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A beloved Bay Area institution, the Midsummer Mozart Festival was founded in 1974 by George Cleve and a regional consortium of classical musicians, who recognized him as one of the world's great interpreters of the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. So now coming into our 43rd Anniversary season, the Festival is still the only music festival in North America dedicated exclusively to Mozart. The Festival presents a critically-acclaimed summer concert season featuring renowned international soloists as well as distinguished local artists, with a dedication to fresh and intelligent interpretation of the work of this most enduring and universally loved composer. Our mission embraces both performances of the highest artistic excellence, and cultivation of new audiences, including young people, to assure the future appreciation of great music, and the arts.

To elevate student engagement, and expand the role of music in education by making purposeful, inclusive music a joyful and integral part of literacy, academic, and social-emotional learning throughout the school day, and beyond. We accomplish this by training and equipping inspired educators to integrate hands-on music and songs for learning with classroom instruction, activities, transitions, support services, and building classroom communities. ​Our unique, developmental approach nurtures creative and effective teaching practices through free weekly professional development (PD) courses in ukulele, guitar, and classroom implementation, as well as capacity-building co-teaching artist residencies, intensive workshops, in-service trainings, conference presentations, after school music clubs, and specialized services in adaptive music for inclusion.

Art 120 is a 501(c)3 organization created to enrich Chattanooga and its surrounding community through the creation, education, and celebration of STE(A)M-based learning. Basically, it’s all about A.R.T. Awareness between the community, artists, educators, and non-profit organizations thereby creating a creative network that will encompass a 120 mile radius around Chattanooga. Reaching out to the public and underserved schools through free art events in Hamilton County that help strengthen Chattanooga’s ties to its creative community while recognizing participating artists of all ages and mediums. Teaching STE(A)M-based workforce development skills to urban youth through the creation of mechanical sculpture and reinforcing talents through continued participation in community events.

Baltimore Clayworks opened in 1980 by nine clay artists with the commitment to establish a public art center of living artists who would teach, exhibit and create for and in collaboration with the broader community. To realize the organization’s mission to develop, promote and sustain an artist-centered community, providing exceptional artistic, educational and collaborative programs in the ceramic arts, the artists, staff and Board of Directors of Baltimore Clayworks provide accessible and affordable classes and artists’ studios and a suite of exhibition space featuring local, national and international work which are free and open to the public six days a week. As a major part of this effort, Clayworks partners with grassroots organizations, schools and city agencies to sensitively develop and implement artistic programs in the community for disadvanteged young people who would otherwise have limited or no access to the arts.

Our mission The mission of the NGO Dynamique Actions pour la Solidarite et le Developpement is to combat poverty and all forms of socio-economic vulnerability through : Protecting the environment and combating global warming, Promoting education for all children, regardless of gender, Relief and food security for all, Promoting grassroots community health initiatives Combating epidemics (HIV/AIDS, cholera, tuberculosis, malaria, measles, Ebola), Assisting and empowering women and children in situations of vulnerability and psycho-socio-economic discrimination, Promoting water, hygiene and sanitation for all, The prevention of violence and the promotion of peace and justice to meet local needs with local solutions. The humanitarian aid that DASOD provides to people in need is made possible by financing from its own funds and from various donors. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

Theatre Within provides ongoing free workshops in creative expression and mindfulness to communities in need.  We provide workshops in songwriting, art, meditation and much more for those impacted by cancer. Since the onset of the pandemic in March 2020, we have provided over 700 workshops for children who have lost a parent to cancer, adult cancer patients, survivors and their family members. In addition, we provide the John Lennon Real Love Project songwriting program to elementary and middle schools. Since the program's launch in June 2021 we have brought the program to 16 schools. Since 1981, we have celebrated John Lennon’s music, life and timeless message of peace, love and racial/gender equality with our Annual John Lennon Tribute charity concert in NYC.

