Arts Projects for Asylum Seekers and Refugees
Initiates and manages arts projects for asylum seekers and refugees in Portsmouth, England. Ad hoc diverse group affiliated with Friendship Centre, Pallant House Gallery and Portsmouth City Council. Projects: Identity (film and sculpture, 2005-6), New Explorations (music, 2006).

18th Street Arts Center
Nonprofit Santa Monica, Calif., arts center providing live/work space to artists and arts organizations dedicated to issues of community and diversity.

7th Generation Image Makers
Native youth and art program based at Native Child & Family Services of Toronto, Ont., Canada. Works with at-risk Native youth creating murals and art projects such as regalia making, painting, mixed media and photography.

Abhivyakti Media for Development
Based in Nashik, India, dedicated to promoting popular control of economic and community development. Assists organizers with low-cost media. Projects focus on youth, women, environment.

Abundance Project
Community arts and performance project by Marty Pottenger, the Working Theatre and Snug Harbor Cultural Center in New York, gathering stories and exploring ways that people of different classes, races and ages negotiate economics in their daily lives.

Accessible Arts Inc.
Equal access to the arts for children and youth with physical, emotional, psychological disabilities. Training, arts demos, tech assistance, resource center, educational materials. Based in Kansas City, Kan.

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.

Africa Exchange
Program of 651 ARTS in New York City, designed to "preserve, transmit and nurture African culture within U.S. communities and create links between African and U.S.-based artists and explore new artistic forms and mutual influences between cultures."

African American Art & Culture Complex
Community-based cultural organization in the Western Addition neighborhood of San Francisco, Calif. Gallery, theater, rentals, after-school program. Residents: African American Historical & Cultural Society (Archive Library), African American Shakespeare Company, AfroSolo Theatre Company, Cultural Odyssey, Go Productions, Juneteenth Celebration Committee, Raising the Standard Youth Program, SFNoir, Take Wings Foundation, United Projects. City-owned facility.

Aid to Artisans
Offers practical assistance to artisan groups in the world’s poorest areas worldwide; collaboration in product development, business skills training, development of new markets. Commercial connections, small grant program. Founded 1976, partially funded by U.S. Agency for International Development.

American Festival Project
Alliance of artists and performing arts companies who work with communities, utilizing culture and the arts as a grounding place and a means for social change. Home base is Appalshop in central Appalachia. Training and mentoring in community-arts techniques.

Artists in Exile
Multicultural movement of professional artists, refugees from around the world collaborating in celebration of cultural diversity. Based at the Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, West London, England. Launched during Refugee Week in 2001.

Arts Participation New Zealand
Charitable Trust made up of members of the Arts Assembly, the Federation of Community Arts Councils, Community Art Workers Network. Purpose: to encourage, promote, and support participation in the arts in New Zealand by all New Zealanders through information, education and advice, research, advocacy, publications. Principles include recognition of cultural diversity of NZ, role of the Maori, art of the Pacific Islanders.

Arts at University Settlement
Programs for immigrants and low-income people at America's first social settlement, founded in 1886 on New York's Lower East Side.

Asian Arts Initiative
Asian-American community arts center in Philadelphia, Pa. Performances, exhibitions, workshops, films, installations and "training for artists and everyday people who share our mission of community-based arts."

Asian Community Development Corporation
20-year old nonprofit that serves the Asian-American community of Greater Boston by developing affordable housing, promoting economic development, fostering new leadership and building capacity within the community through education, advocacy and action. Numerous arts and cultural projects. Directed by artist Jeremy Liu. A Cross-Sector Resource.

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.

Belfast's Cathedral Quarter
Neighborhood Web site of historic district in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Site created by artists, businesses and residents concerned about area's future and "to gain support for our vision of what the cathedral quarter can become."

Beyondmedia Education
Collaborates with under-served and under-represented women, youth and communities to tell their stories, connect their stories to the world around them, and organize for social justice through the creation and distribution of alternative media and arts. Catalogue of available videos and DVDs. Since 1996, has partnered with over 100 community-based organizations and schools to produce media arts on subjects ranging from girls' activism to women's incarceration. Based in Chicago, Ill.

Black Arts Movement
"Artistic sister of the Black Power Movement," 1974-75. Key concepts, documents, timeline/genealogy, significant people, key institutions, images and role of women, bibliography. Site by Virginia Hiltz and Mike Sell, U. Michigian.

