Gramercy Park Resident Sends Film Profits To Charities

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Published on Wednesday, 13 April 2011 23:15

Written by Dianne Lawrence

Gramercy Park resident Brian Ide is the founder of ReDistribute, an innovative philanthropic model that connects the profits of film to the needs of a wide variety of charities focused on social issues.

ReDistribute is guided by a governing principle: After costs and salaries are paid, every penny of their profit goes to charity.

 

Each film under the ReDistribute umbrella partners with a different social issue and their first focus is Education.  “We believe, that if we as a society want to fully address major social issues like homelessness, hunger, substance abuse, sustainability and inadequate medical care, we must first address Education”.

They partner with 60-70 education-focused Charities throughout the US who are doing exciting and innovative work.  Besides sharing the film’s profits with each of them, ReDistribute is also able to generate significant awareness to the work of these creative programs.  The charities, in turn, support ReDistribute films by bringing them an audience.