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Understanding the special role the arts play in building strong communities, our mission is to engage, connect, and strengthen communities through collaboration and educational outreach. Our goal is the pursuit of choral excellence that engages audiences, and shares and celebrates the human experience through music. OUR VISION: ​ Our vision is a world in which communities support, collaborate, and care for everyone while respecting each person's individuality. Inspired by diversity, we aspire to be an accepting family of inclusiveness, characterized by a membership comprised of musicians with a broad range of interests, thoughts, and beliefs who are individually committed to artistic excellence.

The Brooklyn Youth Music Project is a community based non-profit organization dedicated to extending the reach of musical training to all young musicians ages 5 to 18 in the Brooklyn community and beyond, to supporting the development of lifelong learners and to contributing to a culture of youth musicianship that meets the highest standards of excellence. We are a stand-alone youth organization, not affiliated with a professional orchestra. Our organization is dedicated to extending the reach of musical training to all young musicians in the Brooklyn community and beyond, to supporting the development of life-long learners and to contributing to a culture of youth musicianship that meets the highest standards of excellence. We are the only program in Brooklyn to offer three levels in orchestra and two levels of Jazz ensemble. These different programs for different skill levels, coupled with our low tuition and need-based scholarships, allow us to include a great diversity of young musicians. Such a range allows students to develop their individual skills as performers as well as their sensitivity and responsiveness as collaborators. This in turn fosters the growth of the ensemble as a whole. BYMP has rapidly grown from a 25-member string orchestra to a multi-tiered program reaching over 200 children annually, largely from public schools. This vigorous growth attests to a need in the Brooklyn youth music community that we are proud to fill.

Project Rhythm is a nonprofit organization that is dedicated to using music as an instrument for youth empowerment by engaging youth from underserved communities in hands on music production, performance and music education.

The mission of The Miracle Project is to appreciate and develop voices and talents of individuals with autism and all abilities through expressive and performing arts programs and create a dynamic neuro-diverse community.

Lynx Project is a nonprofit arts initiative whose mission is to build community through innovative art song performances and educational outreach, and to provide a platform for every voice to be heard.

Kithara Project is a collective of internationally acclaimed classical guitarists with the mission of enriching the lives of young people worldwide through the classical guitar. The guitar is unique in its ability to appeal to people of all ages, cultures and backgrounds. Kithara Project currently maintains three ongoing, community-based guitar education programs: one in a community center serving a low-income housing development near Boston, another in an self-governing community in southeast Mexico City, and another in an elementary school in Albuquerque’s South Valley. In each of these sites, Kithara Project develops and implements classical guitar programs designed at once to encourage civic and community mindedness and give students all the benefits of a first-class music education. Specifically, the programming includes weekly group workshops, private lessons, chamber music coaching, theory classes, and vocal training.

To connect people through culture and creativity.

The mission of The Justice Theater Project is to produce compelling theater experiences that create community dialogue and give voice to social concerns

The International Voices Project (IVP) champions the work of global playwrights by creating opportunities to experience new and contemporary international plays on Chicago stages. IVP debuts voices from the world's stages through commissions, translations, and production. We collaborate with consulates, cultural partners, and universities throughout the Chicagoland area and partner with national and international theatres to promote global playwrights in their USA premieres.