(Out)Laws & Justice
Nonprofit organization that offers an eighth-grade interdisciplinary curriculum of history/social studies, language arts and drama. Students to critically reflect on the values that drove U.S. westward expansion and its legacy in their lives. Project culminates in student–written and –performed plays. Based in Los Angeles, 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.

7 Stages Theatre
Theater in Little Five Points section of Atlanta, Ga., with mainstage productions and eduction program. High-school theater training, Youth Creates, with five-week summer intensive program; residencies at schools year-round; internships for older high-school students and college students; colloquia series for networking and growth in the field. Founded 1979 by Del Hamilton and Faye Allen.

826
826 National is a family of seven nonprofit organizations dedicated to helping students, ages 6-18, with expository and creative writing. For children, classes and schools with particular interests or particular needs. Free drop-in tutoring, field trips, workshops, in-schools programs, seminars, services and resources for English language learners. College scholarships, student publications, retail stores. Chapters in San Francisco, New York City, Seattle, Los Angeles, Chicago, Michigan and Boston. Flagship, 826 Valencia, San Francisco, founded 2002 by author Dave Eggers and educator Nínive Calegari.

A Community Audit for Arts Education: Better Schools, Better Skills, Better Communities
Kennedy Center Alliance for the Arts Education Network's tool to assist local education, community and cultural leaders in assessing the status of arts education in their schools and school districts, and to encourage community partnerships to strengthen and expand arts education for all students. "While designed to encourage serious evaluation, it is most valuable as a vehicle for encouraging conversation and community planning in support of arts education." Developed in 2000, updates May 2007; now dowlnoadable from Web.

A Living Library
Environmental/educational project founded by artist Bonnie Ora Sherk in San Francisco, Calif., in 1981 at The Farm. Community-created gardens and Think Parks transform "sunken meadows and brownfields, urban sprawl and desolation, public parks and plazas, concrete and asphalt schoolyards, civic centers or undeveloped wastelands into vibrant and relevant community learning environments and highly visible public magnets offering innovative and practical community and economic development." Branches in Sand Francisco and New York City. Goal is to develop and link Branch Living Libraries in different communities of the world using state-of-the-art communications technologies.

A+ Schools Program
Whole-school reform model that views the arts as fundamental to how teachers teach and students learn in all subjects. Arts-integrated instruction that incorporates Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences. National program based at UNC Greensboro, North Carolina.

ARROW
Art: a Resource of Reconciliation over the World (ARROW). Web-centered project to build a creative dialogue between schools in Plymouth, England and their counterparts in Palestine, Kosovo and South Africa. Partnership of The College of St Mark & St John, Plymouth City Council Department for Life-Long Learning, The Barefoot Project, Christian Aid and Burnley Youth Theatre.

Academic Atrophy: The Condition of the Liberal Arts
First significant study of how the No Child Left Behind Act is influencing instructional time and professional development in key subject areas. Finds that schools spend more time on reading, math and science, squeezing out social studies, civics, geography, languages and the arts. Report, funded by Carnegie Corporation of N.Y., is based on survey of 1,000+ principals in four representative states (Indiana, Maryland, New Mexico, and New York). Written, published by Council for Basic Education, 2004). The Council of Basic Education closed its doors in June 2004; this .pdf file is now on the site of the Education Commission of the States.

Achein Center for Lifelong Education, Research and Cultural Exchange
Lifelong-education center at Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, N.M., for indigenous peoples of all ages. Priority on "utilizing indigenous ways of learning and knowing in all areas of organization and service delivery." Program areas: art and humanities; culturally based economic development; culture, language and land; education and youth; family, community and world development; health and wellness; law and justice; leadership and tribal governance; technology. Has long-term strategic commitment to tribal economic self-sufficiency, capacity to address community-development needs and self-governance.

After-School Program Tool Kit
Provides: 1. After-school programs found to be effective; 2. Core elements that contribute to the success of these programs; 3. A body of resources to sustain quality after-school programs. Developed by the National Dropout Prevention Center (NDPC) in collaboration with Communities In Schools.

After-school Arts Enrichment
Resource brief on performing arts program at Community Education Resource Center (CERC) at M.S. 67 Queens, N.Y., as example of effective after-school arts enrichment. Reviews consistent participation, inclusiveness, opportunities for student input, leadership, support within the school community, staff teamwork and curriculum. Written by Policy Studies Associates, Inc.; published by The After-School Corporation (TASC), 2001.

Alabama Institute for Education in the Arts
Nonprofit organization specializing in professional development training in arts integration. Annual summer institute.

Alameda County Alliance for Arts Learning Leadership
Alameda (Calif.) countywide network convened by Alameda County Office of Education to advance arts learning for all children in the county. Includes K-12 arts specialists, community arts service providers, artists, classroom teachers and school district and county education representatives. Quarterly forums, advocacy campaigns, student artwork showcase, two year-round galleries. Countywide resource listings of arts-related programs for youth, student exhibition opportunities, funding & support, professional development for teachers, arts companies available for school assemblies. Grantee of Ford Foundation's "Integrating the Arts And Education Reform" program.

Alaska Native Heritage Center
Cultural center and museum in Anchorage expanding public understanding of Alaska's first people. Designed to "enhance self-esteem among Native people and to encourage cross-cultural exchanges among all people." Exhibition, collections, intertribal gatherings. Extensive educational, teacher resources and in-school programs; Native Art and Master Artist classes; Understanding Culture Workshop Series; graduate-level courses. Youth internships and Alaska Studies Program. Web site has culture map with info on all of Alaska's eleven cultural groups. Located in Anchorage.

Alliance for Conflict Transformation (ACT)
Nonprofit organization based in Alexandria, Va., dedicated to building peace through innovative education, training, research and practice worldwide. Established February 1999 by professional swho have conducted conflict transformation and peacebuilding projects in over 30 countries. Programs: civil society development, community building, ethnic conflict, intercultural relations, organizational learning, research. Maintains ACT Forums for information on jobs, scholarships, grants and events in peace and conflict resolution, international development, humanitarian relief, human rights and related fields. Regional specializations in Balkans, Caucasus, Central and Eastern Europe, Central Asia, Latin America, Middle East, United States and Pacific Rim. Summer institutes, publications. A Cross-Sector Resource.

American Alliance for Theatre and Education
Works to promote theater for youth at all levels across America; includes national Theatre in Our Schools campaign.

American Music Conference
Educational association founded in 1947 to promote the importance of music, music-making and music education. Site has history, music & the brain, philanthropy, Best 100 Communities for Music Education.

Andante.com
Educational site dedicated to classical music. Searchable calendar of current performances worldwide; magazine with news, reviews, interviews, commentary; academic journal; reference database; profiles; directories.

Apollo Theater Foundation
Nonprofit organization established in 1991, dedicated to preservation and development of Harlem's Apollo Theater. Apollo Theater Academy: career and leadership skill development through seminars, internships, career days, workshops for New York City and tri-state-region young people.

Armory Center for the Arts
Community arts center in Pasadena, Calif., with prodigious gallery, studio, community, education and public art programs. Site includes "Neighborhood Art Projects" map/guide to public art throughout the Pasadena area created by participants in Armory programs. Began as the education department of the legendary Pasadena Art Museum; now located in renovated National Guard Armory and ancillary sites in Old Pasadena.

Art Sanctuary
Invites established and aspiring black artists to North Philadelphia, Pa., to give lectures, performances and educational programs.

Art Share Los Angeles
Community arts incubator whose mission is "to shape lives through art, education and community action." Free art classes, 99-seat dance studio and theater, the Warehouse Art Gallery, a computer lab, art studio, classroom spaces and 30 residential lofts for low-income artists. Programs: BLAST (Building Language and Art Skills Together), Community Beautification Program.

Art in Action Youth Leadership Program
Small multiracial collective founded 2000 by artists and youth advocates based in Oakland, Calif., working with young artists impacted by violence and poverty "to cultivate leadership through dance, theater, music, spoken word/poetry, painting, storytelling, and media arts." Based in popular and political education. Annual Leadership Training: 5-10 day summer camp open to ages 17-25. Programs: Dig This Story! Digital Storytelling; “Turf Unity” Music Program; Performances and Workshops; participation in the Silence the Violence Collaboration; online artwork.

Art in General
New York nonprofit organization that assists artists with production/presentation of new work. Education Department has multiyear collaboration with neighboring public schools; collaborative curriculum building, final project designed by students.

Art is Education Initiative
Initiative of Cleveland (Ohio) Integrated Arts Collaborative and Cleveland Metropolitan School District working to establish arts as essential component of school district’s standards-based literacy instruction. Aims to serve all third-graders in district - approximately 3,500 in 80 schools. Spearheaded by Young Audiences of Northeast Ohio; grantee of Ford Foundation's "Integrating the Arts And Education Reform" program.

Art of Elysium
Nonprofit provider of free arts opportunities to critically and chronically ill youth. Girl Talk (for girls ages 10 - 16) and Yo Lo Tengo (for boys ages 11 - 17) teach young people with physical differences to use expressive arts skills as a means of managing stress, increasing self-esteem and building social skills. Acting, art, comedy, fashion, music, radio, songwriting and creative writing workshops led by volunteer professional artists. Founded by Jennifer Howell, 1997. Based in Universal City, Calif.

Art | Global Health Center
UCLA Center for artists and advocates working in the realm of public health. Housed at Department of World Arts and Cultures at the University of California, Los Angeles. Courses: “Make Art/ Stop AIDS,” “AIDS Performance Team” and more. Programs: AMP it up!, Exhibitions, Global Citizenship Initiative and more. Additionally, the global network, Make Art/ Stop AIDS, is based in the Art | Global Health Center. Founded in 2006. Directed by David Gere.

Art, Activism, and Community: Visual Art and Social Change
Online slide show by Tufts University College Student Programs Manager Mindy Nierenberg for a 2005 course in the Experimental College, showing Tufts undergraduates and Tufts/School of the Museum of Fine Arts dual-degree students ways to use art as a vehicle of social change.

Art/Vision/Voice: Conversations in Community
Subtitled "A Book of Cases from Community Arts Partnerships." Published online. Case studies from six Community Arts Partnerships (cap) programs created in 1999 with Wallace Foundation funds. Partners were six colleges, universities and institutes who participated in the CAP Institute. Includes extensive introduction to the field of community cultural development by Arlene Goldbard. Several higher-education degree programs in community arts were created as a result of this project. Published online by Columbia College Chicago and Maryland Institute of Contemporary Art, 2005.

ArtWORKS!
Year-round after-school, summer programs for high-school teens from neighborhoods with high drop-out rates. Arts retail job training in design, manufacture and marketing of painted furniture and tiles. program of Tucson/Pima Arts Council, Tucson, Ariz.

ArtWorks Curriculum
Series of 12 units by Institute for Children and Poverty (four units each for grades K-1, 2-3, 4-5) that integrate language arts, social studies, dance, drama, music and the visual arts for elementary-school students. Academically rigorous units based on national curriculum standards use children's fiction and nonfiction books, CDs, DVDs, and videotapes. Designed to be taught by regular classroom teachers and by educational staff in after-school and literacy programs in shelters and other community facilities. For purchase.

Artists Striving To End Poverty (ASTEP)
Nonprofit organization based in New York, N.Y., that partners with local artists and organizations worldwide to provide arts education for populations of children with limited access. Programs; art camps for disadvantaged children in South Africa and Florida; opportunities to serve as teaching volunteers for children in India. Founded 2006 by artist Mary-Mitchell Campbell.

Artists for Humanity
Boston, Mass.-based organization using art and creative process to link young people with business; job training and school-to-work programs; commercial services and exhibitions for student work; graphics, photography, silkscreen, sculpture and painting studios.

Arts Computation Engineering (ACE)
Transdisciplinary graduate program in Arts, Computation and Engineering at the University of California, Irvine. Addresses emerging practices and career paths that combine skills and sensibilities of technical and scientific disciplines with arts and humanities. Program is "oriented towards informed production. ACE students make things that work, and they understand the technical, historical and socio-cultural locations of their work." A Cross-Sector Resource.

Arts Education Improves Workforce Development and Student Success
Study showing how arts shape 21st-century working skills. Documents positive outcomes of integrating arts into K-12 education and youth intervention programs. Case studies, examples of successful programs, research citations, useful quotes. Written, published by NASAA, National Governors Association and NEA, 2002.

Arts Education Partnership
National coalition of arts, education, business, philanthropic and government organizations promoting essential role of arts in child learning and development and improvement of America's schools.

Arts Education Policy Review
Bimonthly journal discussing difficult and often controversial policy issues regarding K-12 education in the arts worldwide. Online and in print.

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.

Arts Extension Service
Program of Continuing Education Division at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, specializing in connecting arts with communities through education; books, national training programs, distance education, online courses.

Arts Providers Alliance of San Francisco
Membership organization of professional artists and arts organizations dedicated to the advancement of arts education in San Francisco, Calif. Bimonthly meetings; quarterly evening forums; information,materials, and updates on arts education policy and practices; networking, marketing and funding opportunities; collaborative projects; workshops; special events. Administers (with S.F. Arts Commission) Arts Education Funders Collaborative, a public-private partnership among grantmakers, the S.F. Unified School District, local arts providers and the PTA.

