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The National Park Foundation, in partnership with the National Park Service, enriches America’s national parks and programs through private support, safeguarding our heritage and inspiring generations of national park enthusiasts. NPF programs fund park conservation and restoration efforts, foster youth engagement, promote citizenship and preserve history in the places where it happened.

TO PROVIDE THE GIFT OF MUSIC TO UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES OF ALL AGES VIA PROVIDING INSTRUMENTS, EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES AND INSPIRATION, WHILE MENTORING AND COLLABORATING WITH FELLOW MUSIC-RELATED ORGANIZATIONS TO FOSTER AN APPRECIATION OF MUSIC AS A LIFE ENHANCING, LIFE CHANGING ACTIVITY.

The American Cinematheque was created to 1) honor and promote America's indigenous art form: the Moving Picture; 2) present the full range of film and video, not otherwise available, to the widest possible audience; 3) establish a forum for an on-going dialogue between filmmakers and their adiences, 4) provide high profile exhibition facilities for other independent film and video festivals and organizations; and 5) encourage and support new talent by creating a showcase for their work.

For more than 30 years, the Valerie Fund has operated camp happy times, a one-week overnight camp experience for any child aged 5-21 who has or has had cancer, regardless of where they are treated. The Valerie Fund offers camp happy times free of charge, including transportation, meals and on-site medical care.

To inspire the people of Earth to explore other worlds, understand our own, and seek life elsewhere.

The Peace Studio equips artists and journalists with opportunities and strengths-based tools to restore hope, challenge injustice, and bridge divides.

The Foundation's mission is to raise funds that advance scientific research into the causes, treatments and prevention of ALS; provide people living with ALS, their families and caregivers exceptional clinical care and support services; and increase awareness and eduction of ALS.

The Mr. Holland’s Opus Foundation keeps music alive in our schools by donating musical instruments to under-funded music programs, and vital support services to school districts nationwide, giving economically-disadvantaged youth access to the many benefits of music education, leading them to success in school, and inspiring creativity and expression through playing music.

The Educational Theatre Foundation (ETF) is the philanthropic arm of the Educational Theatre Association (EdTA). ETF advances the field of educational theatre by broadening representation and increasing access for all. ETF’s programs aim to support students, educators and the field at large by subsidizing new, emerging, and underserved student theatre programs, creating paths for theatre educators to develop new skills, and commissioning research to showcase the value of a theatre education.

We serve American children as their national arts organization, seeding their imagination, cultivating creativity, and fostering mutual empathy among them (for “a more perfect union”) and with their peers worldwide (for a peaceful future). Founded in 1997, the International Child Art Foundation (ICAF) organizes the Arts Olympiad, a school art program that has grown over the years into the world’s largest; it also produces the World Children’s Festival at the National Mall, located across from the U.S. Capitol. ICAF's ad-free ChildArt quarterly magazine enhances cross-cultural understanding and global competencies. ICAF has organized Healing Art Programs to revive faith in nature of child victims of natural disasters, and Peace through Art Programs to restore trust in humanity of children in conflict zones.