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Chicago Human Rhythm Project empowers artists and communities to express culture and identity through rhythm and percussive arts. Through the production of inspiring performances, education programs, and innovative business models for artistic collaboration, CHRP catalyzes diverse communities to foster social reconciliation and economic sustainability through rhythm. CHRP, which began over 30 years ago presenting an annual dance festival rooted in the African American and Irish American traditions of “hoofing” and tap dancing, now reaches 20,000+ young people and adults annually through its year-round programs.

The mission of the African American Wellness Project is to direct resources towards empowering the African American Community to improve health outcomes and promote wellness. Through the support of The California Endowment, AAWP has worked to achieve our mission and support the broader goal of educating and enrolling African American consumers in affordable healthcare programs in Alameda County. Key strategies implemented during the past year: • Culturally-relevant consumer education through ethnic and social media, community events and partnerships with African-American serving providers and community organizations • African American Provider Education to build provider understanding of the changes brought by ACA and strengthen their engagement to reaching the African American consumer

Open Hands Community Project is a community development program designed to provide students in low-income communities a safe, free after-school program. The goal of the program is to equip and empower students with the tools they need to help them better their lives by partnering with local schools and focusing on Education, Bible Study and Lifeskills while providing for everyday day needs and helping them find a hope for their future. In Jan of 2018, we opened a small subsidized High School offing quality education in a loving and encouraging environment for students who have a desire to succeed but the public system has failed. All of our students come from families who cannot afford a quality High School. We currently have 6 students with the ability to take 5 more for next year.

Outside Perspectives cultivates lasting personal growth and positive community engagement by offering a spectrum of transformative outdoor experiences.

We aim to help the people out of poverty by giving them the confidence, education and skills to solve their own problems.

Our performing arts classes are rooted in arts educational approaches that follow the natural developmental process of imitation, exploration, improvisation, and creation. Beginning with the very young, we lay foundational concepts through music and movement, focused mostly on imitation and exploration, then build upon those foundations in the preschool and kindergarten years with more exploration, improvisation, and creation opportunities. These classes introduce dance, theater and storytelling into the mix, following the natural physical and creative impulses of the child.

Educate, Enhance & Mentor Youth

To share God’s love as we facilitate Christ-centered education, community development, economic opportunity, and health initiatives in rural Liberia.

Shanti Bhavan empowers children from India’s lowest socioeconomic class to break the cycle of generational poverty through education, leadership, and compassion.

Discovering Justice is a civic education nonprofit that prepares young people to value the justice system, realize the power of their own voices, and embrace civic responsibility by connecting classrooms and courtrooms.

The New School University's mission is to educate women and men, from all walks of life and all parts of the globe, who want to pursue learning in a free and creative association unconstrained by conventional boundaries, for their own self improvement, the advancement of their professions, and the improvement of the city and world in which they live. The New School is a progressive university in the heart of Greenwich Village, New York City.