­­­­­­­­­­­­­­Kitten Krazy has been organized for the purpose of raising charitable funds to promote the following objectives:To rescue lost, abandoned, neglected, and stray cats and kittens primarily in Northeast Ohio; to provide a stress-free, healthy environment for lost,abandoned, neglected, and stray cats and kittens until permanent placement can be found by Kitten Krazy; To provide emergency and wellness medical care for kittens and cats in the possession of Kitten Krazy;      To educate the public on the importance of spaying/neutering to control pet over-population;To educate the public on feline pet care; And to alleviate pet overpopulation by opening Quick Fix Low-Cost Spay/Neuter Clinic for cats and dogs in Medina County in June 2011 to offer affordable, high-quality spay/neuter services with no financial criteria required.

Since 1982, the California School-Age Consortium has worked to support and advance professionals and organizations in providing quality and affordable out-of-school time programs. Our vision is that out-of-school time will be a public priority throughout California. Through our leadership, out-of-school time professionals and programs will be valued like teachers and schools as an essential service supported by government, business and community resources. We accomplish our mission through a focus on: Connecting professionals; Enhancing competency; and Building a community. We approach our work with a commitment to: Developing high quality, equity driven leaders; Enhancing local capacity and sustainability; and Building a collective and influential voice. We provide an array of free and low cost services including: Training and professional development, leadership development and advocacy.

Fundacion Via Cocina is a community based project focused on improving the health and economic development of vulnerable women, youth and underprivileged in Medellin Colombia. With a personalized training and mentoring system sharing healthy food recipes, cooking techniques and applied financial planning and entrepreneurial small business fundamentals, we build a program for individuals and families based on their current reality, applying the training to objectives created with them, for them, in their own home. Additionally, we provide classes to individuals and groups who want to learn to cook healthy dishes with local ingredients for their families, transforming them into uncommon flavors that are low in fat, oil, salt and sugar-free. These activities look to decrease frequency and severity of non-communicable diseases in the communities, including obesity, diabetes and cholesterol.

The name Azubuike, when translated, means, “The past is our strength.” The history of our organization predates the official incorporation in October of 2014. Ours is a collective story, we the founders have gathered all our years of experience as community members, activists, artist, educators, writers, mentors, and our passion for helping youth & community, into one entity of service, the Azubuike African American Council for The Arts! Azubuike’s Mission is to reconcile the racial divides that exist in our community by giving at-risk youth a voice to express themselves, be heard without bias, and spark a much larger conversation about race relations in the Quad Cities through the Arts. Our Vision is to use the Arts to help us understand our past, show us how to shape our future, while telling a compelling story about why our lives matter.

Indspire (the former National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation) is a registered national charity that provides the necessary tools for Indigenous peoples, especially youth to achieve their potential. Our focus is on supporting, innovating, and fundamentally transforming Indigenous education. To date, Indspire’s Building Brighter Futures: Bursaries and Scholarship Awards program has awarded over $49-million in bursaries and scholarships to over 14,000 First Nation, Inuit and Métis students nationwide. Our other programs, Soaring: Indigenous Youth Career Conferences and Industry in the Classroom: Indigenous Youth Career Seminars, focus on introducing students to potential careers and opportunities. Each year we recognize 14 outstanding Indigenous achievers at the Indspire Awards. This nationally televised gala provides role models for Indigenous youth and celebrates the rich contributions First Nation, Inuit and Métis people have made to their communities and Canada.

MOXIE’s mission is to create more diverse and honest images of women for our culture using the art of theatre. Through the production of primarily female playwrights and the special attention given to plays that defy female stereotypes, MOXIE expands the idea of what is feminine. Our dedication to finding work that is underproduced means we’re discovering the classics of the future. MOXIE fans know that each distinct MOXIE production will always share one similar quality – moxie. Moxie is defined as “courage, pluck, gumption, perseverance, guts.” It may be the hero of a play who embodies the term moxie, or a challenging subject matter. Perhaps a playwright has invented an original world for audiences to explore, or actors are asked to stretch to new heights and break new ground in storytelling. In whatever way it is revealed, moxie is the unifying quality that defines all of our productions.