognition adapted to the partner's level, nature and communication policy.
- Team access. Direct dialogue with institutional leadership, territorial coordination and curatorial teams.
- Responsible co-design. Possibility to jointly define objectives, deliverables, indicators and learnings.
- Knowledge sharing. Access to reports, publications, case studies and applied research.
Impact reading: the value of a partnership is not measured only by number of attendees or activities. It is also measured by networks created, access expanded, documentation produced, institutional continuity, learning generated and the capacity of communities to participate in public cultural life.
What we do not do
We do not accept collaborations that compromise curatorial independence, community integrity, participant safety or the institutional coherence of the platform.
Partnerships should not turn communities into communication material or shift decision-making toward interests unrelated to the cultural, educational and social purpose of the program.
Every collaboration must respect the framework of ethics, safeguarding, donor transparency and responsible use of images and personal data.
See governance and institutional policiesHow a partnership is structured
- 1. Initial conversation. We understand the potential partner's interest, priorities, territory and impact framework.
- 2. Strategic fit. We define whether the partnership belongs to the institutional platform, a territorial node or a knowledge line.
- 3. Objectives and metrics. We agree on expected outcomes, indicators, scope, timing and reporting format.
- 4. Institutional framework. We formalize responsibilities, use of funds, communication, ethics and governance.
- 5. Execution and follow-up. We implement, document, evaluate and share learnings when the node enters program activity.
What a partnership can support
Partnerships can support institutional infrastructure, territorial programs, documentation, research, training, cultural mediation, publications, scholarships, residencies or responsible expansion.
- Territorial programs. Activities, workshops, residencies, exhibitions, mediation and local documentation.
- Impact and evaluation. Measurement tools, reports, case studies and data analysis.
- Knowledge Hub. Publications, applied research, archives, documentation and public resources.
- Governance and institutional capacity. Systems, policies, coordination, safeguarding, transparency and communication.
- Territorial expansion. Diagnosis and activation of new nodes under sustainability criteria.
What we seek in a partner
Not every funding or visibility opportunity fits Exodus & Resilience. Partnerships must strengthen the project’s autonomy, curatorial rigour, educational dimension and ability to generate public trust.
Institutional coherence
The partner must share a vision compatible with culture, education, cultural rights, migration, memory, community or social impact.
Transparency
The collaboration must be documentable through objectives, budget, responsibilities, indicators, governance and reporting channels.
Curatorial respect
The partnership must not unduly condition the selection of artists, works, narratives, archives, mediators or participating communities.
Sustainability
We prioritize support that enables continuity, learning, institutional consolidation and long-term capacity, not only isolated activations.
Territorial nodes
Four territories available for collaboration
Each node responds to its local context while operating within a shared institutional architecture.
New York
International node for Venezuelan diaspora, archive and contemporary art. Implemented through a formalized institutional alliance with the Venezuelan American Endowment for the Arts (VAEA), a 501(c)(3) organization.
View node frameworkBarcelona
Node for cultural mediation, active reception, intercultural education and recomposition of belonging in a city of multiple migrations. Program in design, open to dialogue with accredited local cultural institutions.
View node frameworkCaracas
Node for memory, symbolic return, documentation of the Venezuelan diaspora and intergenerational cultural dialogue. Program in design, in articulation with local cultural and community partners.
View node frameworkAcarigua
Node for living archive, intermediate city, cultural decentralization, training and local heritage. Implemented through a formalized institutional alliance with the Fundación Museo de Arte Acarigua-Araure.
View node frameworkThis is the institutional headquarters of Exodus & Resilience. For local programming, team information, open calls and territorial indicators for each node, please consult the corresponding subdomains when they are published.
Let's design a partnership tailored to your impact framework.
We can present the institutional dossier, review the nodes available for collaboration and define the support mechanism best suited to your jurisdiction.