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NoMAA is a nonprofit arts-service organization that cultivates, promotes, and supports artists and arts organizations in northern Manhattan. It provides exhibition and gallery opportunities, runs artist studio/residency programs and small grants, and produces community arts programming (including the annual Uptown Arts Stroll) to strengthen the local arts ecosystem.

Common Threads is a national nonprofit that teaches children and families cooking and nutrition skills to promote healthier eating and lifelong wellness. It focuses on reaching under-resourced communities with affordable, culturally-relevant nutrition education and hands-on cooking programs.

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.

Keen Company is an award-winning Off-Broadway theater creating narrative driven work that provokes identification, reflection, and emotional connection. In intimate productions of plays and musicals, the company tells stories about the decisive moments that change us. Through our educational arm, Keen Teens, we raise the quality of plays written for the high school stage and provide a free professional training program for teens. Through the Keen Playwrights Lab, we bring together three mid-career playwrights to develop new work and facilitate that work's exposure to a greater audience. On-stage Keen champions the impact of integrity, and we uphold that same mission backstage. It is important to our company, and our work, that everyone feels safe, valued, and inspired to do their best.

The New Group is an artist-driven, award-winning theatre company that develops and produces contemporary, ensemble-focused plays and musicals; it champions new works, runs festivals and development programs, and operates tuition-free education programs for young people to expand access to theatre.

The Kristin Chenoweth Arts & Education Fund is a 501(c)(3) charity committed to cultivating and celebrating young artistic expression by enriching children’s lives through the power of education, entertainment and experience.

TO PROVIDE YOUTH WITH FREE ACCESS TO MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS, INSTRUCTION, AND A MUSIC-MAKING ENVIRONMENT SO THAT MUSIC CAN BECOME A PROFOUNDLY POSITIVE INFLUENCE IN THEIR LIVES.

Tibet House US is dedicated to preserving Tibet’s unique culture at a time when it is confronted with extinction on its own soil. By presenting Tibetan civilization and its profound wisdom, beauty, and special art of freedom to the people of the world, we hope to inspire others to join the effort to protect and save it.Tibet House US is part of a worldwide network of Tibetan institutions committed to ensuring that the light of the Tibetan spirit never disappears from the face of this earth.

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

The Emma Bowen Foundation is building a more diverse media industry. We recruit promising students of color and place them in multi-year paid internships at some of the nation's leading media and technology companies, provide the media and tech industries with a pipeline of young talent and emerging leadership, and advocate for best practices in diverse hiring, retention, and advancement.

The Hip Hop Museum's mission is to teach, engage and inspire audiences around the world through the creativity and power of Hip Hop Culture. The THHM carries out its mission by giving voice to the stories of the people, events and artifacts that shaped the five elements of Hip Hop — through digital collections, virtual exhibits, interviews, pop-up experiences, award shows, and a wide array of innovative educational programs and activities, bringing new understanding, fresh interpretation and scholarship to the world's most popular culture of our time. F/K/A Universal Hip Hop Museum

Music is a unifying experience that the world shares. It is what unites us and makes us live in the moment together. We believe our mission is to share this experience with our community by providing access to the schooling, culture, creation, and performance of this art form. Kainga Music established its non-profit corporation 501(c)(3) in 2014 with a mission statement Creating Music, Uniting People, Building Communities. Music is uplifting, healing, and gives the opportunity for starting and strengthening the bond between people of different backgrounds, genders, and ages. The featured instrument in the school, the steel pan, is played throughout the country of origin, Trinidad & Tobago, in community centers called “Panyards” that welcome the variety of members in the surrounding neighborhoods to find a common place and common voice.