Arts Share
Community arts program of the University of Iowa's Division of Performing Arts, School of Art and Art History and Writers' Workshop. Interactive performances, workshops, readings, residencies and master classes statewide by faculty artists and graduate students. School programs, Arts Share Summer Camp, Patient Voice Project offering creative writing classes to chronically ill hospital patients.

Arts and Social Responsibility
Project at Boston College that "seeks to engage and connect students, faculty and community members working to promote activism and positive social change through art, performance and action." Courses, events, online calendar, collaborative community projects. Founded 2009.

Arts at the Core: Every School, Every Student
The "Illinois Creates" survey. Finds broad disparities in levels of arts education offered in Illinois schools, and discrepancy between desire of superintendents and principals to offer quality arts education and their ability or determination to do so. Written by Metro Chicago Information Center; published by Illinois Arts Alliance/Foundation.

Arts for Change
Organizations supporting art for healing and social change. Workshops in activist art and teaching. Archive of site-specific works, interactive storyboard, articles, bibliography, links.

Arts in Education Policy
Policy site by Education Commission of the States. Includes What States Are Doing, Selected Research & Readings, Programs & Practices, Evaluation and Web links. Issue Breakouts: Availability, Economic Development, Standards & Assessment. Has an Artscan Policy Database on policies that support arts in education in all 50 states. Plenty of research profiles.

Arts in Focus
Los Angeles, Calif., countywide arts-education survey.

ArtsBridge America
Research-based school/university partnership in arts education. Network of 22 universities in 13 states and Northern Ireland, and their surrounding schools that "confronts the problem of the elimination of the arts from K-12 schools." Provides: arts curriculum to k-12 schools in urban and low-income areas, through projects in dramatic and visual arts and digital technology; professional support for teachers; school-based service-learning opportunities and career pathways for top university students; partnership research. Publications, newsletters, project case studies. Headquartered at Lawrence University of Wisconsin. Research faculty in arts and education through the Center for Learning through the Arts at UC Irvine's Department of Education in California. Founded at UC Irvine in 1996.

ArtsEdNet
The Getty Center for Education in the Arts' special approach to arts education.

ArtsEdge
Site by The Kennedy Center and NEA with information, resources and ideas that support arts as core subject area in K-12 curriculum.

ArtsLiteracy Project
"ArtsLit," developing youth literacy through performing and visual arts. Based in Brown University Education Department. International teaching lab school for teachers and artists; workshops; international publications and presentations; undergraduate and graduate course work. Site has handbook of ideas and activities.

Ask 4 More Arts
School-community-arts collaborative in Jackson, Miss., designed to provide elementary students in Jackson Public Schools the opportunity of learning through the arts. Emphasized arts integration into elementary curriculum. Teacher training, collaboration with artists and arts organizations. Grantee of Ford Foundation's "Integrating the Arts And Education Reform" program.

Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design
AICAD: Consortium of 36 U.S. art schools, all BFA- or MFA-granting. Site has databases to help you find a school, a major, info on applying, financial aid, etc. Includes community arts.

Association of Teaching Artists
Nonprofit professional organization serving teaching artists from all disciplines in New York State. Resource lists, discussion board, foundation documents, Reflections, listerv. Blogs from major arts conferences.

BAYCAT (Bayview Hunters Point Center for Arts and Technology)
San Francisco Bay Area-based learning environment for youth and adults in arts, culture and enterprise. Community partnerships. Studio BAYCAT, the social enterprise arm, offers marketing packages, Web sites, video documenting. Modeled after Manchester Craftsmen's Guild/ Bidwell Training Institute in Pennsylvania.

Baltimore Partners for Enhanced Learning
Maryland nonprofit organization providing arts integration in the Baltimore City public Schools. Lead communitywide collaborative effort using Baltimore’s arts, cultural, educational and leadership resources to "transform Baltimore’s middle grade schools into powerful learning communities." Grantee of Ford Foundation's "Integrating the Arts And Education Reform" program.

Bauen Camp
Nonprofit residential summer camp and community outreach network teaching youth ages 13-18 how the arts can be used to build social creativity and responsibility; founded by artist Jessica Holt on her Parkman, Wyo., ranch

Bay Area Center for Independent Culture (BACIC)
Nonprofit organization in San Francisco, Calif., dedicated to promoting human development through the use of an innovative performance and development based model. Creating outside-of-school educational and performing-arts activities for young people living in the Bay Area's poorest communities. Community and experimental theater, leadership training, volunteer initiatives that build and strengthen communities. Programs: All Stars Talent Show Network and Developing Community Theatre. Founded 2002.

Be a Leader for ARTS Education: A Guidebook To Expand Arts Learning in Public Schools
Downloadable guide focusing on information supporting the belief that the arts are essential in our children's education; strategies for moving forward; ways to mobilize districts and engage community; planning tips and guidelines; Web resources; and more. By California County Superintendents Arts Initiative and the California State PTA

Bielenberg Institute at the Edge of the Earth
Graphic-design institute in Belfast and Seaport, Maine, inspired by Samuel Mockbee's Rural Studio. Purpose: "To inspire young graphic designers, writers, photographers and filmmakers by proving that their work can have a positive and significant impact on the world." The Institute's Project M has done a communications project in a Costa Rica conservation area; delivered donated equipment and supplies to Gulf Coast designers displaced by Hurricane Katrina; and assignments for Womens Trust, AIGA and Family LifeCenter. Founded by John Bielenberg.

Big Thought
Learning partnership of more than 70 community agencies in Dallas, Texas, working through education, arts and culture to support community partnerships, cultural integration for academic achievement, youth development and family learning. "The big thought is that a community, working together, can lift children up and better their lives using arts and culture as tools and catalysts." Programs: Young Audiences of North Texas, Dallas ArtsPartners, North Texas Wolf Trap: Early Learning Through the Arts, Creative Solutions, Make A Connection Thru Art, 21st Century Community Learning Center, Kennedy Center Imagination Celebration at Dallas, Library Live! Grantee of Ford Foundation's "Integrating the Arts And Education Reform" program.

Booklyn Artists Alliance
Artist-bookmakers organization in Brooklyn, N.Y., promote artist books as an art form and an educational resource; teach in public schools.

Break Arts Collective
International arts and learning collaborative. Text/image projects ihat encourage young people to imagine, create and express the stories of their lives. Arts workshops and residencies; training and professional development; consultation; advocacy. Directed by Amanda Leigh Lichtenstein and Rachel McIntire; established 2005.

Bringing Nature to Life
Guide to "The Use of Performance Art for Environmental Restoration" by community performance artist Nanda Currant, who works in home school and charter school education programs.

Brooklyn College Art Lab
Arts and technology after-school site in Brooklyn, N.Y., serving some 700 students a year from some 30 high schools, averaging 80-100 students per day. Central node for The Arts Network at Brooklyn College Community Partnership, a creative learning network linking the college to the communities of Brooklyn; programs in seven Brooklyn high schools.

Brown's Center for Public Service
Brown University's community connection. Community Partnership Database (under Civic Sector Partnerships) with arts and culture programs like SPACE (Space in Prison for the Arts and Creative Expression).

Buddy Holly Center
Community art center in Lubbock, Texas, that memorializes musician Buddy Holly and other performing artists and musicians of West Texas. Exhibitions, annual music symposium.. Annual Extensive community programs, including education, hospital and high-school training programs.

BuildaBridge International
Nonprofit arts education organization based in Germantown, Pa. Provides "direct arts-integrated intervention (social, spiritual, educational, and therapeutic) and cross-cultural service." Community Arts Program: in transitional homes, after-school and Saturday arts programs. Institute for the Church and Community Arts: training, education and research institute for those who want to integrate the arts in their community service and ministry. Educational Safaris: Overseas arts education and service program. BuildaBridge Consulting: Professional consulting for cross-cultural service, organizational development, community arts, curriculum writing and development, learning assessment and evaluation, arts management for conferences and overseas travel.

Building the Code
See Crossroads Project for Art, Learning and Community

CARTS
Cultural Arts Resources for Teachers and Students, extension of City Lore's programs and its National Network for Folk Arts in Education. Resources, guest artists, staff development, dialogue.

CELLspace
Volunteer-staffed collaborative art center fostering community in San Francisco's Mission District through art and education, with classes and communal workspaces.

COMPAS
Community-driven Minneapolis organization offering WAITS (Writers and Artists in the Schools), grants to neighborhood arts projects addressing social issues, cultural arts presentations in the schools, Minnesota Rural Arts Initiative and arts activities for battered women.

Caldera
Nonprofit arts-education organization with a mission to foster creativity among underserved youth and adults, "believing that the arts and the out-of-doors are powerful vehicles for fostering creativity and a strong sense of self-worth." Programs take place in schools and community centers throughout Portland and Central Oregon, and at Caldera’s Blue Lake facility in the Oregon Cascades. Programs: arts partnerships, artist school residencies, summer arts retreats, apprenticeships, retreats for professional artists and writers.

Campus Compact
National coalition of 1,100 college and university presidents — representing six million students — dedicated to promoting community service, civic engagement and service-learning in higher education. Initiatives: Campus & Community, Civic Engagement, Service Learning, Advocacy, more. Resources, research, publications, news, opportunities. Founded in 1985 by presidents of Brown, Georgetown and Stanford universities, and president of the Education Commission of the States. Based at Brown, Providence, R.I.

Cathedral Choir School of Delaware
Music education program for economically disadvantaged youth 7-18 at the The Cathedral Church of Saint John Episcopal Cathedral in Wilmington, Del. Performed in some of the world’s most renowned cathedrals, serves as a prototype for church choral-education programs.

Celeste Miller and Company
A performance artist/choreographer working in communities all over U.S., in schools, with nurses, with mothers and daughters, with teachers. Has outstanding models for working with movement and math, science, social studies. Offers training in community arts techniques.

Center for Art and Community Partnerships
Massachusetts College of Art’s primary vehicle for engaging the college community's creative energy in the conceptualization and support of collaborative, art-based projects, programs and partnerships with local institutions, organizations and community members.

Center for Art and Public Life
Center at California College of Arts and Crafts with Arts Education Partnerships, a mentoring/teaching program for CCAC students working in Oakland, California's public schools.

Center for Arts Education (N.Y.C.)
Foremost arts-education organization in New York. Administers Annenberg Challenge for Arts Education. Grant program and projects in all five city boroughs. Good source of links and info on all arts-ed activities in New York.

Center for Arts Policy at Columbia College Chicago
Supports understanding of the role of arts in society with applied research, public progrmas, analysis and education.

Center for Creative Community Development
National focal point for research, education and training on the role of the arts in community redevelopment. Joint project of Williams College and MASS MoCA.

Center for Urban Pedagogy
Based in Brooklyn, N.Y., CUP makes "educational projects about places and how they change." Bringing art and design professionals together with community-based advocates and researchers to create projects ranging from high-school curricula to educational exhibitions.

Center in the Park
Offers high-quality community arts programming.for elders grounded in the theory of lifelong learning. Primarily serves African-American elders who live independently in Northwest Philadelphia.

Centre for Applied Theatre Research
Based in the Martin Harris Centre for Music and Drama at University of Manchester, England. Promotes practice based research, research and evaluation, teaching and publication in the area of applied theater (practice of theater and drama in non-traditional settings). Includes theater in education, prison theater, theater in places of conflict, theater in museums and heritage sites, theater for development and theater with refugee communities and artists. Offers M.A. study, Ph.D., Ph.D. by Practice or AHRC Fellowships in the Creative and Performing Arts Scheme.

Champions of Change: The Impact of the Arts on Learning
Publication presenting recent studies that demonstrate the link between involvement in the arts, positive youth development and academic achievement. Research conducted in in-school and out-of-school settings via quantitative/qualitative methods. Figures, statistics, stories, theories. Researchers include James Catterall, Shirley Brice Heath and Steve Seidel. Written, published by Arts Education Partnership and the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, 1999.

Chesapeake Center for Youth Development
Training center for disadvantaged youth in Baltimore, Md., with strong arts program. Chesapeake Alternative School serving youth referred by Dept. of Juvenile Services and other governmental agencies; after-school programs; job training, internships; social-work services, counseling.

Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE)
Partners Chicago public schools with arts and community organizations to "develop sustainable, coherent, challenging curricula through collaborative planning and teaching of arts integrated instruction." Rich in progressive theory.

Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education: Summary Evaluation
Study using multiple assessment tools including student achievement, measures of community and school support, and teacher and student surveys to examine success of CAPE. Conducted by the Imagination Project, program of UCLA graduate school of education. Found that over six years CAPE had high impact on classroom, teachers and artists, on student performance, and on level of support from community and school-based groups. By James S. Catterall and Lynn Waldorf (In Champions of Change, the Arts Education Partnership and the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, 1999).

Chicana and Chicano Space
Presents over 25 Chicana/o and earlier artworks, with instructional units relevant to significant themes, gender balance, geographic breadth, historical range. By Arizona State University's Hispanic Research Center.

