Employ the arts to cultivate creativity and grow mutual empathy in a world lacking these critical attributes that make us human..

ICAF employs the power of the arts for students' identity development through its school art program, the Arts Olympiad, followed by the World Children's Festival on the National Mall across the U.S. Capitol.

**Arts Olympiad**
Objective: To transform children's self-identity through the arts for higher-order thinking and enhanced self-worth that teaches students to foster their creativity and engage in physical activity to counter the epidemic of declining creativity and rising obesity.

The Arts Olympiad introduces students to the "Artist-Athlete Ideal" of the creative mind and a healthy body (*mente sana in corpo sano*). The structured lesson plans motivate students to think of themselves and others not as techies, nerds, jocks, or artsy but as artist-athletes. The coalescing of artistic and athletic mindsets sprouts outside-the-box thinking and instills healthy lifestyles.

The Arts Olympiad requires students to visualize and depict themselves as artist-athletes in their paintings, drawings, or digital art, which solidifies their revised self-image as artist-athletes. When the number of artist-athletes grows, the school becomes a more creative, healthy, and forward-looking community.

The U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee has granted ICAF an exclusive license to use the "Arts Olympiad" mark.

**World Children's Festival**
Objective: To develop mutual empathy with three days of workshops, activities, and training at the National Mall across the U.S. Capitol.

The Arts Olympiad winners from the participating U.S. school districts and countries convene at their World Children's Festival (WCF) to celebrate Creativity, Diversity, and Unity.

The WCF workshops, training, and activities are designed to provide a transformative experience that infuses children's creativity with empathy, inspiring them to become "creative-empaths" who can work together to make the world a better place.

To be a creative-empath requires a quality of character that can help overcome adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and disrupt the intergenerational transmission of trauma and hatred that seeps into the young, like physical traits or melanin. The WCF is not only fun and entertainment but an effective intervention that makes it unlike any other children's festival, nationally or globally.

**ChildArt Magazine**
Objective: Creative and empathic development of young readers.
Published ad-free since 1998, ChildArt is a unique magazine that focuses on a single theme for each issue. Recent themes include Creativity, Human Security, Young Leaders, The Power of Words, Mindfulness, Metaverse, Animal Art, and Dance.

**ICAF's Impact**
Over the past twenty-five years, ICAF has changed the world for children. More than five million schoolchildren have participated in and benefited from ICAF's free-of-charge programs. An estimated two million students, parents, and teachers have attended ICAF festivals, exhibitions, and conferences in over twenty major cities worldwide. ChildArt quarterly’s readership has grown to about 220,000.

**Funding**
The National Endowment of the Art, the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, the Robert J. Bauer Family Foundation, Cretors Family Foundation, the Skillman Foundation and Ward & MM Family Fund supported ICAF in 2023/2024. 

Nearly one-half of ICAF program expenses are funded by individual donors. ICAF is independently ranked among the 25 Top Children's Charities in the United States. 

ICAF is raising funds for the 7th World Children's Festival in June 2025 at the National Mall across the U.S. Capitol. We appreciate your support.

International Child Art Foundation

AFMM raises awareness among Americans and provides financial support, on a tax-deductible basis, for the Musée de Montmartre.

HistoryThe Musée de Montmartre is located in old houses on the Butte (hill of Montmartre). These residences, surrounded by gardens, housed the workshops and ateliers of numerous artists such as Auguste Renoir, Émile Bernard, Raoul Dufy, Charles Camoin, Suzanne Valadon and Maurice Utrillo. The permanent collection includes paintings, posters and drawings signed by Toulouse-Lautrec, Modigliani, Kupka, Steinlen, Valadon, and Utrillo. Together, the artworks recount the history of Montmartre, including the innovative studios at Bateau-Lavoir and 12 rue Cortot and the infamous animated cabarets of the Lapin Agile and the Moulin Rouge. The Museum includes an entire room dedicated to the French Cancan, while another features rare zinc plates of dreamlike scenes from shadow theatre such as Le Chat Noir, the first modern cabaret founded by Rodolphe Salis in 1881.  The collection was made possible by the History and Archeology Society “Le Vieux Montmartre,” which itself dates back to 1886.  The permanent collection presented will immerse you in the history of Montmartre and reveal its rich culture. The Musée de Montmartre was founded in 1960 and dates one of its buildings to the seventeenth century.  This building is the Bel Air House and is the oldest building in Montmartre.  During its heyday, 12 rue Cortot served as a residence and meeting place for many artists including Auguste Renoir, Suzanne Valadon and Émile Bernard, who held their studios here, as well as the fauve artists Emile Othon Friesz and Raoul Dufy.The Musée's attendees relive Montmartre's celebrated history through the eyes of Suzanne Valadon during the Musée's immersive media show. Attendees rediscover the atmosphere that dominated the winding streets of the Butte and the famous names that roamed them.  Valadon's humble origins, artistic training, contacts and success make her the perfect guide to introduce the visit and recount the history of Montmartre: she is an allegory of the Butte during its effervescence.  In July 2011, the Kléber-Rossillon Company took over the management of the Musée de Montmartre. It launched an ambitious program that expanded and restored the site. Exhibition space was doubled, the studio-apartment of the artists Suzanne Valadon and Maurice Utrillo was renovated, and the three gardens that inspired Renoir’s paintings were brought to their former glory.  Artists started to move to Montmartre in 1870 and the cafes and cabarets multiplied in the 1880’s. What quickly came to characterize Montmartre in the eyes of everyone was this effervescent bohemian spirit, a creative energy.  In 1912 Suzanne Valadon, Maurice Utrillo and André Utter settled into their atelier-apartment and left a symbolic trace at 12 Cortot. The spirit of the infernal trio has been restored: the frying pan can be found in its place, the mezzanine was rebuilt in the studio, and the walls of Utrillo’s bedroom still have their original panelling and barbed wire on the windows.  To give life to this reconstruction, the company Kléber Rossillon called upon the designer Hubert Le Gall, scenographer who has worked with renowned institutions (e.g., Musée d'Orsay, Musée de l'Orangerie, Jacquemart- André). Hubert Le Gall was able to recreate the atelier-apartment, faithful to the letters and writings of the time and as portrayed in historical photographs - an ode and celebration of the past.Three gardens dedicated to Auguste Renoir surround the Musée de Montmartre. They are named in memory of the impressionist painter who lived on-site between 1875 and 1877, where he painted several masterpieces including the famous le Bal du Moulin de la Galette (“The Moulin de la Galette Ball”), La Balancoire (“The Swing”), and Jardin de la rue Cortot (“Rue Cortot Garden”). The Renoir Gardens offer breathtaking views of the vineyard, the Clos Montmartre, and northern cityscape of Paris.  The Musée de Montmartre captures the excitement of a time at the turn of the century (the Fin de Siècle) in a neighborhood where artists, musicians, poets, and friends gathered and created.  This time gave birth to modern art, pushing against the boundaries of the time.  The Musée de Montmartre is rooted in history.  The American Friends of Musée de Montmartre celebrate this time and very special place.

