What we fund
Living archives, curatorial research, educational mediation, public programs, documentation and impact reporting.
Partnerships
Partnerships to build cultural and social infrastructure.
Exodus & Resilience builds partnerships with organizations that understand culture as infrastructure for social cohesion, public memory and cultural rights. Its current founding architecture is organized around three complementary chapters —New York/Venezuela, Caracas and Acarigua— each operating independently while contributing to a shared curatorial, educational and documentary framework.
Understand partnerships in ten seconds
Three independent chapters. One shared curatorial infrastructure.
Where support goes
New York/Venezuela, Caracas or Acarigua. Each chapter has its own institutional status, support pathway and traceability criteria.
How the chapters differ
New York works with diaspora; Caracas with symbolic return and urban memory; Acarigua with permanence, regional museum work and education.
What partners receive
Clear scope, responsible recognition, documented methodology, periodic evidence and a realistic reading of impact.
What we protect
Curatorial independence, community integrity, consent, responsible image use and transparent communication.
How to begin
Request the institutional dossier, choose the chapter of interest and define the support mechanism according to jurisdiction.
Existing partnerships and open conversations
Exodus & Resilience is in its founding phase. It currently works through a formalized institutional alliance for New York/Venezuela, a formalized museum alliance for Acarigua, and a Caracas chapter in development with support-reference mechanisms and institutional conversations in preparation.
VAEA
Venezuelan American Endowment for the Arts — host entity for the New York program and 501(c)(3) organization.
Fundación Museo de Arte Acarigua-Araure / MAAA
Implementing entity for the Acarigua program and Venezuelan regional cultural institution.
Chapter-specific support pathways
Each chapter communicates its own support mechanism, receiving entity and traceability process once confirmed. The global website does not present a single universal donation channel.
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 chapter.
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 chapters 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 founding chapters possible.
Program Partner
Focused support for a specific founding chapter —New York/Venezuela, 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 chapter and jurisdiction
New York/Venezuela Chapter
Support for the New York/Venezuela Chapter is articulated through the Venezuelan American Endowment for the Arts (VAEA), a U.S. 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, according to the specific instructions published on the chapter website. Tax treatment depends on the donor's jurisdiction, fiscal situation and documentation issued by the receiving entity.
Acarigua Chapter
The Acarigua Chapter works with a support-reference system to help identify donor or partner interest and maintain internal traceability. Any contribution pathway must follow the specific instructions published on the Acarigua chapter website and the institutional conditions confirmed for that chapter.
Caracas Chapter
The Caracas Chapter is preparing support and partnership channels with prudence. Its reference mechanism records institutional, donor or partner interest before any funding pathway is communicated. No universal fiscal claim is made from the global website.
Contact us to define the mechanism best suited to your jurisdiction and to the institutional status of the chapter 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 founding chapter 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 future chapters 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.
Founding chapters
Three chapters available for collaboration
Each chapter responds to its own institutional and territorial context while operating within a shared curatorial and methodological architecture.
New York/Venezuela
International chapter for Venezuelan diaspora, archive, philanthropy and contemporary art. Implemented through a formalized institutional alliance with the Venezuelan American Endowment for the Arts (VAEA), a 501(c)(3) organization.
View chapter 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 chapter 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 / MAAA.
View chapter frameworkThis is the institutional headquarters of Exodus & Resilience. For local programming, team information, open calls and territorial indicators for each chapter, 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 chapters available for collaboration and define the support mechanism best suited to your jurisdiction.