BLUE FORGE GROUP
Blue Forge Films + Blue Forge Gaming + Blue Forge Sound + Blue Forge Press
A volunteer-run 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in 1989.
​We're honored to have been awarded the Candid GuideStar Platinum Seal of Transparency for three years consecutively and we thank these corporations and organizations that have supported us: ArtsFund, ArtsWA, NEA, Next for Autism, The Norcliff Foundation, SOWA, and Walmart SparkGood.
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About Us
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Founded in 1989, Blue Forge Group began with just two divisions: Blue Forge Press and Blue Forge Gaming. By 2011, Blue Forge Films and Blue Forge Sound had been launched, with all four divisions sharing the same goal: To educate and encourage storytellers from all walks of life, especially those underserved due to age, race, gender, disability, religion, sexuality or economics. Read more about our policies here.
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All of our team members are volunteers; there are no paid staff or paid executives at Blue Forge. And all of us are artisans ourselves. We make our livings as authors, filmmakers, game designers, actors, musicians, podcasters, and artists. Our Board of Directors is populated by the diverse artisans we work with, allowing our creative partners to have a voice in all major company decisions.
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​With a focus on education and breaking stereotypes, Blue Forge Group pioneered the way publishers, record labels, and film and game studios work with their artisans, and how books, albums, films, television shows and games are made and marketed. While refusing to become a vanity company (where artisans pay for services), we maintain our integrity, quality and mission by remaining a traditional studio with a noncommercial twist: Pay the artisans more and the company less; keep work available indefinitely, and publish art that’s timeless instead of timely.
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Though always a Washington State registered charity and not-for-profit entity with the highest levels of transparency, in April 2019, Blue Forge Group became a 501(c)(3) federal nonprofit under the parent name Blue Legacy. We chose to include the word “legacy” to symbolize our commitment to preserving our artisans’ bodies of work throughout and beyond their lifetimes.
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​With a one-acre campus of multiple studios for safe and supported creation; an acting club, the Blue Village Acting Troupe; BlueFlix, an independent streaming platform, and the Create4U creative club for neurodivergent young adults and their allies, Blue Forge Group regularly adds to our community projects to better serve our artisans.
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Find out how you can support our efforts or explore more than a thousand films, shows, songs, books, games and more through our division sites:
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