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Base Academy of Music teaches the foundations of music to urban youth to help them see their God-given potential and succeed in school and beyond.

Founded in 2001 by Steven Raider-Ginsburg, Julia B. Rosenblatt and Gregory R. Tate (1952-2012), HartBeat ensemble creates provocative theater that connects our community beyond traditional barriers of class, race, geography and gender. HartBeat’s resident home is the carriage house theater located on farmington avenue in Hartford.

Community Voices Heard is an organization of low income people, mostly women on welfare and public housing residents, working together to improve the lives of our members' families and all poor people in New York City and State. We are directed, run and being built by low-income people. We are a growing grass roots organization that uses public education, public policy research, community organizing, leadership development, voter education & mobilization, and direct action issue organizing to build our membership and to organize around issues that are defined by our membershiwe broadly define "welfare activism" to be multi issue, and thus must include issues such as education, training, jobs, housing, economic development and other community issues. We fill a critical gap in that our organization connects public policy with grass roots organizing and leadership development.

Native Forward Scholars Fund provides financial support for American Indians and Alaska Natives seeking higher education, and support them in attaining undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees. They partner with Tribes, the federal government, foundations, corporations, and individuals to ensure the growth and sustainability of scholarships.

Our mission is to deliver access to the benefits of high-quality, tuition-free music education. Through intensive instruction and performance, our students achieve excellence in music that transfers to other areas in life. They grow musically, socially, emotionally and intellectually, and develop a foundation of responsibility, self-esteem, resilience and purpose.

We believe that by working together, residents can improve the social, economic and physical conditions of their community. Since its inception in 1993, BT has united thousands of people around multiple community issues, including housing, education, healthcare, safety, city services, and youth programming. Our goals are to: increase the community's capacity to take action to address important issues; challenge members to develop skills to advocate for their community and themselves; address the root causes of poverty and inequality in the community; create neighborhood stability by ensuring that needed resources are invested in the community; and include all people regardless of class, race, age, ethnicity, gender, disability, religion, or sexual orientation.

Debatable Productions’ vision, since its foundation, has been to provide a creative home for talented young professionals 16-25 years old. We saw a need in the community for professional programs that can give the necessary experience to this age group. Often forgotten in the land between “too old for kid’s programs” and “not enough experience” for professional work, serious creatives find it hard to gather more experience while simultaneously working on more mature material. We provide a creative, professional environment for young talent to flourish.

Metropolitan School of Dance, Incorporated: Building character through the art of Dance. MSDI is dedicated to enabling students of every socio-economic background the excitement of personal accomplishment through dance. Our program lends attention to building positive self esteem, self confidence, self worth, determination, discipline, focus and personal accomplishment through arts education. MSDI trains students ages 3 through senior adult (essentially all ages) in ballet, Pointe', African, modern, jazz, tap, hip-hop and drama. Our in-house motto is "EveryBODY" has the right to dance. MSDI does not turn any individual away based on color, creed, ethnicity, size or physique, race or religious affiliation.

The American Studies Center is a non-partisan educational organization approved by the Internal Revenue Service as a public foundation operating under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue code. The American Studies Center engages in nonpartisan analysis, study and research into the interrelationship of governmental systems, activities and policies on the private sector, and to make the results available to the general public through conferences, publications and radio and television productions. One of the Center’s programs is “Radio America.” Radio America produces daily and weekly programs and documentaries covering a wide range of current public policy issues.  The American Studies Center’s other program is the American Veterans Center, whose mission is to preserve and pass on to future generations, the legacy of America’s fighting men and women of every generation.    

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.

The Vietnam Education Society was established in 2005 to raise funds to cover the cost of construction for new preschools and primary schools in rural Vietnam. Local authorities manage and operate the facilities, which are inspected by VES and our partner, East Meets West, on a regular basis. VES opened its first school in Vietnam in June 2007, a ten room school that serves close to 400 students in the small community of Cat Ne, Thai Nguyen Province, Vietnam. A multipurpose room and early childhood development centre were added to the school. Since that time, VES has built three other schools and is currently (Spring 2013) working on plans for the fifth facility. VES also works with the Pacific Links Foundation, an organization dedicated to helping stop human trafficking along the border regions in Vietnam. VES provides 40 scholarships for at risk girls and sponsors a summer camp to provide these girls with support and life skills