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JewishGen is committed to ensuring Jewish continuity for present generations and the generations yet to come. Our free, easy to use website features thousands of databases, research tools and other resources to help those with Jewish ancestry research and find family members. Our Mission: JewishGen’s mission is to preserve our collective Jewish family history, and heritage, for future generations, by allowing anyone with Jewish ancestry to research their roots, and connect with relatives. This mission will be accomplished by: Obtaining records, information and tools that will be valuable for Jewish ancestral research; Maintaining an online community for family researchers to connect with relatives and like minded individuals; and Ensuring the JewishGen website continues to offer its resources in an easily searchable and understandable format. Why We Are Unique: JewishGen, a non-profit organization affiliated with the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, was founded in 1987 as a bulletin board with only 150 users who were interested in Jewish genealogy. Primarily driven by volunteers, there are over 700 active volunteers throughout the world who actively contribute to our ever growing collection of databases, resources and search tools. Currently, JewishGen hosts more than 20 million records, and provides a myriad of resources and search tools designed to assist those researching their Jewish ancestry. JewishGen provides its resources online as a public service.

One-Forty is a non-profit startup committed to SEA migrant worker issue. We are devoted to empower them with required skills and trainings, so they can regain self-awareness and self-confident with clear visions and better lives. In the process, we also aspire to improve structural economic issues. One-Forty also curates various cultural events and engaging activities, to facilitate contacts, connections and empathy between locals and SEA migrant workers. Our mission is "Make every migrant journey worth and inspiring". We also believe every person deserves to dream, and every story deserves listeners.

We establish a platform that allows dancers, choreographers and collaborators to connect and share artistic sensibilities- honoring each other's uniquely personal experiences. Building site-specific performances for the natural world and the proscenium stage, we actively involve all voices throughout the creation/rehearsal process, promoting an equitable environment where artists can thrive. The amalgamation of these elements brought into a live performance experience is key to our purpose, showcasing the best of what our art form has to offer. In essence, we create the opportunity for dancers to join together and immerse themselves in exciting repertoire, reaching audiences of all sizes.

Everyman Theatre is a professional theatre celebrating the actor, with a resident company of artists from the Baltimore/Washington, DC area. The theatre is dedicated to engaging the audience through a shared experience between actor and audience seeking connection and emotional truth in performance. Each season of plays is carefully curated to foster a diverse range of human experiences found in a mix of dramas and comedies selected from timeless classics to world premieres of plays.We strive to engage, inspire, and transform artists, audiences and our community through theatre of the highest artistic standards and make it affordable and accessible to everyone. We are committed to embodying the promise of our name, Everyman Theatre.

Our Mission Statement: Women & Family Life Center empowers women and their families to face challenges and transitions in their lives with grace and dignity. Within our safe and intimate setting on the Connecticut Shoreline: Women and families in crisis move to new strength Life transitions become a time of positive change rather than a time of isolation, fear, and financial distress Women and families are able to access a strong network of support, education, and community Our Vision Statement: Women & Family Life Center: Inspiring women and families to explore the endless possibilities in their lives, make meaningful connections with others, and create lives filled with promise.

The Boulder Opera is committed to making opera accessible, inspiring and engaging to the community. Our goal is to develop new audiences for this old art form, enrich the lives of our community, and provide opportunity to local musicians. Our Family Series explore repertoire in reduced versions with a narrator and an ensemble orchestra. And our full-length productions, which include standard, contemporary, and rarely performed works, are experimental in nature, seeking to reach and entertain new audiences and delight the old. Our outreach program is designed to inspire and educate the young generation about opera and to make connections to other disciplines through our study guides and free workshops.

The Daniel Pearl Foundation promotes tolerance and understanding internationally through journalism, music and dialogue. Formed by Danny's family and friends to continue Danny's mission of connecting people through words and music, the Foundation addresses the root causes of the hatred that took his life through education and communication.  The Foundation brings journalists and editors from Muslim countries to U.S. newsrooms and uses the universal language of music to promote Harmony for Humanity through the Daniel Pearl World Music Days. Additionally, the Foundation conducts public Muslim- Jewish dialogue and features lectures by journalists and policy makers who contributed original analysis or constructive approaches to problems of national or international concern.

Project Twenty1 has an EPIC mission. We Educate, Promote, Inspire, and Connect creatives through film and animation programs in the Greater Philadelphia area that attract participants from all over the world. We help turn artistic passions into careers. We help unite the world of independent artists, allow them direct paths to their audiences, and at the same time build the cultural and artistic scene in Philadelphia and beyond. We create a network of support, promotion, and distribution through which motivated filmmakers and artists can get their work seen internationally. And in the process, we witness the birth of exciting new creative relationships and truly original, entertaining films.

Founded in 2008, Burnaway provides coverage of the arts in and from Atlanta and the South and connects creative communities in the region to each other and the broader art world. We do this through our online arts publication, the Atlanta art guide, our art writers mentorship program, writing workshops, and other public programs. Our editorial and programmatic content strives to provide coverage that reflects the geographic, demographic, and artistic diversity of the region. Burnaway exists to continue the established tradition of art criticism and uphold its highest ethical and professional standards, while also exploring the potential of new media and providing a fresh identity and perspective for arts dialogue today.

Founded in 1958, Young Audiences of Oregon & SW Washington has evolved from presenting only a few classical music performances to currently providing a roster of over 200 skilled residency and performing artists with programs in multiple artistic disciplines and cultures. We connect these artists with classroom teachers and together they use the arts to make learning come alive for their students. Our mission is to enhance children's learning with creative resources from the arts community. Through Young Audiences' Run For The Arts, schools raise the funds that make it possible to bring artists into their classrooms, pay for field trips to see performances and exhibitions and purchase art supplies.

To be a vibrant Jewish campus presence and to involve the maximum number of university-age Jews in ways that foster a lasting commitment to Jewish life. To further this mission, we commit ourselves to the following goals: - Serving the needs of individual Jewish students. - Creatively engaging and empowering Jewish students through personal interactions and compelling programs. - Building a strong sense of belonging and Jewish identity. - Nurturing intellectual and spiritual growth in a pluralistic community. - Advocating for Jewish student needs on campus and in the community. - Linking the campus community to the larger Jewish community, locally and globally. - Helping students cultivate a closer connection to Israel. - Developing a campus and organizational culture in which the quality of the relationships attracts involvement.

Fulcrum Arts champions creative and critical thinkers at the intersection of art and science to provoke positive social change and contribute to a more vibrant and inclusive community. We advance collaboration at the intersection of art and science to impact positive social change on a civic scale through exhibitions, institutional partnerships, interdisciplinary symposia, festivals, residencies, and outreach education. Our programming forges deep and lasting connections with artists and the region’s top scientific, research, technological, design, and cultural assets. Fulcrum Arts also offers support to artists, independent arts organizations, and non-profit cultural organizations through fiscal sponsorship, professional development, consulting, and financial services.