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Performing Arts Workshop
San Francisco-based nonprofit organization dedicated to "helping young people develop critical thinking, creative expression, and basic learning skills through the arts." Artist-in-schools and Artist-in community programs in public schools, transitional housing facilities, after-school programs, community centers and juvenile halls. Professional development opportunities and artist internships. Established in 1965 to provide a creative outlet for inner-city teenagers by Gloria Unti.

The Workshop Out of School
Performing Arts Workshop’s guide to workshops out of school, based in its Artists-in-Communities programming in existing after-school programs, community centers and juvenile halls. Written for teaching artists, arts providers and after-school administrators. Divided by art discipline including an overview, instructions on how to plan a quality curriculum, and how to negotiate behavior and content management within the class. Available in print and online. Written by Ann-E Wood; published by Performing Arts Workshop, 2009.

Increasing Arts Demand Through Better Arts Learning
Study that summarizes research on new city efforts to lift arts education in ways that could also boost arts participation. Describes coordinated efforts in six sites and summarizes the policy implications those efforts have begun to yield. Written, published by Wallace Foundation, June 2009.

TechSoup.org
Nonprofit that donates software and refurbished computers to nonprofit organizations and libraries. Web site resources: blog, Learning Center, Webinars, training for use of social networking and online tools. Based in San Francisco, Calif.

4 Cs Foundation
The "only grant-giving private foundation in Canada that specifically funds community arts projects." Focuses on projects that build creative connections between children and their communities through art projects at a neighborhood and school level. Provides workshops, events, trainings, network for community arts practitioners, Web space for Community ArtsConnect database and an Art Bikers program. Located in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Futurefarmers
Artist collective working together since 1995. Design studio serves as a platform to support art projects, aritist in residency program and research interests. "We are teachers, researchers, designers, gardeners, scientists, engineers, illustrators, people who know how to sew, cooks and bus drivers with a common interest in creating work that challenges current social, political and economic systems." Based in San Francisco, Calif.

Arts Education: A Special Collection of Case Studies
Collection of 67 case studies that "reveals the lessons, benefits, and pitfalls of existing and past projects, providing vital information for program staff at organizations running their own Arts Education projects." Contributors include Americans for the Arts, the Arts Education Partnership, CAPE, Arts for All, Hospital Audiences and many more. Edition of online bimonthly publication CloseUp, published by IssueLab, June/July 2009.

Route 66 Mural City Mural/Beautification Project
Web site and blog documenting Viva Cuba, a Missouri beautification/public art organization along the Route 66/I-44 corridors.

Centre for Contemporary Arts Afghanistan
Independent artistic and cultural center established in August 2004 by a number of young artists. Includes Female Artistic Center, established 2007 "to improve and support the artistic skills and talents of Afghan women."

Artists United to End Immigrant Family Detention
Initiative of Grassroots Leadership, a multiracial team of Southern organizers based in Charlotte, N.C., whose goal is "to put an end to abuses of justice and the public trust by working to abolish for-profit private prisons." Web site lists things artists can do to spread the word about immigrant family detention. GL is led by songwriter Si Kahn.