Children's Music Network
Membership organization for "teachers, performers, songwriters, radio hosts and parents who cared about the quality and content of children's music" in U.S. and Canada. Online music library, biannual publication "Pass It On!", toolkits, annual conferences, regional events, awards. Founded 1987. Based in Evanston, Ill.

Chinatown Banquet, A
Interdiscipinary art and education project exploring forces that shaped and influence Boston's Chinatown.

City Stage Co. of Boston
Programs for urban children, youth and families in the performing arts: traveling theater company; arts education; interactive exhibits and programs for museums nationwide.

City Studio
Community-education program of San Francisco Art Institute launched 2005 in partnership with neighborhood youth-development organizations, school districts and leading artists. Designed to engage high-school juniors and seniors in a rigorous two-year arts-education experience.

CityKids Foundation
Teaches young people problem-solving and decision-making processes "that include themselves as part of the solution." Includes numerous arts and communications projects.

CityStep
Harvard-Radcliffe student organization in partnership with Cambridge, Mass., public schools; undergraduate teams teach fifth-graders self-esteem through dance and theater. Founded1983 by Sabrina Peck.

Clabber, Coal & Ceilidh
Project at Scottish Mining Museum in Newtongrange, May 2006; 170 primary-school children and support staff from four primary schools attended workshops looking at mining life through dance, poetry and drama, song and percussion. Site includes feedback from students, teachers.

Coalitions Toolkit: A Guide for Starting, Growing and Sustaining Effective Arts Education Coalitions
Provides information and resources to begin, develop or sustain an arts-education coalition in a community. Modeled on Florida’s Arts for a Complete Education. Includes successful examples. Written by Bruce Rodgers and team, published in .pdf format by Arts for a Complete Education/Florida Alliance for Arts Education.

Columbia College Chicago Office of Community Arts Partnerships
Facilitates reciprocal partnership-building between college and its communities, including collaboration between academic departments and community arts (mainly youth) programs; student placement; mentoring for middle/high schools.

Comic Book Project
Arts-based literacy and learning initiative hosted by Teachers College, Columbia University with materials published by Dark Horse Comics. Goal is to help children forge an alternative pathway to literacy by writing, designing and publishing original comic books. Used naitonally in hundreds of urban, rural schools. Created by director Michael Bitz.

Communities in Schools
"Largest stay-in-school network in America." Brings resources, services, parents, and volunteers into schoolsPartnership programs (with Verizon, Clear Channel, Morgan Stanley), publications, After-School Program Toolkit, online training course. Founded 1977 by Bill Milliken. Based in Alexandria, Va. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Community Art Corps
Cadre of 13 full-time AmeriCorps member artists working with partner organizations to engage others in meaningful art experiences and promote community-building initiatives in collaboration with community-based organizations, service providers and civic and cultural institutions. Sponsored by Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in conjunction with the College's Community Arts Partnerships Office and the Master of Arts in Community Arts program, which began summer 2005.

Community Arts Education Project
Developed by the California State PTA and the California Alliance for Arts Education to help parents, local schools and school districts work together to create districtwide systemic change in arts education. Site includes guidebook, sample arts-education policies and plans.

Community Arts Partnership Institute
Consortium of six art colleges and university departments working with community-based partner organizations to provide quality arts programming for youth.

Community Music School of Springfield
Springfield, Mass., music school with 23,000 sq. ft. of studios, classrooms, offices and performance areas on four floors of renovated downtown bank building. Music library, classes, preschool, private and group lessons, master classes, concerts, recitals, annual Celebrate Women in Music Concert; community partnership division with programs in early-childhood centers, housing complexes, afterschool programs, alternative high schools and secure treatment facilities for juvenile offenders.

Community-Based Youth Organizations Negotiating Educational and Social Equity
Case study of community-based youth development organization in northeastern U.S. advocating for social and educational equity for low-income families by challenging local school-district practice of referring low-income children of color to special education in disproportionate numbers. Shows how the assets CBOs bring to their communities can help them negotiate with schools: challenges & opportunities of school-CBO collaboration outlined, with appreciation of CBOs’ strong, culturally competent relationships with their program participants. Written by Sara Hill; published by Robert Bowne Foundation in Afterchool Matters, 2004. (PDF)

Community-Word Project
New York City-based arts-in-education organization serving children in underserved communities through collaborative arts residencies and teacher training programs. Artists lead creative writing, performance and visual-arts literacy workshops in public-school classrooms. Creative Expression Literacy Workshops culminate in indoor murals that feature the participants' writing and tour the U.S.; on-site literacy workshops at local businesses; online writing exchanges; after-school programs, annual Teaching Artist Information Job Fair Panel.

Community-engaged Scholarship for Health
Free, online mechanism for peer-reviewing, publishing and disseminating products of health-related community-engaged scholarship that are in forms other than journal articles. A component of Community-Campus Partnerships for Health’s Faculty for the Engaged Campus project, which aims to strengthen community-engaged career paths in the academy and is supported by a grant from the US Department of Education’s Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education. Community-Campus Partnerships for Health is a U.S.-based nonprofit organization that promotes health through partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Communiversity
U.K. organization creating new degree and post-graduate programs for those who do not traditionally have access to higher education, with art as part of the holistic process.. Students create community Web sites.

Creative Communities Initiative Summary Report
Report summarizes strategies for successful arts education partnerships with public housing communities. Findings gleaned from 2001-4, $4.65 million partnership among NEA, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts. Initiative provided arts funding to 20 community schools to support high-quality, sequential arts instruction to 7,000 children and youth living in public housing communities. This report outlines the program, its sustainability, strategies, and special considerations. Many ofindings relevant to a wide range of cross-sector arts education partnerships. Downloadable free on Web. (National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts, 2006).

Creative Connections Project
Links K-12 classrooms with partner classes from the Amazon Rain Forest, Africa, the Galapagos Islands, the Arctic and China through e-mail, the Internet, art exchanges, music exchanges, online field trips and study partnerships. Sponsored by NYFA.

Creative Longevity and Wisdom Initiative
Supports research and professional practice in creative aging. Launched in 2004 at Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, Calif.

Critical Evidence: How the Arts Benefit Student Achievement
Study pointing to strong relationships between learning in the arts and fundamental cognitive skills and capacities used in mastering other school subjects, including reading, writing and mathematics. Written by Sandra S. Ruppert; published by National Assembly of State Arts Agencies in collaboration with Arts Education Partnership, 2006.

Critical Links: Learning in the Arts and Student Academic and Social Development
Compendium of research studies about learning in the arts. Examines cognitive practices, motivation, academic development and more provide multiple kinds of evidence and support for the importance and unique position of arts in children's learning. Written, published by Arts Education Partnership, 2002.

Cultural Agents Initiative
Network of academics, artists and administrators promoting creativity as a foundation of democracy. Scholarly conferences, graduate student workshops, publications, antidiscrimination theater, courses, development of sites for cultural internships, and creation of a global network of practitioners. Based at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.

Cultural Arts Coalition
Networking group based in Phoenix, Ariz., with the mission of "identifying, supporting, promoting, celebrating, and documenting those community arts practices that stimulate social awareness and honor diverse cultural values, and develop the critical thinking skills necessary to be creative and solve problems." Provides space and opportunities, regular meetings, forums, connections, documentation, publications and Guiding Arts Practices developed in a public participation process involving artists, educators and community activists during 2005-2006 in Arizona.

Cultural Re-Use Research Collaborative
Organization doing practical interdisciplinary work on study and practice of "cultural re-use and re-generation." Based at Columbia College Chicago. Focused on ways objects, traditions, histories, neighborhoods and actions are creatively utilized in novel ways (recycled, reinterpreted, reincorporated, re-purposed, reinvented, repaired). Workshops, colloquia, curriculum development. Projects: Re-Cyclone (Columbia students with FreeStreet Programs) on recycling theater materials; CASCADE 2004/5 (English students with London East Research Institute and Lee Valley Authority) on environmental impact of a London 2012 Olympics.

Culture pour tous
Culture for All, independent nonprofit organization whose mission is to "contribute to the democratization of culture in Quebec," Canada. Projects: annual event, Journées de la culture; the Cultural Logbook, a learning tool for schools; Intercultural Encounters, an initiative to enhance the profile of professional artists from immigrant communities); conferences known as La Rencontre; and community art projects such as The Convertibles and Art at work.

CultureWork
Periodic Broadside for Arts and Culture Workers from the Institute for Community Arts Studies in the Arts Administration Program at University of Oregon.

CultureWorks Collective
Large coalition of artists, activists and organizations that advocates for the arts among progressive organizations, provides training to utilize art in any campaign. Street theater, agitprop art, zipper songs, movement songs, songs about specific issues, murals, films. Web site has case studies.

Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy
"The first university-based policy program to fully engage the American cultural policy system." At Vanderbilt University.

DC Arts and Humanities Education Collaborative
Grassroots community-based organization in Washington, D.C., founded in 1998 by representatives from DC Public Schools, arts organizations and charitable enterprises to connect arts activities to school curriculum, especially schools in low-income neighborhoods. Programs; Arts for Every Student, Professional Development Initiatives, Artss Education Initiative. Grantee of Ford Foundation's "Integrating the Arts And Education Reform" program.

Dana Foundation
Private philanthropic organization with interests in brain science, immunology and arts education. Grants program, publications, newsletter (Arts Education in the News). A Cross-Sector Resource.

Dance Mission Theater
San Francisco-based organization including Dance Brigade, a six-member professional women's socio-political, dance-theater and drumming company; annual events showcasing emerging and established Bay Area choreographers; instructional dance program serving adults and youth; 140-seat Dance Mission Theater; rentals. Includes GRRRL Brigade, a dance, theater and taiko drumming company for girls ages 13 and up; and Junior GRRRL Brigade for ages 9-12; both perform regularly in Bay Area for school assemblies, demonstrations, conferences. Also GRRRLs Dance Camp, summers.

De-ba-jeh-mu-jig Theatre Group
Professional, community based, theater in Northern Ontario, Canada, dedicated to the vitalization of the Anishnaabeg culture, language and heritage. National Aboriginal Arts Animator Program offers theater training, with special program to help those who wish to return to their own communities to work.

Dead Man Walking School Theatre Project
Offers stage rights to Tim Robbins' play "Dead Man Walking" to high schools and colleges who agree to incorporate the issue of the death penalty into their curriculum in two academic departments. Web site offers dozens of tools for play production and discourse on the subject, including a blog, on-campus initiatives, local outreach and national and regional links. An initiative of the Death Penalty Discourse Network.

Designing the Arts Learning Community: a Handbook for K-12 Professional Development Planners
Guide to designing arts education professional development for K-12 classroom teachers. Includes searchable database of 50 arts learning communities across U.S. Handbook is downloadable. Project of Los Angeles County Arts Commission, San Francisco Arts Commission and Santa Clara County Office of Education

Digital Clubhouse Network
Public learning centers in Silicon Valley and New York City developing new ways of using information technology to enrich K-12 education and lifelong learning.

Discovering Your Community through Oral History
"E-Seminar 1, How to Create a Community Oral-History Project." An online seminar from Columbia Interactive. Taught by Mary Marshall Clark, director of Columbia University Oral History Office, "the world's first official oral-history archive." How to do an oral-history interview and organize/operate a project. Includes audio and text examples. A Cross-Sector Resource.

DreamYard
Arts-in-education organization that integrates the arts into the curricula of elementary, middle and high school students. Largest arts-education provider in the Bronx, N.Y. In-school, after-school, weekend and summer programs, family projects. Site has lesson plans and Lesson Plan Planning Guide. Gallery exhibitions, poetry slams & festivals, ACTION (Arts Community Teams In Our Neighborhood) Projects.

Early Childhood Interventions: Proven Results, Future Promise
Study reviewing findings of rigorous evaluations of 20 early-childhood intervention programs, including home visiting, parent education and early childhood education. Benefits to society, they say, can be measured not just in terms of educational attainment but also in earnings and crime reduction. Study puts $$ value on social benefits. Written by Lynn A. Karoly, M. Rebecca Kilburn, Jill S. Cannon, James H. Bigelow, and Rachel Christina; published by RAND Corporation, 2005.

Earth Matters on Stage
Program of Department of Theatre Arts, University of Oregon. Mission: "to nurture connection and collaboration among artists who share an ecological sensibility." Produces Ecodrama Playwrights Festival and Symposium on Ecology and Performance 9with lay competition). Web site defines ecodrama, features curriculum suggestions,

Education Through Music
Promote integration of music into curricula of disadvantaged schools to enhance academic performance and general development. Forms long-term partnerships with New York City elementary schools that lack the resources to develop school-wide music programs; ensures high-quality instruction by hiring qualified teaching artists, providing ongoing training, and performing regular program assessments.

Education Through Music -- Los Angeles
Promotes and supports music instruction in disadvantaged schools to enhance academic performance and general development. Founded in 2006, first affiliate music education program based on the ETM® model in New York City.

El Arte Alliance
Coalition of teachers, artists, schools and community organizations in southwest Detroit, Mich., using arts to teach core curriculum, K-12. Parents Program, in- and after-school programs. Lessons online.