Black August Hip Hop Project
International cultural-activist exchange founded by Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Stress Magazine, and Students for Jericho. Develops and implements International Human Rights Campaign using Hip Hop as a tool and common language. International network of hip-hop artists and activists in three countries. Hip Hop Activism workshops, exchanges between international communities, annual events, DVD and mix tape, benefits for political prisoners. Named after organization established in California prison system in early 1970s by men and women of the Black Liberation Movement.

Blackout Arts Collective
National grassroots coalition of artists, activists and educators working to empower communities of color through the arts. Seven U.S. chapters. Naitonal initiatives: annual tour -- "Lyrics on Lockdown: Slamming the Prison Industrial Complex"; Free! Eduation workshops supporting development and documentation of successful alternatives to failing public schools nationwide.

Bridge Project
Binational, site-specific installation for The Bridge of the Americas spanning Rio Grande/Rio Bravo from El Paso, Tex., to Juarez, Mex.; designed by artists Chrissie Orr and Carlos Callejo.

Cardboard Citizens
"The only professional theatre company in the UK working with homeless and ex-homeless people, including refugees and asylum seekers, as creators, participants and audiences."

Caribbean Cultural Center/Africa Diaspora Institute
New York center founded in 1976 to document and promote cultural history of people of African descent globally, "from Brooklyn to Bahia, from Haiti to Harlem." Works in all media, conferences, workshops, lectures, gallery talks.

Center Borderland of Arts, Cultures, Nations
Border culture project in Poland.

Center for Civic Participation
Works to increase civic engagement by individuals and organizations in communities historically underrepresented in U.S. democratic process. Based in Minneapolis, Minn. Interested in art-and-democracy projects. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Center for Cultural Exchange
Major presenter in Portland, Maine, with ongoing partnerships with Southern Maine's French Canadian, Cambodian, Irish, African-American, African, Greek, Latino, Italian, Jewish, Middle-Eastern and South Asian communities.

Centre for Creative Communities (U.K.)
U.K.-based organization that links arts groups working in cultural development worldwide.

Circle of Stories
Online resources about Native American storytelling. Includes stories, gallery, language and land issues, community, teachers' guide. An Electric Shadows Project by ITVS Interactive.

Civil Rights Memorial Center
Southern Poverty Law Center's Memorial in Mongomery, Ala., designed by artist Maya Lin.

Class Action
Programs to raise consciousness about issues of class and money and their impact on lives, relationships, organizations, institutions and culture. Workshops, institutes, lectures, seminars, coaching, retreats, dialogue groups, support groups, interventions. Techniques include simulation games, small-group sharing, exercises, writing, cross-class dialogue, drama and art. Based in Northampton, Mass.

ColorLines
Online magazine on race, culture, and organizing from the Center for Third World Organizing.

Coming to America: Immigrant Sounds/Immigrant Voices
Music and civic-dialogue project of American Composers Orchestra, exploring evolution of American music through work of immigrant composers

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)

Crear vale la pena
NGO developing programs on social inclusion in Argentina since 1993. Their Art + Social Organization program promotes social transformation and democratic participation devoted to education, artistic production, and promotion of Cultural Community Centers.

CrossConnections
Project engaging the Iranian and Iranian-American Diasopra community in intergenerational, creative dialogue about cultural identity, preservation and representation. Led artist Taraneh Hemami and scholar Persis Karim; based at Center for Art and Public Life, California College of the Arts (2005-6).

Cuentos Foundation
Chicago neighborhood-based arts organization and "think-tank," interdisciplinary and cross-cultural. International Youth Exchange Program, community-organized art & culture celebrations; heritage traditional dance series; La Seguridad/survivors of domestic violence collective art project; public art: murals, performances; pen-pal relationships; youth video; video documentary; international exhibitions; artist workshops/residencies; teacher training programs; publications; international summer intern program.

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 Equity Group
Coalition of cultural arts organizations and artists working for equitable distribution of funds and resources to under-resourced and underserved emerging and mid-sized organizations grounded in the culture and arts of their communities. Objective: to stabilize the field, providing necessary technical assistance and program management resources to assure continued growth of the cultural arts field.