American Friends of Musée de Montmartre

La Maison de Simon is an artists' residence in Normandy created in honor of Simon Kasha.

La Maison de Simon is an artists' residence in Normandy, France, created in honor of Simon Kasha. We host contemporary artists in the fields of visual art, music, writing and the culinary arts.

The house itself is a converted stone barn in the village of Fontaine-sous-Jouy. It was completely renovated to include ample studio space, including a kiln for ceramics, and two bedrooms so that we may host artists who wish to apply as a collaborative duo. 

Our warmest thanks to all our friends, family and patrons for their support.

Simon Kasha Foundation, La Maison de Simon

Supporting collaborative artwork initiated by sculptor Prune Nourry to raise awareness and empower underrepresented communities. 

Catharsis Arts Foundation is a non-profit initiated by the sculptor Prune Nourry that supports collaborative artistic creation and enables art to have a long term, positive impact on the women, artists, artisans, and communities who contribute to and inspire the artwork’s creation.

The Foundation encourages the making of artworks with and by underrepresented communities, enabling them to tell their stories. The collective art installations then tour around the world to raise awareness before returning to their country of origin and funding their preservation, as well as educational and artistic programs for the local communities.

The foundation is inspired by Prune Nourry’s profound belief that art and sculpture can be a tool to recreate balance in a deeply unbalanced world. It will operate globally, with first programs being held in Africa in 2024.

Catharsis Arts Foundation

Help maintain the inheritance of the life and work of Vincent van Gogh.

Explore the world’s largest collection of works by Vincent van Gogh at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. 
 
Mission The Van Gogh Museum makes the life and work of Vincent van Gogh and the art of his time accessible to as many people as possible in order to enrich and inspire them.
 
Your support will help us to maintain the inheritance of the life and work of Vincent van Gogh. By donating through KBFUS you can make use of the tax benefits in the US. ​

Van Gogh Museum 

Did you know there's more than 1 million books in the Joburg CBD. Let's celebrate that.

Johannesburg, better known as Jozi or Joburg, is best showcased by the vibrant city centre at its heart. The area that residents refer to as “Town” is set apart by the combined bustling of hawkers, cross-continental traders, and white-collar office workers alike.

Between busy public transportation routes and the overall air of Afropolitan excellence, Town has something for everyone. This diverse and energetic part of the city is a prime showcase of the literary and artistic wonders that Joburg has to offer.

The Literary District runs on community support. We send thousands of books, new and used, for free to libraries across South Africa every year. We also work with community organisations that have literacy outreach programmes and donate books to their causes.

With more than 1 million books in the City Library and dozens of booksellers in the nearby blocks, our literary culture flows through the streets. We’re working with the Johannesburg Development Agency through its Our City, Our Block programme to highlight and expand this reading culture.
 
To start, that means keeping our streets clean. With the help of a grant from the Social Employment Fund, we have hired cleaners to help us keep the district looking refreshed.

Dozens of booksellers sell their wares in the LitDistrict. These booksellers provide easy access to books to the thousands of people in the city centre. We have fostered a relationship with these underground sellers, connecting them with publishers so that they can continue to provide the community with new books. We are working together as a neighbourhood to foster more of a reading culture that we hope will spread from our home to many others.

We are in the process of adopting the park that lies at the centre of the LitDistrict. The Library Gardens stretch out from the city library and is a popular gathering point for the community. We hope to turn this park into a literary hub by cleaning it up and filling it with books that are completely free to borrow and read.

We have adopted two outdoor township libraries – one in Alexandra and another in Soweto. We stock these libraries every month to ensure that these communities have access to an ever-changing and ever-growing selection of books. We plan to build more of these throughout Joburg, starting with Library Gardens.

With grants from the city’s Department of Community Development, we workshopped six storybooks in local languages. Three of these stories were accepted by Nal’ibali for translation into all 11 languages with free distribution, thanks to a grant from the Cadbury #InOurOwnWords campaign. See ‘The First Story Ever Told’ in isiXhosa here.

We have also worked on getting stories to print that have, up until now, only existed in oral tradition. In doing this, we hope to share South African stories further across the globe. 

Many South African books that would now be considered classics seem to have disappeared. Some were banned and never reprinted after the end of Apartheid, and others simply fell out the public consciousness but are taking on new resonance now. 

We have been working to publish new editions of such classics so that these stories can re-enter circulation.  We have reprinted a duology of H.I.E. Dhlomo’s ‘The Girl Who Killed to Save’ and ‘Valley of a Thousand Hills’. Dhlomo is a founding figure of South African literature whose work has become hard to come across – something that we are working to change. 

We host publishing workshops to help break down some of the barriers between writers’ ideas and books going to print. We also sell books from independent authors on consignment, helping their words reach readers.

We host Storytime Saturday every week, either at Bridge Books or around the corner at Ernest Oppenheimer Park. With this initiative, we hope to revitalise the art of oral narrative, and to give children a fun and enriching activity on the weekend. Our readers bring stories to life in all South African languages, depending on the week’s audience. We want the kids in the neighbourhood to know that kids like them can be on the covers of books, too.

We also work in collaboration with the Alliance Française. With monthly storytelling events, we support their mission of bringing South African cultures to French expats living in Joburg, encouraging them to introduce their children to more South African stories. Plenty of local children from our area come to listen, too, and to join in on the djembe drum circle. 

The LitDistrict is a part of the Johannesburg Inner City Walkable Network, which links neighbourhoods throughout the CBD to create a clean, safe, and welcoming environment for locals and visitors.
 
 In the LitDistrict, we are working to create a neighbourhood identity based on literature and community. Local kids stop by on their way home from school to do their homework and read together and young professionals hunker down together over coffee at Bridge Books. 
 
All in all, we want our home to feel more like a home – art on the walls, places to come together, books in hands.

African Book Trust

Leading the conversation on contemporary art since 1928, SculptureCenter presents exhibitions, commissions new work, and generates scholarship.

SculptureCenter

Outschool.org is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit managed through the Edward Charles Foundation (ECF). 

Outschool.org is a non-profit that provides under-resourced communities the tools to navigate and access non-traditional learning experiences. Outschool.org’s programs prioritize family and learner choice and develop academic achievement, love of learning, and sense of belonging. 

