The mission of Creative Action is to spark and support the academic, social and emotional development of young people.
Through interactive classroom performances, after school arts residencies and community-based programs, Creative Action’s team of professional Teaching Artists inspire youth to be Creative Artists, Courageous Allies, Critical Thinkers, and Confident Leaders.
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New York, NY
Creative Capital supports groundbreaking artists in all disciplines whose work seeks to illuminate the world in which we live. Creative Capital considers artists entrepreneurs in the cultural arena, and has adapted venture capital concepts into its integrated support model, which combines financial support with advisory services throughout a project's life.
New York, NY
MAP seeks to support experimentation and innovation in the live performing arts. Within that, MAP seeks especially to support work that brings insight to the issue of cultural difference or "the other," be that in class, gender, generation, ethnicity or aesthetic orientation.
Minneapolis, MN
Creative CityMaking is a partnership between Intermedia Arts and the City of Minneapolis that fosters collaborations between local artists and City planners. In 2013, Creative CityMaking embedded four teams of artists into the Long Range Planning Division of the City’s Community Planning and Economic Development Department (CPED) to enhance the creative planning process in transportation, land use, economic, environmental, and social issues.
New York, NY
Creative Counsel partners with the arts and entertainment industry, visual artists and curators, musicians, writers, and other creative professionals to connect audiences to causes that matter. As an organization showcasing innovative work at the intersection of the creative arts and advocacy, one of Creative Counsel’s key resources is the 1000 Voices National Archive, a curated collection of dynamically linked video stories told by social change leaders across the country.
New Orleans, LA
Creative Forces uses the transformative power of the arts to stimulate positive energy, ideas, and information among children, youth, and families in the Greater New Orleans Metropolitan Area and beyond. The model program of the Crossroads Institute for Art, Learning & Community engages at-risk high school students, ranging in age mainly from 14 to 18, in meaningful work and life-skills development through a comprehensive annual cycle of music theatre productions, training workshops, special events, and paid apprenticeships and internships.
Creative Time
New York, NY
Creative Time's work is guided by three core values: art matters, artists’ voices are important in shaping society, and public spaces are places for creative and free expression.Creative Time commissions, produces, and presents art that engages history, breaks new ground, challenges the status quo, and infiltrates the public realm while engaging millions of people in New York City and across the globe. They are guided by a passionate belief in the power of art to create inspiring personal experiences as well as foster social progress. We privilege artists’ ideas.
NY
On October12 and 13th, 2012, Creative Time coordinated their fourth annual summit: Confronting Inequity. The conference serves to advance the organization's mission of positioning the voices of artists at the center of public discourse. Presentations addressed recent upheavals in the international political and economic climate by focusing specifically topics of wealth inequity across the globe and the ways in which it erodes democracy.
Creede , CO
The KID Show is an extraordinary youth theatre program that positively impacts and changes the trajectory of children’s lives. In rural Creede, Colorado (population 400), students have limited access to out-of-school educational arts programming and become at risk for early drug use and unplanned pregnancies.
Washington, DC
Critical Exposure is a nonprofit that teaches youth to use the power of photography and their own voices to become effective advocates for school reform and social change. By empowering young people to develop skills as documentary photographers and advocates, we expose citizens and policymakers to the reality of inadequate schools and low-income communities through the eyes of the youth who confront those realities every day. We use a unique, three-pronged approach that combines art and advocacy: Youth Empowerment.
Washington, DC
The CrossCurrents Foundation was established in late 2006 to promote social, environmental and economic justice. The work of the Foundation is rooted in the idea that there are times when ordinary people can make significant change if advocates for change have sufficient resources to engage in civic activities. CrossCurrents focuses where it believes private funding can make a strategic difference to community organizing and public education campaigns. CrossCurrents laser-focused on civic engagement.
Charlotte, NC
The Crossroads Charlotte project began in 2001 when the town of Charlotte, North Carolina participated in a national survey on social capital. The survey found that the community had high levels of faith-based involvement and philanthropy, but ranked last on social and interracial trust.
Charlotte, NC
Crossroads Charlotte presents four plausible stories about Charlotte's future and asks the community to IMAGINE our tomorrow and exchange ideas, experiences and actions that shape a positive future for everyone. Crossroads Charlotte offers numerous ways for the community to ACT today in small and large ways to build trust by creating access, inclusion and equity in Charlotte-Mecklenburg.
Chicago, IL
Crossroads Fund supports community organizations working on issues of social and economic justice in the Chicago area.
Santa Fe, NM
Littleglobe, in collaboration with Santa Fe residents who live along city bus routes, is creating a community-based opera/performance that will premiere on active city bus lines. “Crosstown: A Santa Fe Bus Opera,” explores the real & imagined stories, histories, realities & dreams of those who live along & use city bus routes. Performed in the intimate context of city buses, “Crosstown” will include live vocalists & musicians, spoken word/poetry, video, street performers, & movement.
Croteau Michelina - Artist Profile
Dover, NH
A MA graduate,I Michelina ( in art Michel) Croteau, am an International artist.
Baltimore, MD
Each April, during National Poetry Month, the Baltimore-based organization Poetry in Community—along with local literary organizations, publishers, and poets—sponsors a free community-centric festival with readings, performances, free poetry distribution, public poetry displays, and more. Readings are hosted by a diverse group of poets and literary organizations and are held in venues that support community sustainability. Open mic is featured at each event to encourage new and emerging talent to make their presence known.
Columbia, SC
The Cultural Council of Richland and Lexington Counties missions is to grow the arts industry as an industry in and of itself, through operational and project support for audience development, arts education and community development.
Santa Cruz, CA
The Cultural Council of Santa Cruz County leads and advances the arts by providing funding, advocacy, and support to artists and arts organizations.
Colorado Springs, CO
COPPeR, the Cultural Office of the Pikes Peak Region, is a nonprofit organization governed by a diverse board of community leaders from the arts, nonprofit, public, and business sectors. COPPeR takes a strategic view of the Pikes Peak region to ensure that cultural services reach all people and that the arts are used to positively address issues of economic development, education, tourism, regional branding, and civic life.