Creative Youth Development
Guided by the mission of Kids for Peace, our programs emphasize youth leadership, cross-cultural experiences, arts, service and caring for our earth.
Operation Respect transforms schools, camps, and other youth organizations into safer, more respectful, bully-free environments.
This website provides art lesson plans for children that are preschool to middle school age.
Kids Korps USA shapes young lives ages five to twenty five through exposure and direct involvement in community service and volunteerism. The organization hopes to develop young leaders and increase their level of maturity and empathy by providing education on leadership and responsibility.
Embracing this responsibility, the Kennedy Center instituted ArtsEdge in 1996 as its educational media arm, reaching out to schools, communities, individuals and families with printed materials, classroom support and Internet technologies.
Americans for the Arts is dedicated to representing and serving local communities and creating opportunities for every American to participate in and appreciate all forms of the arts.
The Creative Advocacy Network (CAN) is a 501(c)3 organization established to mobilize the Portland Metropolitan Region in support of a dedicated public fund for the arts, to increase access to arts and culture for every resident, make free arts and music experiences available to every school-age child in their classrooms and communities and strengthen Portland’s highest-quality arts and cultural institutions.
Free dance lesson plans for teachers to have students learn about themselves through the practice of dance.
A Seattle based non-profit organization headed by world renowned Massive Monkees Crew, dedicated to provide urban youth with fun and unique, arts-based programs. Also created the first US dance-based leadership program for urban youth.
The Dreaming Zebra is an organization that is dedicated to bringing art to children throughout the world.
Making art in schools easier to teach! This website has lesson plans and ideas or teachers to incorporate art into their classrooms.
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.