Outschool.org formed in March 2020 to address financial barriers to virtual learning during COVID. Now, we're laser-focused on ensuring access for the 56% of marginalized families who are looking for alternatives and additional resources for their learners. 

We offer programs for families, schools, and community organizations nationwide who serve predominantly BIPOC and low-income learners. Programs include live, virtual classes from the Outschool.com marketplace and other virtual and in-person learning resources.

Outschool.org

The Turrell Art Foundation is a public, non-profit foundation created to support the realization of the Roden Crater project.

Roden Crater, located in the Painted Desert region of the Northern Arizona, is an unprecedented, large-scale artwork created within a volcanic cinder cone by light and space artist James Turrell.  Representing the culmination of the artist’s lifelong research in the field of human visual and psychological perception, Roden Crater is a controlled environment for the experiencing and contemplation of light.  While minimally invasive to the external natural landscape, internally the red and black cinder has been transformed into special, engineered spaces where the cycles of geologic and celestial time can be directly experienced.  

Turrell Art Foundation

A museum of art and history with a representative survey of Dutch art and history since the Middle Ages.

A museum of art and history with a representative survey of Dutch art and history since the Middle Ages, the Rijksmuseum has on display 8,000 objects of art and history, from their total collection of 1 million objects, among which are some masterpieces by Rembrandt, Frans Hals, and Johannes Vermeer. The museum also has a small Asian collection which is on display in the Asian pavilion.  

The Rijksmuseum links individuals with art and history. Mission At the Rijksmuseum, art and history take on new meaning for a broad-based, contemporary national and international audience. As a national institute, the Rijksmuseum offers a representative overview of Dutch art and history from the Middle Ages onwards, and of major aspects of European and Asian art. The Rijksmuseum keeps, manages, conserves, restores, researches, prepares, collects, publishes, and presents artistic and historical objects, both on its own premises and elsewhere.

Rijksmuseum 

Inspired by Dan Eldon, a photojournalist killed in Somalia in 1993, Creative Visions Foundation supports Creative Activists,who use media for change

Creative Visions Foundation

MFTA collects surplus materials and redistributes them to its members: nonprofits with arts programming & NYC public schools | materialsforthearts.org

Materials for the Arts

Building a diverse design community and platform of educational tools and mentoring.

We empower the underrepresented designers of tomorrow through educational tools and mentoring. We are the only 501(c)(3) non-profit building a career growth platform focused on designers. Currently we have over 950 mentors in over 75+ countries around the world. Our vision is to be the global career growth platform for designers and design leadership.

Designed.org

Visual Arts Non-Profit since 2002 » Artist Studios, Classes, Exhibitions

OUR MISSION
Our mission is to empower artists, promote community service, inspire youth, and enrich the Bay Area through engagement in the visual arts.

OUR VISION
We strive to be a model of creative excellence, sustainability, and collaboration as we empower emerging artists to amplify art’s positive impact on society.

OUR ECOSYSTEM
Root Division is a launching pad for artists, a stepping-stone for educators, a door to creativity for youth, and a bridge for the public to get involved in the arts. Our ecosystem includes four interconnected programs: In our unique incubator Studios Program we offer discounted space to artists in exchange for volunteering in the community. Artists teach free art classes in the Youth Education Program, instruct courses in the Adult Education Program, and support our Exhibitions & Events Program.

Root Division

The Steel Yard offers arts and technical training programs designed to increase opportunities for cultural and artistic expression.

The Steel Yard is a non-profit industrial art center and shared studio located in Providence, RI. We’re an arts maker space and non-traditional craft school offering courses & educational programs in blacksmithing, welding, jewelry, foundry, and ceramics. 

Our public projects department fabricates functional, design-driven public-art for installation throughout Southeastern New England. These decorative bike racks, trash cans, benches, and fences are found at businesses and main streets from Western Massachusetts to Block Island, with custom metal sculptures installed along waterways, parks, schools and public spaces across the region.

We’re a community of artists, makers, and learners. We host an artist residency program for emerging and mid-level artists that provides full access to our studios and equipment. Our welding job training program pays under-employed Rhode Islanders to learn welding, shop safety, and associated skills with the goal of getting a good-paying job.

Our 3.8-acre award-winning campus is the perfect venue for public and private events and one-of-a-kind fundraisers like our annual Halloween Iron Pour.

the Steel Yard

Presents contemporary, emerging and unconventional arts, artists, and ideas.

SPACE presents contemporary, emerging and unconventional arts, artists, and ideas.

SPACE

Provides creative arts programs to young patients and families in children's hospitals across North Carolina.

Arts For Life is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting pediatric patients and families through arts education and engagement. By providing educational art programs, we enrich patients’ lives, nurture their minds and spirits, and encourage positive healthcare experiences for children and their families. Arts For Life helps children every day in three communities across North Carolina.

Arts For Life

The Owl Club unites enthusiasts to become connoisseurs of pre-modern art while building meaningful relationships in the art world


Join THE OWL CLUB!

Owl Club Member $250 (yearly membership begins when you join)

Owl Club Benefits:

• Monthly invitations to in person events exclusive to Owl Club members
  Our private events include special visits to private collections, exhibition tours with 
  curators, tutorials in galleries, conservation studios and auction houses 
• Private guided tours and special events at art fairs*
• Access to all Athena Art Foundation podcasts and special events


Owl Club Benefactor $350 (yearly membership begins when you join)

Owl Club Benefactor Benefits:
• Invitations to events exclusive to Owl Club members in galleries, artist studios, auction 
 houses, and private collections
• Priority reservation privileges for The Athena Foundation fund-raising benefits and host 
 committees
• Private guided tours to museum exhibitions and art fairs*
• Access to all Athena Art Foundation podcasts and special events
• Invitation to additional special events exclusive to Benefactors

*artfair tickets not included

Athena Art Foundation - The Owl Club

Collections of Greek art from various time periods.

Displays on Greek culture from prehistory and onward. 
 
The Benaki Museum is a network of seven sites across Athens city centre and mainland . Throughout its galleries, different cultures and historical periods meet modern art moves, while rich historical archives bring past wisdom into our contemporary world. Its varied and rare Collection is surrounded by an impressive array of cultural activities. Numerous temporary exhibitions, publications, conferences, concerts and educational programmes make the Benaki Museum a multifarious art institution of the 21st century. As one of Greece's leading museum institutions under private law, the Benaki Museum aims at inspiring people to reach for kn owledge and reflect on cultural heritage, through its extensive collections that cover several cultural fields and its range of activities serving more than one social interest. Its key objectives are: 
 Openness, Democratization of Collections, Flexibility: to provide open access to collections and archives  
 Social Awareness, Social Presence: to be an active member of the community in which it operates for the benefit of the public  
 Research & Collaboration: to establish itself into the wider scientific community on all fields of its interest 
 National & International Presence: to promote the exchange of exhibitions and publications  
 Self-sufficiency, Sustainability, Resilience: to support its financial and organizational operation, thus ensuring its evolution for generations to come. 

