Agriculture Federal Credit Union
Agriculture FCU is a member-owned financial institution. Since there are no stockholders, profits are returned to members in the form of lower rates on loans, higher rates on savings, and additional services. The Agriculture FCU is a cooperative -- a nonprofit, democratically run organization of people who have banded together to give ourselves a better deal than we're going to get from profit-driven financial institutions. The more services you use, the more you save! Their services are comparable to those of other financial institutions. The only difference is you'll pay less. (top)
Bank of America Charitable Foundation
Throughout its history, Bank of America has sought opportunities to touch the communities in which we do business, helping them grow and prosper. Bank of America understands the important stake it has in our neighborhoods. The Bank also understand that the success of our business is hinged on the success of these neighborhoods. Through the Bank’s charitable giving programs, the company is able to direct financial and human resources to the places and people we serve. The Bank of America Charitable Foundation is one of the largest Corporate Foundations in the country. (top)
The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation
The Morris & Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation is the largest independent grantmaking foundation focused exclusively on the Washington Metropolitan area. The Foundation is the legacy of Morris Cafritz, one of Washington’s leading commercial and residential real estate builders from the early 1920’s to the mid-1960’s. Morris Cafritz was an outstanding civic leader known for his generosity. He established the Foundation in 1948. His wife, Gwendolyn, one of Washington’s leading hostesses in the post World War II years, was President of the Foundation from 1964 to 1988. Their eldest son, Calvin, currently Chairman, President and CEO, said, "In keeping with my father’s wishes, we have continued to broaden the scope of our grants' program to meet the ever-changing needs of our metropolitan area." (top)
The Campagna Center
The Campagna Center provides a safety net to help Alexandria families in challenging times. Their mission statement is: The Campagna Center strengthens families and creates safe havens where children can flourish. We draw together the resources of the Alexandria community to provide programs that help children become productive adults. (top)
Children
and Youth Investment Trust Corporation
The DC Children
and Youth Investment Trust Corporation was formed in June 1999
as a 501(c)(3) organization to link public and private resources,
creativity and commitment to address strategically, the long term
needs of children, youth and families in the District of Columbia.(top)
Comcast
A strong community ensures that information and knowledge are widely shared, addresses needs and issues and provides opportunity and direction for the next generation. Comcast works
to develop community partnerships that support our neighborhoods
with a wide variety of resources – human, financial and technological – to
ensure their ongoing prosperity and progress. Working with local
leaders and organizations to determine how we can have the greatest
impact, we can identify ways to enhance learning, help businesses
grow, and encourage leadership that can help communities reach their
goals. (top)
The Dana Foundation
The Dana Foundation is a private
philanthropic organization with principal interests in brain research,
immunology, and arts education. (top)
D.C. Arts & Humanities Education Collaborative
The D.C. Arts & Humanities Education Collaborative, Inc. is a non-profit organization that works with the D.C. public schools and public charter schools to strengthen and promote the arts and humanities as basic and integral to a high-quality education for all students. The Collaborative nurtures and facilitates partnerships among arts and humanities institutions, public schools, students, families, businesses, and the community-at-large. (top)
DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
Since 1968, the District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities (DCCAH) has developed and promoted local artists, organizations, and activities. The mission of the DCCAH is to provide grants, programs, and education activities that encourage diverse artistic expressions and learning opportunities so that all District of Columbia residents and visitors can experience the rich culture of our city. In partnership with the community, DCCAH promotes excellence in the arts by initiating and supporting programs, activities, and policies that inspire, nurture, and reflect the multi-ethnic character and cultural diversity of the District. (top)
Department of Labor Federal Credit Union
Department of Labor Federal Credit
Union was chartered
in 1935 and to provide a full range of financial services to its
members. It is a member-owned financial institution, serving employees
and retirees of the U.S. Department of Labor and their families and
many other eligible organizations. (top)
Girl Scouts of America
Girl Scouts of the USA is the world’s preeminent organization dedicated solely to girls — all girls — where, in an accepting and nurturing environment, girls build character and skills for success in the real world. In partnership with committed adult volunteers, girls develop qualities that will serve them all their lives, like leadership, strong values, social conscience, and conviction about their own potential and self-worth. Founded in 1912 by Juliette Gordon Low, Girl Scouts' membership has grown from 18 members in Savannah, Georgia, to 3.6 million members throughout the United States, including U.S. territories, and in more than 90 countries through USA Girl Scouts Overseas. (top)
Educational Systems Credit Union
Created over the years from the joining of several education credit
unions and communities in Maryland, the Educational
Systems Federal Credit Union now serves the education communities
in Prince George's County, Charles County, Calvert County, St. Mary's
County and Talbot County, Maryland. They were founded by educators
for the purpose of serving the members of the greater education community,
which includes county school system employees, students and their
parents, community colleges, and other schools in their service area.
