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OUR VISION
Our vision is to cultivate and educate a new generation of lifelong arts advocates and participants through our commitment to education, collaboration, inclusion and innovation.
OUR IMPACT
Each year, we work with more than 3,000 individuals in Boston and our surrounding communities to cultivate a love of dance and the arts through our education programs, community events, workshops,...
The Boston Women’s Fund supports community-based organizations run by women and girls in the Greater Boston area. We work with low-income women, women of color, lesbians, women with disabilities, older women, and girls who are working to create a society based on racial, social and economic justice. The Fund raises money from a broad base of donors across economic backgrounds to provide grants...
Brave New Films uses new media and internet video campaigns to motivate people to take action on social issues nationwide. Brave New Theaters (http://bravenewtheaters.com/) is a web site with trailers for films that address social issues and a toolkit for organizing a screening.
Bread & Roses brings hope and healing through live music to isolated individuals in the San Francisco Bay Area. Our performances uplift the spirits of children undergoing chemotherapy, teens battling substance abuse, families in homeless shelters, seniors nearing the end of life transition, and others living apart from friends and family while facing challenging times. This profile courtesy...
Breakthrough is an innovative international human rights organization that uses the power of popular culture, media, and community mobilization to transform public attitudes and advance equality, justice, and dignity in India and the United States. We empower individuals and communities to stand for universal human rights by using multimedia tools that transform hearts and minds. Based in India...
The Bronx Council on the Arts provides financial support for community-based arts organizations and individual artists.
The Broward County Commission's Cultural Division’s (BCD) mission is to enhance the community's cultural environment through the development of the arts. The Commission’s vision is to create a cutting-edge network of accessible cultural activities throughout Broward County, and to foster participation of residents through alliances between arts and culture, education and social service sectors.
Busboys and Poets is a Washington DC area restaurant, bookstore, fair trade market, and community gathering place where artists, activists, writers, thinkers, and dreamers can discuss issues of social justice and peace. With its flagship location at 14th and V Streets, Busboys and Poets is located in three distinctive neighborhoods in the metropolitan Washington DC area. Each Busboys and Poets...
The Bush Foundation wants to help shape vibrant communities in Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota and in the 23 sovereign tribal nations that share the same geography. They invest in courageous and effective leadership that significantly strengthens and improves the well-being of people in these areas.
Caldera is a catalyst for the transformation of underserved youth through innovative, year-round art and environmental programs. 2016 marks the 20th anniversary of Caldera, which each year mentors over 430 youth from Central Oregon and Portland. Focusing on youth from both urban and rural communities with limited access to educational, economic, and physical resource opportunities, Caldera...
The California Arts Council has the mission to advance California through the arts and creativity with an emphasis on children and artistically underserved communities. The agency encourages widespread public participation in the arts; helps build strong arts organizations at the local level; assists with the professional development of arts leaders; promotes awareness of the value of the arts;...
Strengthening Los Angeles communities through effective philanthropy and civic engagement.
California Poets in the Schools is the largest writers-in-schools program in the nation. While encouraging youth self-expression through creative writing and art, the program also seeks to foster cultural diversity by utilizing multicultural teaching materials and hiring poets and artists of color.
Cape Farewell pioneers the cultural response to climate change. Working internationally, Cape Farewell brings artists, scientists and communicators together to stimulate the production of art founded in scientific research. Using creativity to innovate, the organization engages artists for their ability to evolve and amplify a creative language, communicating on a human scale the urgency of the...
MISSION STATEMENT - The Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute (CCCADI), is an arts, culture, education and media organization that advocates on behalf of cultural equity, racial and social justice for African descendant communities.
VISION STATEMENT - We envision a global landscape where African descendants achieve equity, racial and social justice.
The Carl and Ruth Shapiro Family Foundation supports arts and culture, education, health and hospitals, Jewish causes and social welfare programs in Greater Boston and Palm Beach County, Florida.
The Cathedral Arts Project (CAP) is the leading provider of comprehensive and ongoing instruction in the visual and performing arts for elementary and middle school students in Duval County. Our mission is to enrich the quality of life in Northeast Florida through unleashing the creative spirit of young people. By providing access to free, standards-based instruction in the visual and performing...
CEC ArtsLink is an international arts organization whose programs encourage and support exchange among visual and performing artists and cultural managers in the U.S. and in Central and Eastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus and Central Asia. The organization believes that the arts are a society's most deliberate and complex means of communication, and the work of artists and arts administrators...
The Center for Art and Public Life creates community partnerships using the arts to address issues of social justice, diversity, community development, and education. Our programming is woven across disciplines at California College of the Arts and serves the diverse populations of the San Francisco Bay Area. The Center's mission is to create community partnerships based on creative practice that...