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Arts Refreshing the Soul (A.R.T.S.) promotes the well-being of at-risk women, children and youth and facilitates their recovery from domestic abuse, poverty or homelessness through educational creative arts and music programs.

Arts on the Horizon was founded as a professional, non-profit theatre company with a specific focus of providing performances and arts education programs for an audience of young people ages 0 to 6 years old and their families.Arts on the Horizon values intelligent, innovative, and original work for very young audiences that is accessible, affordable, inspiring and joyful. We believe the arts play an important role in children’s lives. The results can be seen in their development of critical thinking skills, self-confidence, and independence.

The Actors Theatre Workshop (ATW) was founded by Thurman E. Scott in 1990, with a mission to help people achieve their potential through drama. From conservatory classrooms to housing facilities to corporate boardrooms, we use our creative process technique as a tool to develop individual potential, create tangible change, and liberate the talents and abilities in people from all walks of life. ATW believes that creativity is the great equalizer and unifier among human beings, and that theater must play an active role in a community’s life. At ATW’s heart is our robust roster of community programs that use theater to engage historically marginalized populations, from children experiencing housing instability to formerly incarcerated persons.

The Connecticut Audubon Society conserves Connecticut’s environment through science-based education and advocacy focused on the state’s bird populations and habitats. Founded in 1898, the Connecticut Audubon Society operates nature facilities in Fairfield, Milford, Glastonbury, Pomfret, Hampton, and Sherman, a center in Old Lyme, and an EcoTravel office in Essex. Connecticut Audubon manages 20 wildlife sanctuaries encompassing almost 3,300 acres of open space in Connecticut, and educates over 200,000 children and adults annually. Connecticut Audubon is an independent organization, not affiliated with any national or governmental group. Connecticut Audubon Society’s scientists, educators, citizen scientists, and volunteers work to preserve birds and their environments in Connecticut. Our work includes sanctuary management, advocacy, environmental education and activities at our centers, scientific studies, and our annual Connecticut State of the Birds report.

The mission of Reaching For The Arts is to bring performing and visual arts distinction to the New York City youth by affording them the opportunity to learn, practice, and perform with professional artists in order to showcase their talents citywide and beyond. Through a variety of after school programs, students gain the education and confidence in the arts to acquire skills needed to apply to specialized arts high schools and possibly pursue careers in the arts.

Recognizing the unique role the arts play in building and sustaining strong communities, our mission is to promote musical excellence in performance, collaboration, and education through the medium of handbells. We accomplish this through professional performances of challenging repertoire; workshops for individual handbell ensembles; and through the two major educational events we put on each year – one for individuals, and the other for bell choirs. We love sharing our passion for handbells!

The "Artist the Artist" Foundation is a nonprofit 501c3 Corporation formed to provide college scholarship and support to students who are furthering their education in " The Arts ". This includes art design, painting, drawing, music, dance, drama and sculpting.

Discover the truth and change the world. Change The World Films is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization whose core mission is to address one extremely important, worldwide issue at a time, delivering truth and solutions in both a trust-building and community-building environment. We uncover the truth via meticulous, integrity-focused research, investigation, and solid, fact-based documentary film-making – educating, creating solutions, and empowering individuals around the world to lend a hand and help solve the problem.

ATC's mission is to promote healthy living, chronic disease awareness and prevention. We develop innovative plan-of-action programs to address, avoid and eradicate chronic health care illnesses that unequivocally plague African-American and Latino communities, specifically.

The Virginia Avenue Project empowers kids to think creatively, courageously and critically about life goals and choices by providing free, Writing and Performing Arts programming, in conjunction with long-term mentoring, throughout their growing years.

The Robey Theatre Company’s mission is to foster a community of artists to develop and produce plays written about the global Black experience. At its core, the organization is committed to effecting social change and to the preservation, production, and reinterpretation of celebrated “Black Classics”.

Since 1979, the mission of the Sacramento Blues Society (SBS) is to preserve and promote the indigenous American Music known as the Blues. SBS offers the community a varied program of the blues and conducts community outreach and educational programs centered on the Blues. SBS keeps the Blues tradition alive in Sacramento by supporting and promoting the local blues music scene, bringing nationally and internationally renown performers to the region and providing musical education exposure to the area's youth through our Blues in the School (BITS).