Benaki Museum 

We bring art, artists, and arts programming into laundromats and other everyday spaces to amplify the creativity that already exists within our communities

We amplify the creativity that already exists within communities by using arts and culture to build community networks, solve problems, and enhance our sense of ownership in the places where we live, work, and grow.

The Laundromat Project

Help Dutch museums collect the most amazing works of art for everyone to enjoy! 

The Vereniging Rembrandt (Rembrandt Association) is an independent membership-based organization that supports art acquisitions for Dutch museum collections great and small, and with large and small gifts, too. It was founded in 1883 by a small number of art lovers who wanted to help save important works of art for the Netherlands. Today, the Vereniging Rembrandt has over 17.500 members, both domestic and abroad, and has helped acquire well-over two thousand works of art for over 125 museums. Among these acquisitions are true icons of art, such as Johannes Vermeer's "Milkmaid" in the Rijksmuseum, Rembrandt's Self-portrait  in the Mauritshuis, and Henri Matisse's perhaps finest paper cut-out: "La perruche et la sirène" in Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. 

"If I were rich, I would have been an art patron. By being a member of the Vereniging Rembrandt, I feel like I kind of am." - Anonymous (member survey, 2017)  
 
 ​

Vereniging Rembrandt

What's your passion? Bellingham Makerspace is your one-stop resource for creative tools and learning. Support our community today!

Bellingham Makerspace

Our Heritage Revisited, Our Future Reimagined​ 

Our Vision Born from the need to re-create platforms to support West Africa's rich heritage and act as a catalyst for a modern-day cultural renaissance, the Museum of West African Art, Edo (MOWAA) is embarking on an endeavor to create a world-class arts, culture, and heritage complex to celebrate, research, and  conserve West African art from antiquity to the modern day. MOWAA will provide infrastructure and programs that facilitate skills development and economic opportunities for creatives and cultural heritage specialists in Nigeria to learn, collaborate, and celebrate West Africa's history while reimagining a vibrant future.  MOWAA envisions a bustling arts and creative district consisting of research labs, galleries, artisan halls, studios, and education and performance spaces. Centered in the ancient kingdom of Benin, MOWAA will be an incubator and platform for West Africa's leading creatives and scholars. Campaign Overview MOWAA has acquired approximately 20 acres of land in the heart of the historic part of Benin City which it is transforming into what will become a thriving Creative District—an intimate campus designed through the collaboration of local and international architects, with platforms for display, interaction, and commerce.   The Creative District is a $40 million campaign, of which $16 million has been raised to develop the first building within the Creative District —  the Pavilion. To realize the remaining investments in the Creative District, MOWAA must secure a further $24 million, which will go towards the following projects: Rainforest Gallery and Traveling Contemporary Exhibition Pavilion Fit Out Art Guesthouse, Residences, and Studios Artisans Hall Programming and Landscaping 

MOWAA

Support the development of contemporary art in Mexico  

Patronato de Arte Contemporáneo was established in 2000 by an independent group of professionals of the arts to support curatorial, editorial, educational and theoretical projects that contribute to the development of contemporary art in Mexico. We accomplish our mission through out the programs we design to satisfy the needs of the current context of visual arts in Mexico. Our goal is to benefit our countrys' cultural development in the most complete and extensive possible way. Our main programs are:  - The International Symposium on Contemporary Art Theory (SITAC), it's an international event that brings together leading participants in the practice, theory, and history of art to discuss specific themes. The symposium allows a broader diffusion of the artistic ideas among the public, the students, the artists, and related disciplines.  - PACs Grants: Since 2000, we have supported more than 370 projects through this Program. For each supported project, in addition to the economic grant, it involves entering a network of independent projects, and a legitimization before other foundations and / or artistic institutions. Receiving these grants allows many projects to assume their profession as artists and managers.  - Nodos Program: Its a series of activities designed to encourage the exchange between cultural production of the different regions of the country. The main objective of these initiatives is to facilitate a horizontal, plural and multidisciplinary discussion.  - Patrons Program: Our funds come from individual and corporate patrons. This program is designed to be a manifestation of what is our ideology in PAC: to demonstrate the cultural diversity that exists in Mexico, to offer a place of knowledge and at the same time artistic encounters. In the same way that we support artists, we want to accompany each patron to enrich the conversation and learn from each one.  

Patronato de Arte Contemporeaneo, A.C.

Culture Scholar Corporation teaches principles of self worth through the arts, education, performances, and cultural enrichment.

[Benjamin Barnes](https://benjaminbarnes.com/biography)[Culture Scholar Corp](https://culturescholar.org) [Culture Scholar Corporation](https://culturescholar.org), a **501(c)(3)** **nonprofit organization** established in 2022 by [Benjamin Barnes ](https://benjaminbarnes.com/biography)an [Artist](https://bencasso.org), [Musician,](https://bencasso.net) and [Educator](https://BenjaminBarnes.com/lessons). 

Dedicated to improving self worth through the arts education, [our organization](https://Culturescholar.org) offers transformative classes designed to enhance various aspects of individuals' lives. 

Our curriculum includes: Therapeutic Art, Therapeutic Music (covering instrumental skills and music history), as well as Reentry to Society Coursework and Peer Counseling. 

With a commitment to fostering creativity, healing, and personal growth, [Culture Scholar Corporation](https://culturescholar.org) strives to make a positive impact on the community through its diverse and enriching programs.

Culture Scholar Corporation 501(c)(3)

The META Foundation is a non-profit promoting cultural, social and environmental sustainability through the metaverse. 

The META Foundation is a non-profit promoting cultural, social and environmental sustainability through the metaverse. Inspired by concepts of hospitality, we see the metaverse as a more accessible and collaborative space to travel, discover, and engage with new and existing worlds with purpose.

Meta Foundation Inc.

Metropolis Ensemble supports outstanding performers and composers through the creation of new work. We are building a thriving artist collective and a dynamic online platform, supported by a generous community of monthly donors. Out platform provides opportunities for our artists to do what they do best: make and share new music with music lovers everywhere. Please make a donation today and help us bring music to life. You can enter any amount to provide crucial unrestricted funding for Metropolis artists and initiatives. 

Metropolis Ensemble

Art Enables is a gallery and art studio dedicated to amplifying the careers of artists with disabilities.