Cultural Vitality in Communities: Interpretation and Indicators
Monograph in Urban Institute’s Arts and Culture Indicators Project. Introduces a widened definition of "cultural vitality" as "evidence of creating, disseminating, validating, and supporting arts and culture as a dimension of everyday life in communities." Broadens "participation" to encompass festival making, amateur arts practice and public validation and discussion of cultural practices in many forms, including print, the Web and arts education (in-school and after-school). Engages "a more diverse and powerful set of stakeholders," including people who are not arts "experts" or professionals. The authors believe this wider view compels policymakers, funder and administrators to change the way they think about culture. Written by Maria-Rosario Jackson, Florence Kabwasa-Green and Joaquin Herranz; published by Urban Institute, 2006.

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.

Culture, Arts and Refugees
Web site hosting materials about the role of arts and culture in the inclusion and integration of refugees and asylum seekers. Executive Summary, Case Studies, Video Clips and contacts from "A Sense of Belonging," research project 2005. Project of U.K.-based Creative Exchange: Network for Culture and Development.

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.

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.

Empowered Women International
Nonprofit organization in Alexandria, Va., that uses the arts and world cultures to give voice to immigrant and refugee women and families living in America. Targets skilled and talented immigrant women who use the arts and creative processes to build careers and leadership skills. Founded 2002 by Romanian immigrant Marga C. Fripp. Entrepreneurial training, monthly presentations, galleries, store, newsletter.

Evoking History: Listening Across Cultures and Communities
Community projects by visual and performing artists in exploration of Charleston, S.C., past and present. Curated by Mary Jane Jacob and Tumelo Mosaka for Spoleta USA 2001.

Fanlight Productions
Distributor of innovative film and video works on the social issues, including disability and the arts. Search catalog for "Changing Identities: A Story of Traumatic Injury and Art," "The Healing Arts: A New Pathway to Health," "Key Changes," "Outsider," "Multiple," "Mister Spazzman," "Phoenix Dance," "When Billy Broke his Head," "White Cane and Wheels." Sales and rentals.

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 People's Fund
Provides "support and voice to the creative Indigenous artists who share their inspiration, wisdom, knowledge and gifts with their communities." Annual Community Spirit Awards, Artists in Business Leadership Program, Cultural Capital Grant Fellowship. Based in Rapid City, South Dakota.

Fountainhead: Black International Cinema
International, intercultural organization based in Berlin, Germany, producing annual film festival, weekly television program, publications, cinema distribution, dance theater.

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.

Great Leap
Performing-arts organization dedicated to principles of deepening race relations and promoting harmony between diverse cultural groups. School, youth programs. Rooted in Asian-American community of Los Angeles, Calif. Directed by Nobuko Miyamoto.

Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center
San Antonio, Tex.,-based organization promoting arts and culture of Chicano/Latino/Native American peoples, "the largest institution of its kind in the U.S." Dance, literature, media arts, theater arts, visual arts and Xicano music programs.

Harlem Stage
New York organization that supports creation and development of new works by performing artists of color. Forum for culturally diverse artists, community-based performing arts organizations and regionally significant arts groups. Performances for Harlem residents at affordable prices. Education programs: family workshops, performance study guides, Harlem Stage in the Schools.

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.

Home land security
Community arts performance project created by Marty Pottenger, commissioned by Center for Cultural Exchange, Portland, Me. Civic-dialogue project in response to post-9/11 immigrant and refugee sweeps in Maine. Attempt to foster connections between radical left and right elements of the area. Site has performance excerpts, videos, reviews, plus related history and politics info.

IllumiNation
Two-year Ford Foundation initiative launched 2007 intended to support Native American artists and performers, encourage entrepreneurship and help build networks between individuals and organizations. Funds provided for regranting to seven U.S. organizations.

Immigrant Participatory Arts: An Insight into Community-building in Silicon Valley
Study finding that the dominant reason for existence of amateur arts groups in immigrant communities derives from strong desire of parents to maintain structure, values, language and traditions of their families. Ninety Santa Clara County (Calif.) participatory arts groups were sources for the six-month study. By Pia Moriarty (Cultural Initiatives Silicon Valley, 2004).

In Motion Magazine
Multicultural, English / Spanish, online magazine that promotes grassroots organizing and art for social change among communities of color and working people; has arts department, Art Changes.

