Company Profile
The Loop Lab
Company Overview
The Loop Lab’s mission is to empower young women, first-generation Americans, and people of color from low-income backgrounds in the Boston area to access careers in the media arts. We provide an employment training program, paid internships, and job placement to all program participants.
Company History
The Loop Lab was founded in 2017 when it received a two-year grant from ArtPlace America. The Loop Lab seeks additional funding to support our trainees with stipends. The Loop Lab started in the Port neighborhood of Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Port historically was Cambridge’s manufacturing center and home to generations of diverse families from Afro-Caribbean, Eritrean, Puerto Rican, and El Salvadorean backgrounds. Several schools, a youth center, churches, a social service organization, and an arts center for school-age children serve to strengthen the fabric of the neighborhood.
Notable Clients
Audible, The Boston Foundation
Notable Accomplishments / Recognition
Grant recipient of the National Arts Strategies Creative Community Fellowship, supported by the Barr Foundation, (2019)
The Loop Lab is working with The Boston Foundation (TBF) to video document the art projects of 2019 Live Arts grantees, (2019)
Awarded contract to work with multimedia artist Elisa Hamilton and Cambridge Arts to create, “The Podcast Jukebox” a jukebox filled with community recordings for the Foundry building, (2019)
Established official partnership with the AVIXA Foundation, the charitable arm of AVIXA, which is a professional standard in audio-visual integration, (2019)
Produced a film series about the Port Neighborhood in Cambridge, MA in partnership with Amazon Audible, (2019)
WBUR Boston becomes an internship site for trainees, and teaching partner, (2019)
Reached an agreement with the Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology to give our trainees free college credit for their audio/video training and free dual enrollment into college, (2018)
Successfully launched our first cohort of workforce development program, (2018)
Received an official resolution document supporting the Loop Lab from The City of Cambridge city council and city mayor, (2018)
Presenter on youth interventions at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, (2018)
Recepient of grant from Eastern Bank Charitable Giving Foundation, (2018)
Presenter at the National Creative Placemaking Summit in Washington, D.C., (2018)
Christopher Hope appointed to the Mayor’s Art Task Force, (2018)
Established membership in the audio/video international trade association AVIXA (formerly known as InfoComm), (2018)
Speaker at Creative Placemaking Leadership Summit in Charleston, WV (2018)
Grant beneficiary of A Taste of Cambridge food festival (2018)
Selected New England Art Fellow by the National Arts Strategies (2018)
Awarded $30,000 FLOW grant by the City of Cambridge & Cambridge Arts Council (2018)
Participant in SXSW 2018 (2018)
Became a member of the Audio Engineering Society New England Chapter (AES), (2018)
Partnership with Google Cambridge, (2018)
Participant in the 56th Commission on Social Development at the United Nations HQ (2018)
Expanded our reach internationally through official collaborations with NGOs with consultative status in the United Nations Economic and Social Council (2018)
Publicly aligned our mission with My Brother's Keeper Alliance (MBK) and My Brother's Keeper Boston (MBKB) by accepting the MBK Challenge to support the student cradle-to-career pipeline, which are now integrated into the Obama Foundation (2018)
Recipient of prestigious $250,000 ArtPlace America Placemaker grant - funded by a coalition of foundations and federal agencies including the Barr Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Bush Foundation, the Obama White House, and others (2017)
Received grant funding from Cambridge Community Foundation (2017)
Created community partnerships with the Cambridge Arts Council, Cambridge Community Television, and Cambridge Office of Workforce Development (2017)