Beauty is for
every place.
We're a nonprofit working to make things exponentially better for refugees, through beauty.
We are creating a more colorful, joyful and hopeful world with refugees.
We believe that beauty matters for everyone in every place. Refugees included.
Let’s make the world beautiful, together.
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One in every 70 people on earth is displaced. Value beauty, and you see millions of people with stories, dreams, and worth — already creating beauty right where they are.
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So we stop delivering aid to people and start backing what they're already making. It begins with one question, asked by refugees, of their neighbors: where does beauty live here?
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Communities make their own plan for more beauty, then build it — and people come away prouder, more hopeful, more confident. The raw ingredients for changing anything.
Why beauty? Well, it changes everything.
What we do
In every place we work, there is a refugee-led organization, started by a refugee, trusted by their neighbors and already making change. We partner together to help grow their capacity.
Art, public art, gardens, gathering places, renovations — whatever communities tell us would create more beauty where they live. The community plans it, builds it, and keeps it.
We share the stories. We tell the world what refugees are making, to shift how displacement is seen and to mobilize change.
in Kenya · Uganda · Malawi ·
Rwanda · Ethiopia · Türkiye · Syria · Pakistan
There is a place for you in this work
Invest your time and your talents. Make a tax-deductible donation. Tell your friends. Connect us with a journalist.
Donate: Join The Paintbox.
Monthly members are how one project becomes ten. Give as little at $1 a month to see this work grow.
Volunteer on a project team
Join a crew. Get paired with one refugee organization and journey with them as they lead, plan and implement community projects.
Artists: share your work.
Refugee artists, your work deserves an audience and a backer. Submit to our annual competition.
Where is beauty here?
Photographs from refugee communities around the world — the gardens, murals, and gathering places people are already making home.
Talk by founder Stephanie Acker at noon