Ink People Center for the Arts
Community arts center in Eureka, Calif.; home to arts/cultural groups like the NEA's Open Studio, Institute of Native Knowledge, Hmong Community of the Northcoast, Redwood Coast Writers Center and Rural Burl Mural Center.

Institute for Cultural Partnerships
Pennsylvania-based nonprofit working for intercultural understanding and community building. Local, statewide and regional programs; publications. Arts & Heritage Program: traditional arts; folks arts; community traditions grants; consultation/training services in ral history and cultural documentation, cultural diversity, intergroup relations, continuing professional education programs. Other programs in Education, Community, Workplace. Special attention to immigrants.

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.

Jump-Start Performance Company
Theater company and presenter in San Antonio, Tex., focusing on issues of race, class and gender preference. Offers training in community art techniques.

Junebug Productions
New Orleans-based performance organization that develops artistic work focusing on African Americans in the Black Belt South; formerly Free Southern Theater. Directed by John O'Neal. Offers training in community art techniques.

Kamoinge
Kamoinge ("a group of people acting together") formed in New York in 1963 to address the under-representation of black photographers in the art world. Founded by Louis Draper, Ray Francis, Herbert Randall and Albert Fennar, with Roy DeCarava as its first director. Body of work spans the past 40 years and included numerous images of daily life in black America during the last half of the 20th Century. See "The Sweet Breath of Life: A Poetic Narrative of the African-American Family" by Frank Stewart and Ntozake Shange and Kamoinge (Atria Books, Simon&Schuster, 2004).

Kids'own
Northern Ireland organization publishing works by children. Came out of Pathways to Peace and Reconciliation in South Tyrone. Children with different religious and social backgrounds are brought together to share stories, art, music and drama.

Kuratorisk Aktion
Platform for curators engaged in a critical practice along the lines of race, class, gender and sexuality. Founded by Danish-born curators Frederikke Hansen and Tone Olaf Nielsen in 2005. "Merging feminist, queer, and activist informed approaches, Kuratorisk Aktion pledges itself to raise consciousness on the politics of representation and translate this consciousness into practice. We attempt to achieve this through a 65/35 percent representation of minoritarian and majoritarian subjectivities respectively in all our productions, at the same time as we open this procedure up to critique as part of the curatorial methodology."

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.

Latta House
Cultural center on the site of Latta University, founded by a former slave in the freedman's Oberlin Community of Raleigh, N.C. , to educate underprivileged and orphaned black children. Projects: historic preservation; gardening programs for kids; the Jambalaya project to connect neighborhood youth with their elders through documentary and journalistic projects; summer Picnic on the Lawn Arts and Performance Series to unite the diverse community.

Los Angeles Bus Riders Union
"One of the largest mass-transit, anti-racist organizations it the U.S." fighting for a "first-class, clean-fuel, bus-centered public transportation system in Los Angeles." Uses "teatro" (theater) for organizing.

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.

Lower East Side Tenement Museum
Restored National Historic Site in New York City, home to est. 7,000 people from over 20 nations1863-1935. Tours, programs, stories, newsletter.

MarketPlace: Handwork of India
Nonprofit fair-trade organization based in India marketing handwork of local women artisans. Artisans control the design process, management practices, profit sharing and social programs created by the group. Part of Women Artisan Co-op Network.

Medina Collective
Hip-hop/urban culture/journalism/mentorship program for young women of colour ages 16-24. Magazine with contributions from program participants. Founded by Tonika Morgan, based in Tornto, Ont., Canada.

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.

Mizna
Organization based in Minneapolis, Minn., offering "prose, poetry and art exploring Arab America." Journal, annual film festival, gallery, classes, store.

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."

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.

National Arts and Disability Network
Creates opportunities for artists with disabilities. Convenings, listerv, directory. Based in California.

National Museum of Mexican Art
Largest Latino arts institution in U.S. and only Latino museum accredited by American Association of Museums. Serves as cultural focus for more than a million Mexicans in Chicago area. Yollocalli Youth Arts Reach Program: arts-education and career-training program for youth 13-21. Museum partners with Fine Arts and Museum Academy in the Chicago Public Schools, CPS Office of Language and Cultural Education, CPS Bilingual Parent Resource Center, Chicago Park District, Art Institute of Chicago, After School Matters of Chicago, Rauner Family YMCA, Chicago Children's Humanities Festival, Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
Museum and research center authorized by Congress in the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center Act of 2000 "to focus on the triumph of freedom over slavery." Opens 2004 in Cincinnati, Ohio.

