IMPACT METRICS DASHBOARD
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Level Forward’s mission is to expand the opportunity and influence of creative excellence in pursuit of equity and economic transformation. We do this by elevating new voices behind still-invisible narratives and reshaping systems to vest a broader group of multi-faceted stakeholders in film, television, live, and digital entertainment.
In guiding our continued growth as a Public Benefit Corporation, we are proud to launch this beta version of our Impact Dashboard. A work-in-progress snapshot of our impact activities, the dashboard includes quantitative and qualitative details related to our production slate, active development projects, select non-profit partnerships and initiative highlights. We will continue to develop this resource, growing its depth and detail for our collaborators, observers-at-large, and anyone curious about our work.
We share this with you so that you consider the dual value you can create in your own work. We share it so that it will become the norm.
TRACKING THE ISSUES
Below you will find a measure of focus that illustrates the allocation of more granular issue areas spread among Level Forward creative projects, both produced and in development, as well as focus areas of our partners. These are dynamic charts that will change with each new project and each new partner, and provides us with a real-time, albeit high level, gauge of our efforts.
Areas of Impact
Measured Through Projects
Measured Through Partners
To measure the amount of Level Forward’s focus towards each of these impact areas, we developed a weighted system whereby points were assigned as follows: produced projects-2 points, active development projects-1 point, partner org primary mission-2 points, partner org secondary mission-1 point.
IMPACT FUNDING THROUGH CREATIVE WORK
$~
850,000
has been paid to a variety of non-profits, NGO's and aligned advocates and initiatives that we have connected to our stage and screen properties. Funds are paid through both direct fees and backend participation. These funds have been directed to organizations in the following primary areas:
SELECT IMPACT HIGHLIGHTS
Below we highlight select collaborations between Level Forward’s creative and community partners, working in alignment towards common outcomes.
Red, White And Blue
Purple Parlor Campaign
Level Forward launched the Purple Parlor Campaign as the Executive Producer and Impact Producer of Nazrin Choudhury’s Oscar-nominated film, RED, WHITE AND BLUE, which centers a single mother in Arkansas played by Brittany Snow who lives paycheck to paycheck and is forced to cross state lines in search of necessary abortion care.
The campaign takes the film to audiences around the country composed of people from different walks of life, political parties, faith communities, as well as at schools, churches, evangelical and other religious gatherings, community centers, local theaters, and private homes. Following the screenings, space and time is created to process, discuss and explore the film’s story with expert panelists engaging the audience in non-partisan conversation to humanize the issues.
The community screenings are free to the public and gather people living in historically red or purple states where reproductive health care has been most politicized and is not available, and also in schools, universities, and other academic environments. The benefit screenings, conversely, are paid events and have the potential to raise money for both the continuation of the free community screenings and a variety of local and national 501c3 partner organizations.
As of November 2025, Purple Parlor Campaign screenings have taken place in more than 20 different cities, across 12 states (Arizona, California, Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Wisconsin, and Wyoming).
We Ride For Her
Impact Campaign
The Medicine Wheel Riders are deeply grateful and honored to be part of the impactful film, WE RIDE FOR HER, and the WE RIDE FOR IMPACT 2023 tour from Phoenix, AZ to Sturgis, SD. This journey provides us with a powerful platform to share the stories of the families affected by the crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women. Partnering with compassionate organizations like Red Sand Project and Level Forward further strengthens our collective efforts. As we travel through various Indigenous communities, our primary goal is to bring together vital resources and support, while also addressing the systemic issues underlying this crisis. This film holds immense significance, as it not only amplifies our voices as advocates but also creates a space of hope and healing for the affected families. We believe that through sharing these stories and fostering a sense of community, we can bring about meaningful change, inspire action, and work towards a future where the lives of Indigenous women are protected, valued, and celebrated.
Center For Popular Democracy
Transformation 2020
In September of 2020, Level Forward produced Transformation 2020: Popular Democracy Defined, an interactive virtual event that included more than 40 different sessions over three days of programming, and offered participants innovative ways to defend and advance democracy. Hosted by the Center for Popular Democracy, the event gathered some of the world’s most influential artists, community organizers, and social change leaders for an historic series of events.
Anchored in the vision for a more just world, and the power of the arts to create building blocks towards empathy, films, theater, music, dance, visual art, and spoken word mixed with policy-makers to support sustained participation—by all Americans—in our country’s governance.
