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DreamYard is committed to helping transform Bronx schools and communities through the power of innovative, project based arts education. Our schools and students are based in the nation's poorest urban county, with one-third of the Bronx's residents living below the poverty line. In response, DreamYard programs are designed to challenge the cyclical systems of inequality and poverty by empowering youth to discover and develop their best possible selves and to locate meaningful paths and ways to engage with their fellow students, schools, families, and communities. As the largest arts education provider in the Bronx, DreamYard critically impacts the social and intellectual growth of thousands of Bronx youth through safe, positive and creatively challenging programs. DreamYard's team of professional artists partner with classroom teachers and community educators to help students learn how to express, write and perform their own stories. Through year-long programs offered during the school day, after school, on weekends and during the summer, DreamYard supports youth development, enhances life-long learning skills, and promotes creative thinking and expression. DreamYard artists spark an interest in education that often lies latent in our youth. The organization understands that it is imperative to direct a young person's creativity toward positive goals as we strive to develop well-rounded and engaged citizens. Through DreamYard, young people believe that they can have an impact and change their communities and society as a whole. Its projects are catalysts that help teachers and communities propel students and their families into a life-long learning process.

The Arts Empowerment Project believes in the transformative power of art to heal and inspire children impacted by violence and abuse. Our organization connects and funds court-involved and at-risk children’s participation in existing arts and enrichment opportunities in Charlotte, and creates innovative arts integrated life-skills programs to promote resilience, social and emotional learning, positive self-expression and access to new opportunities. We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and a member of the District Court's Mecklenburg County Youth Coalition. Our organization collaborates with lawyers, the Department of Juvenile Justice, the Department of Social Services's Social Workers, Guardians Ad Litem, Counselors, Teachers and Mecklenburg County’s 26th Judicial District Court to make a difference in the lives of children affected by violence and abuse. Vulnerable and at-risk children who participate in the arts discover an outlet for positive self-expression, personal growth and healing. Through art, they are empowered to break the cycle of violence and alter the trajectory of their lives.

Experience Theatre Project was founded with the belief that new, modern theater consists of innovation, immersion, and imagination. We strive to create a unique and inventive theater-going experience by bringing audience members into the moment through a collaboration of creative writers, performers, musicians, technology, digital media, and the community. We aspire to produce a wide-ranging repertoire which will encourage the audience to not simply observe a play, but essentially feel as though they are an integral part of the performance (the experience). Our eclectic approach celebrates new voices, inspires and challenges audiences of all ages, and explores new and inventive ways in which to bring theatrical performance to a whole new level of storytelling. Our goals are to: • Nurture the art of live theater through immersive, dynamic productions which engage the audience • Encourage the art of collaboration between creative voices and new or different technology • Foster an environment of creativity with high artistic standards • Educate young minds in the beauty, creativity, spectacle, and challenges of theater arts • Dedicate ourselves to the art and to our supportive community • Serve the community, specifically the City of Beaverton and Washington County, through leadership and innovation in the arts • Encourage new works which represent new voices and methods of theatrical storytelling

We are working to empower and inspire Detroit’s young people through improvisation, an art form that fosters confidence and teaches a creative and collaborative approach to life. We believe every child should have the opportunity and support they need to succeed. We’re using improv to transform how our students view their potential and the power of their voice.

"PUSH FOR OPPORTUNITIES" OUR MISSION: To provide performance opportunities and scholarships that encourage freedom of expression and promotes the therapeutic benefits of dance.

Connecting Community through the arts.

Our Mission: Girls, Going Places To enable more girls to become scientists, engineers, builders, makers, creators or to get to the top of any ladder they wish to climb. We want to equip girls with the tools to succeed in any aspect of their lives by plugging the gap currently left by society. By enabling girls to define how they see themselves from scratch, we will, in turn, rewrite how the world views girls in general.

We train incarcerated writers to be journalists and publish their stories

Firehouse Theatre is an artistic home, a thriving hub of creative activity, and a center for community engagement where new work is created and performed.

Harmony's mission is to enrich the lives of adults with developmental or intellectual disabilities through the power of art, music, and community.

Our mission is to provide free and low cost music lessons to young children with limited means. Through our programs, children learn to sing, dance, keep a beat, carry a tune, play an instrument, create arrangements, perform for an audience, and collaborate on a creative endeavor.

Our mission is to collect, preserve, and promote an active knowledge of the history, arts, and culture relevant to sexually diverse communities in metropolitan Washington DC.