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MEF is dedicated to enhancing community life and enriching individual musicians through music education, chamber music, festivals and financial assistance.

The mission of the Santa Clarita Valley Youth Orchestra (SCVYO) Foundation is to promote the performing arts in the Santa Clarita Valley community, via a youth orchestra. Instructional education is provided to assist young and new musicians with an opportunity to experience personal and professional growth by participating in the orchestra. The Youth Orchestra seeks to attract patrons of orchestral music, who view the orchestra as valued enjoyment. That the SCVYO, in partnership with the College of the Canyons, continues to grow and be viewed as a community asset by meeting the educational and cultural needs of the Santa Clarita Valley, a community of over 175,000 people.

Our mission is to provide children, teens and adults in our community opportunities for creative expression through the learning and demonstration of the performing arts.

Maui OnStage (Maui Community Theater) strives to provide high quality, affordable theater experiences while keeping the Historic Iao Theater accessible to all!

Matthews Playhouse is a community based non-profit theater organization committed to enriching the lives of children and adults by inviting them to participate in the world of the performing arts.

Founded in 2001, the Jackson School of the Arts makes high quality dance, art and theater programs available to all children regardless of their financial means.

The mission of the Congressional Chorus is to communicate to the American public the spirit, diversity, and power of American choral music, and serve as a vehicle for community service to the Washington metropolitan area through the American Youth Chorus. We perform and commission works of American composers, lyricists and arrangers.

Play On Philly provides underserved children in Philadelphia a transformative music education experience that develops and inspires the behaviors and personal skills needed for a successful life.

Kidstruments Fund makes grants and refurbishes instruments for schools and school districts to help kids in need participate in band and orchestra programs. Kidstruments Fund was created by a sixth grade cello player, who wants other kids to get the same joy from music that he does.

TheatreWorks is one of America’s outstanding professional theatres. Our work celebrates the human spirit through innovative productions, new works, and education programs inspired by and engaging our diverse Silicon Valley community. TheatreWorks is an artistic community of excellence and integrity, committed to dramatic and musical theatre of outstanding professional quality. Embracing the creation of new works, the reinvigoration of the classics, and the arts education of new generations, our work exemplifies our region’s values of inclusion and innovation while providing a sense of place and community. The San Francisco Bay Area is the prototype of an evolving America of ever-increasing diversity. As we explore this changing world, our art must enhance the American theatre with new vision, revealing both who we are and what we might become.

To provide greater Los Angeles with a resident theater company dedicated to providing programming of the highest quality, in order to entertain, inform and educate our multicultural community. To rediscover rarely performed classics, and to foster and develop new works through the collaboration of an artistic ensemble influenced by social relevance, past, present and future. To promote the theater arts by providing opportunities for artists and craftsmen to develop and enrich their skills.

The Jazz Bakery is dedicated to presenting and preserving America's greatest musical art form, and to keeping jazz alive by cultivating new audiences and emerging talent. The Jazz Bakery exists to: • Present low cost live performances by the finest musicians from our local communities and around the world. • Promote an appreciation of America’s original art forms by creating an accessible center for jazz and the performing arts in Los Angeles County. • Inspire through music while building the next generation of jazz audiences. • Educate the next generation of jazz musicians through community outreach programs.