ALLGO- Austin Latina/Latino Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Organization »

Vision The Austin Latina/Latino Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Organization envisions a just and equitable society that celebrates and nurtures vibrant people of color queer cultures. Mission The Austin Latina/Latino Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual &... more »

Albany Park Theater Project »

Albany Park Theater Project is a multiethnic ensemble of teenagers creating original performance works out of real-life stories from Chicago's immigrant, working-class Albany Park neighborhood. Our mission emphasizes three goals: to create dynam... more »

All-ages Movement Project »

*Read a detailed profile of All-ages Movement Project by clicking on the CCP Profile link below. Calling all all-ages music venues, youth record producers, alternative art spaces, cultural collectives, nonprofits, and businesses putting power in... more »

Allied Media Conference »

The Allied Media Conference (AMC) is an annual gathering of the grassroots media movement. The AMC brings together those working at the cutting edge of social justice-based independent film, radio, print, web, Hip Hop, and youth-based organizing. ... more »

Appalachian Media Institute »

The Appalachian Media Institute (AMI) invites you to listen to youth produced media about the issues facing rural voters. AMI youth producer Autumn Campbell reflects on the experience of being a first time voter in the upcoming election and the n... more »

Appalshop Radio station WMMT-FM »

WMMT's programming is as diverse as its listenership, but we are particularly proud of our commitment to traditional Appalachian music and its descendant, bluegrass music. But we also have killer rock & roll shows, Americana, Celtic, Kids Radio, jazz... more »

Arab American National Museum »

*Read a detailed profile of the Arab American National Musuem by clicking on the CCP Profile link at the bottom of this page. The Arab American National Museum, the new home of ACCESS' Cultural Arts Program, strives to foster a better understand... more »

Art in the Public Interest (API) »

API is a nonprofit organization formed in 1995 to serve the information needs of artists and organizations who are bringing the arts together with community and social concerns. Based in North Carolina, API was founded by co-directors Linda Frye Burn... more »

Asian Arts Community Development Corporation »

As an active Community Development Corporation, we serve the Greater Boston Asian American community through a variety of programs. Through our Physical Development activities and our Community Programs, we seek to preserve, revitalize, and build up... more »

Asian Arts Initiative »

At the Asian Arts Initiative, we are artists and performers, youth and parents, poets and writers, directors and actors, and musicians and dancers. We all believe in the following mission: We are grounded in the belief that the arts can provide an... more »

Association of Performing Arts Presenters »

The Association of Performing Arts Presenters (Arts Presenters) is a national service and advocacy organization with more than 1,600 members worldwide dedicated to bringing artists and audiences together. Arts Presenters is committed to increasing co... more »

Beehive Design Collective »

The Beehive’s mission: To cross-pollinate the grassroots, by creating collaborative, anti-copyright images that can be used as educational and organizing tools. In the process of this effort we seek to take the “who made that!?â€ï... more »

Bloomington Media Arts Group (BMAG) »

BMAG is a community media organization serving Indiana University and Bloomington, Indiana. We are a group of students and area residents utilizing the media arts as tools for local activism, civic engagement, and community development. Our volunt... more »

Blue Mountain Center »

Blue Mountain Center is a working community of writers, artists, activists and musicians in Blue Mountain Lake, New York in the Adirondack Mountains. The Center exists to provide a peaceful and comfortable environment in which guests are able to work... more »

Breakthrough: Building Human Rights Culture »

Breakthrough: Building Human Rights Culture is an international human rights organization which uses education and popular culture to promote values of dignity, equality and justice. ... more »

Carry it Forward! »

We are human rights and social issues specialists, with expertise delivering precise, intelligent and compelling messages. Whether it's a training, organizing or educational video, our clients have found us easy to work with and eager to help realize... more »

Center for Art and Public Life »

The Center for Art and Public Life creates community partnerships using the arts to address issues of social justice, diversity, community development, and education. Our programming is woven across disciplines at California College of the Arts and s... more »

Center for Rural Strategies »

The Center for Rural Strategies is a public-spirited communications organization that seeks to improve rural life by increasing public understanding about the importance and value of rural communities. Our goals are to use media strategically to re... more »