El Puente
Community human-rights institution in north Brooklyn. N.Y., that promotes "leadership for peace and justice through the engagement of members (youth and adult) in the arts, education, scientific research, wellness and environmental action." ,Programs: Center for Arts and Culture, Community Health and Environment Institute, three neighborhood Leadership Centers, El Puente Academy for Peace and Justice (high school).

Eloquent Evidence: The Arts at the Core of Learning
Summarizes evidence from research studies demonstrating impact and importance of learning in the arts, including Garner's multiple intelligences and research demonstrating that students of art routinely outperform other students on the SAT. Written, published by National Assembly of State Arts Agencies, 1995.

Escape Artists
U.K. arts-and-education charity established 1996. Company works in prisons, young offender institutions, schools, hospices and mental-healthcare centers. Provides artist training in arts and social inclusion. Matches artists and their unique skills with the right client group, facilitates and supports continued work opportunities in the sector.

Facing History and Ourselves
International educational and professional-development organization helping teachers lead students in a critical examination of history, with particular focus on genocide and mass violence. Founded 1976 by teacher Margot Stern Strom. Publications and Resources; Pedagogy Research and Development (new scholarship, partnerships and pilot projects); Community Engagement (opportunities for discussion/reflection on civic engagement, individual/collective responsibility and tolerance); Special Initiatives include the arts. Seminars, workshops, community events, lending library. Interactive student Web site :“Be the Change: Upstanders for Human Rights.” Organization has an online campus and a new public high school in NYC.

Finding Our Folk
National partnership of artists and organizations seeking to raise voices of 2005 Hurricane Katrina's survivors. "Finding Our Folk" tour (2006 ) by high-school and college students to survivor's locations. Workshops related to Katrina: Documentation (for people displaced); Education (about circumstances before, during and after); Healing (confronting trauma); Organizing (what is actionable), especially among young people. Projects: People's Hurricane Relief Fund, Katrina Quilt, Database and GIS Maps of displaced individuals, performances and celebrations of Gulf Coast region.

First Exposures: Youth Opportunities through Photography (FX)
S.F. Camerawork mentoring program for students ages 11 - 18 are recruited from local agencies serving young people with backgrounds of foster care, homelessness or low-income living situations. Online gallery, public billboard project, Photo Safari field trips, cultural exchange with youth in Ghana. Initiated at Eye Gallery in 1993, developed by S.F. Camerawork 1996.

Flint Youth Theatre
Program of Flint, Mich., Community School District and resident company of Bower Theater in Flint Cultural Center. Community-created new works on social issues, intergenerational programming, drama school, Learning Through Theater for school audiences.

Free Culture
International student movement of creative artists and writers, media activists and civil libertarians with roots in the free software/open source community.

Freedom Writers Foundation
Nonprofit organization founded in 1997 by Erin Gruwell, dedicated to positively impacting communities by decreasing high-school drop-out rates through replication and enhancement of the Freedom Writers Method. Teacher training through Freedom Writers Institute; scholarship program. Book: "The Freedom Writers Diary" by Gruwell and the Freedom Writers (basis for 2006 Paramount/MTV film).

Friends of the Pleistocene
Project of the nonprofit design studio and art collaborative smudge (smudge studio inc.), based in Red Hook, Brooklyn, N.Y. Projects "respond to conjunctures of landscape and human activity shaped by the geologic epoch of the Pleistocene. ... We study, document, and creatively respond to how the geologic epoch of the Pleistocene continues to shape our daily lives and how humans use Pleistoscene-shaped landforms and environments." Field expeditions and remote residencies; photographic image-sensations; "take away" speculative tools for exploration and cognitive recalibration within the geologic timescale; printed works such as posters, newsprints, booklets, field guides and diary-maps; and informal public education events. Memberships available.

Fringe Benefits
Educational theater group doing diversity work in communities and schools. Alliance of artists, educators, parents, social justice activists and youth. Based in Los Angeles, Calif.

GRACE
Grass Roots Art & Community Effort: nonprofit organization in Vermont dedicated to the discovery, development and promotion of self-taught art since 1975.

Galleries of Justice
Museum of the National Centre for Citizenship & the Law (private charity) in Nottingham, England. Key objective: to "Keep Kids Away from Crime and Out of Prison" through experiential leanring in history and citizenship. In historic Lace Market; in use as courts and prisons from 1780s-1980s; court on site since 1375, prison since 1449. Crime & Punishment Tour, HM Prison Service Collection, Narrow Marsh Familiy Activities, school programs.

Gallery 37
Chicago's job-training program for young people, hiring more than 2,600 kids each year as apprentice artists in parks, community centers and schools.

Gateway Performance Productions
Innovative Atlanta-based mask theater company directed by Sandra Hughes, with a commitment to theater for youth, arts-in-education and family audiences.

Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Art and Leadership Program
Santa Fe, N.M.-based art-and-leadership program for local, low-income girls and boys aged 11-13; operates year-round, partnering with public and private schools in the region; annual summer intensive held between June and August. Also Art & Leadership Program for Women series of annual workshops.

Getty
J. Paul Getty Trust high-end site offering a wealth of arts-education tools and information. 200+ video clips related to the Getty's deep online resources. 54,000 pages related to works of art and reports in conservation and art history.

Global Action Project
Media-arts and leadership training for young people living in underserved communities to create media on local and international issues as a catalyst for dialogue and social change.

Global Media Research Center
Research and creative exchange around global media and its links to global economy: foreign news reporting, television programs, recorded music, advertising and public relations industries, world cinema, business telecommunications, applications of the internet. Podcasts, international conferences. Projects: The Nollywood Project , Young People's Videogame Uses in East Asia, The Billboard and Skin Shade Project, The Alternative Media and Social Movements Encyclopedia Project, The OurMedia/NuestrosMedios Project, The TeleVisions Project: TV Entertainment and "Race." Based at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. A Cross-Sector Resource.

HASTAC
Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory ("Haystack"), a consortium of humanists, artists, scientists, social scientists and engineers from universities and other civic institutions (U.S. and international) committed to new forms of collaboration across communities and disciplines fostered by creative uses of technology. Develops tools for multimedia archiving and social interaction, gaming environments for teaching, innovative educational programs in information science and information studies, virtual museums. Links to dozens of member universities and centers. A Cross Sector Resource.

HOT Schools
Connecticut's approach to "Higher Order Thinking" (HOT) through a combination of arts, arts integration and democratic practice with an underpinning of Multiple Intelligence theory. Established 1994; working in 41 urban, suburban, rural public schools.

Handshouse Studio
Educational organization based in Massachusetts that "initiates adventurous hands-on projects as a way to explore history, understand science and perpetuate the arts." Elaborate projects around re-creating historical objects. Ex.: Bushnell's 1776 submarine; Polish wooden synagogues; ancient Egyptian obelisk. Founded by Rick and Laura Brown.

Harlem Textile Works
Design studio and training facility in Hamilton Heights, Harlem, Manhattan, N.Y. Trains African American and Latino youth in screen printing techniques, art and textile design and entrepreneurial spirit. Takes commissions from individuals, corporate clients, architects, interior decorators, arts organizations, major museums and licensing agreements with clothing retailers.

HartBeat Ensemble
"Theater for active change" in Hartford, Conn., founded by former members of San Francisco Mime Troupe. Mainstage plays, street theater, plays in Hartford city parks, educational workshops for children and aduts in using theater for social change with Boal techniques. Partnerships with Two Way Youth Employment Program in Hartford’s North End and the Amistad Youth Project in Hartford's South End.

Harward Center for Community Partnerships
Links key academic endeavors at Bates College (Lewiston, Maine) with community collaboration, research and service. Directed by David Scobey.

HeArt Project, The
Founded by Cynthia Campoy Brophy, 1992, to address the lack of arts education programs for Los Angeles, Calif., teenagers. Works with teenagers who have dropped out, been expelled, incarcerated and/or are teen parents. Offers advancement through three levels of programming – Arts Workshops and Public Presentations, After-School Residencies and Leadership Training, and Summer Scholarships. Serves 23 schools in three school districts.

Headlines Theatre Company
Canadian issue-oriented company whose Theatre for Living is based on August Boal's Theatre of the Oppressed. Boal-technique training programs. Directed by David Diamond.

Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics
Consortium of institutions, artists, scholars and activists dedicated to exploring the relationship between performance and social and political life in the Americas and provide "a better understanding of the many shared histories and practices in the Americas that defy national borders." Hemispheric annual course, annual Encuentros/Seminars, digital archive, Web Cuadernos, forums and newletter. Based at New York University.

Higher Education Consortium for Urban Affairs
HECUA: independent, nonprofit organization founded and governed by 17 liberal-arts colleges, universities and associations dedicated to experiential education for social justice. Study-abroad and off-campus study programs, seminars, field research, internships, fellowships. Instructors are teams of local teachers including Ph.D. faculty members who serve as mentors, advisers, co-learners and connections to the community. Programs include City Arts and Writing for Social Change. Syllabi posted online. Instituted as Crisis Colony in 1971. Based in St. Paul, Minn.

Humanities Exposed (HEX)
Connects graduate students and Madison community in collaborative humanities projects. Based at University of Wisconsin-Madison. Programs: after-school groups, workshops for writers, digital resources, curriculum enrichment and more. Community sites: public schools, community nonprofits, prisons, farms and more. Hosts annual conference on public humanities. Founded in 2004.

Imaginative Actuality: Learning in the Arts During the Nonschool Hours
Ten-year longitudinal study of young-people's self-selected effective learning sites in the out-of-school hours. Findings: Arts organizations provided some of the most fertile ground for young people's cognitive and linguistic development -- leading to highly developed communication, leadership, collaborative skills. By Shirley Brice Heath and Adelma Roach (In Champions of Change, the Arts Education Partnership and the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, 1999).

Imagining America
Connects universities and communities through the arts, humanities and design. Has tool kit for "rebuilding campus-community networks," newsletter, grants and conferences on artists and scholars in public life.

Inner-City Arts
Visual and performing arts program on downtown Los Angeles, California's Skid Row for children from 32 local elementary schools and two middle schools. Hands-on activities in visual arts, dance, drama, animation, music and ceramics. Annenberg Professional Development program includes Creativity in the Classroom Series, Visiting Scholar and Artist Series and year-long Teachers Institute. Founded 1989 by Bob Bates in response to funding cuts that eliminated arts instruction from L.A. public schools.

Inside Out Community Arts
Award-winning youth arts organization in Venice, Calif. After-school theater program, Neighborhood Arts Project for middle-schoolers from rival gang areas, The School Project , programs at Metropolitan State Hospital for youth hospitalized with severe mental and emotional problems, artist & teacher training, festivals.

Inside Out Community Arts
Los Angeles, California-based arts organization that uses the visual and performing arts to promote healthy interaction among diverse at-risk and underserved Los Angeles middle-school youth. Led by trained teams of professional artists and high-school age mentors. After-school arts programs: The School Project, Neighborhood Arts Project, Allen Young School at Metropolitan State Hospital, L.A. Bridges, program at Dubnoff Center for Child Development. Also The Youth & Family Court at The Abbot Kinney Street Festival, Rhythms (music, poetry, dance), visual art production, teacher training. Founded 1996 by Camille Ameen and Jonathan Zeichner.

Insider’s Guide to Arts Education
Online guidebook and a technical-assistance process to enable school districts to assess current arts learning programs and funding allocations, identify gaps in delivery and create long-range plans. Written by Margaret Burt and Elizabeth Lindsley; published by California Alliance for Arts Education, 2007.

Insider’s Guide to Arts Education Planning
Online guidebook and a hands-on technical assistance tool that enables districts to assess current arts learning programs and funding allocations, identify gaps in delivery, and create long-range plans that will ensure equitable access for all students in each of the four arts disciplines. Written by Margaret Burt and Elizabeth Lindsley; published by California Alliance for Arts Education, 2007.

Institute Without Boundaries
Canadian institute educating designers for global development. Includes Massive Change Project. By Bruce Mau Design studio.

Institute for Art & Civic Engagement
Resource for students, faculty and community members interested in art and its potential to impact contemporary issues in public life. Based in the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston) Artist's Resource Center and founded in partnership with Tufts University College of Citizenship and Public Service. Includes Art Studio program at Mission Hill, Change This Picture: Exploration & Innovation in Art and Healthcare, Public Art/Public Action studio course, Youth Art-in-Action, Visions of Active Citizenship, Art, Activism, and Community: Visual Art and Social Change, Art and Science Intersections, Facing History and Ourselves, The Boston Arts Academy.

Institute for Arts-Infused Education
At Marygrove College, Detroit, Mich. Provides research and services for using the arts to teach the core curriculum. Training for teachers and artists, curriculum creation, assessment tools. Summer training intensive. Campus-community partnerships with Learning via Arts (Detroit Repertory Theater), El Arte Alliance, and ACE-Detroit.

Institute for Community Arts Studies
Center at University of Oregon; aims to sustain and strengthen arts, culture and heritage in American West through research, policy, education and community engagement. Aiming to re-launch as the Center for Community Arts and Cultural Policy (CCACP) during the 2005-06 academic year.

