The Moleskine Foundation seeks to inspire, encourage, and connect young people to transform themselves and their communities through creativity.

The Creativity Pioneers Fund catalyzes transformational social change by investing in, connecting, and championing cultural and creative organizations that advance bold and unconventional practices for building a more just, inclusive, and equitable world. 

The Foundation provides flexible funding to creative and cultural organizations to help sustain their essential functions and programs. The focus is on organizations that place creativity at the center of their mission and programs, demonstrating how they strengthen the role creativity plays in the social transformation of their target communities. Priority is given to organizations that focus their work on disadvantaged or marginalized communities and that work primarily with youth from 16 to 27 years old.

Grants are not made to/for organizations that:

• have already received a grant from the Fund;
• represent a political party or a religious organization, or engage in lobbying activities;
• are not legally registered; 
• are not nonprofit entities; or,
• if their founder(s) and/or any legal representatives are involved in events prejudicial to their reputation and/or legal status, including but not limited to breach of criminal laws, malfeasance, tax evasion (even if not criminally relevant), discrimination, hate speech, or dissemination of fake news