Art Enables is an art gallery and vocational arts program dedicated to creating opportunities for artists with disabilities to make, market, and earn income from their original and compelling artwork.

In addition to earning income from art sales, artists build the skills, relationships, and experience necessary for a successful career in the arts. We offer our artists the creative space, materials, and marketing support they need to develop and succeed as professionals.

Established in 2001, Art Enables believes that artists with disabilities are vital to a robust arts landscape and should be afforded the opportunity to pursue art as a vocation and career. Art Enables works with artists who experience a broad range of developmental and cognitive disabilities and mental health challenges, including autism, Down syndrome, traumatic brain injury, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder, among others.

Art Enables’ artists are largely self-taught and tell powerful stories through their artwork.

Art Enables

Making a More Informed and Connected Life Possible for All Alaskans.

Alaska Public Media harnesses the power of [multiple media platforms](https://alaskapublic.org/about/#waystowatchlisten) to make a more informed and connected life possible for all Alaskans. We produce and present news and content that provides lifelong learning opportunities in public affairs, health and leisure, science and nature, economic and social development, civic engagement and world events. The company is located in Southcentral Alaska and is comprised of [KSKA](https://alaskapublic.org/kska/) radio, [KAKM-TV, Create TV, PBS KIDS,](https://alaskapublic.org/television/) and alaskapublic.org. Alaska Public Media also operates the [Statewide News](https://alaskapublic.org/aprn/) and a shared television service with KTOO in Juneau and KYUK in Bethel. Alaska Public Media and its affiliates deliver content that reaches 97% of the population of Alaska.

Alaska Public Media

Center for Books Arts is a nonprofit that promotes active explorations of artistic practices related to the book as an art object.

For nearly 50 years, CBA has supported artists and uplifted the book arts by presenting exhibitions, lectures, readings, and performances; providing opportunities for artists, writers, curators and scholars through residencies, fellowships, publishing, and collecting; and empowering the creation of new book art by providing courses on book art related We are committed to providing a nurturing environment for our community in New York City and beyond to grow and learn together. Our studios and virtual educational programming make accessible the equipment and skills needed for artists and writers to take book production into their own hands, and giving creative voices a tool to self amplify without the need to rely on the gallery model or commercial pressures.

Founded in 1974, Center for Book Arts was the first not-for-profit organization of its kind in the nation, and has since become a model for others around the world, serving as a space for research, education, exhibition, making, and community building.

Center for Book Arts

Make It Possible Ukraine is a 501(c)3 non-profit dedicated to providing educational opportunities for Ukrainian displaced children

Make It Possible Ukraine is a 501(c)3 registered nonprofit organization (EIN 85-2134081) dedicated to providing educational opportunities and fostering joy and positivity in the lives of Ukrainian displaced children, particularly those residing in shelters in western Ukraine. Our programs include English lessons, creative workshops, entrepreneurial classes, and summer camps for children in need.


Make it Possible is an organization dedicated to providing educational opportunities and fostering joy and positivity in the lives of Ukrainian displaced children, particularly those residing in shelters in western Ukraine. Our programs include English lessons, creative workshops, entrepreneurial classes, and summer camps for children in need.


Currently, our organization is running several programs in shelters located in Lviv, with a primary focus on organizing a summer camp within one of the city's largest shelters. The goal of our program is to engage and educate the children through a wide range of activities designed to inspire and bring smiles to their faces.

Together, we will create a friendly and supportive environment where everyone feels valued and has a great time, including the volunteers. Our main goal is to provide these displaced children with an opportunity to forget about their challenging reality and experience the joys of childhood to the fullest.

Make It Possible Ukraine

Mystic Arts Foundation exists to support artists and develop artistic works that create the opportunity for transformation.

The Mystic Arts Foundation (“MAF”) is an organizational platform established to support and develop artistic works and pieces which provide experiences and environments that are conducive to personal transformation. 

MAF, a California corporation, is an IRS-qualified 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, which offers legal organization, structure, full-service turn-key administrative services, and financial support for transformative artists and their projects.  A primary purpose of MAF is to allow artists to play in their zone of genius and do what they do best – which is to create art … without being encumbered by many of the organizational, administrative, and fundraising hurdles of executing such important projects.  The MAF structure also provides contributors and grant providers full transparency, governance, and reporting to support their contribution/grant mission and serves to match benefactors of such artworks to well-vetted, managed, and operating artists and their projects.

MAF, born out of its inaugural project – the Mystic Flyer Art Car, has been established and formed as a tax-deductible nonprofit organization in order to effectively and efficiently solicit contributions and grants, creating a vibrant hub of creativity for transformative and immersive art experiences.  At first, it was named Mystic Flyer Arts Foundation, however, within a few months, it became clear that our mission was much larger than the mutant vehicle project that inspired its formation, and “Flyer” was dropped from public-facing written materials.  This change was officially recognized on 1/31/19.

The Board of Directors will primarily focus on selecting and supporting best-in-class artists that have the drive and vision to create works with the ability to transform an individual’s experience and consciousness.  MAF will support a diverse group of artists and art projects including the development of emerging artistic technologies, art cars, and other portable immersive exhibits which can be displayed and experienced in various formats.  Artists that are supported by MAF will have access to an extended network of constituents, supporters, and thought leaders as resources for both developing and then displaying their art.

Mission

It is the mission, duty, and purpose of The Mystic Arts Foundation (MAF) to bring interactive and immersive art experiences to the public in the United States and beyond.

MAF provides mobile and portable art platforms as an educational showcase for graphic artists, LED lighting artists, technology artists, music/sound artists, and more. We provide opportunities for learning about the arts and the creation of new art in all settings through workshops…whether we are working on new technologies or art in our warehouse facilities between events or at events open to the general public.

Education

MAF provides education in the arts as they relate to the current artists we are working with. Artists are invited to participate with the understanding that they will also provide live, interactive, or recorded education on how the particular art is conceived and developed from the inception of the idea to the completion of the art for display and interaction with the general public.

Programs for Volunteers

At times, per the discretion of the board of directors, we may provide internships or volunteer opportunities which will provide a pathway for involvement in art development and outreach activities and programs in order to have a greater impact on educating the public and introducing new art, artists, and technologies. Some of the activities that volunteers may be involved in are basic education on topics such as graphic design, painting, lighting design, visual perspectives, sound technologies, digital music creation, etc. Such activities shall always be free of charge to participants and will not include compensation to the volunteers.

Multimedia

It is our goal to bring awareness to interactive and immersive art from every medium possible and this does not exclude documentaries and photos of our activities, projects, programs, and expeditions. All programs and art projects will be available to the public through displays at festivals, events, and other public venues.

