BCP is a group of exceptional musicians! They are truly world-class professionals. At every concert, I am blown away anew by their musicality, the subtle communication between players as they perform, and the inspiration I get as an amateur musician myself. I really appreciate being able to attend their concerts closer to home rather than having to trek to a bigger city. This group is an East Bay treasure!

I gave because Berkeley High Jazz has been one of the bright lights of our son’s education, nurturing his musicianship, his confidence, and a lifelong relationship with music.

Kathy and I gave because we want to offer opportunities for children to enjoy palying music.

Founded in 2006, the Benicia Chamber Players’ mission is to provide a classical chamber music concert series to underserved East Bay areas including Benicia, Lafayette, Piedmont and Vallejo. Our aim is to cultivate a community of local and other world-class professional musicians with a love of playing chamber music who are dedicated to sharing that love with audiences.

Benicia Chamber Players

Berkeley High School Jazz inspires young musicians to learn, perform, and share the rich tradition of Black American Music.

**Berkeley High School Jazz (BHS Jazz)** is a nationally recognized program in Berkeley, California, celebrating the rich heritage of Black American Music and its global influence. Founded in 1960, the program has grown to include five dynamic bands where students learn, perform, and find their voices through jazz. BHS Jazz nurtures musicianship, creativity, and community—whether students pursue music professionally or simply embrace it as a lifelong passion. The program’s ensembles have performed at prestigious festivals such as Montreux, North Sea, Monterey, and Mingus, earning top honors and international acclaim. Through study, collaboration, and performance, BHS Jazz continues to make jazz accessible to a diverse range of students while sharing this powerful art form with the broader Berkeley community.

Berkeley High School Jazz

An archive for vital collections of Jazz and related music


**Crossing Tones** is a non-profit archive for significant collections of Jazz music and related items.

We gather, preserve, and use these essential source materials in meaningful teaching and listening initiatives.

Through our efforts we intend to facilitate research, deepen appreciation, and broaden the listener base for the music.

Crossing Tones Inc

Since 1968, providing quality fine arts experiences for students and our community through our summer camps and year round events.

Shell Lake Arts Center Inc

SFNF is San Francisco's premiere performance art troupe and a fiscally sponsored project of Intersection for the Arts.

The San Francisco Neo-Futurists are a collective of wildly prolific artists dedicated to the perpetual creation of experimental theatre that is immediate, ephemeral, accessible, and cheap. We believe the stage is an extension of daily life: we perform as ourselves in a non-illusory, interactive style that challenges the audience to create alongside us as active participants with a voice of their own. We respect and uplift each other on and off stage through non-hierarchical accountability, collective decision-making, and anti-oppression practice of all kinds. We do over 100 shows a year and we will never stop. 

San Francisco Neo-Futurists

supports impactful initiatives for women and children, with a special focus on Mexico and projects that promote arts and education

**Education From The Heart**

We believe education is more than knowledge, it’s the chance to create, express, and belong. Our fund opens doors for children through access to education, music, and art, while also empowering women in the arts to share their voices with the world.

Corazones Unidos

ISHIDA transforms everyday being through meaning-filled, entertaining, thought-provoking, highest-caliber contemporary dance.

ISHIDA Dance Company prompts existential questions through timeless narrative dance that celebrates universal themes of our psyche—belonging, hubris, loss and love.

ISHIDA Dance presents original ISHIDA poetic narratives as well as works by exciting new choreographers working with some of the most sought-after dancers around the world (Houston Ballet, Ballet BC, English National Ballet, Tanzmainz, Nederlands Dans Theater, American Ballet Theatre). These unique works evoke self-empathy that lead to greater kindness within the community.

Center to the mission, beyond beautiful, community-centric arts, ISHIDA brings the healing power of dance directly to marginalized communities.

- ISHIDA provides free dance workshops to at-risk youth and disabled people in the community. Outreach partners include The Mary Lee Foundation, The ARC of the Capital Area, and Title One schools: Marshall Middle and Northside High School.
- We also provide complimentary tickets to economically disadvantaged youth and adults to attend performances.

Ishida Dance Company Inc

An SF Queer Theater Company, fiscally sponsored project of Intersection for the Arts

Eye Zen Presents illuminates and preserves hidden LGBTQ+ histories through interdisciplinary performance, archival activation, and intergenerational exchange. We create immersive public art rooted in place, memory, and accessibility that connects queer elders, artists, and audiences. Our practice pairs hands-on archival preservation with new creative works so that endangered legacies are safeguarded and shared as living culture. 