Institute for Community Cultural Development
Leadership development program for people who work at the intersection of the arts and community development. Professional-level training and support for community-engaged artists and community developers. Intensive five-month leadership-training curriculum (weekends). Based at Intermedia Arts in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn. Led by Bill Cleveland, Wendy Morris, Erik Takeshita and Jun-Li Wang

Institute for People's Education and Action
Grassroots association of North American Folk Schools fostering Folk - or People's - Education: inclusive learning among peers, based in culture and experience, that builds democratic communities through dialogue and action. Formerly Fold Education Association of America.

Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue
Introduction to three-year institute at Harvard, on "what art and society have to say to one another," led by performance artist Anna Deavere Smith.

Interchange
Community-wide collaboration of arts and cultural institutions providing expanded arts-integrated curriculum to St. Louis (Mo.) Public Schools to improve student academic achievement. Partners teachers with teaching artists. Goals include strengthening neighborhood schools as centers of neighborhood revitalization. Grantee of Ford Foundation's "Integrating the Arts And Education Reform" program.

International Sonoran Desert Alliance
Regional nonprofit organization designing and implementing environmental, cultural, real estate and business development projects intended to preserve and enrich the environment, culture and economy of the Sonoran Desert. Located in southwestern Arizona and northern Sonora, Mexico, 10,000 square miles of "the hottest, most fragile desert ecosystem in North America." Cultural project include Curley School Artisan Housing, Native American arts, organpipe cactus fruit harvest tour, visiting artists program, festivals & events, afterschool arts initiative, public art installations. Founded 1993; governed by board of directors representing indigenous and nonindigenous populations of U.S. and Mexico.

John C. Campbell Folk School
Folk school in the N.C. mountains, center for adult learning modeled on Danish "folkehojskole," offering traditional music, arts, crafts, "inner growth as creative, thoughtful individuals, and social development as tolerant, caring members of a community."

Journal for Learning through the Arts
"A Research Journal on Arts Integration in Schools and Communities." Online publication available through the UC Library System's eScholarship Repository. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Juan Antonio Corretjer Puerto Rican Cultural Center
Nonprofit, community-based umbrella institution founded 1973 by community activists to serve social/cultural needs of Chicago's Puerto Rican/Latino community. Umbrellas Family Learning Center, Consuelo Lee Corretjer Childcare Center, Vida/SIDA HIV and AIDS education and prevention programs; La Casita de Don Pedro community garden and cultural space; Café Batey Urbano cultural space for the youth. Organizes annual Puerto Rican Peoples Parade,co-sponsors Fiesta Boricua annual Puerto Rican music festival. PRCC is the parent organization and provides a space to the Dr. Pedro Albizu Campos High School.

Katha
Nonprofit media organization in India working� in story, storytelling and story in culturelinking and education. Started in 1988 by Geeta Dharmarajan. Includes the Center for Sustainable Learning and the Story Research and Resource Centre.

Keep Arts in Schools
Web site serving "those seeking to make the arts top priority in public schools and communities at-large." Tools and resources designed "to equip individuals with what they need to make compelling cases for arts education." News, video clips, research, models, case studies. Project funded by Ford Foundation's "Integrating the Arts And Education Reform" program; site created by Doulgas Gould and Co., communications consultants, New Rochelle, N.Y.

L.A. Arts Education Resource Directory
Directory of vetted Los Angeles County arts-education providers for school-day programs. Searchable by arts discipline, subject area, program type, grade level and cultural origin.

LIPA Community Arts Route
Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, U.K., offers a degree in community arts: history, skills and practice in the community. Cofounded by Paul McCartney.

La Pena Cultural Center
Community arts and cultural education center in Berkeley, Calif., founded 1975 by Latinos and North Americans to instill political consciousness through culture and the arts. Events, classes, school programs, restaurant.

Labyrinth Project
Projects at USC's Annenberg Center combining the language of narrative cinema with the interactive potential and database structures of new media.

Laurier Centre for Music in the Community
Research center launched 2008 at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ont., Canada. Campus-community partnerships, service-learning projects, symposia, publishing, concerts.

League of Young Voters
Uses arts-based organizing, alliance building and nonpartisan voter engagement to build youth civic-engagement and leadership-development organizations in six states: Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Maine, California, Ohio and Wisconsin. Each local affiliate conducts a comprehensive year-round program. Site features nonpartisan voter guides.

Learning in and Through the Arts: Curriculum Implications
Study of 2,000+ public-school students in grades 4-8, conducted by team of researchers from Teacher's College, Columbia University. Found that students involved in high-arts-intensive settings performed better than students in low-arts settings in creativity, fluency, originality, elaboration and resistance to closure. Skills extend into nonarts subject areas like math and science. By Judith Burton, Robert Horowitz, and Hal Abeles (In Champions of Change, the Arts Education Partnership and the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, 1999).

Learning, Arts, and the Brain, The Dana Consortium Report on Arts and Cognition
Cognitive neuroscientists from seven U.S. universities grapple with the question: Are smart people drawn to the arts or does arts training make people smarter? Studies the effects of music, dance and drama education on other types of learning. Finds, for ex., that children motivated in the arts develop attention skills and strategies for memory retrieval that also apply to other subject areas. Research led by Michael S. Gazzaniga. Published by Dana Foundation, 2008.

Light Box/Out of the Box
Community based educational outreach activities by Florida presenter Miami LIght. Masters classes, residencies in Miami-Dade County Public High Schools.

Living Newspaper Project
Program to reinvigorate civic education in Austin, Texas-area high schools through the dramatization of current human rights issues. Combines research on current events, critical and creative writing, and public performance. Provides high-school teachers with tools to guide students through a Living Newspaper unit in an English, social studies or theater arts classroom. Modeled on WPA Federal Theatre Project documentary theater. Summer teacher workshops, Living Newspaper Resource Guide. Created by UT Austin Humanities Institute with the Law School's Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice, UT Performance as Pubic Practice Program and local high-school teachers.

Lokkala's Sabrang
Folk-art music and dance group based in Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India. Lokkala's Sabrang ("wanderer") is "a musical caravan throughout the Thar Desert." Cultural events, seminars, workshops, conferences, cultural tourism. Directed by Karun Goyal.

Los Cenzontles Mexican Arts Center
Cultural organization in San Pablo, Calif. (San Francisco East Bay Area) training youth in traditional arts. School for the Arts, community events, cultural exchange, mentorship, touring group, community recording studio.

Louis Armstrong Center for Music & Medicine
Music Therapy Department at Beth Israel Medical Center providing services at Music & Health Clinic, in many hospital departments, other clinics and community schools. Programs: Music for AIR (Advances in Respiration); Music for CAIR (Cardiac Advances in Rehabilitation); Asthma Initiative Program; Heather on Earth Multi-site NICU Study on music-therapy interventions for premature infants. Publications, training, education, events and symposia.

Louisiana Voices
Detailed online teacher's guide to exploring Louisiana's communities and traditions, with Internet connections to folklife videos, music, stories, bibliographies and Web sites. Created by Louisiana Division of the Arts and NEA.

Lovewell Institute for the Creative Arts
Based at Nova Southeastern U. in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., develops new musicals with teens during summer workshops, in partnership with local youth organizations. Has community-based interdisciplinary arts degree program. Directed by David Spangler.

Manchester Craftsmen's Guild
Center for arts and learning in Pittsburgh, Pa. that employs visual/ performing arts to educate and inspire urban youth and offer mentored training in life skills. Outstanding example of how a minority-directed arts-based curriculum can contribute in empowering young people. Founder Bill Strickland.

Mandorla Creative
Performance company using principles of Gestalt practice, group process, Playback Theater and western theater in working with communities. Professional training and development; personal-development workshops; commissioned creative projects. Directed by Dawn Miller, drama therapist. Based in Bristol, England.

Many Versions of Masculine: An Exploration of Boys’Identity Formation through Digital Storytelling in an Afterschool Program
Qualitative research that features case studies of nine urban boys of color, aged nine to 11, who participated in an after-school program where they learned to create digital multimedia texts. Argues for recognition of and support for the different functions such programs can serve when structured as alternative spaces for learning and identity formation. Written by Glynda A. Hull, Nora L. Kenney, Stacy Marple, & Ali Forsman-Schneider; published by Robert Bowne Foundation in Afterschool Matters, 2006. (PDF)

Map of Creativity
Interactive database of innovative education projects around the world. By Next Generation Foundation.

Marwen
Visual arts courses, public on-site and traveling exhibitions, college and career workshops and individual counseling sessions, and work experiences for 2,200 inner-city youth in grades 6-12 annually. Based in Chicago, Ill.

Materials Exchange Center for Community Arts (MECCA)
Center based in Eugene, Ore., that diverts usable materials from landfills into hands of artists and community members. Recycled art supply store; workshops and children's art activities; Open Studio time; classes in charter schools.

Matrix Theatre Company
Detroit, Mich., company specializing in large puppets and bilingual community programs for children, teens and adults in playwriting, performance, radio and community-based theater.

Maxine Greene Foundation for Social Imagination, the Arts and Education
Supports "intersections among various modes of social action and engagements with the arts." Greene Grants to artists and educators, Sunday Salons, online community. Founded 2003 by Maxine Greene, William F. Russell Professor in the Foundations of Education (emerita) at Teachers College, Columbia University and Philosopher-in-Residence of the Lincoln Center Institute for the Arts in Education.

Medicine Wheel
Michael Dowling's Boston-based community service project involving hundreds of participants and collaborations with artists, neighborhood groups and community and arts organizations. Includes Medicine Wheel Youth Group, an arts employment program for teens; annual Medicine Wheel installation and vigil; No Man's Land, a reclamation, through gardens, sculpture and pathways, of an abandoned weed lot behind South Boston High School.

Mississippi Action for Community Education (MACE)
Nonprofit, minority rural-development organization created by community leaders in 1967 to stimulate physical, social and economic development in rural Mississippi Delta. Cultural Arts Program with annual Delta Blues Festival, writing competition, Blues in Schools, film festival, international tour, internships. Also housing program and Women's Business Center. Based in Greenville, Miss.

Mississippi Arts Commission Core Arts Program
Programs in detention centers, adolescent offender programs, alternative schools, holding facilities, and community-based after-school and summer programs using the arts to decrease violence and recidivism, and increase school attendance and positive experiences with adult mentors.

Mississippi Cultural Crossroads
After-school program since 1976 that trains young people to document life in Claiborne County, Miss. Has Peanut Butter and Jelly Theater, troupe of seven high-school students who do stage productions promoting literacy. Also Young Person's Cultural Exchange program.

MuST (Music in Schools Today)
San Francisco Bay area organizations that supports, develops and promotes music education for youth in schools and in the community. Programs: Achieveing Through Music (music intervention for at-risk youth); Understanding Cultures (classes that improve literacy and social studies through understanding world music); Music Mentors (in person and online); Professional Development (credit through S.F. state U.); Adopt an Instrument; advocacy and free consulting; school and fiscal sponsorship ("start-ups" in music and arts education); special events. Founded 1983.

Mural Arts Program
Painted more than 2,300 murals throughout Philadelphia, Pa., since 1984. Workshops for young people teach mural and leadership skills. Program of the City of Philadelphia, Pa.

Museum of the African Diaspora
San Francisco-based museum without a collection; a "collector of stories—a repository of information to be shared with all who wish to know about the African Diaspora." Exhibition, literacy and schools programs, lectures, films, teen art talks. MoAD Stories project: "I've Known Rivers."

Music National Service Initiative
Volunteer-driven social-enterprise, initiative based in San Francisco Bay Area to strengthen and expand the field of music-based volunteerism. Includes MusicianCorp (launch August 2009), a “musical Peace Corps” enabling musicians to serve in: underserved schools and communities, healthcare and therapeutic settings and public domain. Training Institute. National database and network of Musician Mentors. Founded 2008 by Kiff Gallagher.

My Mississippi Eyes
Project at Lanier High School in Jackson, Miss., training students (through poetry, short stories, drama and music) to conduct workshops for their peers on historic migration of blacks from Mississippi to Chicago. By Mississippi Algebra Project, Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education, Mississippi Arts Commission, and M.U.G.A.B.E.E.

NAEP Arts Report Card 1997
Assessment of skills and knowledge in music, theater and visual arts, administered to over 6,000 eighth graders in 268 schools. Shows wide gap between benefits of arts and their availability to students on a regular basis. Written, published by National Assessment of Educational Progress, 1997.

NEA Jazz in the Schools
Web-based curriculum and DVD toolkit that explores jazz as an indigenous American art form and means to understand American history. By National Endowment for the Arts.

NYC Expressive Arts Studio
community-based arts organization that specializes in the practice of expressive arts. Community workshops, individual sessions and training programs in expressive arts facilitation. Draws on the arts, philosophy, anthropology and psychology; from the European Graduate School in theory, methodology and practice. directed by Rebekah Windmiller, dancer and choreographer.