The mission of Educational Systems Federal Credit Union is to grow
by helping the members of the education community achieve their financial
goals and dreams. (top)
Many Hats Institute/Reach Your Peak
Founded in 1999, the Many Hats Institute (MHI) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the conditions for children and youth worldwide. MHI takes advantage of the many hats that people wear or have the potential to wear. The strategy of the institute is to leverage time, talent, and resources from the "Many Hatters" from around the world. The ultimate objective is empowerment-empowerment of youth and empowerment of the people who want to help youth, as quickly as possible in as many places as possible. MHI’s Reach Your Peak program strives to bring its D.R.E.A.M. curriculum and RYP events to classrooms and communities across America, and all around the world. Reach Your Peak also aims to educate students about how other youth of our nation and around the world are reaching their own peaks and potential, by advancing the development of their communities, and connect them to each other to share their thoughts and experiences. (top)
Marpat Foundation
Marpat Foundation makes grants to organizations based in or benefiting the greater Washington metropolitan area for projects related to education, healthcare, cultural affairs, and science. The Foundation does not make grants to endowment funds, to individuals, or for medical research, or to organizations based outside the United States. (top)
Mead Family Foundation
The Mead Family Foundation partners with local tax-exempt organizations that effectively address community needs. Its program priorities derive from the active involvement of family board members in their own communities. The Foundation supports projects that enrich the lives of youth by strengthening families, preventing crises for children and youth, educating children in grades K-12, or promoting education and outreach in the performing arts. It seeks visionary leaders — staff and volunteers — who develop innovative projects pro-ducing significant results. (top)
The Agnes & Eugene Meyer Foundation
The Meyer Foundation works to develop Greater Washington as a community by supporting capable, community-based nonprofit organizations that foster the well-being of all people in the region. The Meyer Foundation is especially concerned about low-income people and creating healthy neighborhoods. It also values and seeks to promote the region's diversity. (top)
Montgomery County Department of Recreation
The mission of the Montgomery County Department of Recreation is to provide high quality, diverse, and accessible programs, services and facilities that enhance the quality of life for all ages, cultures, and abilities. In support of the mission the Department will readily serve the community by providing leisure activities that enhance skills, health and self-esteem, ways to stimulate growth in knowledge through leisure activities, opportunities to build a sense of community, and more. (top)
The National Endowment for the Arts
The National Endowment for the Arts is a public agency dedicated to supporting excellence in the arts--both new and established--bringing the arts to all Americans, and providing leadership in arts education. Established by Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government, the Endowment is the nation's largest annual funder of the arts, bringing great art to all 50 states, including rural areas, inner cities, and military bases. (top)
The National Institute of Health Federal Credit Union
NIH Federal Credit Union was founded on January 11, 1940 through the vision of nine members who pooled their resources--$75 worth--to create a credit union. Today, the NIH FCU is a healthy, growing, stable financial institution dedicated to quality member service and committed to meeting its members' financial needs. (top)
The Prince Charitable Trusts
The Prince Charitable Trusts were established in 1947 from the bequests of Frederick Henry Prince (1859 - 1953) and his wife, Abbie Norman Prince (1860 - 1949). The three trusts operate as a family foundation with giving programs in the city of Chicago, the Washington D.C. metropolitan area and the state of Rhode Island. In 2005 the Trusts had assets of $185 million and distributed approximately $8.7 million in grants. Prince Charitable Trusts of Washington, D.C. provides operating or program grants to organizations in the D.C. metropolitan area. (top)
Prince George's Community Federal Credit Union
Prince
George's Community Federal Credit Union is a financial institution
made up of members that live, work, or volunteer in Prince George's
County, Maryland. Established on July 18, 1967, the credit union
remains committed to serving its people, with over 12,000 members
and assets above $80 million. The mission of Prince George's Community
