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Young Artists Conservatory of Music was incorporated in November 2007 on the principle that the arts are humanity's greatest means to achieve personal growth and social cohesion. When you enroll your child in YACM programs, you and YACM are partnered in an undertaking to instill the habits and disciplines of excellence in their lives. Our vision is to develop mindfulness in your child and to unlock their human potential through leadership in music and arts. Our goal is to provide comprehensive music instruction through definitive standards in achievement and performance, and instill the habits and disciplines of excellence by developing human potential in the performing arts. We promote personal excellence in students who participate in the challenge of musicianship. Instructors and directors provide professional leadership. Students are empowered for excellence in daily practice, an understanding of the musical process, and the ability to share the beauty of one’s music with grace and poise. Sponsors, donors, and mutually aligned organizations support the mission of YACM to empower community through experiencing meaningful outcomes. YACM creates opportunities to enrich our community with a standard of excellence in the musical arts that contributes to the discovery of self-esteem, personal joy, and valued partnerships.

Montpelier embraces its unique identity as a monument to James Madison, a museum of American history, and a center for constitutional education that engages the public with the enduring legacy of Madison's most powerful idea: government by the people. As the lifelong home of James Madison, Father of the Constitution and Architect of the Bill of Rights, Montpelier's mission is to communicate Madison's role in creating our modern, democratic government.

We believe that some things in life should never change...like healthy rivers and lakes, peaceful natural areas, forest walks and safe havens for birds, fish and wildlife. Since 1970, the Conservation Foundation has protected these places of natural beauty, environmental value and spiritual replenishment right here at home in the Rideau Valley of Eastern Ontario.

The New American Theatre (NAT) is dedicated to nourishing, educating and inspiring our community towards a thoughtful and humane worldview through our programming of plays. We nurture theatre artists by offering a safe harbor to work and study the craft of acting, directing, and writing through live theatre performance.

IDEA‘s mission as an arts education and creative learning organization founded in 1996 is to connect underserved youth and their families to the life affirming quality of the arts. Our work is about building more socially resourceful and vibrant communities by strengthening human potential through creativity, culture and arts based learning

Chautauqua Institution is dedicated to the exploration of the best in human values and the enrichment of life through a program that explores the important religious, social and political issues of our times; stimulates provocative, thoughtful involvement of individuals and families in creative response to such issues; and promotes excellence and creativity in the appreciation, performance and teaching of the arts.

Ghost Ranch stewards a place of great beauty to nurture the human spirit and mind, discover the sacred, and care for creation.Through the values of sutainabilty, inclusivity, equity, creativity and spirituality, the Ranch offers a unique experience for those who visit the piedra lumbre (shining rock) where dinosaurs used to roam.

Actors’ Warehouse entertains, inspires, educates and fosters critical thinking through performing arts. We believe sharing stories of the human experience has the power to expand our individual compassion and our capacity to connect as a community, ultimately forwarding social justice and public health, inclusive of mind and body.

The mission of Inner-City Arts is to engage young people in the creative process in order to shape a society of creative, confident, and collaborative individuals. We believe that the arts and creativity are transformational. Inner-City Arts envisions a society that honors the human capacity for creativity and values its cultivation in the education of young people.

The mission of The Gift is to tell great stories onstage with honesty and simplicity. The Gift believes a play never closes until everyone who saw it stops thinking about it and that art is, at its best, a sacred conversation between actor and audience, revealing the joy and pain of being human. In other words, a gift.

AASEE is dedicated to advancing science and engineering education at the K-12 level. We work directly with students in the classroom. AASEE designs curriculum-based and fun hands-on activities through collaborative research, where we try to ensure a maximum engagement of teachers and parents along with the students. We provide training and resources to pre-university educators. We also create opportunities for the students to learn directly from experts and leaders in the respective fields. AASEE gives priority to diverse populations, namely Canada’s first nations peoples, girls, and those in financial need, as well as rural populations. We are mandated to work across the globe, and are implementing an ambitious plan. At AASEE we target tomorrow´s leaders in science and engineering who will be working with a true passion. We believe advancing science and engineering education is the right way to go, and the right thing to do.

The goal of the Organization's charitable activities is to increase the availability of information on the rights of the most vulnerable and key populations and ways to overcome the negative consequences of discrimination based on HIV stigmatization, xenophobia, sexual orientation and gender identity (hereinafter referred to as the Goal). The scope of the Organization's activities is to provide charitable support to people of various social categories within the framework of public interests in accordance with its goals.