Centro Cultural del Parque »

The Park Cultural Center's mission is to serve and empower Sunset Park's Mexican immigrant community by increasing the Spanish-language skills of Mexican primary school age children, present family-oriented cultural events, and organize educational i... more »

Common Assets Defense Fund »

Common Assets has reorganized and merged operations with Tomales Bay Institute. Inquiries should be directed to our new headquarters: Common Assets and Tomales Bay Institute, PO Box 14967, Minneapolis MN 55114 or contact tbicoordinator@earthlink.net.... more »

Community Arts Network (CAN) »

The Community Arts Network (CAN) promotes information exchange, research and critical dialogue within the field of community-based arts, that is, art made as a voice and a force within a specific community of place, spirit or tradition. CAN was initi... more »

County Judge: Documentary Film and Community Forums (Appalshop) »

*Read a detailed profile of Robert Salyers the filmmaker of the County Judge on the "Profiles of Exemplary, Arts, and Democracy Projects" page of our site. Appalshop is a multi-disciplinary arts and education center producing original films, video... more »

Creative America Project, The »

Our purpose is to generate a collective vision of Creative America - how can we liberate the creativity of all our citizens? ... more »

Critical Encounters, Columbia College »

Beginning as an idea and initiative of the Provost's Office, Critical Encounters is a project that intends to be a model for interactive, community-inclusive civic engagement that exploits and explores the relationship between art and social science,... more »

DemocraticVistasProfiles: Essays in the Arts and Democracy »

DemocraticVistasProfiles: Essays in the Arts and Democracy DemocraticVistasProfiles is a continuing series of literary profiles featuring artists and arts leaders who live and work at the intersection of the arts and democratic life. What we... more »

Dialog City: An Event Converging Art, Democracy and Digital Media" »

A First: Offical Public Art at Democratic Convention With the first event of its kind at a national political convention, Denver's Office of Cultural Affairs will launch neighborhood public art events for the Democratic Convention. "Dialog:City: An... more »

Ella Baker Center for Human Rights »

The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights is a strategy and action center working for justice, opportunity and peace in urban America. Based in Oakland, California, we promote positive alternatives to violence and incarceration through our four cutting-... more »

Esperanza Peace and Justice Center »

La Voz de Esperanza speaks for many individual, progressive voices who are gente-based, multi-visioned and milagro-bound. We are diverse survivors of materialism, racism, misogyny, homophobia, classism, violence, earth-damage, speciesism and cultural... more »

Fair Share Research and Education Fund »

Fair Share Research & Education Fund is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization founded in 1981 as a supporting organization of Oregon Fair Share. When Oregon Fair Share closed in 1997, FSRE affiliated with Oregon Action, supporting its work, which carries ... more »

Feral Arts »

For more than fifteen years Sarah Moynihan and Norm Horton have been the coordinators of Feral Arts, a community cultural development organisation based in Brisbane, Australia. Feral Arts helps to build inclusive, sustainable and creative communities... more »

Finding Phoenix at ASU »

Everyone has a story. Every city has a history. In the spirit of community building, the Herberger College of Fine Arts Community Partnerships Office will launch its Finding Phoenix project this summer. Community members are invited to come to the Ge... more »

Free Speech TV »

Seizing the power of television to expand social consciousness, FSTV fuels the movement for progressive social, economic, and political transformation. By exposing the public to perspectives excluded from the corporate-owned media, FSTV empowers citi... more »

Free Spirit Media »

Free Spirit Media partners with schools and organizations to provide education, access, and opportunity in media production to under-served urban youth. Through hands-on production of their own video programs, participants build skills in communic... more »

Future of Music Coalition »

The Future of Music Coalition is a not-for-profit collaboration between members of the music, technology, public policy and intellectual property law communities. The FMC seeks to educate the media, policymakers, and the public about music / technolo... more »

Georgia Assembly of Community Arts Agencies, The (GACAA) »