Federal Credit Union is to provide, in a fair and reasonable manner,
a wide range of services that satisfy and anticipate the current
and future needs of our existing and potential members, while providing
long-term career opportunities for employees. (top)
Washington Sports and Entertainment/Verizon Center
The NBA Washington Wizards, the WNBA Washington Mystics and the Verizon Center are all part of Washington Sports and Entertainment. Each year, the Washington Wizards invite students from Early Arts’ D.R.E.A.M. program to perform during half-time at a game in the Verizon Center. (top)
Whole Foods Market
Whole Foods Market is a dynamic leader in the quality food business. It is a mission-driven company that aims to set the standards of excellence for food retailers. It building a business in which high standards permeate all aspects of our company. Quality is a state of mind at Whole Foods Market. The Whole Foods Market motto — Whole Foods, Whole People, Whole Planet — emphasizes that its vision reaches far beyond just being a food retailer. Whole Foods Market’s success in fulfilling is vision is measured by customer satisfaction, Team Member excellence and happiness, return on capital investment, improvement in the state of the environment, and local and larger community support. The Whole Foods Markets on P Street NW in Washington, D.C. and in Silver Spring, MD, provides snacks for students in the Early Arts’ D.R.E.A.M. program. (top)
Washington Performing Arts Society
Washington Performing Arts Society (WPAS) exists to increase the opportunities for artists and the public to share the performing arts in the D.C. metropolitan area. Established in 1965 by the creative impresario Patrick Hayes, the organization was later led by Douglas Wheeler until 2002. Now under the inspired leadership of President Neale Perl, WPAS is one of the nation's leading non-profit multi-disciplinary presenting organizations. (top)
Partners
CityDance Early Arts works in partnership with an outstanding group of organizations and schools. We are proud to bring dance education, performances, and programs to young people throughout the Washington metro area in partnership with them.
Class Acts Arts, Inc.
Class Acts Arts, Inc. is a non-profit arts outreach and presenting organization created in 1995 in response to a growing demand for high quality, culturally diverse and affordable arts programming in our schools and communities. With the goal of promoting the arts in their capacity to serve as educational and community building resources, Class Acts works with award-winning national touring artists, both locally based and traveling through, connecting artists of great distinction with local audiences. (top)
D.A.R.E. Dance
D.A.R.E. America is thrilled with the success of a new venture in the effort to fight drugs and violence in our communities and schools. In September of 1999, D.A.R.E. America hired a nation-wide director to lead the effort to bring dance, as an athletic, creative, fun, and healthy art form, to schools as a positive alternative to drugs and violence. (top)
D.C. Arts & Humanities Education Collaborative
The D.C. Arts & Humanities Education Collaborative, Inc. is a non-profit organization that works with the D.C. public schools and public charter schools to strengthen and promote the arts and humanities as basic and integral to a high-quality education for all students. The Collaborative nurtures and facilitates partnerships among arts and humanities institutions, public schools, students, families, businesses, and the community-at-large. (top)
DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities
Since 1968, the District of Columbia Commission on the Arts and Humanities (DCCAH) has developed and promoted local artists, organizations, and activities. The mission of the DCCAH is to provide grants, programs, and education activities that encourage diverse artistic expressions and learning opportunities so that all District of Columbia residents and visitors can experience the rich culture of our city. In partnership with the community, DCCAH promotes excellence in the arts by initiating and supporting programs, activities, and policies that inspire, nurture, and reflect the multi-ethnic character and cultural diversity of the District. (top)
Levine School of Music
