Inevitable Foundation

The Inevitable Foundation is a national nonprofit committed to reducing the invisibility of disabled people by increasing their representation in popular culture. Launched in 2020, the Inevitable Foundation runs programming aimed at strengthening the pipeline of disabled creatives in the entertainment industry. Its goal is to reduce the disability representation gap in popular culture by increasing the number of creatives in Hollywood able to develop authentic characters and storylines about people with disabilities. The Inevitable Foundation will use this X-Grant for research into increasing the accessibility of movie theaters so people living with disabilities can fully participate in the media landscape.

The Inevitable Foundation is a national nonprofit committed to reducing the invisibility of people with disabilities by increasing their representation in popular culture. Launched in 2021, the Inevitable Foundation runs programming aimed at strengthening the pipeline of Disabled creatives in the entertainment industry. This includes a fellowship program for mid-level Disabled screenwriters to develop and sell their own content; a concierge service that links showrunners and creative executives with mid- and upper-level Disabled writers for development and staffing; and a professional development program that includes small grants for Disabled creatives to access relevant coaching, mentorship, and work-from-home equipment. This grant provides general support for the Inevitable Foundation to expand its fellowship and other programming to include supports for Disabled filmmakers and directors and increase staff capacity to track and document the organization’s impact. The Inevitable Foundation’s goal is to reduce the disability representation gap in popular culture by increasing the number of creatives in Hollywood able to develop authentic characters and storylines about people with disabilities.

The Inevitable Foundation is a new national nonprofit committed to reducing the invisibility of disabled people by increasing their representation in popular culture. Now in its second year, the Inevitable Foundation runs programming aimed at strengthening the pipeline of disabled creatives in the entertainment industry. This grant provides support for the Inevitable Foundation to carry out a research project on the economic and industry conditions for disabled writers in Hollywood, especially in light of the ongoing labor dispute between the Writers Guild of America (WGA), representing 11,500 screenwriters, and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers. The goal of the research is to gather information about both the financial impact of the strike on disabled writers as well as information about the working conditions for disabled writers that should be taken into consideration by the WGA. The Inevitable Foundation will use findings from the research to respond to the short-term needs of those writers in its network and contribute to a longer-term campaign to improve working conditions for creatives with disabilities in Hollywood.

The Inevitable Foundation is a new national nonprofit committed to reducing the invisibility of disabled people by increasing their representation in popular culture. Now in its second year, the Inevitable Foundation runs programming aimed at strengthening the pipeline of disabled creatives in the entertainment industry. This includes a fellowship program for mid-level disabled screenwriters to develop and sell their own content; a concierge service for industry executives to access names and contacts of creatives with disabilities; a professional development program that includes small grants for disabled creatives to access relevant coaching, mentorship, and work-from-home equipment; and a research effort to explore real and perceived barriers to employing disabled people in the entertainment industry. This grant provides general support for the Inevitable Foundation to grow its fellowship and professional development programs and to roll out a new opportunity for disabled academics to conduct research on the representation of people with disabilities in popular culture. Its goal is to reduce the disability representation gap in popular culture by increasing the number of creatives in Hollywood able to develop authentic characters and storylines about people with disabilities.