New Americans Minnesota Community Campaign
Joint effort of eight nonprofit organizations. in collaboration with Active Voice to engage communities in civic dialogue about immigration.

New WORLD Theater
Visionary presenter and producer of works by playwrights of color, "purposely blurring the lines between professional and community, art and politics, scholarship and activism;" in residence at UMass. Offers training in community arts techniques.

New York Latino Journal
Online "Latino people’s magazine of thought, news, opinion and information," based in New York City. "The People's History of the World, as told through the Latino experience." Includes arts.

Nuyorican Poets Cafe
Venue serving New York City's Lower East Side slam poetry, hip-hop, music and film communities. Founded 1973 by Miguel Algarin.

O.J. Simpson Coloring and Activity Book
A community-engaged project on the racial aftermath of the Trial of the Century. Includes online CAN forum.

Pangea World Theater
Minneapolis, Minnesota-based theater company employing a cross-ethnic vision of tolerance and humanrights through excellence in the arts.

PolicyLink
National nonprofit research, communications, capacity-building, advocacy organization. Collaborates on equitable development, equitable public investment, fair distribution of affordable housing, community strategies to improve health. Based in Oakland, Calif. A Cross-Sector Resource.

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.

Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre
Bilingual New York theater with mainstage productions; free summer performances in barrios, plazas, parks, and other public spaces; Playwright's Unit. Raúl Juliá Training Unit: free after-school program with structured arts-education curriculum and performance classes forlow-to-moderate income Latino and other minority youth in all NYC boroughs. Founded 1967 by Miriam Colón Valle, "helped launch the Spanish bilingual theater movement."

Puerto Rico and the American Dream
Multimedia Web site on history, culture and politics of Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rican diaspora. Based in Spanish Harlem, N.Y.C. Film section, online gallery, discussion boards, historical timelines, oral histories, announcements, current events postings. CentroTalks: online archive of scholarly talks at Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College/City U. of New York, the largest Latino archive in U.S. MediaNoche: new-media project and digital gallery in Spanish Harlem. Handball Court Outdoor Summer Film Festival. Nuyorican Cinema: permanent online exhibition of films of the Puerto Rican diaspora, with critical essays. Founded by filmmaker Judith Escalona and Web designer Stephanie Owens. In Spanish and English.

Queer Cultural Center
Multidisciplinary arts presenting organization in San Francisco, Calif., that conducts artistic and interpretive programs exploring queer identity issues. National festival.

Radius of Arab American Writers
RAWI, progressive membership organization of fiction and nonfiction writers, essayists, poets, journalists, photojournalists, artists who work with words and academics of Arab heritage from the Arab lands. Largely concerned with English-medium literary works and professionals working in English, and issues of social justice. Annual conference, newsletter, opportunities, members' writings and profiles.

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.

Sandblast
Network of artists and academics promoting the right of the people of the Western Sahara to self-determination through celebration of their culture. Based in U.K.

Search for Common Ground
U.S. nongovernmental organization in partnership with the European Centre for Common Ground in Brussels, working to transform conflict into cooperative action. Arts and Culture Department undertakes community-based arts projects worldwide.

Seventh Generation Fund for Indian Development
Indigenous nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting and maintaining the uniqueness of Native peoples throughout the Americas. Integrated program of advocacy, small grants, training and technical assistance, media experience and fiscal management. Provides support to grassroots Native communities and cultural arts organizations. Encourages holistic community health and cultural renewal efforts by using traditional and contemporary art forms to express cultural diversity. Founded 1977 by Daniel Bomberry (Salish/Cayuga). Based in Arcata, Calif.

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.

Shifting Ground: Art in Rural Contexts
Partnership project combining academic and practice-based research. Includes papers, conference presentations and a full account of the Ground Up program of temporary public art in rural county Clare in Ireland. Partners: Arts Office of Clare County Council and School of Humanities, Galway/Mayo Institute of Technology.

Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC)
Artist-run Los Angeles, Calif., organization dedicated to public artworks reflecting America's diverse ethnic populations, women, working people, youth, elderly. Founded by artist Judy Baca.