Levine School of Music serves as a vital community resource by embracing two principles that are central to its mission: excellence and accessibility. Against this backdrop, Levine interweaves the world's richest musical traditions as part of a uniquely American celebration. Whether through Western classical repertoire, African, Asian, and Latino music; jazz or innovative technology, there are many different doors through which to enter the Levine School. Inside, the corridors are filled with people of all ages, skill levels, and economic and cultural backgrounds who come together to explore the universal language of music for life-long learning. Levine is committed to providing a nurturing home in Washington, D.C. for many of the area's finest artist/teachers who in turn share their extraordinary gifts. In addition to the teaching offered on its campus, the school reaches out actively through its many community programs to bring music to the entire community, including those whose economic circumstances would otherwise preclude their participation. Levine strives to strengthen and enrich the life of any student who has the desire and commitment to learn. (top)
Smithsonian Associates
The Smithsonian Associates offers a stunning variety of educational programs and study tours that open the doors to the Smithsonian's world of opportunity. Established 40 years ago as the membership, cultural, and educational arm of the Smithsonian Institution, The Smithsonian Associates is recognized as the world's largest and most esteemed museum-based continuing education program. (top)
Madeira School
Madeira’s ongoing commitment to help young women find “a clear sense of self, community, and the world” is supported and celebrated by the Performing Arts Department. The performing arts offer students a chance to explore both the inner world of their own individuality and the outer, global community to which they belong. It has long been recognized that the practice of an art form, at whatever level of ability, helps students claim self-confidence and provides an appropriate emotional release from the rigors of the modern world. (top)
Maryland Artists Teachers Institute
Maryland Artists Teachers Institute is a professional development program for teachers and school administrators. The Institute explores and demystifies the arts as a force in a child's development and enables teachers to become more knowledgeable, creative and skillful in using the arts to engage children in active learning. (top)
Maryland State Arts Council
The Maryland State Arts Council (MSAC) is an agency of the State of Maryland, under the authority of the Department of Business and Economic Development, Division of Tourism, Film and the Arts. Since it was established in 1967, the purpose of the Council has been "to create a nurturing climate for the arts in the State" as stated in its founding legislation. (top)
Arts and Humanities Council of Montgomery County
Founded in 1976, the Arts and Humanities Council is a nonprofit organization designated as Montgomery County's local arts agency. In 2002, the AHCMC disbursed over $1 million in grants and contributions to nonprofit organizations, artists and scholars to help fund cultural activities in the County. AHCMC funding is provided by Montgomery County Government, the Maryland State Arts Council, corporations, organizations and individuals. (top)
Music Center at Strathmore
Located one-half mile outside the Capital Beltway in North Bethesda, Maryland, Strathmore provides affordable, accessible, multi-disciplinary arts programming in the Mansion at Strathmore, the Music Center at Strathmore, and on its scenic 11-acre site. Founded and operated since 1981 by the Strathmore Hall Foundation, Inc., an independent, 501(c)(3) organization, the arts center presents a lively and diverse program of art exhibitions, concerts and performing arts programs, and literary lectures and events. High quality arts programming, designed for audiences of many tastes, served with the hospitality and warmth of a family enterprise, are the hallmarks of Strathmore. (top)
Reach Your Peak Foundation
Reach Your Peak (RYP) works to inspire youth ages 12-18 to dream and to give them the resources to help them realize their personal potential and their community goals. RYP provides youth the courage, training, and tools to achieve their goals through activities related to goal-setting, education, fundraising, and volunteer service to turn their dreams into action. (top)
Sitar Arts Center
Sitar Arts
Center is a community arts organization offering
after-school, Saturday, and summer arts education programs to residents
of the Adams Morgan, Mount Pleasant, and Columbia Heights neighborhoods.
The Sitar Arts Center currently serves over 200 students in the areas
of music, dance, drama, writing, and visual art. The programs are
accessible and affordable to the youth in the neighborhood. (top)
Washington Performing Arts Society
Washington Performing Arts Society (WPAS) exists to increase the opportunities for artists and the public to share the performing arts in the D.C. metropolitan area. Established in 1965 by the creative impresario Patrick Hayes, the organization was later led by Douglas Wheeler until 2002. Now under the inspired leadership of President Neale Perl, WPAS is one of the nation's leading non-profit multi-disciplinary presenting organizations. (top) |