Eye Zen Presents

Kids’ Club supports underserved youth in our community by awarding grants for programs for kids from birth to age 18 and beyond. 

Kids’ Club of Tarrytown & Sleepy Hollow provides support for underserved youth.  As a community organization, we marshal resources, increase local awareness, advocate for programming, and strengthen services to improve the lives of children and families. We collaborate with a variety of community organizations to identify needs, close gaps in services and provide opportunities for children.

*Through our close ties to the community, we are able to find, fund, and facilitate programs we believe will have the greatest impact on the lives of those we serve.* 

At Kids’ Club, we are all volunteers; we have no paid staff.  We all live or work in the community or surrounding areas. **Administrative costs are covered through the generosity of our Board members, enabling 100% of every dollar you donate to Kids’ Club to help the children and families we serve.** 

Kids' Club of Tarrytown & Sleepy Hollow, Inc.

The Bay Area’s Adventure-Seeking Orchestra! We aim to make awesome orchestral adventures accessible to musicians and the public.

We hold free reading sessions about once a month. Part performance, part open rehearsal, we're open to all musicians and all audiences. Awesöme Orchestra Collective plays everything from Björk to Stravinsky in fun spaces all over the San Francisco Bay Area.

IT STARTED WITH A MUSICAL EXPERIMENT

In the spring of 2013, conductor David Möschler called up a bunch of Bay Area musicians for an experiment — an open music reading session, with Beethoven, Bolero, and free beer. Over fifty people showed up. They realized immediately that they had created something special: a musical group dedicated to being awesome and accessible on every level.

What began as a small collective of friends playing music together has grown into a community that spans the Bay Area. Today, over 2,000 local musicians have played in Awesöme Orchestra. We hope that you’ll join us at our next musical adventure as a player or an audience member!

Our mission is to make awesome orchestral adventures accessible to musicians and the public. Our vision is to create a new model for orchestras to represent, serve, and inspire their communities.

Our core values: we strive for accessibility, community, and excellence in all that we do. We believe music sounds better when everybody is having a good time.

We recognize that orchestras have long been complicit in the systemic oppression of marginalized communities while passing off this exclusion as "tradition." We are aware these inequalities are deeply systemic and will take years to undo, and our organization remains committed to combating these injustices with the following actions and goals:

- Amplify voices of marginalized communities
- Form deeper partnerships with communities and organizations.
- Create more equity and representation at every level of our organization.

Awesöme Orchestra Collective

Celebrate and share Estonian culture in an architectural jewel in the heart of Toronto, North America's 4th largest city.

Estonian Arts Centre (EAC) is the charity associated with KESKUS International Estonian Centre being built in the heart of Toronto, North America's 4th largest city.  EAC promotes development of KESKUS in Toronto in which to further its charitable objects, and these include promotion and support of the arts, multiculturalism, preservation of literary, musical and visual arts and the welfare and education of artists.

KESKUS will be a dynamic hub showcasing Estonian heritage and promoting Estonian innovation. It will be a vibrant gathering place for Estonians of all generations and backgrounds to connect, celebrate, and share Estonian culture and achievements with each other and the world. It is scheduled to open in 2026

Please sign up for the monthly newsletter at our website and donate today, to help EAC achieve its mission in KESKUS.

KESKUS International Estonian Centre

The Together In Hope Project is a nonprofit organization focused on changing lives through music with a purpose. 

The Together In Hope Project is a nonprofit organization focused on changing lives through music with a purpose. We create unique, music-anchored projects on issues of our shared humanity to promote healing and reconciliation.

Together In Hope Project

Kameie unites performing arts, community, rural renewal, and sustainability, hosting an international artist residency.

Kameie was founded in Parma, Italy, in May 2024, as a nonprofit association registered in the Italian National Third Sector Register (RUNTS). At its core is the conviction that performing and new media arts are powerful tools for reflection, able to impact communities, awaken belonging, transform relationships, and foster awareness of the connection with the natural and social environment.