Nancy B. Jefferson Literacy and Creative Media Program
Program at Nancy B. Jefferson Alternative School providing print- and media-literacy skills-enhancement programs to young people detained in Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center in Chicago, Ill. Programs in tutoring, creative writing, publishing, digital image manipulation, sound editing and sequencing, web design, maintenance of personal computers from the inside out, including building them from scratch. Library, volunteer coordination, school-wide events, seminars. Excellent links to activism in "prison industrial complex" issues.

National Art Education Association
Founded 1947, merger of regional art associations and art department of National Education Association. Newsletter, publications, convention, special programs.

National Arts Journalism Project
Based at Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism and School of Arts; fellowships, conferences, research studies, publications.

National Arts Strategies
Nonprofit organization providing leadership training for arts-organization executives, boards and staff. Seminars, customized programs, peer learning, coaching, consulting services. Intensive two-week leadership retreat with Stanford. Faculty from leading U.S. business schools. Founded by Ford, Rockefeller, Mellon foundations.

National Arts and Disability Center
Promote full inclusion of audiences and artists with disabilities into all facets of arts community. consulting, education, directories, bibliographies, careers, networking, funding. Assistive devices, services and products; marketing & publicity; film festivals listing; How to Design an Accessible Web Site. Project of the UCLA Tarjan Center.

National Association for Music Education (MENC)
Promoting music education in U.S. schools.

National Guild of Community Schools of the Arts
Representative association for nonprofit, non-degree-granting community schools of the arts in the U.S. and Canada.

National Museum of the American Indian
Smithsonian Institution museum, opened September 21, 2004, in Washington D.C.

National Resource Center for Youth Services
Provides technical assistance, training, research and publications to the youth-services community. Good resource on youth and child development, learning, education, legislation and services in the U.S. Extensive publications, links, online library. Based at U. of Oklahoma, College of Continuing Education. A Cross-Sector Resource.

National Service-learning Clearinghouse
Information system on all dimensions of service-learning (youth in community service), covering kindergarten through higher education school-based and community-based initiatives.

Nature Consortium
Grassroots organization teaching environmental lessons through the creative arts and hands-on conservation projects. Youth Art Program, Urban Forest Restoration Project, Arts-in-Nature Festival. Based in Seattle, Wash.

New England Biolabs Foundation
Private foundation started in 1982 by the founder of New England Biolabs,Inc. to support grassroots organizations working with the environment, social change, the arts, elementary education and science. International grant programs to NGOS to support creative ways to spread their work to more listeners and to make a lasting impact by incorporating the arts and local culture. Special project: Artcorps.

New Lens
Youth-driven social-justice organization that makes art and media "about issues where a youth perspective can inspire change. The work is used to address systemic problems, facilitate dialogue, shift perspectives and stimulate action." Serves 200 public school youth each year through classes and workshops. Website has videos. Directed by Rebecca Yenawine, formerly Kids on the Hill arts-based afterschool program. Based in Baltimore, Md.

New Urban Arts
Providence, R.I., arts mentoring organization with programs for high-school students and emerging artists. After-school studio, community partnerships, college/career prep, Youth Council, in-school residencies, adult workshops led by high-school students, professional development programs. Founded 1997.

New York State Arts In Correctional Education Network
Network of educators and artists concerned with education in correctional institutions in New York State. Aims to develop a support community and a network of resources; facilitate dialogue and collaboration among arts organizations, artists and correctional education programs; support artists and arts organizations with knowledge and training needed to better serve correctional education. Administered by Dale Davis, executive director, New York State Literary Center. Reading resource list, listserv, links, questions for discussion.

New York State Literary Center
Founded 1979 by Dale Davis and A. Poulin Jr. One of the first upstate New York arts organizations to send writers into public schools on a regular basis: 250 writers and artists worked with 30,000 children in 500 rural, urban and alternative schools. Projects: High School Literary Magazine; AIDS ‘N US, a peer-directed high-school AIDS-education project; The High School Research Paper A New Approach: Books, Photography, and Video; programs for teachers on children and divorce, race, war; Arts, Literacy and The Classroom Community, serving incarcerated adolescents; The Communications Project, writing program for at-risk youth and publisher of books, CDs, theater pieces.

NiteStar Program
Drama, music and peer-education for pre-adolescents, adolescents and young adults living with HIV/AIDS. Includes direct service, training and technical assistance. Productions created by members of the company, with followup workshops, heighten awareness, provide accurate information and help to reduce risky behaviors. Founded by Dr. Cydelle Berlin in 1987. Located at St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Center, New York City, N.Y.

North American Alliance for Popular and Adult Education
Useful links to North American popular and adult-education organizations, networks and educators, and to global adult-learning and democratic social movements.

Northwest Institute for Social Change
Nonprofit organization in Portland, Ore., offering Media Making Change, summer institute in media arts for undergraduate fellows. Students learn how media tools can positively affect public policy. Can earn a full term's worth of credit from the University of Oregon School of Communication. Each student attends media-studies courses, then works with NPR producers and Academy-award-nominated filmmakers, producing both an audio and a video documentary about a local solution to a global issue.

Old Town School of Folk Music
Teaches and celebrates music and cultural expressions rooted in traditions of diverse American and global communities. Based in Chicago, Ill.; founded 1957 by Win Stracke, Frank Hamilton and Dawn Greening. Classes, concerts, field trips, festivals, music store, resource center, gallery.

Open Door Theatre
Theater based in Everett, Wash., that "frees children from violence and abuse by teaching safety skills through dramatic live performances." Has in-school programs and teachers' handbooks.

OpenEducation.net
Site dedicated to tracking changes occurring in education. Categories of informaiton include: Books & Library, Copyright Law & IP, Distance Learning, Equal Opportunity, Multimedia Content, Open Source Software, Public Policy, Search & Information Access, Teaching and Learning, Technology. Editor is Thomas J. Hanson, former school superintendent. A service of GoCollege.com. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Otis Community Connections
Programs at Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, Calif., to cultivate partnerships between campus and community. Includes Artists, Community and Teaching (ACT: Otis fine-arts students teaching in public schools); OTEAM (after-school/summer academy for underserved high-school students); Integrated Learning (site-based curriculum for Otis students); CE (educational/professional development for all ages).

PBS Teachers
Public Broadcasting Service resource for preK-12 teachers. Classroom materials, lesson plans, teaching activities, on-demand video assets, interactive games, simulations video products. Correlated to state and national educational standards and tied to PBS' on-air and online programming like NOVA, Nature, Cyberchase, Between the Lions and more. Gateway for local resources and services offered by local PBS stations. Online professional development through PBS TeacherLine.

Performance Lab
Minnesota-based organization that enables communities to access arts coaches in virtual space.

Phakama
Southern Africa educational project using community arts projects to train young people about human rights issues through leadership and facilitation. Part of the Communication Initiative.

Philippine Educational Theater Association (PETA)
70+ artist-teachers dedicated to "artistically excellent theater aesthetics and pedagogy towards the empowerment of people and society." Includes Mekong Partnership Project, School of People's Theater, projects with women, children, teens.

PhotoVoice
Grassroots training in photography for social action. Enables people to record community strengths and problems; promotes dialogue about important issues through group discussion and photographs; engages policymakers. Based in London, England.

Poetry Workshop Planning Guide
Manual to help high-schoolers teach poetry to junior-high students, including writing activities they can use when creating their own six-month curricula. From New Urban Arts in Providence R.I., an interdisciplinary art studio and gallery for high-school students.

Popular Education News
Connects popular and community-based educators and activists to resources for improving educational work in social movements against oppression and for democracy, sustainability, social justice and peace. Building an information database.

Positive Futures Network
Supports "people's active engagement in creating a just, sustainable, and compassionate world." Includes YES! magazine with archive of political, social, cultural and environmental articles. Education section with curricular material. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Pratt Saturday Art School
Art classes for community children, adolescents, preschoolers and adults at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. N.Y. Founded 1897. Teaching laboratory; all classes are taught by education students, supervised by Pratt faculty.

Project Hope
Community-based collective, set up in 2003, and made up of Palestinians and others who are teaching languages, drama, art and healthcare to the young people of Palestine.

Project Self Discovery
Cleo Parker Dance School program providing "pro-social alternatives to drugs, crime and violence" for youth in Denver. Twelve-week intensive offers 10-15 phase program: Mental Preparation, Art Classes, Rites of Passage, Community Performances and Graduation.

Prometheus Dance
Modern dance ensemble with community programs in prisons, battered women’s shelters, Alzheimer's Center, public schools. Free, after-school Technical Theatre and Design Program for hearing-impaired and at-risk teens. Elders Ensemble performing in senior centers, healthcare facilities, community events and with the main company in special choreographic projects. Founded 1987 by Diane Arvanites-Noya; directed by Noya and Tommy Neblett. Based in Cambridge, Mass.

Provisions
Washington, D.C., organization providing resources for arts and social change. Online Provisions Library has study guides, virtual exhibitions and "meridians," i.e., categories providing links to related books, print media, Web sites, organizations, schools and education, artists and artwork, audio, interviews, moving images, gatherings and intersections with their other meridians. Initiated by Gaea Foundation.

Queens Museum of Art
New York museum with K-12, adult and senior education programs; teacher advisors, Parents as Partners; museum-school partnership with PS144; ArtAccess special-needs programs and studios; ,family workshops.

Radical Art Caucus
Coalition of academics promoting art and art historical scholarship that addresses historical and contemporary problems of oppression and possibilities for resistance. An official affiliated society within the College Arts Associstion.

Rebuilding through Art Project (RAP)
Community-based public art project in the West Baltimore neighborhood of Midtown Edmondson, founded by Baltimore artist Jay Wolf Schlossberg-Cohen to fuel revitalization efforts. Arts and leadership workshops.

Reciprocal University for the Arts Project
RUAP supports the development of reciprocal relationships between California State University Monterey Bay and four local communities: Watsonville, Salinas, Seaside and Monterey. Enables students, faculty and guest artists to produce performances, projects and classes in the community and brings community artists, youth supporters and youth onto campus to teach students about their experiences. Outstanding Web site has examples of innovative community and classroom projects, curricula, community faculty profiles and much more.

Regent Park Focus Media Arts Centre
Youth program in Toronto's Regent Park, Canada’s largest public housing community, to develop prevention programs and activities exploring radio and print journalism, and audio, video, photography arts. Catch da Flava Newe, Catch da Flava Radio, E.Y.E. Video Library, Focus Music Studio, Zapparoli Photo Studio. Directed by Adonis Huggins.

Renaissance in the Classroom: Arts Integration and Meaningful Learning
(Book) Methodology of CAPE (Chicago Partnerships in Arts Education) for taking arts-education partnerships through a coherent planning and implementation process.

Robert Bowne Foundation
Supports development of out-of-school-hours literacy programs for children and youth in New York City, especially in economically disadvantaged neighborhoods. Grants and technical assistance, publications, e-newsletter, bibliography, links to field. Afterschool Matters Initiative: Journal, Occasional Papers, research grants, fellowships.

Rural School and Community Trust
National nonprofit promoting place-based education in rural schools. Training, networking, technical assistance, coaching, mentoring, research, publications. See practices for "Promoting Arts & Cultural Heritage." A Cross-Sector Resource.

Rural Studio
Auburn University architectural program where students collaborate with communities in one of the poorest region of the nation. Founded by Dennis K. Ruth and late Samuel Mockbee.

SAY Sí, San Antonio Youth YES!
Arts program providing tuition-free classes to creative inner-city youth in San Antonio. Tex.

SFAC Community Arts & Education Program
Program of the San Francisco Arts Commission. Community and Neighborhood Festival Grants, seven neighborhood-based cultural centers, Arts Education Funders Collaborative, Arts Provider Alliance of San Francisco, Arts Education Master Plan, WritersCorps. Formerly Neighborhood Arts Program,.

San Francisco WritersCorps
Writers-in-service: published poets, fiction writers, performers conducting workshops with youth aged 6-21, primarily low-income, incarcerated, immigrant, homeless or educationally disadvantaged. Workshops occur in public schools, community centers, detention facilities, after-school programs, low-income housing. Annual anthology of youth writing; writing contests; performances at community venues. A project of San Francisco Arts Commission.

Scholarship in Public: Knowledge Creation and Tenure Policy in the Engaged University
Report proposing that colleges and universities change their tenure and promotion policies that discourage publicly engaged academic work and giving it full standing as scholarship, research or artistic creation, as well as "enlarging the conception of who counts as 'peer' and what counts as 'publication.'” These changes are "part of something bigger: the democratization of knowledge on and off campus. Report is a toolkit for faculty, staff and students to "create enabling settings for doing and reviewing intellectually rigorous public work." Written by Julie Ellison and Timothy K. Eatman; published by Imagining America, 2008.

Schools, Communities and the Arts: A Research Compendium
Arts-education information tool developed by Morrison Institute for Public Policy, Arizona State University, on behalf of the National Endowment for the Arts' Arts in Education Program, 1995.

Settlement Music School
"Largest community-based school of the arts in America," founded 1908 as a social-services center for newly arrived immigrants. Serves 15,000 children and adults in Greater Philsdelphia, 40% on scholarship or financial aid. Individual and group classes in music and related arts. Ensemble Program, Therapeutic Arts Program, award-winning Kaleidoscope Preschool, Teacher Training Institute for the Arts, concerts, summer institutes. Einstein played there weekly.