Spare Tyre Theatre Company
London-based company making musical theater from personal stories with women fleeing domestic violence, elders and young people with and without learning disabilities, experiencing homelessness and who identify as gay, lesbian or bisexual.

Stage Left
Grass-roots community-development and social-action performance company based in Calgary, Alb., Canada, "engaging in professional artist-community collaboration." Uses Popular Theater, Theatre of the Oppressed and interdisciplinary Performance Creation techniques. Works extensively with people with physical, sensory, learning and/or developmental disability, brain injury, chronic illness and/or mental illness; lesbigay youth; street-involved youth; politically motivated youth; culturally diverse youth; Ethno-cultural communities; First Nations; and other marginalized communities and their allies ". Recognized for advancing the global disability culture movement, developing Performance Creation Canada network, and conducting Theatre of the Oppressed-based social-justice work. Annually produces Balancing Acts: Calgary's Annual Disability Arts Festival.

Still Waters Youth Sinfo-Nia of Metropolitan Atlanta
African-American youth orchestra giving "talented, young instrumentalists an opportunity to perform a variety of multicultural music, become more proficient musicians (in an environment where there are no auditions), travel, meet other young musicians, prepare to earn college music scholarships, and, perhaps, consider careers in symphony orchestras and/or music education." Founded as William Grant Still Memorial Youth Orchestra of Metropolitan Atlanta in 1990.

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.

Suitcases and Sanctuary
Exhibition by local London children with actors, poets and artists exploring history of waves of immigration that shaped Spitalfields neighborhood. Installed at 19 Princelet Street, home to waves of French Huguenot, Irish, Jewish, Bengali and Somali newcomers. Exhibition and house preserved by The Spitalfields Centre charity.

Sustainable South Bronx
Organization in South Bronx, N.Y., dedicated to "environmental Justice through innovative, economically sustainable projects that are informed by the needs of the community." Founded 2001 by artist and Hunts Point resident Majora Carter. Addresses land-use, energy, transportation, water and waste policy and education "in order to advance the environmental and economic rebirth of the South Bronx to inspire solutions in areas like it across the nation and the globe." A Cross-Sector Resource.

Sweet Honey in the Rock
Grammy Award-winning African-American female a cappella ensemble with musical roots in sacred music of the black church; music speaks out against oppression and exploitation.

Teatro Vision
Theater ensemble based in San Jose, Calif.; founded in 1984 by members of Women in Teatro (a statewide network of Chicano theaters). Dedicated to Teatro Chicano as a force for social change. Includes school and neighborhood programs and training.

The Association of American Cultures (TAAC)
National organization committed to "help Americans of all ethnic origins maintain their self-identity through the arts"; offers Open Dialogue seminar every two years.

The Mirror Art Group
Thai nonprofit NGO in Chiang Rai province working with hilltribe peoples to combat unemployment, poverty, drug addiction withtout losing cultural identity. Virtual Hilltribe Museum (with blogs), Bannock TV, Missing Persons Locator,more.

The Point
Nonprofit organization dedicated to cultural and economic revitalization of Hunts Point neighborhood of South Bronx, N.Y. Arts incubator and performance space promote homegrown enterprises of young Latino and African-American entrepreneurs.

The Porch 7th Ward Cultural Organization
Grassroots cultural organization formed to fill a need after Hurricane Katrina, committed to the Seventh Ward area of New Orleans, La. Seeks to promote and sustain the cultures of the neighborhood, city, and region and to foster exchange between cultural groups. Projects: Design/Build with U. Kansas School of Architecture; Local Heroes; Summer Arts Camp; Youth Theater Company; '7th Ward Speaks' poster project; 7th Ward Herb Farm. Partners: Neighborhood Housing Services of New Orleans, University of Kansas Architecture School, Tulane City Center, Xavier University Art Department, the Original Big Seven Social Aid and Pleasure Club, the Neighborhood Story Project, the Seventh Ward Warriors Mardi Gras Indian Tribe, Parkway Partners, The New Orleans Food and Farm Network, KID smART, Tisch School of the Arts NYU, New Corps, Common Ground Collective.

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.

