Creative Youth Development
The YouthARTS site is designed to give arts agencies, juvenile justice agencies, social service organizations, and other community-based organizations detailed information about how to plan, run, provide training, and evaluate arts programs for at-risk youth.
Reaching 200,000 youth per year, Youth Speaks is a national organization focused on empowering youth by helping them to find their voice through spoken word and poetry. YS organizes an annual poetry slam, offers workshops, under 21 open mics, offers development opportunities for poet-mentors and teachers.
Work for Art raises money primarily through employee charitable campaigns at workplaces in Oregon and SW Washington. Donations to Work for Art support more than 80 vital arts and culture organizations every year—encompassing dance, visual arts, music, literary arts, media arts, theater, cultural arts, and arts education.
A resource list of different articles, curriculums, and media compiled by Ithaca College. Topics span from using hip hop in education, to practitioners breaking down different elements.
The Partnership for 21st Century Skills is a national organization that advocates for 21st century readiness for every student.
The Dreaming Zebra is an organization that is dedicated to bringing art to children throughout the world.
A website and organization dedicated to improving the art education in America’s schools.
Located in Orlando, FL, the B-Boy Spot brand’s community center provides a safe and open space for youth to practice breakin’, and offers various media libraries available for youth to learn the history of hip hop in all its forms. Classes, workshops and events are also organized at their space.
TeenLife connects teenagers to nonprofits they might be interested in helping.
Operation Respect transforms schools, camps, and other youth organizations into safer, more respectful, bully-free environments.
A collection of videos exploring management practices for arts and culture leaders.
A dynamic community of practice where visual arts teachers, scholars, researchers and professors, students, administrators, and art museum educators, and artists come together around a shared belief in the power of the arts in developing human potential.