Jagged Little Pill
Impact Advisory Board & Social Responsibility Series
The Broadway musical JAGGED LITTLE PILL and Level Forward collaborated to create a unique Impact Advisory Board comprised of experts in various thematic areas including transracial adoption, addition, sexual violence and consent, and gender expression. The Board provided feedback to the producers and supported cast and crew trainings. By raising awareness, fostering community building, and providing support for the cast and crew in both group conversations and one-on-one meetings, the Board has cultivated a talented and engaged cast of burgeoning activists, using their platforms to amplify issues and positions that are important to them. Additionally, a television series of “Social Responsibility” episodes, was produced and distributed in partnership with New York City to further amplify some of the pertinent issues raised in the show.
ELMCOR
Elmcor Short Films
Level Forward partnered with filmmaker Basia Winograd to produce a series of short videos for Elmcor in support of their mission and to help the East Elmhurst/Corona Queens community, one of the hardest hit areas in the nation during the Covid pandemic. Escalating costs, cancelled fundraising events, and a community of frontline workers desperately needing Elmcor’s food bank, PPE, and counseling services, were Elmcor’s immediate concerns. In partnership, $90,000 was raised to service some of Elmcor’s immediate needs. Amplifying the central role Elmcor plays locally, and as a behind-the-scenes advisor to larger organizations, is a desired goal of our collaboration.
Elmcor was started in 1965 and has grown into a major provider of human services and is one of the largest non-profit community-based service agencies, servicing youth, young adults, and seniors.
WATCH THE SHORT FILM SERIES
NYC COMMISSION ON HUMAN RIGHTS
Sexual Harassment Prevention PSAs and Trainings
Level Forward has produced two different PSA campaigns and training videos for the City of New York. The first, produced in 2018, included actors reading real letters sent by survivors of sexual harassment to the NYC Commission on Human Rights. The second, to be released, includes clips from filmmaker Kitty Green’s The Assistant.
WATCH NYC Commission PSA
POTUS Times Square Rally
The POTUS Rally For Women
In Times Square
In honor of these unprecedented partnerships, POTUS hosted a free event to launch the POTUS Coalition: the POTUS on Broadway's Times Square Rally for Women. Hosted by comediennes Joyelle Nicole Johnson and Dana Goldberg, the event, immediately preceding POTUS's opening matinee performance, included POTUS cast members and remarks by each POTUS Coalition partner, as well as special remarks from Dolores Huerta, music from DJ Amber Valentine, Ethiopian-Eritrean delights from woman-owned Makina Cafe, limited giveaways including the play's notorious Blushies (aka Blue Slushies), and on-site voter registration from I AM A VOTER."In every joke, there is a tiny revolution of truth," said playwright Selina Fillinger during a "More To Talk About" conversation with author and activist Jamia Wilson, Gloria Steinem, and host Andrea Ambam. "And that laughter can set us free," added Steinem. POTUS on Broadway's Times Square Rally for Women gathered to liberate the fun of POTUS, from the walls of the Shubert Theater to the streets of Times Square.
WATCH POTUS (Instrument of Hope)
PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS
Explore our partner organizations by cause.
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CREATIVE DEVELOPMENT
Level Forward is always developing new creative projects. Below you will find a breakdown of format and spending for those projects in active development.
$
815,000
current development spend
$
430,000
to support BIPOC-led projects
$
310,000
to support white-led projects
$
75,000
to support multiracial-led projects
$
30,000
to support projects for which team make up is TBD
BIPOC-led project spending is
1.4x
white-led project spending
$
48,000
average spend per project on white-led projects
$
42,000
average spend per project on white-led projects
BIPOC-led project spending is
2.9x
white-led project spending
THEATER: 3 PROJECTS - BIPOC-led: 1 / White-led: 2
DOCUMENTARY: 2 PROJECTS - BIPOC-led: 1 / White-led: 1
FEATURE: 7 PROJECTS - BIPOC-led: 5 / White-led: 2
SERIES: 7 PROJECTS - BIPOC-led: 4 / White-led: 3
19 TOTAL PROJECTS. Women-led: 19
For an active development project at LF to qualify as BPIOC-led, at least 2/3 of the following roles must be filled by a person who is Black, Indigenous, or person of color: 1) writer 2) producer 3) lead character. In some cases, development projects are too early stage to have an attached director, hence the role's exclusion from this measure. For an active development project at LF to qualify as Women-led, at least 2/3 of the following roles must be filled by women: 1) writer 2) producer 3) lead character. In some cases, development projects are too early stage to have an attached director, hence the role's exclusion from this measure. Please note that rounding differences may exist.
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