The Georgia Assembly of Community Arts Agencies' mission is to strengthen and foster community arts organizations in Georgia - connect community arts organizations, provide professional development and technical assistance, and promote the arts. ... more »

Groundswell Community Mural Project »

Groundswell Community Mural Project is a Brooklyn-based, 501(c)(3) founded in 1996. Groundswell brings together professional artists, grassroots organizations and communities in partnership to create high quality murals in under-represented neighborh... more »

HOMELAND SECURITY A multi-media performance by Marty Pottenger and a diverse cast of Maine citizens. »

*Read an in-depth profile of Marty Pottenger on the "Profiles of Exemplary Arts, Culture and Democracy Projects" page of our site (main menu of arts and democracy page) or by clicking on the CCP Profile link at the bottom of this page. What does h... more »

Hip Hop Congress »

The Hip Hop Congress uses the culture of Hip Hop to inspire young people to get involved social action, civic service, and cultural creativity. Hip Hop Congress is the product of a merger of artists and students, music and community. It is significan... more »

Hip-Hop Summit Action Network »

Founded in 2001, the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network (HSAN) is dedicated to harnessing the cultural relevance of Hip-Hop music to serve as a catalyst for education advocacy and other societal concerns fundamental to the well-being of at-risk youth thro... more »

Hip-Hop Summit Action Network (HSAN) »

Founded in 2001, the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network (HSAN) is dedicated to harnessing the cultural relevance of Hip-Hop music to serve as a catalyst for education advocacy and other societal concerns fundamental to the well-being of at-risk youth thro... more »

Holler to the Hood »

Holler to the Hood is a multi-media human rights project designed to foster collaboration and communication between urban and rural communities. The project was initiated by Appalshop artists in response to the growing prison boom in the economicall... more »

Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life Annual National Conference »

Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life is a national consortium of colleges and universities committed to public scholarship in the arts, humanities, and design. Public scholarship joins serious intellectual endeavor with a commitm... more »

IndiGENIUS Media Project Home »

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Institute for Art and Civic Engagement »

The Institute for Art and Civic Engagement (IACE) is an exciting new initiative based in the SMFA's Artist’s Resource Center (ARC) founded in partnership with the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Citizenship and Public Service (UCCPS) at Tufts Universi... more »

Junebug Productions: The Color Line Project »

The Color Line Project has convened artists, educators and activists, and helped them strengthen their understanding of each other and their heritage and community through the an established story-telling methodology called the story circle. In parti... more »

La Pena Cultural Center »

La Pena (gathering place) is a non-profit community cultural center, based at 3105 Shattuck Ave. in Berkeley, where people can experience art and culture from Latin America and from around the world and where community groups involved in both domest... more »

League of Young Voters »

*Read a detailed profile of the League of Young Voters by clicking on the CCP Profile link at the bottom of this page. The League of Young Voters Education Fund/League of Independent Voters is a linked c3/c4 initiative designed to identify and tr... more »

Llano Grande Center »

Located in the rural south Texas town of Elsa and approximately 15 miles north of the U.S.-Mexican border, the Llano Grande Center is an education nonprofit organization that prepares youth for college by addressing three areas: (1) youth leadership... more »

Los Angeles Poverty Department (LAPD) »

*Read detailed profile of LAPD by clicking on CCP Profile link at the bottom of this page. The LAPD has been working in the area of Arts and the Homeless for many years. Since 1985 LAPD has offered free performance workshops and street shows for ... more »

Lower East Side Tenement Museum »

The Lower East Side Tenement Museum's mission is: to promote tolerance and historical perspective through the presentation and interpretation of the variety of immigrant and migrant experiences on Manhattan's Lower East Side, a gateway to America. ... more »

Media Rights »

MediaRights, a nonprofit organization, helps media makers, educators, librarians, nonprofits, and activists use documentaries to encourage action and inspire dialogue on contemporary social issues.... more »

Minnesota Council of Nonprofits »

Established in 1987, the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits (MCN) is a statewide membership association of nonprofit organizations sharing information, services and research to educate its members and the community. MCN has over 1300 members representin... more »

Music for America »