Our primary revenue is derived from donations.  We also accept supportive payments from a variety of commercial art venues where our participation is made possible by receiving payments used to cover the expenses involved.  

Mystic Arts Foundation

ACCELERATE ART is a charitable 501(c)3 non-profit dedicated to uplifting emerging artists in the Web3 space.

Founded in 2021, ACCELERATE ART was created establish a supportive environment for the development of artistic practice in Web3. Our mission is to provide resources for artists and to support reflection and dialogue on art.

We are committed to supporting the ever changing definition of art by presenting a wide range of practices that engage a timely and critical exploration of art and technology. Through exhibitions, public engagement, educational programming and career opportunities, our objective is to support art's cultural, historic, social and political impact.

A2 Accelerate Art

P.S. ARTS is dedicated to advancing equity and opportunity by providing arts education in public schools and communities.


P.S. ARTS is dedicated to improving the lives of children by providing arts education to underserved public schools and communities. P.S. ARTS is the only organization in Southern and Central California that provides yearlong arts education in dance, music, theater, and visual arts to every child in a school during the regular school day. Without our programs, children in these underfunded school districts would not have access to the arts. 

P.S. ARTS also coordinates with school administrators and parent groups to provide community outreach services designed to increase the community’s capacity to advocate for educational equity and to provide critical cultural experiences for the entire family. 

P.S. ARTS programs help level the educational playing field by teaching creative and cognitive skills to students struggling to overcome economic, ability, or literacy barriers that will better equip them to be competitive and successful people. Studies show the arts keep children motivated and engaged, and with the high school dropout rate in Los Angeles County as high as 50% in recent years, the children in our community need the arts!

P.S. ARTS

Enhancing public understanding of 21st century design that makes positive impact on society and the environment.

The Museum of 21st Century Design (M21D) takes a new approach to serving the public. Your support allows us to advance our mission to enhance public appreciation for design that makes positive impact on communities and the environment. 

The museum operates in multiple places, avoiding the costs and burdens of a permanent gallery space. M21D collaborates with host institutions to create engaging programs and in-person exhibitions. We also operate a fellowship program, to coach recent graduates to become curators and authors, while diversifying the cultural sector. 

Your tax-deductible donation is critically important to help fund our activities, which cost much less than a traditional, museum organization. You are welcome to visit our website and reach out to us with any questions about what we do and how you can get involved. Please visit us online at:  https://www.m21d.org/

Museum of 21st Century Design (M21D) 

CRXLAB is building a youth-led, community-centered movement of a new type of Civic Leader: Redesigners for Justice.  

Our mission combines education and civic engagement for racial justice & healthy living.
Creative Reaction Lab’s mission is to educate, train, and challenge Black and Latinx youth to become leaders designing healthy and racially equitable communities. We’re challenging the belief that only adults with titles (e.g. mayors, CEOs, etc.) have the power and right to challenge racial and health inequities. However, we are conscious that it’s not just the work of the people that have been historically underinvested to dismantle oppressive systems. Therefore, we are rallying an intergenerational movement of Redesigners for Justice.


Creative Reaction Lab

Breakout Foundation helps communities thrive by providing unrestricted funding to local changemakers.

Changemakers can't champion change alone. We know those closest to the problems are also closest to the solutions. Breakout is a social-impact experiential agency with a supporting 501c3 foundation committed to driving change.

We're here to amplify and empower the people, places, and stories that deserve the hype through unrestricted grants (while removing the red tape of traditional giving). Local changemakers deserve a platform they trust and a network of leaders to learn with and lean on. 


Breakout Foundation 

Celebrating the power of Space to bring the world together, educating and developing the next generation of explorers.

The mission of The SpaceKind Foundation (and associated projects Yuri's Night, Cosmic Odyssey Scholarship, AstroAccess) is to use the excitement and inspiration of space as a catalyst for educating and developing the next generation of explorers. We fulfill this mission through a commitment to empowering leaders, building communities, bridging cultures, encouraging science literacy, and promoting a sustainable and peaceful future. We are also launching a massive movement to get 50 million people to stand in the path of totality for the total eclipse of the sun on Mon April 8, 2024 in a 100 mile wide band from Mazatlan, Mexico to Montreal Canada to LOOK UP. The sight of the sun completely blocked by the moon, letting the stars shine in the middle of the afternoon, is breathtaking and worth driving a few states to see. I hope you will join us! www.eclipsefest.org

The SpaceKind Foundation

Active Cultures is a Los Angeles–based public arts organization dedicated to the intersectional space between art and foodways.

Active Cultures is a Los Angeles–based public arts organization dedicated to the artistic exploration of our global foodways—the attitudes, practices, and histories around what we consume. We believe that by nurturing vital collaborations between artists, food practitioners, and their communities, we can illuminate global foodways and feed experimental artistic practice simultaneously, to build stronger connections of empathy, curiosity, and care among us all. Throughout our programming, we offer platforms to broaden the cultural frameworks around food and foodways, while using food to gather people and make an accessible space for contemporary art and culture. Each of our program seasons begins with central collaborations with artists, and is enriched by a variety of activities, including performances, workshops, conversations, meals, and multifaceted projects.

Active Cultures

BlackStar, home of the BlackStar Film Festival, celebrates the work of Black, Brown, and Indigenous artists.

BlackStar produces year-round programs including film screenings, exhibitions, our annual film festival, a filmmaker seminar, a film production lab, and a journal of visual culture. These programs provide artists opportunities for viable strategies for collaborations with other artists, audiences, funders, and distributors.

BlackStar Projects

Cape May County nonprofit dedicated to traditional skills & hands-on learning in nature. Nurturing Curiosity, Growing Community.

**Our Mission: Through nature and hands-on learning we help families develop personally, professionally, and spiritually.**

We strive to provide a social and enriching community to support families and create a new generation of thinkers and doers by providing opportunities to learn traditional skills, art, history, and farming.

We offer free or low-cost classes, clubs, field trip opportunities, social events, a library, and resources to local families. There is always something fun going on at our Learning Center!

*Our goal is to create a community that respects a child’s curiosity, imagination, and love for learning while teaching kids, teens, and adults real world skills they can use for life.*

We yearn to elevate childhood and equip and encourage community families and establish a learning environment that fosters a child’s creativity. With our unique geographical location and proximity to the Coast Guard training center, we also provide a home for homeschooling or non-traditional schooling students as well as transient members of the community.

**Deeply Rooted Values**
Our core values guide every aspect of our work and interactions.

**Creating Community:**
Our gatherings transcend the boundaries of traditional schooling by providing a space where kids, teens, and adults learn hands-on skills not found in a classroom. We provide a space for all students after school, as well as homeschooling and non-traditionally schooled families where students, instructors, and members can connect, forge friendships, and build a robust community that supports each other's educational journeys.