The Association was born from the encounter of consolidated professional experiences in the performing arts sector, many of them matured within prestigious and highly structured institutions, but always with an acute awareness of the critical and complex nature of today’s socio-political context. Kameie brings these skills together, along with a deep cultural and civic consciousness, to create a project uniting vision with pragmatism. The project is rooted in the Parma Apennines, a territory of extraordinary natural and cultural wealth, yet fragile and at risk of depopulation. Here, Kameie has chosen to operate, enhancing a heritage of stories, memories, and traditions while intertwining them with a strong vocation for artistic and pedagogical experimentation.
Kameie’s mission is to foster personal and civic growth through the conscious practice and experience of the performing arts, while ensuring maximum accessibility and inclusion. The association aims to contribute to removing the obstacles that still prevent many citizens from fully experiencing art, culture, and beauty, while promoting an open, supportive, and respectful approach to all forms of life. The choice of the name is highly significant. “Kameie” comes from the imaginative Na’vi language of James Cameron’s Avatar, where the expression "oel ngati kameie" means “I see you”: not merely a greeting, but an act of mutual recognition and acceptance of the inner essence of every living being. This name reflects the Association’s vocation to build communities based on solidarity, to foster authentic bonds, and to promote a harmonious dialogue between human beings and nature. Environmental sustainability is an integral part of Kameie’s mission. Every project is designed in balance with natural resources, promoting respect for ecosystems and enhancing the Apennine environment where the association operates. Studying, producing, and experiencing the arts in a pristine natural setting enriches both creativity and personal growth. The Association also embraces a strongly humanistic and holistic approach, placing the individual, the community, and their relationship with nature at the center. This approach is reflected in its training programs, educational workshops, and artistic productions, supported also by the contribution of certified counselors among its members. At the same time, Kameie positions itself as a permanent laboratory to test and validate pedagogical programs designed to employ music and theatre as tools for cultivating “civic awareness.”

In just over one year of activity, Kameie has already built solid foundations. Today, it brings together sixty members, including international artists, musicians, university professors, professionals, naturalists, doctors, counselors, and educators, all motivated to contribute to the project. This community is a unique wealth of skills and relationships, the backbone of the organization.

At the same time, Kameie has established a local network of collaborations with schools, social services, municipal administrations, theaters, festivals, enterprises, and banking foundations. This shows the Association operates in a territory rich in potential meaningful partners. The Association also operates in an economically vibrant context, home to globally renowned companies such as Barilla (2024 revenues: €4.8 billion), Chiesi Pharmaceuticals (€3.4 billion), and Dallara, a leader in racing car engineering. These stakeholders have already expressed appreciation for Kameie’s vision and goals, offering concrete prospects for substantial future support. But Kameie was born and operates in an area extraordinarily rich in history and cultural traditions of international significance, the birthplace of Giuseppe Verdi, Arturo Toscanini, and Bernardo Bertolucci. Parma, with its legendary Teatro Regio and Verdi Festival, stands as a true cultural capital—well beyond opera.

The association has already acquired a starting real estate asset: a cluster of old rural stone buildings that make up the small and picturesque village of Selva di Specchio, in the municipality of Solignano, Province of Parma. These properties, long abandoned and in need of restoration, form the tangible foundation of the regeneration project. 

Kameie has also successfully implemented educational projects for children and students in local schools and for the Teatro Regio and the Verdi Festival in Parma. Following the great success of "High School Falstaff"—that offered a reinterpretation of Verdi’s masterpiece as a teen musical and specifically designed to be performed in school settings—, in October 2025 the Teatro Regio’s Verdi Off Festival will present eight new productions created and produced by Kameie together with the young Lynus theatre company, the creative team entrusted with the association’s theatre and music theatre projects.

The strategic project that will accompany the Association over the next five years—until its full logistical, functional, and organizational development, operational capacity, and financial sustainability—is called: “A Residency for Artists, a Village of Arts.” Its purpose is to transform the long-abandoned village of Selva di Specchio into a permanent laboratory of territorial and social regeneration, through an interconnected national and international network of artistic, cultural, educational, and pedagogical initiatives. The project consists of four main components:

- restoration of stone buildings, including demolition of non-recoverable parts;

- redevelopment of green areas, including community gardens, orchards, botanical trails, educational farms;

- construction of new facilities, including the auditorium Kameie’s Hall and the Teatro dei Ciliegi, an open-air theatre immersed in nature;

- community-building activities directly linked to the new and restored spaces.

The new theater, Kameie’s Hall—like all the buildings involved in the restoration project—will be designed according to a philosophy that integrates respect and enhancement of the landscape with principles of sustainability. Its architecture will adopt highly energy-efficient solutions, with careful attention to the selection of materials and construction methods, minimizing environmental impact and emissions. The aim is to create a space that not only hosts artistic and educational activities, but also embodies Kameie’s vision: an open, harmonious place in constant dialogue with the surrounding natural environment.

