Creative Youth Development
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.
TeenLife connects teenagers to nonprofits they might be interested in helping.
The Partnership for 21st Century Skills is a national organization that advocates for 21st century readiness for every student.
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.
Making art in schools easier to teach! This website has lesson plans and ideas or teachers to incorporate art into their classrooms.
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.
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.
A website and organization dedicated to improving the art education in America’s schools.
Founded in 1987, Dallas-based Big Thought is one of the nation’s leading nonprofits focused on building partnerships that allow all children access to quality learning opportunities.