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National Novel Writing Month organizes events where children and adults find the inspiration, encouragement, and structure they need to achieve their creative potential. Our programs are web-enabled challenges with vibrant real-world components, designed to foster self-expression while building community on local and global levels.

Public Broadcasting Atlanta broadcasts on radio and TV, provides online content, and conducts events that enhance life for the Atlanta community By educating and entertaining our audience, PBA broadens perspective, empowers the public, creates joy, and expands knowledge. Through these endeavors, PBA connects Atlantans to each other and the world.

DYV teaches youth ages 3-18 to play violin and viola using the world-class Suzuki method through weekly private and group lessons on Woodward Ave in downtown Detroit's arts district. The Suzuki approach nurtures students' ability to persevere, be creative, embrace hope, and to collaborate and empathize with others.

Milkweed Editions works to identify, nurture and publish transformative literature, and build an engaged community around it. We publish distinctive voices of literary merit, exploring the ethical, cultural and esthetic issues that societies continually need to address. Milkweed publishes fiction, poetry, nonfiction about the natural world, and fiction for young readers.

Founded in 2011, The Art of Brooklyn Film Festival (AoBFF) is the only independent film festival in the world exclusively devoted to work that emerges from the vibrant and diverse Brooklyn scene. We also produce Brooklyn On Demand, the only streaming platform dedicated to showcase Brooklyn-centric film and media for free to a worldwide audience.

WETA's mission is to produce and broadcast programs of intellectual integrity and cultural merit that recognize viewers' and listeners' intelligence, curiosity and interest in the world around them. As an independent and not-for-profit public broadcaster and producer, WETA provides its viewers and listeners with quality, compelling programs and serves a broad community with educational projects and Web-based initiatives.

A team of volunteers, trained specialists, and professionals each with essential expertise (history, aviation, diving, navigation), who are dedicated to locating and assisting with identifying American prisoners of war and missing in action from World War Two and other conflicts around the globe. This effort is done through detailed research and exploration while consistently coordinating with appropriate national authorities.  

WWOZ is dedicated to bringing New Orleans and Louisiana music to the world. We support our local musicians and musical culture by broadcasting music from New Orleans and the surrounding regions to local, national and international audiences. We are constantly striving to find new ways to support live music, musicians, music education, the dissemination of cultural news, and the local music industry.

The Chagrin Documentary Film Festival is dedicated to educating audiences and empowering talented filmmakers to tell their stories. The festival is a five day celebration of the art of documentary film, at venues in and around the century village of Chagrin Falls Ohio. This inspiring event draws audiences from all over northeast Ohio, the U.S. and the world to experience documentary films and the compelling art and culture they highlight.

StoryCorps’ mission is to preserve and share humanity’s stories to build connections between people and create a more just and compassionate world. We do this to remind one another of our shared humanity, to strengthen and build connections between people, to teach the value of listening, and to weave into the fabric of our culture the understanding that everyone’s story matters. At the same time we are creating an invaluable archive for future generations.

Our Mission Statement: To educate, inform and entertain audiences around the world by making freely available the presentation of news, features and cultural works by and about the international lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community via audio broadcast and cyber media. Our core values of integrity, independence and high-quality production standards increase and broaden our appeal beyond our primary audience.

Video Volunteers is a social media network that leverages the power of media to expand and accelerate positive social change, empower communities, overcome illiteracy and provide a real platform for voice among marginalized people in the developing world. By developing innovative and sustainable media platforms for production and distribution, focused on the needs and requirements of the poor and voiceless, we empower communities to create and share their own solutions to rights violations.