Music for America is providing the cultural capital and political savvy for our generation to reinvent progressive politics. A BEGINNING Music for America started in 2003 when three guys, recently out of college, none of them experts, had an id... more »

My Daily Constitution »

My Daily Constitution creates a series of daily discussions (free and open to the public, complimentary copy of the Constitution included) about our laws and our U.S. Constitution over a one-week period in different settings (cafes, libraries, theatr... more »

National Hip Hop Political Convention »

NHHPC is using the historical/ cultural framework of hip-hop as a rally cry for organizing and mobilizing young people to develop a political agenda and get them involved in electoral politics on the local, state and federal level. The goals of ... more »

Northland Poster Collective: Where Art Meets Organizing »

Northland Poster Collective is recognized as a primary source for art and organizing products for the labor movement. ... more »

Overexposure »

OVEREXPOSURE is a media arts organization that creates partnerships between photographers, artists, students, academic learning institutions, and tax exempt nonprofits on theme specific media projects. We are the first Twin Cities media arts organiza... more »

P.O.V. »

P.O.V. (a cinema term for "point of view") is television's longest-running showcase for independent non-fiction films. P.O.V. premieres 14-16 of the best, boldest and innovative programs every year on PBS. Since 1988, P.O.V. has presented over 225 fi... more »

Project Row Houses »

PRH’s work is founded on the principle that art and the community that creates it can revitalize even the most depressed of inner-city neighborhoods, for the mutual good of existing and future residents. Thus, the mission of Project Row Houses is t... more »

Project South »

Project South is a leadership development organization based in the US South creating spaces for movement building. We work with communities pushed forward by the struggle to strengthen leadership and provide popular political & economic education fo... more »

Prometheus Radio Project »

The Prometheus Radio Project is a non-profit organization founded by a small group of radio activists in 1998. We believe that a free, diverse, and democratic media is critical to the political and cultural health of our nation, yet we see unpreceden... more »

Provisions Library and Brushfire »

BrushFire is Provisions' new national public arts initiative showcasing key contemporary artists whose public projects engage crucial social issues such as immigration, the war in Iraq, food, sustainable energy, housing, the electoral process, the... more »

RFK in EKY, The Robert F. Kennedy Performance Project »

Initated in 2004, the Robert F. Kennedy Performance Project is currently partnering with Head Start to organize dialogues about the impact of drugs in Eastern Kentucky as well as developing in-depth documentation of the 2004 RFK Performance Project ... more »

Rock the Vote Education Fund / Rock the Vote »

Rock the Vote is a non-profit, non-partisan organization, founded in 1990 in response to a wave of attacks on freedom of speech and artistic expression. Rock the Vote engages youth in the political process by incorporating the entertainment communi... more »

SPARC (Social and Public Art Resource Center) »

Founded in 1976 by muralist Judith F. Baca, painter Christina Schlesinger, and filmmaker Donna Deitch. The Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC) is an arts center that produces, preserves and conducts educational programs about community base... more »

Scribe Video Center »

SCRIBE VIDEO CENTER, a Philadelphia-based non-profit organization, was founded in 1982 as a place where people could work together and gain skills in media making. Scribe Video Center seeks to explore, develop and advance the use of video as an artis... more »

Sojourn Theatre »

*Read a detailed profile of Sojourn Theatre on the "Profiles of Exemplary Arts, Culture and Democracy Projects" page of our site or by clicking on the CCP Profile link at the bottom of this page. Sojourn Theatre is a multi-ethnic, multilingual, en... more »

Spiral Q Puppet Theater »

Matthew (Mattyboy) Hart founded Spiral Q as a shadow puppet theater, staging performances at local benefits and events. Social change groups came to Spiral Q to make puppets, props and effigies for demonstrations and education campaigns. Through thes... more »

Street Level Youth Media »

Street-Level Youth Media educates Chicago's urban youth in media arts and emerging technologies for use in self-expression, communication, and social change. Street-Level's programs build critical thinking skills for young people who have been hi... more »

TAPIT/new works Ensemble Theater »