**Exploring Nature:**
Through our clubs and classes we invite families to experience education in its most natural form—immersed in the great outdoors. By learning from nature, children develop an appreciation for the world around them, embracing its beauty and wisdom. By staying connected to nature, teens and adults lay the roots and foundation for personal and spiritual growth.

**Honoring Each Other:**
We celebrate the diversity of all families from public and private schooled, to homeschooling and non-traditionally schooled families, especially with regard to service families that move often. Every family's educational approach is unique, and our community honors these differences, creating a welcoming environment where every perspective is valued.

**Affordability for All:**
We recognize that families who choose alternative schooling paths may have distinct financial considerations. We also acknowledge that learning traditional skills can be expense and out of reach for many. By offering low to no-cost options for all our gatherings, we ensure that families can access enriching experiences without financial constraints.

**Excellence with Heart:**
With a heart-centered approach, we bring excellence to every activity and event we organize. Our commitment to quality education and genuine care for our community shines through in everything we do.

Deeply Rooted Learning Center (Deeply Rooted LC Inc)

The International Beethoven Project, est. 2008 as a NFP, celebrates the extraordinary lives & creative music of unique composers.

​​The mission of the International Beethoven Project is threefold: 

1) to celebrate Beethoven's music and humanist legacy

2) to make classical music more engaging, exciting and meaningful for all people

3) to serve as an educational resource 

By showcasing Beethoven as the revolutionary musician he was, we believe we can inspire new generations of listeners, performers and arts administrators to appreciate and engage with this art form. To do this, IBP has used many different approaches, from producing numerous events to making films, recordings and educational media.

Launching the "International Beethoven Day" initiative in 2021, IBP seeks to engage even more people across the world in carrying Beethoven's legacy of humanism and music forward.

Upcoming projects include a sweeping multi-media traversal of Beethoven's epic 32 piano sonatas that will include, in addition to recordings and films of the originals, music by contemporary composers and musicians inspired by the sonatas, along with readings of Beethoven's letters by actors and musicians and visual works of art to accompany the whole.

This project will be presented globally as well as brought to schools around the world.

IBP is also currently organizing the first-ever web3/blockchain/metaverse/NFT conference focused on the classical music sector.

From annual celebrations of Beethoven's birthday every December since 2010 and through his 250th anniversary in 2020, to multi-disciplinary festivals that have brought all the arts and many musical genres together under one roof, we have sought engagement across generations and society. 

"An event of world-class importance" (Chicago Tribune), IBP's Beethoven Festival has served as a showcase for what was possible in the future of classical music.

The International Beethoven Project has also produced several critically-hailed recordings, including a now-legendary album with a first-ever recording of a work by Beethoven, the Trio Hess 47, a top 25 on the Classical Billboard charts in 2010.

In the last few years, IBP has produced several music films and documentaries on Bach and Beethoven and continues to work on future productions. IBP's goal is to leverage the wide-reaching impact of audiovisual media to create novel ways of appreciating classical music's great classics, as well as inspiring contemporary composers and musicians. 


Stay up to date by visiting our website or following on social media.

www.internationalbeethovenproject.com 


International Beethoven Project

Celebrate and share Estonian culture in an architectural jewel in the heart of Toronto, North America's 4th largest city.

Estonian Arts Centre (EAC) is the charity associated with KESKUS International Estonian Centre being built in the heart of Toronto, North America's 4th largest city.  EAC promotes development of KESKUS in Toronto in which to further its charitable objects, and these include promotion and support of the arts, multiculturalism, preservation of literary, musical and visual arts and the welfare and education of artists. 

KESKUS will be a dynamic hub showcasing Estonian heritage and promoting Estonian innovation. It will be a vibrant gathering place for Estonians of all generations and backgrounds to connect, celebrate, and share Estonian culture and achievements with each other and the world. It is scheduled to open in the spring of 2025.

Please sign up for the monthly newsletter at our website and donate today, to help EAC achieve its mission in KESKUS.

KESKUS International Estonian Centre

Artisan Global is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that develops sustainable jobs, strategies, and vocational workspaces in Uganda.

We are working together with local entrepreneurs in Uganda to develop the creative industries and address cycles of extreme poverty. Our global team (Uganda and the U.S.) designed the first creative workspace for innovation & impact in Northern Uganda.

Artisan Global

FAB provides funding, promotion, education and credibility to creators working at the intersection of blockchain and creativity.

Foundation For Art And Blockchain

Artists' Television Access is an all-volunteer, artist-run, underground and experimental media arts gallery founded in 1984.

Artists’ Television Access is a San Francisco-based, artist-run, non-profit organization that cultivates and promotes culturally-aware, underground media and experimental art. We provide an accessible screening venue and gallery for the presentation of programmed and guest-curated screenings, exhibitions, performances, workshops and events. We believe in fostering a supportive community for the exhibition of innovative art and the exchange of non-conformist ideas.

Artists' Television Access

Girls Write Now breaks down barriers of gender, race, age and poverty to mentor and train the next generation of writers and leaders for life. Together, our community channels the power of our voices and stories to shape culture, impact industries and inspire change.

Girls Write Now

At LPTM, Black and Brown boys express themselves; navigate life challenges; mentor their peers; and transform their communities.

Life Pieces To Masterpieces (LPTM) provides opportunities for Black and Brown boys and young men ages 3-25 to express themselves; navigate the challenges in their lives; teach and uplift others as mentors; and contribute positively to their communities. 

Boys enter the program as early as age three, with programming including a daily afterschool arts and education mentoring program from 3:00-7:00, which involves transportation and a meal, a college- and career-prep Saturday Academy for high school young men who also serve as mentors, a full-day six-week summer program, and family and community engagement. All programs are free for all youth and families. 

In all programs, LPTM provides an environment of love, security, and expression. Black boys and young men, from pre-school to grad-school and beyond, discover their authentic selves; awaken to a sense of purpose; have their brilliance and humanity valued and nurtured – and see themselves as the beautiful Masterpieces they are. In their artwork, advocacy, and model of mentorship, our Black boys and young men are protagonists of positive change.

