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Play On, Philly! (POP) is an innovative education and social initiative that provides opportunities for personal development to children through the study of music. Inspired by the social development and music education program of Venezuela called El Sistema, POP seeks to enrich the lives of Philadelphia youth by providing daily musical instruction in communities that have little access to music...
The Playing for Change Foundation is dedicated to creating positive social change through music education in communities around the world. We are driven by the belief that peace and change are possible through the universal language of music. Many of the regions the Playing For Change Foundation works within suffer from extreme poverty, lack of basic resources, limited medical care and...
Playwrights Project is a nonprofit arts education organization that seeks to advance literacy, creativity, and communication by empowering individuals to voice their stories through playwriting programs and theatre productions. Its programs teach the power of spoken and written language, nurture promising young writers, develop theatre artists and audiences, and honor individuals by dramatizing...
Baltimore,
MD
poetry readings; poetry workshops; community events; publishing and bookmaking workshops; resources for classroom enhancement
Point Made makes films about the various facets of American identity. Founded in 1997, Point Made Films work to document aspects of our society that teach us more about who we are as Americans and as citizens of the world.
Serving as an online hub for information and resources on arts in American prisons, the Prison Art Coalition is filled with resources, blogs, events and tools to support the various types of people and institutions affected by incarceration.
The Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP) was founded in 1990 to collaborate with incarcerated adults, incarcerated youth, urban youth and the formerly incarcerated to strengthen community through creative expression. Housed in the University of Michigan’s Residential College, faculty and students have worked for over twenty years with community members, both in and outside prisons, to engage in...
Project for Public Spaces (PPS) is a nonprofit planning, design and educational organization dedicated to helping people create and sustain public spaces that build stronger communities. Its pioneering Placemaking approach helps citizens transform their public spaces into vital places that highlight local assets, spur rejuvenation and serve common needs.
Project Onward is a studio and gallery dedicated to the creative growth of artists with mental and developmental disabilities. Project Onward provides workspace, art materials, professional guidance, and opportunities for exhibition and sales to artists who have exceptional talents but face challenges ranging from autism to mental illness.
Project Row Houses is an artist organization founded by artist Rick Lowe and six other African-American artists in 1993 in the Northern Third Ward of Houston, Texas, one of the city’s oldest African-American communities. PRH transformed an abandoned one and a half blocks of 22 shotgun-style houses into a “social sculpture” that has become a community celebrating art, African-American history, and...
Project South is a leadership development organization based in the U.S. South creating spaces for movement building. We work with communities pushed forward by the struggle to strengthen leadership and provide popular political & economic education for personal and social transformation. We build relationships with organizations and networks across the U.S. and global South to inform our...
Promethean Community uses a variety of theater techniques to co-create an environment that allows the community stakeholders to create new ways of relating to each other. This consciousness raising allows the community to create an on-going supportive and developmental environment that directly challenges many of the negative consequences of our society: Isolation, alienation, intolerance,...
Prometheus Radio builds, supports , and advocates for community radio stations which empower participatory community voices and movements for social change. A primary focus is on building a large community of LPFM stations and listeners and to grow this community into a powerful force working toward a democratic media future .
Prospect New Orleans is the premiere biennial of international contemporary art in the U.S. By showcasing new art from around the world in a setting that is both historic and culturally unique, Prospect New Orleans contributes to the revitalization of New Orleans by bringing international attention to the city's visual arts community.
Provisions Learning Project is a social change learning resource that amplifies compelling voices that challenge and redefine the mainstream. Meridians is an online resource that links to other resources including: books, art projects, organizations, websites, films, and academic programs covering 30 arts and social change topic areas. Provisions Library is a physical space featuring books,...
Human Right to Housing (support tenants facing eviction due to variety of reasons including foreclosure in Maryland)
Education Stability (access to public (k-12) education for homeless students in Maryland)
Access to Health Care and Public Benefits
Just Kids Partnership
National Coalition for a Civil Right to Counsel
Immigrants Rights Project
Workers' Rights Project
Murnaghan Appellate Advocacy...
The Puffin Foundation Ltd. has sought to open the doors of artistic expression by providing grants to artists and art organizations who are often excluded from mainstream opportunities due to their race, gender, or social philosophy.
Our puma.creative initiatives aim to bring together individual artists and organizations, and provide them with a platform for creative exchange and international exposure.
Puppet Underground is a puppeteer's collective in DC committed to using art and performance to support movements and grassroots organizing for social and economic justice. The group offers support for local social justice and grassroots organizing groups by offering workshops, shows, puppets, stilters, creative organizing strategy or anything else they can think up for us to do.