www.egdt.org Exploring contemporary dance from an American and Caribbean perspective with a multidisciplinary approach, The Errol Grimes Dance Theater blends contemporary dance with music, poetry, visual arts and multimedia. Performing for US audiences as well as audiences around the world, EGDT also conducts residencies, workshops, and symposia in the communities in which it performs. Singled out as a “poet of motion” by The New York Times, Errol Grimes, founder, choreographer and artistic director with his early immersion in Caribbean mythology, storytelling, music, costume, explores our contemporary quest for identity through his work.

For more about AEDAP’s Projects, please visit their site www.aedap.org MISSION: To raise funds to support small community development projects in the United States and Haiti. Strong Partnerships Build Strong Communities Provide technical support to existing community organizations; empower organizations’ members through leadership and educational trainings; collaborate with sponsored community development programs in the United States of America and Haiti. Provide mentoring and coaching skills to boys and girls 5-18 in the areas of Education, Health, Arts and Crafts, Sports, and “Social Activities, empowering them to become young community leaders.” Support projects that include Haitian media and highlight their involvement  [ Read More ]

The Kuki Ndiho Foundation helps rebuild the lives of orphans as well as other children and young adults who have been scarred by the tragic 1994 genocide and its aftermath. It creates within a unique educational and cultural framework, the opportunity to build individual and social developmental momentum and contribute resources, knowledge and support to the recovering communities. We are dedicated to the physical, emotional, psychological and spiritual healing and cultivation of the lives of the thousands who survived by producing a vast array of projects which include creating and managing orphanages, education and training programs, social services, community centers,  [ Read More ]

School News Nationwide http://www.schoolnewsnationwide.org Journalism and Multimedia Education Not-for-Profit Institution For 14 years, SNN has demonstrated its capabilities to execute programs that afford students the opportunity to grow in their development. SNN has longstanding collaborations with community-based, borough and citywide not-for-profit organizations, governmental agencies and institutions providing social services vital to our target population. Areas of support include counseling, career development family living organizations and a variety of other educational groups. SNN’s Journalism-in-Education Program focuses on local elementary and middle schools in the economically underdeveloped Bedford Stuyvesant community in Brooklyn. Because area school districts face budget restrictions, they are often  [ Read More ]