Life Pieces To Masterpieces

American Patrons and Friends of the Prix de Lausanne International Ballet Competition and its non-profit foundation

Join us and become a member of the American Friends of the Prix de Lausanne. Help underwrite the future of a young dancer and attend the Prix de Lausanne as a VIP guest. Find out more here below and by clicking on one of the fundraising categories in our profile, or by contacting us at demian.vargas@prixdelausanne.org

Please join us for the thrilling culmination of the **53rd edition of the Prix de Lausanne!** The busy weekend, **from Friday the 7th to Sunday the 9th of February, 2025**, is a highlight of Lausanne's cultural and social season and will include studio visits and privileged behind-the-scenes access, the selection of finalists followed by a festive announcement cocktail, the extraordinary finals competition, an exclusive celebratory dinner at the historic Beau Rivage Palace gathering esteemed artists, jury members, prize winners and international patrons, and the delightful Rising Stars performance, featuring some of today's biggest international names and most promising talents.

One of the world’s most prestigious and highly anticipated dance events, the Prix de Lausanne is an annual international competition open to dancers aged 15 to 18 from all over the world. Unique in its kind, the Prix de Lausanne has been recognized worldwide for over 50 years as a symbol of excellence and a role model for its exemplary ethics and focus on the dancers' wellbeing. Over the course of one intense week, it allows a selection of high potential artists to strengthen their skills through classes and coaching with world-class professionals, to reinforce their abilities on stage and, finally, to continue their training thanks to an annual scholarship or apprenticeship at one of our top-tier partner schools and companies.

The Prix de Lausanne enjoys key relationships with many American companies and their schools, such as American Ballet Theatre, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, San Francisco Ballet and the School of American Ballet, as well as the Paris Opera Ballet and the Royal Ballet, among other prestigious institutions. Your support as a Patron or Benefactor will help ensure that prize and scholarship winners continue their training at the highest level and join the ranks of the world’s finest dancers, following in the footsteps of Julie Kent, Darcey Bussell, Carlos Acosta, Gillian Murphy, Ethan Stieffel, Marcelo Gomez, Precious Adams and so many more.

***In addition to the life-changing scholarships offered each year to the prize winners, the Prix de Lausanne also offers substantial support to dancers who need financial aid to attend the competition, as well as stipends to the dancers and coaches who enhance their training and visibility by participating in the Choreographic Project and Young Creation Awards.***

**If you are unable to assist in person, we invite you to help underwrite the future of a young artist by making a tax-deductible gift to the American Friends of the Prix de Lausanne Fund**.*

KEY DATES 2025
53rd edition of the Prix de Lausanne: February 2-9, 2025
Competition's Finals: Saturday, February 8th, 2025 at the Beaulieu Theater
Gala Dinner: Saturday, February 8th, 2025 at the Beau Rivage Palace
Rising Stars Closing Performance: February 9th, 2025 at the Beaulieu Theatre

More about the Prix de Lausanne:

Since 1973, the Prix de Lausanne has successfully worked to promote the art of dance and choreography with the help of donations and grants to support young talented dancers in their pre-professional journey.

As a non-profit foundation, the Prix de Lausanne works year-round beyond the main competition to develop leading and inclusive educational programs with high added value for young dancers, such as the top-rated International Summer Intensive Program, the Partner School Choreographic Project, the Swiss Workshop, or the now famous Young Creation Award. Our international preselection rounds in Latin-America, Asia, and other regions, aims to support young dancers from underprivileged areas while promoting equity, diversity, and inclusion in the dance world.

A pioneer in innovation, the Prix de Lausanne has developed a digital platform connecting its vast network of schools and companies with its candidates from around the world, allowing them to receive offers of scholarships and apprenticeships through their participation. Recently, the Prix de Lausanne has collaborated with the prestigious EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Federal de Lausanne) to expand its innovation projects and explore new ways of virtual reality and digital interactions within dance and its audiences.

OUR FOUNDATION'S MISSIONS ARE:
• Discover exceptionally talented young dancers from all over the world, allowing them to be seen and recruited by renowned professionals and directors;
• Support their education and develop their talent by awarding them full training scholarships to the best schools and companies;
• Promote their school education (the dancer’s career is short, from around 18 to 38 years old, on average) by ensuring that they obtain an end-of-studies certificate;
• Raise awareness among young dancers on the absolute priority of their physical and mental wellbeing by applying a strict health policy and promoting exemplary ethics in the field of dance;
• Foster diversity and inclusion, promote contemporary creation and emerging artists;
• Encourage and develop outreach actions through community initiatives and local partnerships.

*Thanks to the American Friends of the Prix de Lausanne, U.S.-based individuals and organizations can make payments of any amount via credit card, check, or wire transfer; all contributions are tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowed by the United States Tax Code.

American Friends of the Prix de Lausanne

Walls offers a bold vision for what's possible in a community, particularly for those impacted by poverty. 

The Walls Project leads programs, events, and alliances that work to break through and tear down the societal walls that discourage or prevent people from living safe, healthy, and prosperous lives.  Walls offers a bold vision for what's possible in a community, creating pathways for economic prosperity; lifetime learning and creative expression; and healthy living for all, particularly for those impacted by poverty. 

Walls was founded on the belief that the physical, social, and economic conditions of individuals ultimately and collectively inform the overall safety, health and well-being, and economic conditions of communities. Walls offers a bold vision for what's possible in a community, creating pathways for economic prosperity; lifetime learning and creative expression; and healthy living for all, particularly those impacted by poverty. Walls’ work— workforce development, urban agriculture, public art, and community reactivation—positions it to facilitate critical employment opportunities, addressing today’s community needs while positioning people to be tomorrow’s problem-solvers and project leaders.  

Walls works in geographic areas suffering from poverty, blight, unemployment, underemployment, crime, declining property values, and unstable business environments, seeking to Enlight, Unite, and Ignite communities for positive change.  Walls envisions communities where all residents can chart a course of action and exercise reasonable control over the outcomes of their lives.  
●	Walls Enlights by working with those in need to envision the future and its possibilities.
●	Walls Unites by convening key stakeholders, identifying and testing social and economic barriers and challenges, and finding ways to break through, take down, go over, or go around those barriers.
●	Walls Ignites collective action by centering the lived experiences of focus populations, joining or developing action teams and impact programs, leading activities toward actional outcomes, and establishing pathways to sustainability. 

Since 2012, Walls Project has provided integrated programs and events, contributing an estimated $3.5M in economic growth to Louisiana’s capital city, Baton Rouge; then, in 2019, Walls began to work in Dallas, Texas. In both markets, Walls works to improve the quality of life and expand economic opportunity for residents by inspiring civic leaders, business owners, volunteers, and families to create a sense of place, position themselves for 21st-century careers, and actively invest in where they live and work. 


The Walls Project

AYubnnStGbcU9CeeHevoKfWFfHSV2AwooDDxbZyyBMI=

Monthly donations help nonprofits focus on mission and long-term impact, not fundraising. Cancel anytime.