Shanti Foundation for Peace
Fosters peace, acceptance, and understanding in the everyday interactions of people, through visual, literary, and performing arts programs in schools and communities. Projects include Arts and Nonviolence Concepts Handbook for grades 1-12. Based in Evanston, Ill.; founded 1993 by Indira Freitas Johnson.

Sharon Siskin
Web site of artist Sharon Siskin, showcasing her visual art and tracking her experience in community-based public art projects in the San Francisco Bay Area AIDS support-service community; in the City of Berkeley homeless women and children services community; with San Francisco Recycling & Disposal, Inc; and as founder of Postive Art. She is currently an assistant professor of visual art at University of San Francisco and co-director, with Richard Kamler of Arts Outreach: The Artist as Citizen, which seeks to embed student art practioners into communities to collaboratively engage in community-based art.

Socrates Sculpture Park
New York city park built on an abandoned riverside landfill and illegal dumpsite in 1986 by a coalition of artists and community members under leadership of artist Mark di Suvero. An open studio and exhibition space for artists, neighborhood park for local residents, outdoor museum, artist residency program. Offers special events, in-school programs and partnerships, summer outdoor artmaking workshops. Located in Long Island City (Queens).

Songwriting Works
Model for promoting health of elders, youth and families through "the power of songwriting and performance." Songwriting workshops and artist-in-residence programs; trainings for professionals in healthcare, music, expressive arts therapies, spirituality, education; research and public awareness projects; publications, films, recordings; events. Web site has "song of the day," downloads. Founded 1990 by Judith-Kate Friedman; based in Port Townshend, Wash.

Spark Web
Companion Web resource to KQED public television show about San Francisco Bay Area artists and arts organizations. Media resources, educational materials and professional-development training, including comprehensive Educator Guides and arts-education tools to help K-12 and post-secondary educators use Spark in the classroom. Artist profiles; digital library of video/audio streams of Bay Area artists; Spark Guide to the arts in the area: events, tours, "cool deals," classes and family fun.

Spiral Workshop
Saturday art program for Chicago teens at University of Illinois at Chicago. Part of Art Education degree at UIC.

Stand and Unfold Yourself: A Monograph on the Shakespeare and Company Research Study
Harvard's Project Zero studied two seasons of 20-year-old professional theater company's school-education programs. Asked: (1) Why do these programs work so well? (2) What are participants are actually learning? (3) What is critical to success of these programs? Found arts provide ideal setting for "profound learning experiences" in high levels of literacy, social and personal growth and development, and development of higher-order thinking skills. By Steve Seidel (In Champions of Change, the Arts Education Partnership and the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, 1999).

Steps to Art
Grant program supporting preschool arts-education initiatives at the local level.

Stitching Truth: Women’s Protest Art in Pinochet’s Chile
Study guide on the arpilleristas, women who used their art and tapestries to attract international attention to the human rights abuses occurring during Pinochet's dictatorship in Chile, 1973-1990. Includes historical narrative, primary sources, poetry, discussion questions and images of the arpilleras (tapestries). Downloadable from the Web site of Facing History and Ourselves.

Stone & Water
A South Korean "supplement space ... extending from the realm of art to the scope of life" in An Yang. "Moves towards the new art movement based on social, regional networks, pushing ahead various artistic activities based on local and public interests." Projects: Education, public art, international artists' residencies. + Anyang-River Project, Seoksu-Market Project, Art Education Project. Directed by Chan Eung Park.

Story Workshop (Malawi)
Artist-scholar team "creating entertainment for social change in Malawi" on behalf of human rights, democracy, AIDS education, literacy, etc. Using radio, TV, comics, village drama.

Storycatchers Theatre (formerly Music Theatre Workshop)
Youth-arts development organization teaches disadvantaged young people writing, producing, and performing original musical theater inspired by personal stories. Works in schools, parks and juvenile prisons in metro Chicago area. Programs: Teens Together; Fabulous Females (for young women incarcerated at Illinois Youth Center at Warrenville); Temporary LockDown (storytelling, movement, drumming workshops for young men/women students at Nancy B. Jefferson Alternative School, Cook County Juvenile Detention Center. Founded 1984 by Meade Palidofsky.

Strengthening Partnerships and Building Public Will for Out-of-School Time Programs
Report describing three strategies municipal leaders have used successfully to advance after-school programming: involving many organizations and agencies in the OST effort; keeping after-school on the public agenda; and heading the development of shared vision for after-school and other out-of-school time opportunities. Downloadable. Written by Heather Clapp Padgette, Sharon Deich and Lane Russell; published by National League of Cities’ Institute for Youth, Education, and Families, 2010

Students at the Center
Independent writing-based program directly serving high schools and middle schools in Orleans Parish public school system of New Orleans, La. Student mentor program, staff development for teachers, teen newspaper, teen and multiple-school forums, talk show, publications, media projects, community collaborations.

Studio Tara
Online "laboratory" of environmental artist Ann Tevy Rosenthal. Attempt "to forge a hybrid practice of art and environmental consciousness." Include curriculum for class on eco-art.

Studio in a School
Nonprofit, visual arts-in-education organization that places professional artists in public schools throughout New York City's five boroughs.

Sundown Schoolhouse
"Geodesic-home-based educational environment with an activist mission." Based at Sundown Gardens, home of artist Fritz Haeg in the Mount Washington neighborhood of Los Angeles, Calif. Workshops, classes and seminars at Sundown and around the world. Projects may last one day or an entire season. Sundown Gardens is an ongoing laboratory that inspired Gardenlab and its ecology-based art and design projects, including Edible Estates and Animal Estates.

Sura Arts Academy
Youth photography program at Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, Mich. Instructors from Detroit's College for Creative Studies teach courses in basic camera operation, provide the participants with digital cameras, and send them into their communities to document topics such as work, food, religion, recreation and family life. Students discuss their photographs in sessions designed to "strengthen cultural awareness among the area's diverse groups of Arab Americans, African Americans, Latinos and other groups in primarily lower-income communities."

TIGed
Virtual classroom resource for educators by TakingITGlobal, an international organization based in Toronto, Ont., Canada, "led by youth and empowered by technology." TIGed includes The Activities Database, a collection of global education-related activities, linked to curriculum, submitted by teachers and partners; Collaboration Tools: special features to help educators find partners for global collaborations; Video Chat to enable student dialogue across cultures and geographies in real time.

TILT (Teaching Intermedia Literacy Tools)
San Francisco-based nonprofit organization working in school programs and community organizations to teach moviemaking fundamentals and the language of media.

TRUCE
The Renaissance University for Community Education at Harlem Children's Zone in New York, youth-development program for 200 adolescents that fosters academic growth and career readiness through the arts, media literacy, health and multimedia technology. Teens create award-winning cable TV program ("The Real Deal") featuring poetry, video dramas and documentaries; community murals and gardens; quarterly newspaper (Harlem Overheard). Intensive college-prep program, The Insight Center.

Tamalpa Institute
Movement-based healing arts program withtraining programs and workshops in the Halprin Process, integrating movement/dance, visual arts, performance techniques and therapeutic practices to support personal, interpersonal and social transformation, teaching new models for health, psychology, art and communication. Co-founded 1978 by Anna and Daria Halprin. Workshops, certification, degrees, professional registrations, CEUs, apprenticeships.

Tapped In
Online workplace of an international community of education professionals. Created by SRI International's Center for Technology in Learning.

Teachers & Writers Collaborative
Online network with Virtual Poetry Workshop, listserv, Writers on Teaching, Writers on Writing, Student Poem of the Month.

Teaching Artist Journal
Quarterly print journal for teaching artists -- professionals with skills in both teaching and the arts -- and those who employ and train them. "Neither a traditional scholarly journal (although it includes scholarly articles) nor a traditional professional publication (although it includes articles describing practice), TAJ is a broad, jargon-free, imaginative, direct, and heartfelt peer-reviewed publication addressing the fullest range of practice, research, theory, opinion, and issues related to Teaching Artists." Edited by Nick Jaffe at the Center for Arts Policy, Columbia College Chicago; published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Teaching Literacy Through Art
Three-year study to evaluate the impact of arts education on literacy among elementary-school children. Finds that students in the Guggenheim Museum program Learning Through Art performed better in several categories of literacy and critical thinking skills — including extended focus, hypothesizing, and providing multiple interpretations — than did students not in the program. Published by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2005-7.

Teaching Theatre
Educational Theatre Association’s quarterly journal for theater educators. Typically includes an articles on acting, directing, playwriting or technical theater; profiles outstanding educational theater programs; pieces on curriculum design, assessment or teaching methodology; reports on current trends or issues in the field, such as funding, standards or certification.

Teenage Life
Organization in Tanzania carrying out projects to educate young people about HIV/AIDS, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), media and culture. Workshops and presentations at Tanzanian universities, schools and communities and 30 cities worldwide. Uses information and communication technology, video, television, radio, music, intercultural exchange, publications, numerous partnerships. Co-founded Tanzanian Youth Network, co-operates an orphanage center for Tanzanian children. Founded in Dar es Salaam, 2000.

The After-School Corporation
TASC, first nonprofit organization in U.S. to set about building a citywide K-12 after-school system. Funds monitors, evaluates and supports after-school programs in New York City public schools. Dedicated to building after-school field nationally. Model programs, advocacy, document library, yough funders database, newsletter. Includes arts programs. a Cross-Sector Resource.

The Art of Democracy - Democracy as Art: Creative Learning in Afterschool Comic Book Clubs
Analysis and synthesis of national launch of The Comic Book Project, an arts-based literacy and learning initiative hosted by Teachers College, Columbia University with materials published by Dark Horse Comics. Paper examines the children's processes and products through the lens of John Dewey's "Democracy and Education." Written by Michael Bitz (project founder); published by Robert Bowne Foundation in Afterschool Matters, 2006. (PDF)

The Art of the Animateur
Research report called "an investigation into the skills and insights required of artists to work effectively in schools and communities." Action research project on practices and environments necessary for high-quality work work of animateurs (teaching artists in England). First stage of longer-term inquiry. By George Odam, Anna Ledgard, Christopher Lucas, et al. (Animarts in partnership with The London International Festival of Theatre and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, 2003).

The Artist Inside Program
Nonprofit art program in a juvenile facility in New Mexico. Taught and facilitated by an all volunteer multidisciplinary team including photographer, multimedia artist and videographer—all educators in the Las Cruces, N.M., community working as college instructor, physician and university professor respectively. Site includes newsletter and gallery.

The Canvas: National Art Therapy Student Newsletter
Web newsletter by art therapy students at Emporia State U., Kansas, with editors in seven U.S. regions.

The Drawing Center
New York small museum established to demonstrate significance and diversity of drawings throughout history and stimulate public dialogue on issues of art and culture. Museum's free education program, the Michael Iovenko School Programs, have served 75,000 local public-school students through drawing activities and discussions inspired by approaches of the exhibiting artists.

The Heritage School
Arts-centered secondary school in New York's East Harlem, a partnership between The New York City Department of Education and Teachers College, Columbia University. New York's cultural institutions (museums, gardens, theaters concert halls) used as "texts for learning." Located in Julia de Burgos Latino Cultural Center, which provides studios and performing space for Latino artists, dancers, musicians and actors as the centerpiece of an East Harlem Cultural Corridor. Center is also home to Taller Boriqua, Puerto Rican Workshop Inc., Los Plenaros de la 21, Puerto Rican Traveling Theater and Rebel Theater Company.

The Power of Culture
Site reviewing art and cultural expressions in conjunction with human rights, education, the environment, emancipation and democratization around the world. By the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. E-mail newsletter, calendar, festivals, links.

The Qualities of Quality: Understanding Excellence in Arts Education
Report by researchers at Harvard’s Project Zero on their exploration of the key attributes of “quality” in arts learning in K-12, using interviews with arts educators and others, case studies and a literature review. Includes a set of tools that can assist in making decisions about achieving and sustaining quality arts education. Written by Steve Seidel, Shari Tishman, Ellen Winner, Lois Hetland and Patricia Palmer; published by Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education, 2009. Downloadable.

The Qualities of Quality: Understanding Excellence in Arts Education
Study presents definitions of, markers of excellence in and the effects of foundational decisions on high quality arts learning and teaching, based on interviewe with leading arts practitioners, theorists and administrators; visits to exemplary arts programs across a range media and settings; and review of published literature. Written by Steven Seidel, Shari Tishman, Lois Hetland, Ellen Winner and Patricia Palmer. Commissioned by Wallace Foundation; published by Project Zero, Harvard Grduate School of Education, June 2009. Downloadable as pdf.

The Service-Learning Initiative
Initiative at The Ohio State University that assists in developing and maintaining collaborative university/community partnerships. Supports development, implementation and evaluation of service-learning courses. Encourages community-based scholarship. Web site has tools and training modules for working with community agencies/institutions. Affiliated with the Office of University Outreach and Engagement. A Cross-Sector Resource.

