Adobe Youth Voices (AYV) provides grants, professional development, software and technical assistance to nonprofit organizations and educational institutions around the world that are committed to building young people’s Creative Confidence. These organizations represent afterschool programs, youth leadership agencies, arts organizations and school districts across the globe. Our partners support educators in facilitating the program with youth and provide tools and resources to make AYV come alive. Our program would not be possible without their dedication.
A youth development organization serving more than 6.5 million young people, the 4-H movement supports young people from elementary school through high school with programs designed to shape future leaders and innovators. Fueled by research-driven programming, 4-H'ers engage in hands-on learning activities in the areas of science, citizenship and healthy living.
http://www.4-h.org/
The American India Foundation (AIF) is the largest diaspora philanthropy organization focused on India and based out of the United States. Since inception, AIF has benefited more than 1 million people, by investing in over 115 Indian non-governmental organizations. AIF partners with high quality Indian NGOs to implement scalable and sustainable programs that demonstrate effective solutions. In the process it builds a new generation of social entrepreneurs and civil society leaders. The foundation works in tandem with government agencies to translate these solutions into policy change. AIF works out of New York and California in the US, and New Delhi and Bangalore in India. In addition to its offices in the United States, AIF has eight chapters in major metropolitan areas in the US.
http://www.aifoundation.org/index.htm
The Bay Area Video Coalition (BAVC) inspires social change by enabling the sharing of diverse stories through art, education and technology.
http://www.bavc.org/
Chicago Public Schools, the third largest school district in the United States, offers high quality world class education for the 21st century. Our mission is to ensure that every child is on track to graduate prepared for success in college, work and life.
http://www.cps.edu/
Education Development Center, Inc., is a global nonprofit organization that designs, delivers, and evaluates innovative programs to address some of the world’s most urgent challenges in education, health, and economic development.
http://www.edc.org/
Free The Children is the world’s largest network of children helping children through education, with more than one million youth involved in our innovative education and development programs in 45 countries. Founded in 1995 by international child rights activist Craig Kielburger, Free The Children has a proven track record of success. The organization has received the World’s Children’s Prize for the Rights of the Child (also known as the Children’s Nobel Prize), the Human Rights Award from the World Association of Non-Governmental Organizations, and has formed successful partnerships with leading school boards and Oprah's Angel Network.
http://www.freethechildren.com/
The Global Fund for Children's mission is to advance the dignity of children and youth around the world. GFC pursues its mission by making small grants to innovative community-based organizations working with some of the world's most vulnerable children and youth, complemented by a dynamic media program that, through books, documentary photography, and film, highlights the issues affecting children and celebrates the global society in which we all live.
http://www.globalfundforchildren.org/
iEARN is a non-profit organization made up of over 30,000 schools and youth organizations in more than 130 countries. iEARN empowers teachers and young people to work together online using the Internet and other new communications technologies. Over 2,000,000 students each day are engaged in collaborative project work worldwide.
http://www.iearn.org/
Reel Grrls empowers young women from diverse communities to realize their power, talent and influence through media production. Our mission is to cultivate voice and leadership in girls at a vulnerable age in their development. We offer a variety of hands-on workshops for teenage girls in specific skills including animation, cinematography, script writing and more.
http://www.4-h.org/
Spy Hop, SHIFT formerly known as the Interactive Digital Education Academy (iDEA), offers K-12 educators immersive, high-quality, innovative professional development and support to integrate the filmmaking process into core content instruction. Participants receive a comprehensive, standards-linked filmmaking curriculum and learn how to produce Public Service Announcements (PSAs), instructional videos, stop motion projects, and other short films.
http://www.shiftworkshops.org/
TIG's missions is for youth everywhere actively engaged and connected in shaping a more inclusive, peaceful and sustainable world. The organization's mission is to enable a collaborative learning community which provides youth with access to global opportunities, cross-cultural connections and meaningful participation in decision-making by harnessing internet technologies to cultivate youth leadership and engagement in social issues; bridging the continuity gap that causes fragmentation between and within generations of youth movements; championing the role of young people as key stakeholders in all aspects of society. TIG facilitates global understanding and grow leadership among youth to enhance their participation in social movements for a better world.
http://www.tigweb.org/
TechBoston is a department within the Boston Public Schools that supports advanced technology courses in the district's schools. TechBoston's mission is to inspire Boston Public School students by providing access to cutting edge technology resources and opportunities that positively advance their academic and career aspirations.
http://www.techboston.org/
The Intel Computer Clubhouse Network is an international community of 100 Computer Clubhouses located in 20 different countries around the world. The Computer Clubhouse provides a creative and safe out-of-school learning environment where young people from underserved communities work with adult mentors to explore their own ideas, develop skills, and build confidence in themselves through the use of technology.
http://www.computerclubhouse.org/
Urban Arts Partnership advances the intellectual, social and artistic development of underserved public school students through arts-integrated education programs to close the achievement gap. Urban Arts Partnership accomplishes its mission through a variety of interdisciplinary arts programs that include in-school classroom integration, after-school programs, master classes, professional development, summer programs, arts festivals, and special projects.
http://www.urbanarts.org
Eastside Educational Trust is a highly acclaimed, award-winning, world record-breaking arts education charity and London’s leading youth arts and media provider. Eastside aims to educate and engage young people through direct participation in the arts and media. We want to inspire all young people to develop their potential, share their talents and enrich their lives and we do this by enabling young people to work with professionals in neighborhoods where are help is needed the most.
http://www.eastside.org.uk/
1stACT Silicon Valley is a network of business, civic and arts leaders working to foster cultural engagement and help create an authentic sense of place and cultural identity for Silicon Valley. As a network of leaders, 1stACT's focus is to make catalytic change across three areas: 1) Silicon Valley Arts & Culture - support and strengthen arts and culture industry by providing a pipeline of leadership, strategic investment funds, marketing and branding, and capacity building; 2) Cultural Engagement - broaden the range of opportunities for Silicon Valley workers, residents, children, and families to become engaged in participatory cultural experiences; and 3) Vibrant Urban Core - realize a vision of Downtown San Jose as Silicon Valley's urban core, which is anchored in big deals and small wonders across five planning domains.
http://www.1stact.org/
MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana is an inclusive contemporary arts space grounded in the Chicano/Latino experience that incubates new visual, literary and performance art in order to engage people in civic dialogue and community transformation. Our approach to arts education— engaging Latino and other urban, ethnic youth in one-on-one instruction and mentorship to give them “voice,” foster pride and facilitate development as critical thinkers engaged in their world. The academy offers free year-round classes in poetry, music/sound production, dance, videography, digital photography and game design.
http://www.maclaarte.org/The Adobe Youth Voices global network currently includes more than 557 sites, grantees, and organizations, such as the Intel Computer Clubhouse and iEARN, in 32 countries engaging youth and educators in schools and out-of-school programs.
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