Third World Majority
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 political organizing." Community digital storytelling workshop, COINTELNOW security training initiative, participation in Media Justice and Technology Organizing movement, community training and education, facilitative production (consulting support to organizations seeking to define and share their story and mission), Storylink 1.0., community organizing and media services, blog. National partnerships.

Tia Chucha's Centro Cultural
Xicano community cultural center in Northeast San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles, Calif. Founded by Xicao writer Luis Rodriguez with Enrique Sanchez, Maria Trinidad Rodriquez. Bookstore, poetry readings, performances, film showings, dialogues, Internet cafe, workshops, healing circles.

Time & Space Limited
Hudson Valley, N.Y. arts organization with programs in all disciplines dedicated to community and activism. Youth projects and Time To Talk discussion series on local political, social and environmental topics that reflect regional and national concerns. Founded 1991 by N.Y. theater artists Linda Mussmann and Claudia Bruce.

To All Relations: Sacred Moon Songs
Multiethnic arts residency project 2003-4 linking Japanese American, Mexican American and American Muslim communities through shared experiences relocation, deportation and expatriation. By Los Angeles, California, groups Great Leap, Nikkei for Civil Rights and Redress, Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), and Senshin Buddhist Temple.

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.

Traces of the Trade
Documentary film and dialogue initiative by filmmaker Katrina Browne and R.I. Committee for the Humanities about the Rhode Island slave trading De Wolf family, from whom Browne is descended. Browne's family participated in the project.

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

UNESCO: Issues on Culture & Development
Information from UNESCO about the movement linking international development with cultural issues. History of the movement, plus information on cultural policy, creativity and the arts, cultural tourism, intercultural dialogue, gender equity, much more.

Umbrage Editions' Traveling Exhibition Program
Museum-quality exhibitions of photographs complementing Umbrage Editions' publications on subjects including global human rights, AIDS, the Tibetan struggle, Cuba, innocent prisoners and more.

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.

Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity
UNESCO's November 2001 declaration that aims to have significant impact on humanizing globalization, making it more culturally sensitive.

UrbanFilmSeries.com
"Connecting communities with history and progressive cinema." Provides current information on Next Generation Awareness Foundation ("NGAF") film-related programs, tours and services including Annual National Black History Month Film & Discussion Series, Urban Film & Discussion Series, The Black Docs Series, 2-Day Film School.

VSA arts
Formerly Very Special Arts, national organization promoting inclusion in the arts for people with disabilities.

Voices Breaking Boundaries
Nonprofit organization bringing artists and issues to Houston, Texas, through productions, residencies and educational activity to "join people from all walks of life: immigrants from countries such as Afghanistan , Bosnia , Colombia , Haiti , and Norway ; local communities in West Houston ’s large Vietnamese population and Houston ’s Third Ward; and all ages ranging from babies and their parents, to teens and seniors." Provides support network for writers to practice, publish, perform and receive recognition for their work. Began as grassroots literary collective organized by five diverse women writers. Founding Director Sehba Sarwar.

Voices from the Cultural Battlefront: Organizing for Equity
An ongoing 20-year international conversation about the role of art and culture in the struggle for human rights, including social justice, cultural equity, and a healthy natural environment. Includes a four-day convening model.

We, The World
Global network of collaboration among those working for peace, sustainability and transformation. Programs: Public International Events, Interdependence Day, Art for Children's Sake, The International Truth and Reconciliation Hearings, World Communities Interchange, Ethical Impact Reports. A Cross-Sector Resource.

Webster's World of Cultural Democracy
Virtual think-tank to encourage activist study and exchange of ideas about cultural policy and development; operated by cultural-policy consultants Don Adams and Arlene Goldbard.

Young Native Voices: Theater Education Project
Workshops and residencies for Native American youths at the Southern California Indian Center (Fountain Valley) and the American Indian Clubhouse (Los Angeles). Nationwide outreach residency program to U.S. reservations by Native Voices theater artists and mentors. Formerly known as Native Voices Young Playwrights Project. Project of Native Voices at the Autry program at the Autry National Center in Los Angeles, Calif.

ear say
Organization producing documentary/expressive projects that "uncover and portray the uncelebrated" in books, cds, electronic media, performances and workshops crossing cultures, generations, gender and class. Projects include "Crossing the Boulevard," about the ethnically diverse New York neighborhood of Queens. Warren Lehrer and Judith Sloan, directors