Adrienne Arsht Center Foundation
As the focal point of performing arts activity in South Florida, the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County serves as a showcase for the finest in established and developing cultural programs. The Adrienne Arsht Center is the foundation on which resident organizations build their programs and extend their reach. It serves as both a showcase and laboratory, providing first class accessible facilities for smaller, emerging and developing organizations as well as resident companies.
Amigos For Kids
Amigos Together For Kids™ (DBA: Amigos For Kids™) is a 501(C)3 non profit corporation founded in 1991 to respond to the diverse needs of South Florida’s abused, abandoned, neglected and less-fortunate children. Amigos creates awareness for its cause through public service campaigns and high-profile fundraising events. Throughout its 18-year history, Amigos has come to the aid of South Florida’s most valuable natural resource - its children - in a variety of ways.
Arsht Ethics Initiatives at the University of Miami
UM Ethics Programs are a university-wide interdisciplinary initiative that fosters and supports education, research, and community service in ethics and the professions It includes an ethics debate series, a research program and the Adrienne Arsht Distinguished Speaker Series in Ethics, as well as a faculty ethics project initiative and a visiting scholars program.
Arts in Crisis: A Kennedy Center Initiative
Arts in Crisis: A Kennedy Center Initiative is a program designed to provide planning assistance and consulting to struggling arts organizations throughout the United States. Open to non-profit 501(c)(3) performing arts organizations, the program will provide counsel from Kennedy Center President Michael Kaiser and the Kennedy Center executive staff in the areas of fundraising, building more effective Boards of Trustees, budgeting, marketing, technology, and other areas pertinent to maintaining a vital performing arts organization during a troubled economy.
The Aspen Institute
The Aspen Institute's mission is twofold: to foster values-based leadership, encourage individuals to reflect on the ideals and ideas that define a good society, and to provide a neutral and balanced venue for discussing and acting on critical issues.
Best Buddies International
Best Buddies ® is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to enhancing the lives of people with intellectual disabilities by providing opportunities for one-to-one friendships and integrated employment. Founded in 1989 by Anthony Kennedy Shriver, Best Buddies is a vibrant, international organization that has grown from one original chapter to more than 1,400 middle school, high school, and college campuses across the country and internationally.
Blair House
Built in 1824, and in the service of the nation since 1942, Blair House stands on Pennsylvania Avenue across from the White House. It is the President’s Guest House playing host to foreign heads of state visiting the United States on official business.
Cancer Care Connection Delaware
Cancer Care Connection's (CCC) mission is to coach people affected by cancer to obtain and use information and referrals in order to make informed decisions and take action on their own behalf. At Cancer Care Connection, our vision is that people affected by cancer have what they need to obtain their best possible outcome.
Casita Maria
Casita Maria's mission is to create a gateway of opportunity through after school education in the arts, literacy and job readiness while addressing critical needs for youth, families and seniors in predominantly Hispanic communities in New York City and beyond. Casita Maria was established in 1934 as the first charitable organization to serve Hispanics in New York City.
Cuban-American National Council
Founded in 1972, headquartered in Miami, and with offices in Washington D.C., and Orlando, The Cuban-American National Council (CNC) is a non profit organization providing human services to persons in need from all racial and ethnic groups. CNC assists individuals to become self reliant, and builds bridges among America’s diverse communities.
Delaware Community Foundation
The Delaware Community Foundation manages charitable funds for individuals, families, businesses and organizations, and distributes income from the funds as grants to humanitarian, educational, health and cultural entities throughout the First State. With nearly 900 funds, more than $230 million in assets and annual grants of over $15 million, the Foundation provides a lasting source of charitable funding to benefit Delawareans today and for generations to come. For more than 20 years the Foundation has been connecting people who care with the causes they care about, helping to make Delaware a better place to live and work.