The Teatro dei Ciliegi will also represent a unique initiative in Italy: a landscape-integrated, organic open-air theatre, set within a system of orchards and natural pathways, destined to become a gathering place and a symbol of innovation.

Educational, musical, theatrical, and audiovisual workshops will be developed in collaboration with expert pedagogues and university professors. The University of Bologna will support pedagogical activities, while the University of Parma will accompany the restoration and architectural redevelopment of the village’s buildings. Kameie positions itself as a permanent laboratory to test and validate pedagogical programs that employ music and theatre as tools for cultivating “civic awareness.” The project will also have a significant impact on youth inclusion: NEETs and vulnerable young people will be actively involved in workshops and in the construction and management processes of the spaces, acquiring technical and artisanal skills in the fields of theatre, music, and audiovisual production, while also gaining experience in active citizenship. Particular attention is devoted also to young Italians of first and second generation, who will be among the main beneficiaries of the community-building and cultural integration activities.

Once spaces are fully functional and supported by stable partnerships, the culmination of Kameie’s vision is the creation of a new arts festival, unprecedented in its form and philosophy: performances and artistic experiences in dialogue with nature, new technologies in harmony with the ecosystem. As a meeting point between the values of local tradition and international artistic excellence, it will be the most visible synthesis of Kameie’s mission

Kameie is distinguished by its ability to combine strong local roots with an international vocation. On the one hand, it serves Apennine communities by counteracting depopulation and promoting social cohesion; on the other, it aims to become a hub of attraction for artists from all over the world, offering them a full-immersion experience in Italian tradition, language, and food culture, while enabling them to embrace a conscious lifestyle based on respect for the natural environment and its resources, attuned to the voices and rhythms of nature. Kameie represents an unprecedented initiative in Italy—and probably in Europe—for its unique synthesis of territorial regeneration in rural and mountain areas at risk of depopulation, accessible and inclusive enjoyment of the performing arts, environmental sustainability and respect for all forms of life, and pedagogical innovation with civic and integrative purposes. All of this is realized through a strongly humanistic and holistic approach that places the individual, the community, and their harmonious dialogue with nature at the center. This uniqueness, combined with the clarity of its vision, could make Kameie an international case history and a reference model for donors, investors, and institutions wishing to support projects capable of combining culture, nature, and social innovation

Kameie Impresa Sociale ETS

A catalyst for creative freedom and cultural vitality across the Arab world.

As the largest fund for independent artists and cultural institutions in the Arab world, AFAC serves the collective necessity to pursue bold ideas, reclaim space, and share stories from our region on our own terms.

Culture shapes how we see ourselves, how we remember the past, and how we imagine the future. Independent voices are being silenced by war, repression, and economic collapse. Youth, who represent the region’s largest demographic, are largely excluded from cultural production and denied platforms to shape their futures. The threat of talent drain and cultural fragmentation has never been higher.

Since 2007, we have supported over 2,400 projects across 22 countries and their diasporas, awarding over $40 million in grants. Our model sustains not only the production of art but the long-term resilience of the cultural ecosystem. 

AFAC stands at the forefront of expression—investing in independent storytellers, visionaries, and institutions who challenge convention, spark dialogue, and preserve the richness of our collective narratives. We must act now to preserve cultural sovereignty and ensure that artists continue to imagine, question, and build the future of the region.

Our support spans cinema, music, literature, performance and visual arts, documentary photography, research, and critical training, reaching emerging talents and established voices, from the heart of the region to the edges of the diaspora. 

AFAC is more than a funder. We are a platform for connection, advocacy, and continuity. Through open calls, mentorship, strategic partnerships, and direct support to institutions, we create ecosystems, for the region and by the region, that allow independent culture to thrive.

At a time when global attention often overlooks the nuance of Arab realities, AFAC helps ensure that our stories—rooted in diversity, contradiction, and creative force—are not just told, but heard, remembered, and felt. We invite you to imagine a world where every voice can create, connect, and contribute to the cultural future of the region.

**With your support, AFAC can:**

- Sustain and expand critical funding for artists and institutions
- Launch bold new programs in underserved geographies
- Build a long-term ecosystem for Arab cultural philanthropy

Arab Fund for Arts and Culture

Founded in 1967 by Herbert von Karajan, the Salzburg Easter Festival is a famed 10-day event with opera and concerts.