"Tear Up the Front Page: Performance and Public Discusson" Combination of statewide listening sessions in Wisconsin with the performance of a new play, by Danielle Dresden, on media issues and the challenges faced by reporters in our contemporary s... more »

Tamejavi Festival »

What Is Tamejavi? For its founders, Tamejavi symbolizes the remembrance of a public space in which a community gathers together to exchange goods, produce, crafts, important news, and to celebrate seasonal events. It brings to mind the place wher... more »

The Race »

A collaboration of A Sojourn Theatre collaboration with Georgetown University led by Sojourn artistic director Michael Rohd (More Info on the theatre under separate Sojourn Theatre entry) The Race is a series of public events, investigations, per... more »

The UnConvention »

Minneapolis, MN—The UnConvention is a unique project that seeks to evolve the definition of civic engagement to include experimentation in art, education, and journalism, and to create a better-informed and more politically active citizenry. Over t... more »

Third World Majority »

Third World Majority (TWM) is a new media training and production resource center run by a collective of young women of color and our allies dedicated to developing new media practices that affect global justice and social change through grassroots p... more »

This Brave National »

This Brave Nation -- an exciting video collaboration between The Nation and Brave New Films -- is releasing the first in a series of intergenerational conversations on June 1st, 2008. It'll be a kind of "living history" project that gives you a chanc... more »

Thousand Kites »

Thousand Kites is a national cultural organizing project created to bring the power of community theater, radio, and digital technology, together in a unique series of events designed to spur dialogue about the burgeoning criminal justice system. ... more »

Twenty-First Century Youth Leadership Movement »

Malika Sanders and LaTosha Brown have proved that it's possible to assert and also build community leadership simultaneously. As directors of the Twenty-first Century Youth Leadership, they are pursuing social change while actively grooming tomorrow'... more »

Urban Bush Women »

*Read an in-depth profile of Urban Bush Women by clicking on the CCP Profile link towards the bottom of this page. Founded in 1984 by Jawole Willia Jo Zollar, URBAN BUSH dance and community engagement; and public projects which encourage cultural... more »

Video Machete »

Video Machete is a Chicago-based, inter-generational, collective of cultural workers. We are activists, students, media artists- both youth and adult- who are all committed to cultivatng images, ideas, and words that transform our communities, raise ... more »

Voices Breaking Boundaries »

The mission of Voices Breaking Boundaries (VBB) is to cross borders, sustain dialogue, and incite cultural change through living art. Voices Breaking Boundaries is a non-profit arts organization that provides a forum for spoken word, visual arts, ... more »

WHEN WOMEN PURSUE JUSTICE Mural Project »

In October 2005, Artmakers Inc. completed its 3,300 square foot mural When Women Pursue Justice. When Women Pursue Justice celebrates 90 women who led or participated in movements for social change in the United States over the past 150 years. Na... more »

We Got Issues: Next Wave of Women & Power »

The Next Wave of Women & Power (NWWP) is an international leadership development network designed for young women ages 15-40. NWWP holistically engages young women in a rigorous experiential curriculum that 1) enhances their wisdom, creativity and in... more »

What America Needs »

What America Needs uses the video documentary interview method to engage and empower poeple. Asking the question, "What do you think America needs?", people are invited to find the answers within themselves. This can start a chain reaction of awarene... more »

Why Democracy? »

WHY DEMOCRACY? is a documentary project using film to initiate a global conversation about democracy. Democracy is arguably the greatest political buzzword of our time and is invoked by everyone - but what does it mean? Can it be defined, measure... more »

Working Films »

*Read a more detailed profile of Working Films by going to the "Profiles of Exemplary Arts, Culture and Democracy" page of our site or by clicking on the CCP Profile link below. Working Films brings the persuasive, provocative and personal narrat... more »

Yo! The Movement »

Yo! The Movement is a non-profit organization that hosts, promotes and implements safe events, programs, and happenings for youth and young adults in Minnesota.... more »

unseenamerica »

unseenamerica is a project in visual democracy. Over 600 groups around the country - migrant workers, nannies, home health aides, building maintenance workers, iraqui vets, and scores of others were given cameras and l2 week classes in seeing and ... more »