Fine Arts Committee of the U.S. Department of State
The Fine Arts Committee of the U.S. Department of State is dedicated to ensure that the U.S. Department of State´s Diplomatic Reception Rooms, the official rooms used by the Secretary of State, the Vice President, and Members of the Cabinet to entertain the leaders of the world as well as foreign and American dignitaries, remain rich in the museum-quality decorative arts and master crafts collections that highlight our nation’s history and heritage.
Governor’s Consortium on Hispanic Initiatives
According to a recent study commissioned by the Governor’s Consortium on Hispanic Affairs, over half of Hispanic Delawareans are Spanish-dominant and almost all share the desire to learn English. Increasing access to education and other ways to improve the quality of life for the state’s Hispanic population will be addressed with a new series of grants supported by the Arsht-Cannon Fund of the Delaware Community Foundation.
Goucher College Roxana Cannon Arsht Center for Ethics and Leadership
The Roxana Cannon Arsht Center for Ethics and Leadership at Goucher College explores ethics and leadership across a range of liberal arts disciplines. The center brings noted scholars to the Goucher campus for one- to two-year residencies and holds a biennial symposium featuring renowned ethicists and authorities in the field of leadership studies.
Hispanic Scholarship Fund
The Hispanic Scholarship Fund (HSF) is the nation's leading organization supporting Hispanic higher education. Founded in 1975 as a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, HSF's vision is to strengthen the country by advancing college education among Hispanic Americans. In support of its mission to double the rate of Hispanics earning college degrees, HSF provides the Latino community more college scholarships and educational outreach support than any other organization in the country.
Hope For Vision
Hope for Vision is dedicated to funding the development of treatments and cures for blinding diseases. At its core, Hope For Vision is a group of people like you–people who care about the millions going blind; people who want to know about and celebrate the scientific progress and who want to do whatever they can to support the goal of vision.
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum
The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation is a 501(c)(3), non-profit organization founded in 1984 to provide financial support, staffing, and creative resources for the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, a federal institution under the National Archives. The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum and the Kennedy Library Foundation seek to promote, through educational and community programs, a greater appreciation and understanding of American politics, history, and culture, the process of governing and the importance of public service.
The Metropolitan Opera
On the eve of its 125th anniversary season, The Metropolitan Opera is the most widely heard and known opera company in the world. The Met is a vibrant home for the most creative and talented artists, including singers, conductors, composers, orchestra musicians, stage directors, designers, visual artists, choreographers, and dancers from around the world.
The Parent Academy / Miami Dade Public Schools
The Parent Academy of Miami-Dade County Public Schools ® is a year-round initiative designed to help parents become full partners in their children's education. Having access to classes and courses being offered in facilities all over this large countywide school system, parents have the opportunity to enroll in classes that interest them most. Such ideas include effective discipline, nutrition, financial management, or child development, for example.
United Way
United Way is working to advance the common good by creating opportunities for a better life for all. We are focused on improving education, income and health – the building blocks for a good life. Our goal is to create long-lasting changes that prevent problems from happening in the first place. We invest in quality programs, advocate for better policies, engage people in the community and generate resources. We invite you to join us in this work and LIVE UNITED.
University of Miami
The University of Miami is a vibrant community of exceptionally talented individuals engaged in the pursuit of academic excellence, the discovery of new knowledge, and service to the region and beyond. More than 15,300 undergraduate and graduate students from around the world call UM home during the academic semesters. The University was chartered in 1925 by a group of citizens who felt an institution of higher learning was needed for the development of their young and growing community. The inaugural class of 560 students enrolled in fall of 1926.
Washington National Opera
Under the stewardship of General Director Plácido Domingo, Washington National Opera continues to move confidently forward on a great adventure that began when the company was founded in 1956. Five decades and countless artistic leaps later, the Opera has achieved the stature of a world-class company and plays to standing-room-only audiences at the Kennedy Center Opera House. The company recently received the designation "The National Opera" by the Congress of the United States of America.