Founded in 1967 by Herbert von Karajan, the Salzburg Easter Festival (Osterfestspiele Salzburg) is an independent classical music and opera festival that takes place annually in Salzburg, Austria.

Financially autonomous from the summer Salzburg Festival, the festival relies entirely on ticket sales as well as donations and support from the Association of Patrons, sponsorships and exclusive donor programmes like the Ring Circle and Easter Circle.

The Salzburg Easter Festival is led by Artistic Director Nikolaus Bachler, former director of the Bavarian State Opera, who brings a visionary approach that blends tradition with innovation. For decades, the festival was anchored by the Berlin Philharmonic under Karajan (and later Abbado and Rattle). After the orchestra’s departure in 2013, the Dresden Staatskapelle (under Christian Thielemann) served as resident ensemble. Under Nikolaus Bachler’s leadership, the festival has expanded its artistic scope and is preparing for the return of the Berlin Philharmonic under Kirill Petrenko in 2026.

Each edition of the Easter Festival presents a fully staged opera production and a series of orchestral and choral concerts, complemented by contemporary dance and electronic music commissions, and children’s programming.

The festival has also been associated with the prestigious Herbert von Karajan Prize, established in 2017 by Eliette von Karajan, which honors musicians of international stature and emerging talents alike. Since 2023, the prize has been awarded annually to three artists, each receiving €16,000.

Ring Circle International Friends of  the Salzburg Easter Festival

Southeast Alabama Community Theatre (SEACT) has a mission to connect the Wiregrass through theatre education and performance.

Southeast Alabama Community Theatre (SEACT) has a mission to enrich the cultural lives of Wiregrass residents through the presentation of high quality theatre, to provide creative opportunities to talented individuals to perform on stage and behind the scenes, and to introduce the theatrical experience to school-aged children. SEACT is a 501(c) organization and depends on the support of its community to bring theatre to life in the Wiregrass.

Southeast Alabama Community Players

At LPTM, Black and Brown boys express themselves; navigate life challenges; mentor their peers; and transform their communities.

Life Pieces To Masterpieces (LPTM) provides opportunities for Black and Brown boys and young men ages 3-25 to express themselves; navigate the challenges in their lives; teach and uplift others as mentors; and contribute positively to their communities. 

Boys enter the program as early as age three, with programming including a daily afterschool arts and education mentoring program from 3:00-7:00, which involves transportation and a meal, a college- and career-prep Saturday Academy for high school young men who also serve as mentors, a full-day six-week summer program, and family and community engagement. All programs are free for all youth and families. 

In all programs, LPTM provides an environment of love, security, and expression. Black boys and young men, from pre-school to grad-school and beyond, discover their authentic selves; awaken to a sense of purpose; have their brilliance and humanity valued and nurtured – and see themselves as the beautiful Masterpieces they are. In their artwork, advocacy, and model of mentorship, our Black boys and young men are protagonists of positive change.

Life Pieces To Masterpieces

We're a no-audition, adult community chorus, created for those who love to sing in Upper Manhattan. 

ABOUT THE CHOIR
WHCC is a no-audition community choir, one of a handful in NYC and the only one serving Upper Manhattan. We're a lively, diverse, and welcoming group that loves to sing and believes in the power of music to spread joy and build community!

BUILDING A LASTING FOUNDATION
Founded by a local church in 2016, we disbanded in May 2022 due to budget cuts but quickly regrouped and reestablished the choir as an independent nonprofit. Now two years strong, we aim to become a lasting part of our community.

HELP KEEP THE MUSIC ALIVE
Choir membership dues cover about 70% of our expenses. Your donation helps bridge the gap, supporting our Choir Director, accompanist, music licensing, marketing, space rental, insurance, and other administrative needs. 

With your help, we can keep singing and grow our presence in Upper Manhattan!

Washington Heights Community Choir is a project of Players Philanthropy Fund, Inc. a Texas nonprofit corporation recognized by IRS as a tax-exempt public charity under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code (Federal Tax ID: 27-6601178, [ppf.org/pp](https://ppf.org/pp)). Contributions to Washington Heights Community Choir qualify as tax-deductible to the fullest extent of the law.

Washington Heights Community Choir

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We are a nonprofit, so instead of charging fees we rely on the generosity of donors like you.

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Benicia Chamber Players

Shell Lake Arts Center Inc

Berkeley High School Jazz

San Francisco Neo-Futurists

Crossing Tones Inc

San Francisco Neo-Futurists

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