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In loving memory of Rosalie Blumenthal, who welcomed me into her home with warmth and love. May her memory be a blessing. Stacey and Zach Orden

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We cultivate students' creativity and grow mutual empathy as building blocks for a peaceful, prosperous, and sustainable future.

We focus on what matters most to children: How they view themselves. We employ the arts as a dynamic activity for holistic identity development. For personal betterment, we inspire students to reframe their identity as “artist athletes;” for social betterment, we motivate them to become “creative empaths.” 

**1. Arts Olympiad**
Our free-of-charge school art program transforms self-identity for higher-order thinking and enhanced self-worth through fostering creativity and promoting 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 coalescing of artistic and athletic mindsets sprouts outside-the-box thinking and instills healthy lifestyles.

Because of the program's national significance, the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Committee has granted ICAF an exclusive license to use the "Arts Olympiad" mark.

**2. World Children's Festival**
The Arts Olympiad school art contest winners from the participating U.S. school districts and countries convene at their World Children's Festival (WCF) to celebrate the American values of 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.

**3.ChildArt Magazine**
Objective: Creative and empathic development of young readers. Published ad-free since 1998, ChildArt is a unique magazine focusing 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.

**4. Special Programs**
ICAF conducts Healing Art Programs to restore faith in nature of child victims of natural disasters and Peace through Art Programs to revive trust in humanity of children in conflict zones.  

**Impact**
Over the past twenty-five years, ICAF has changed the world for children. More than five million schoolchildren have 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**
Recent supporters include the National Endowment of the Art, D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Robert J. Bauer Family Foundation, Cretors Family Foundation, Skillman Foundation, Singing Field Foundation, and Ward & MM Family Fund.

Individual donors fund about one-half of ICAF program expenses. ICAF is independently ranked among the 25 Top Children's Charities in the United States.

ICAF is currently raising funds to organize the 7th World Children's Festival at the National Mall across the U.S. Capitol. We appreciate your support.

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Lower SES students' creative and empathic development is essential because creativity can empower them to blaze new trails to disrupt the vicious cycle of intergenerational poverty. At the same time, empathy can sprout communal energy for "a more perfect union." But our schools smother students' creativity and do not provide empathy training.

By infusing art with sports, our school art program (the Arts Olympiad) awakens the dormant inner artists or the slumbering inner athletes, so students imagine themselves as artist-athletes with creative minds and healthy bodies. This paradigm helps them avoid the traps of creativity slumps and obesity risks. Our structured lesson plans can transform schools into creative, healthy communities. For more > https://icaf.org/about/why-icaf 

We are trying to raise $100k to bring the Arts Olympiad to 1,000 Title 1 schools nationwide free of charge. This will include include Title 1 students in your U.S. state or territory. You would agree that creativity can inspire disadvantaged youth to blaze new trials that disrupt the vicious cycle of intergenerational poverty. Any level of your tax-deductible donation will lay the building blocks for a more peaceful, prosperous, and sustainable future.

Help disrupt the vicious cycle of inherited poverty.