The Steel Yard
In Providence, R.I., offering arts and technical training programs, career-oriented training and small-business incubation at the historic Providence Steel and Iron site; 5,612-square-foot industrial shop with foundry, ceramics studio, blacksmithing & welding shops, studio space, outdoor work and exhibition space. Caters to working artists, students and community members, tradespeople, arts educators and entrepreneurs. Partners: Urban Agriculture Unit with mobile greenhouse for local education projects; Industrial Evolution promoting creative re-use of industrial discards; PUENTE, redeveloping environmentally, economically and socially sustainable community assets for communities facing gentrification; NOD (New Object Design) Studio, innovative re-purposers of old factory materials.

The Unusual Suspects
Brings together entertainment-industry artists (directors, actors, writers, costume and set designers) to teach their craft to kids in the juvenile justice system and foster care, who then mount their own plays. Based in Los Angeles, Calif.; founded by Laura Leigh Hughes.

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.

Theatre Action Project
Creates socially relevant, interactive theater and educational programming with children and the adults who care for them, collaborating with a variety of agencies serving youth, including Safe Place, Lifeworks, Juvenile Court/Gardner Betts, The Girl Scouts and more. In-school interactive performance residencies, youth theater company development, afterschool programs, community workshops, festivals. Located in Austin, Texas.

Theatre and Social Change (TASC)
Focus group of Association for Theatre in Higher Education (ATHE) in U.S.

TheatreWorks Consulting
Company based in Victoria, B.C., Canada, that offers workshops using games and exercises of Theatre for Living to work for healthy change in schools, communities, organizations and workplaces.

Third Space: When Learning Matters
Book based on three-year research study of ten elementary, middle and high schools serving economically disadvantaged students in urban and rural regions of the U.S. Draws on current research in cognitive science, student engagement and youth development to explore how and why the arts have enabled the schools to succeed where others often fail. Web site includes tool kits, school demographics, schol profiles. Written, published by Arts Education Partnership, 2005.

Tigertail Productions
Florida's pioneer presenter of innovative art since 1979. International exchanges, Tigertail Youth Project in Little Havana, danceAble, educational and community programs. Based in Miami, directed by Founder Mary Luft.

Tohono O'odham Community Action
Independent grassroots organization in Tohono O'odham (formerly known as Papago) Nation, Sonoran Desert, 60 miles west of Tucson, Arizona, creating culturally based responses to problems of severe poverty, health, juvenile violence, lack of education, loss of language, traditions and ceremonies. Includes Community Arts Program to revitalize tribal cultural traditions. Online gallery. Founded by artist Terrol Dew Johnson and organizer Tristan Reader, recipients of Ford Foundation's Leadership for a Changing World Award.

Toolkit for Teaching the Arts
Toolkit by New York State Alliance for Arts Education, created in reponse to requests for information from the field. For artists, teachers, parents, school board members, district administrators, and citizen advocates.

Tostan
African grassroots organization using the arts in nonformal education in local languages (the Community Empowerment Program) to educate poor villagers in Senegal and neighboring countries about development and human rights. Uses modern and traditional African oral techniques, including theater, storytelling, dance, artwork, song, debate, and the sharing of personal experience. "Community-led successes" in six countries in West and East Africa: abandoning female genital cutting, ending child marriage, promoting grassroots democracy, improving maternal and child health, preventing and treating malaria and more. Microcredit program, prison project.

Transformative Learning Centre
Based at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of University of Toronto (OISE/UT). Supports open, supportive collaboration in transformative learning with all OISE/UT departments and centers. Includes arts/cultural strategies. Five main programs of research, teaching and action: Peace and Human Rights Education, Environmental Education, Popular Education and Community Development, Spirituality and Education, Citizenship Learning and Participatory Democracy. Conferences, newsletter, summer institute, online photo galleries. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Tribes Project
Teen theater based in Seattle, Wash., high schools creating acclaimed diversity projects.

Tucson Arts Brigade
Tucson, Ariz., nonprofit organization dedicated to "the participatory arts" with emphasis on mural production and professional arts education for youth and adults.

Tucson Public Art
Tour of public art in Tucson, Ariz., created by pre-service public-school art teachers from a course at U. of Arizona.

UC Berkeley Arts Education Initiative
Initiative based at Graduate at School of Education, University of California, Berkeley. Promotes arts as central to school curriculum and culture by fostering integration of arts into education of preservice teachers, principals and K-12 students. Grantee of Ford Foundation's "Integrating the Arts And Education Reform" program.

USC Annenberg Getty Arts Journalism Fellowship Program
Enrichment and training program for mid-career print, broadcast and online arts reporters and editors. Based at University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Calif.

Union Mission
Mission in Savannah, Ga., providing shelter and services for men, women and children impacted by homelessness; founded 1936. Includes Growing Hope Initiative: arts & crafts program, Artists Cooperative, entrepreneurial training and sales. Showcases at Starfish Café and at Parent & Child of Union Mission. Planned for 2007: Growing Hope Gallery, featuring expressive arts workshop space and retail store for Coopertive Artisans and Friends of the Cooperative.

Unusual Suspects Theatre Company
Provides in-depth theater-arts education for underserved youth in juvenile detention, foster care and probation, and/or are at high risk for joining a gang throughout Los Angeles County, Calif. Core program: 12-week intensive workshop culminating in a play written, produced and performed by participants. Professional development for teachers. Curriculum on Web site. Founded 1993 by actress Laura Leigh Hughes, following civil unrest of the Los Angeles riots.

Urban Gateways Center for Arts Education
Arts-education resource based in Chicago, Ill. Serves as partner and facilitator in building educational relationships and maintaining long-term strategic arts-integration programs. Artist residencies; parent workshops; Community Schools partnerships with six Chicago schools; Ailey Camp summer dance and youth-development partnership with Ailey American Dance Theater, Chicago Park District and Chicago Public Schools; Art Options career-development program for junior-high and high-school students; Arts Education Advocacy Groups; Consultant Projects.

VALUES Project
Network of schools and educators learning to engage all students in deep learning and understanding through the teaching and integration of the visual arts in public schools. Collaboration of Center for Art and Public Life at California College of the Arts, Alameda County Office of Education and Project Zero at Harvard Graduate School of Education. Investigates creative cognitive processes and supports best practices developed from this research in K–12 education.

VH1 Save the Music Foundation
Nonprofit initiative to restore music education programs in U.S. public schools, raise awareness of positive impact music participation has on students.

VSA Arts Florida
Programs for people with disabilities: development, for youth involved in crime and violence, arts in medicine, professional development for teachers, school and preschool, arts camp, exhibitions, registry, playwright discovery, literacy and more.

Veith Street Gallery Studio Association
Organization based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, that supports artists with disabilities and related challenges. Programs: Creative Spirit East artist collective, exhibited through Veith Street Gallery and Pedway Picture Gallery in Dartmouth; Artist in Residence Program; The Visual Connections Project, educational programs for persons with disabilities and community-service providers.

Venice Arts: In Neighborhoods
Los Angeles, Calif.-based media arts organization working primarily with low-income children in photography, film and digital arts locally, regionally and internationally. Arts mentoring programs, ArtPartners, Institute for Photographic Empowerment (with USC Annenberg school for Communication), Social Art Initiative. Directed by Lynn Warshafsky and Jim Hubbard.

Vera List Center for Art + Politics
The New School's vehicle for debate, discussion, research and reflection concerning the complex and vital relationship between politics and the arts. Public lectures, courses, symposia, publications, research activities, Webcasts, online discussion.

Village Dancers
San Francisco State University program (through S.F. Urban Institute) that sends students to teach free dance classes to children in San Francisco's Visitacion Valley and Bayview neighborhoods. Founded 2001 by Katherine Dunham Technique Dance Master Albirda Rose of SFSU’s School of Music and Dance; taught by SFSU’s graduate and undergraduate dance students. Annual concert.

Voices UnBroken
Bronx-based community organization that believes "everyone has a story to tell, and that story is important. " Creative writing workshops in prisons, jails, juvenile detention centers and other alternative settings. Founded in 2001 by Victoria Sammartino.

Why the Arts Matter in Education: or Just What Do Children Learn When They Create an Opera?
Study of school-based elementary opera program. Found that students in the opera setting participate more substantively in group interactions than students in alternative settings. This collaborative work leads to more effective problem solving. Uses both qualitative and quantitative data. By Dennie Palmer Wolf (In Champions of Change, the Arts Education Partnership and the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, 1999).

William James Association
Nonprofit organization that promotes work service in the arts, environment, education and community development. Based in Santa Cruz, Calif. Prison Arts Project and Community Youth Arts Project hire professional visual, literary and performing artists to teach in California state prison facilities and work with disenfranchised and "at-risk" youth in alternative schools and detention facilities in and around Santa Cruz. Fiscal Sponsorship Program provides emerging nonprofit groups and community organizations withgrant-related administrative support, tax-exempt status and fiscal sponsorship. Founded 1973 by Page Smith and Paul Lee; named for American philosopher William James, who was concerned with relationship between philosophical thought and social action.

William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences
Research/study center at University of Massachusetts, Boston, that provides educational and other services to veterans, conducts research and makes policy recommendations, and encourages teaching and scholarship on the Vietnam War and social consequences. Writing training program, cultural exchange with Vietnam, exhibitions, lectures, readings, performances, annual Summer Institute on War and Social Consequences. Founded 1982 in response to initiative of the university's large student veteran population; named after William Joiner, African-American veteran and the university's first director of veterans' affairs. Directed by poet and Vietnam veteran Kevin Bowen. A Cross-Sector Resource.

WondeRoot
Atlanta-based nonprofit arts organization committed to uniting artists and community to inspire positive social change. WonderRoot Community Arts Center provides production facilities, facilitates arts-based service programs, encourages artists to be proactive in engaging their local communities through service work.

Wormfarm Institute
Programs "reintegrating culture and agriculture" at New Erth WormFarm CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) in rural Wisconsin, supporting the idea that "sustainability" includes a vibrant creative community. Artist residencies, Wormworks Youth Outreach Program and Renewal Gardens, Artward Bound, Meyer Oak Grove project, Wormcastings Foundry, community murals, exhibitions, concerts.

WriteNet
Resource for writers and teachers interested in teaching imaginative writing.

YA/YA
Young Artists/Young Aspirations, a New-Orleans, La.-based school, community center, gallery and working studio employing commercial-art students (primarily African Americans) from nearby L. E. Rabouin Career Magnet High School. This is a link to a book about the organization.

Yolocalli Youth Museum
Youth initiative of Chicago's Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum, established 1997 as an arts-education and career-training program. Year-round free classes (ages 13-21), exhibitions, visiting artists and artist-in-residence programs, time arts events, performances, video screenings, workshops. Partners: Goodman Theatre, Gallery 37, Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Young Artist Explorers
Documentation of community-based project between California artist Jamie Treacy and 12 young artists in Tlacolula, Oaxaca, Mexico, July-October 2006. Three-month free art curriculum and materials, inlcuding exhibition and Web site. With Oaxaca artist Gerardo de la Barerra, Casa de la Cultura of Tlacolula and a student grant from California College of Arts Center for Art and Public Life in Oakland.

Youth Ensemble of Atlanta
Georgia-based African-American youth theater company. Original issue-based musical dramas, professional training, internships, record company, international exchange, scholarships, Youth Empowerment Summer. Founded 1990 by Freddie Hendricks.

Youth Under Construction
Collection of students, teachers and musicians with positive vision of Hip Hop music. Music production, school programs, community collaborations. Founded 1992 by Harmony Garden Entertainment, Royal Oak, Mich. Listen to music online, read lyrics.

Youth Uprising
Nonprofit organization, seeded and supported by Alameda County and the City of Oakland, Calif., with wide range of programs and services that develop youth leadership, including arts, helth/wellness, career and education, social entrepreneurship and community building. Grew out of needs articulated by Oakland youth in 1997 after racial violence at Castlemont High School. 2,500 sq. ft. building, Media Arts Center, Dance Studio Center, Moroccan Soul Living Room, Material Arts Studio, Health Clinic, Career & Education Center, youth-run full-service restaurant & catering business.

Youth in Arts
Organization providing visual- and performing- arts educational experiences and cultural events to San Francisco Bay Area public and private schools. Programs: Artists in Schools, Very Special Arts, Performing Arts Series, Til Dawn teen a cappella group; Italian Street Painting Festival.

Zaccho Dance Theatre
Site-specific dance and arts-education company with offices in San Francisco's Bayview/Hunter's Point district and partnerships with neighborhood social-service, educational and community-support institutions. Youth training in aerial dance, performance, community research; Zaccho Youth company of performers ages 11-14; student performances in S.F. theaters, artspaces. Directed by choreographer Joanna Haigood.

Zinn Education Project
Promotes and supports the use of Howard Zinn’s "A People's History of the United States" and his other books, which emphasize the role of working people, women, people of color, and organized social movements in shaping history. Coordinated by two nonprofit organizations, Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change.

fugitivespaces
New art organization "putting research back into grassroots practice and bringing art and education practitioners to the forefront of critical debate." Key concerns: to develop understanding of a diversity of art and education practice and how it functions in a range of social spaces. Articles, studies, blog. Based in U.K.